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Could a Scent Improve your Drive?

Many automakers believe so. Some add proprietary leather scents, others use systems to perfume the cabin.

Read it online at Autonet.

Read it below clockwise.

Favourite line:

Rolls Royce quietly perfumed the interiors of customer’s cars, and afterwards, the customers informed the auto shop that their car was returned “different, and better”.

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This is the Mercedes‘ “active perfume system.”

And Ford’s recommended driving smells.

I strongly disagree with Basil.

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The 2014 Cadillac CTS Launch Party

The CTS is often called “GM’s best car”, and has a huge fan base.

I can’t say much more, I’ve not yet driven it.

The car won’t be released until the end of this year, so details are not final.

2014 Cadillac CTS (USA site)
Starting at $50,895 -ish

2 engines: 2.0L Turbo 272 hp / 3.6L V6 321 hp

I can confirm it was a great party and crowd, and packed.

Hosted at the Shangri-La Hotel in Toronto, GM shut down University Avenue the Sunday before, to crane the car onto the roof, ha. See photos of that on George’s blog, the PR guy at GM.

PR pals: that’s a custom-bow-tie-making-station, that went over really well.

Ran into the Motoring TV gang, welcome to my blog guys!

That’s Motoring cameraman Paul Reid, and ahaha, ha that photo.

 

 

There’s 100+ Computers in a Car

There are more than 100+ computers (ECUs) in a new luxury vehicle.

Millions more lines of code than a fighter jet, than Facebook even; and up to 20% of the total vehicle cost is for the computers. It runs on the CAN bus network, learn more here.

Read in online at Autonet.

Favourite line:

Some luxury vehicles contain as many as 100 individual computers.

And:

It takes up to 100 million lines of software code to make this happen.  To illustrate the complexity, consider that an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter operates on 1.7 million lines.

Neat photo, eh.

It’s a test of all the computers and software inside a Cadillac.

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I Designed the ‘Keri Eco Car

I’ve got an idea to make a gas-powered car achieve hybrid fuel consumption numbers….

I really believe a car like this would sell well. I am not alone in wanting a feature-free car.

Read in online at Autonet.ca.

Favourite line:

… remove all the stuff… couple this light-weigh car with a modern fuel efficient engine and ta-da – the result is a gas-powered vehicle that boasts fuel efficiency on par with a hybrid powertrain.

My last line was cut – I said this was the perfect vehicle for Mazda to make, because it is.

Interesting eh… how the Civic has almost doubled in weight since its debut, and a 2013 Lincoln Navigator weighs much more than than a giant 1970s Cadillac.

Where this column was published from.

I’m in the States here. I’m getting pretty good at keeping it all together and meeting deadlines while travelling, which is good.

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