Showing posts with label FORD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FORD. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

What "Badge Engineering" Means in The Automotive Industry

Good Morning, Salam to all! Entri kali ini bermula dengan satu petikan komen di blog automotif terkenal Malaysia iaitu Paultan.org. Ini ada antara komen yang muncul di entri Paultan mengenai gambaran Waja Replacement Model hasil Theopilus Chin seperti yang aku ceritakan dalam entri sebelum ini. Lebih-lebih lagi apabila Buletin Utama TV3 semalam, melaporkan tentang kehadiran kereta testing model itu di jalan raya Malaysia.

Antara komen-komen "bernas" terpilih :

i bet Proton will do what they are pro – ruin the good thing
ruin the engine, ruin the interior & exterior design, ruin the safety, ruin the features, ruin the price, and eventually, screwed up Malaysian.
25 years Proton been good at ruin things, 2010 won’t be the exception, not even Mitsubishi offered such good platform, architecture & engineering.
shame on you, Proton. - LauCN

why can’t proton design their own car. i mean.. seriously .. dun tell me proton holdings have not even a single person in their company to say : hey, we are bigger in sales compared to Mitsubishi.. time for us to beat them..

dont you proton holdings think that as a driver, we don’t want a car to be similar lookings to a lancer yet less powerful and equipped ?????????????

came on… 25 years man!!! and you are still buying design… seriously ????????? - Noob
Ramai yang menggunakan kesempatan sambutan 25 tahun PROTON sebagai asas komentar mereka. Apakah kehadiran model ini disebabkan PROTON ketandusan designers dan idea untuk model baru? Berdasarkan laporan berita, dan maklumat di blog-blog automotif yang aku baca projek ini adalah satu kerjasama antara PROTON dan Mitsubishi, dan model ini adalah salah satu "badge engineering". Ia merupakan satu automotive term yang biasa digunakan oleh banyak syarikat automotif antarabangsa seperti Volkswagen, FORD, Mazda, Toyota, Subaru dan banyak lagi termasuklah Perodua

Dipetik dari laman wikipedia.org
Badge engineering is a term that describes the rebadging (that is, the replacement of the branding trademark) of one product (especially cars) as another. Due to the high cost of designing and engineering a totally new model, or establishing a new brand (which may take many years to gain acceptance), it is often more cost-effective to rebadge a single product multiple times.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Kenderaan SUV Yang Boleh Meluncur ke Neraka?

2011 FORD Explorer SUV - Mantap siot

Wah, ada "Hell Descent Control"!!

Inilah FORD Explorer 2011 yang terbaru untuk pasaran Amerika dan Eropah. Tampak bergaya dan penuh dengan teknologi terkini. Tampil dengan 2 variasi engin 3.5-liter dengan 290HP dan 2.5-liter dengan 235HP. Mantap, memang mengancam!

Tapi ia ada satu ciri yang tak pernah ada dalam kenderaan lain di dunia. Kawalan Turun ke Neraka atau "Hell Descent Control". Hebat bukan? Tak percaya? Lihat sajalah penerangan kawalan SUV tersebut. Gambar diperoleh dari Paultan.org.

Hehe, jangan terkejut. Aku yakin itu typo error. Sepatutnya "Hill Descent Control"

Monday, January 11, 2010

Dalam Kereta Pun Nak Twitter?

Penangan kemajuan teknologi memang tak sudah. Lepas satu, datang lagi satu. Macam-macam nak diimplikasi kedalam kehidupan seharian. Sampai ada setengah yang mengarut dan tak relevan pada pendapat aku.

Sebelum ini FTN ada menceritakan tentang aplikasi XBOX dan PS3 yang sudah diintegrasi dengan Facebook dan Twitter. Dimana user boleh update status dengan mudah melalui XBOX Live dan PSN.

Hari ini aku terbaca pula tentang kereta yang nak berkomunikasi secara Twitter. Syarikat automotif terkenal di Amerika, Ford Motor sedang cuba menambah aplikasi twitter ke dalam sistem radio (in car entertainment) kereta buatannya supaya boleh berinterasi dengan aplikasi sosial paling popular tahun 2009, iaitu Twitter. Lebih hebat lagi, FORD mencadangkan ia diaktifkan melalui arahan suara (voice command).

Bagaimana agaknya nanti? Memandu kereta, sambil ber"twitter". Apa yang kita dapat? Mungkin lebih banyak kemalangan di jalan raya? Haha


LAS VEGAS: The Ford Motor Co is adding Twitter messages and Internet radio to its in-car entertainment and communication service, known as Sync.

It suggests that the voice-activated system is safer for drivers than trying to manipulate applications on their cellphones.

Ford CEO Alan Mulally told an audience at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Thursday that Sync is designed as a way for drivers to do things like chat with their kids and make dinner reservations, “while keeping their eyes on the road and their hands on the wheel.”

The carmaker is one of many companies at the show that are showing off information and entertainment technologies for car drivers and passengers.

Ford’s Sync service, which was developed by Microsoft Corp and rolled out in 2007, already lets drivers do such things as make phone calls and use GPS technology to get turn-by-turn directions and traffic information.

Now, Ford executives said Thursday, Sync will begin working with two Internet radio services in the United States — Pandora and Stitcher.

It will also connect to OpenBeak, which can read your or your friends’ Twitter posts out loud.

Users will need to have the Sync versions of these applications on a phone with a Bluetooth wireless link. — AP

SOURCE : TheStar

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