Porsche is all set to open its fifth showroom in the country. The Stuttgart based luxury sports carmaker will open its new showroom in Kolkata on May 30, 2015. The showroom, Porsche Centre Kolkata will be located near Topsia Road in the city. This is company’s fifth showroom after the ones in Mumbai, Gurgaon, Bangalore and Ahmedabad.

Spread over an area of 5,952 square feet, the showroom offers an ample space to display Porsche’s family of seven models. According to the automaker, the showroom was constructed over a period of two years and has been designed to meet Porsche’s international standards.

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Bentley Motors today announced Stefan Sielaff as its new director of design. He succeeds Luc Donckerwolke who has been with Bentley since 2012 and has decided to leave the business and Volkswagen AG. Mr Sielaff will join Bentley on July 1, 2015 from his current dual role as head of Volkswagen Group Interior Design and Design Director at Volkswagen Design Center Potsdam. In his role at Bentley, he will report to Rolf Frech, Bentley’s Member of the Board for Engineering. He will also retain his position as head of Volkswagen Group Interior Design, reporting to director of Volkswagen Group Design, Dr Walter de Silva.   

Mr Sielaff has a career spanning more than 25 years in the Volkswagen Group, most prominently with Audi where he started as an intern and progressed to spending five years as design director for the business from 2006. It was here where he led a team of ove ... Read more »

BMW, among the first carmakers to drive the importance of connectivity between cars, drivers and their surroundings with its ConnectedDrive, is further expanding its position as a premium mobility provider. Now, with the Dynamic Parking Prediction research project, the BMW Group is demonstrating a solution that will in future be able to shorten the search for vacant on-street parking, particularly in cities. Together with its partner INRIX, a global provider of transportation intelligence and connected car services, it will present a research prototype of this application at TU-Automotive Detroit (formerly Telematics Detroit), one of the world’s leading connected car fairs, from June 3-4 June 2015, in a BMW i3. Dynamic Parking Prediction is able to predict parking availability using movement data from vehicle fleets.

In this way the application is able to shorten ... Read more »