2006-2007 - Car Technology

To 2008

BMW X6: Perfecting xDrive AWD
With Dynamic Performance Control

Ford tests
new lithium ion
and fuel cell applications
In Escape Plug-In Hybrid
& Edge HySeries Drive

Night Vision Plus for 2008

Bosch in-car video cameras
Believe that seeing is... recognising

Nissan safety and environmental technology
Scanning in space and time
Processing present and past

Nissan Around View Monitor
Nowhere to hide anymore!

Nissan Slip-Hazard Warning system
Combining real-time probe data
With cumulative history statistics 

Nissan ASV-4: preventive technologies 
With vehicle-to-vehicle communications 

Nissan: preventing drink-driving
With efficient on-board systems

Nissan pop-up hoods
To reduce pedestrian injuries

Nissan's clean diesel technology
To meet the California SULEV standards

Nissan Variable Valve Event and Lift (VVEL)
Higher response and power, lower emissions

To be featured in the new Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
S-AWC system with Twin Clutch SST

Toyota's new engine valve mechanism
Valvematic: VVT-i + variable valve lift

Torque Vectoring drive, 1st in a future BMW model
New ZF intelligent torque distribution system

75 years of car steering system production
ZF: five million electric power steering units

4th gen. Haldex AWD system
For the new Saab 9-3 XWD

Safe driving and road signs recognition
How well do you recognise road signs?
Check it again: 1/3 of motorists... do fail

Between the sense of invulnerability and reality
9/10 crashes are due to... human error, not the car

How comfortable are you?
Recent survey suggests that half of all UK drivers
Risk serious long term muscle, joint and spinal injuries

Ego-oriented logic challenged by facts:
Evident safety advantages
with daytime running lights 

xDrive, brakes... tested individually or in their interaction
BMW Group new polar test base
For BMW, Mini and Rolls Royce

Prevents body ejection, reduces noise and... dissuades burglars: Better protection with side laminated glass

All new Volvo S80 safety systems
Active safety up to the... heartbeat detection

Nissan Distance Control Assist System
A safer way to deal with heavy traffic

Dirty headlights double dangers:
You see less... with more dazzling for others

C70 continues Volvo's cooperation
With Continental in active & passive safety

Visteon instrument cluster
Functional and customizable

Fiat and Microsoft Blue&Me: Open communication system at Geneva

Bosch upgardes its antilock braking system
ABS 8.1: smaller, quieter and more efficient

30 % of drivers don't use their high beam even when it is better to do so
Hella: proper use of the high beam
Is an essential safety, not an offense

Winter driving with the wrong tires
Can cost a lot more than proper ones

Bosch and Knorr Bremse to cooperate
in predictive safety systems for HD vehicles

2006-2007 - Car Technology

To 2008