Le Mans, an event founded in 1923 as a way of showing potential customers that your headlamps, windscreen wipers and canvas hoods could function at high speed around the clock, remains an effective shop window for major motor manufacturers.
Among his first words after crossing under the burled arch in Nome were "Where's Jeff and Aliy?" He thought he'd come in third, and that the headlamp of the musher haunting him down the homestretch belonged to his father, Mitch.
The MKT also offers radar-based adaptive cruise control, adaptive headlamps that illuminate around curves, Ford's clever capless fuel-filler that eliminates juggling at the gas station, a blind-spot monitor and a collision warning system.
Newly available on some F-150 versions for 2013 are H.I.D. projector headlamps that are said to deliver improved visibility.
Owners can choose a smooth-running adaptive cruise control, lane-departure warning, forward collision alert system, blind-spot monitors, rear cross-traffic detection and headlamps that automatically switch between low and high beams.
Meanwhile, there was also the upgraded 12-channel, 11-speaker audio system and exceptionally sharp, bi-xenon headlamps that light up any road at night.
Nichia has just settled a patent infringement suit against Sharper Image, which sold flashlights and headlamps that contain LEDs (terms weren't disclosed), and is in settlement talks with JM Group, which makes flashlights and other types of lights.
Look at the new 5 series and you'll see raked-back headlamps that bend around the hood like the eyes of a shark, multiple folds and creases in the sheet metal that appear to create shadows where they wouldn't naturally fall and a car that, from any angle, looks dynamic rather than static.
And beyond that, the company's tech chief Ulrich Hackenberg has promised the lights will grace an undisclosed production model ("Before BMW," he said during a roundtable discussion, referencing its Munich-based rival's i8 plug-in hybrid supercar, which also features laser-powered headlamps) that is set to commence deliveries later this year.
The latest recall involves headlamps that could become hazy and dimmer over time, Ford said in documents filed with the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
