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Electronics is the Buzzword in Las Vegas

So there we were in a 2012 Focus parked in the HD radio booth getting a demo of the many fine features available to HD radio owners, when who should pop his furry red head into the window? It was none other than Ford CEO Alan Mulally. And the Blue Oval boss wasted no time immediately trying to sell the HD radio engineer sitting in the car on a shiny new a Ford.

ZF boss thinks 9 speeds is enough for transmissions

The nine-speed transmission might be where the race to add gears ends, ZF Friedrichshafen CEO Stefan Sommer said. He referred to nine speeds as the "natural limit" because going beyond that number adds weight and complexity that cannot be offset by gains in fuel efficiency. "There is no hard line, but you have to consider the law of diminishing returns.

Formula Drift's Jim Liaw 10 years in

Who knew there was a future in driving sideways? Jim Liaw, and business partner Ryan Sage, that's who. A little over 10 years ago, fresh from college and running their own marketing and promotions firm, Slipstream Global Marketing, they were looking for business.