This is the week that Back to the Future arrives
from the past.
October 21, 2015—the date that lives in infamy in the futuristic genre. Toyota is capitalizing on the theme with a series of “Back to the Future” television ads. One of them features a futures recap, starring “Doc Brown” and Marty McFly, a.k.a, Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox, discussing which technologies from their 1985 hit have actually come to pass.
October 21, 2015—the date that lives in infamy in the futuristic genre. Toyota is capitalizing on the theme with a series of “Back to the Future” television ads. One of them features a futures recap, starring “Doc Brown” and Marty McFly, a.k.a, Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox, discussing which technologies from their 1985 hit have actually come to pass.
For those of you keeping score, “Back to the
Future-II” did get a few things right, although McFly is still waiting for
self-tying sneakers. But video chats, large screen TV’s, fingerprint scanners,
and wearable devices are in the here and now. In an interesting exercise, a group of teens
were asked to review
some of the gadgets from the film, and rate how 2015 has kept up with
expectations from 1985.
Toyota’s tease includes a promised reveal of a
tricked-out Toyota Tacoma 4 x 4, Marty McFly’s truck of choice in the future. Watch for multiple sightings around the country on October 21, 2015.
Great Scott!
Great Scott!
What’s that in your rear-view mirror? Red and
blue flashing lights? Odds are, that’s a Ford Motor Company police pursuit vehicle
that’s giving chase. Ford’s Interceptor sedans and utility vehicles are the
best-selling cop cars on the market, with a staggering 61% share, as of the end
of June.
License and registration, please, and keep your hands on the wheel.
The saga of Volkswagen is still being written,
but if someone doesn’t make a movie out of this, I’ll be surprised. The board
of the beleaguered automaker continues to tweak its strategies on how best to
move forward from the “diesel-gate” fiasco, even after replacing its CEO, and shuffling
a few other execs.
The company is reorienting its diesel technology
stratagem, and pushing for a more standardized electrical architecture for both
passenger and light commercial vehicles. Look for a new iteration of the
popular Phaeton series, as VW’s efficiency program is accelerated (no pun
intended.)
Sales numbers are in for the first three
Quarters of 2015. Volkswagen Group says it delivered 7.43-million vehicles to
customers globally in the period. Of that number, 4.35-million were passenger
cars. General Motors counted 7.2-million vehicles delivered. BMW Group’s deliveries are up 7.5% for the
first nine-months of the year, totaling more than 1.6-million units sold.
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