Jeep Sale To Chinese Company May Be Going Nowhere. Good morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning.

Here are the important stories you need to know. Gear: All Politics Is Local. Just a day after it said that it was interested in buying Jeep, China’s Great Wall Motor threw water all over that fire, Bloomberg reports: Great Wall said there are “big uncertainties” whether it will continue to study Fiat Chrysler, the Baoding- based automaker said in a filing to the Shanghai stock exchange. The Chinese company’s efforts have “not generated concrete progress as of now,” and it has not established contacts with Fiat’s board.[..]“We cannot ignore the potential policy hurdles involved in a potential cross- border M& A,” Ha and Sun said in the note.

The chance of a significant M& A for GWM is still remote.”And part of the reason why this deal could have fallen apart before it even truly got started is because the political mood in the United States isn’t exactly favoring massive takeovers of storied American #brands at the moment, Reuters says: Any bid now - and it would potentially be one of China’s largest ever overseas deals - would come at a time when Beijing is trying to limit extravagant Chinese purchases abroad, and when the political environment has cooled in the United States. China’s cabinet on Friday issued rules on overseas acquisitions for the first time.I am sort of curious about what Fiat Chrysler head Sergio Marchionne will do if he can’t sell off the company either as a whole, or in pieces. Maybe he’ll sell his desk or something. Gear: Well I Guess We Can Rule Out Chery. While GWM might be in a buying mood for Jeep, another big Chinese carmaker appears to be ruling itself out. Chery, which exports more cars than any other Chinese brand, is apparently not a buyer, Reuters notes: Chinese state- owned Chery Automobile Co [CHERY.

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UL] aims to rely only on organic means to grow its international sales, its CEO said, underlining a strategy that is different from its private sector rivals who have either made or are considering acquisitions.[..]And while the company was open to forms of cooperation such as joint ventures, it was not actively looking for mergers and acquisitions in its bid to crack markets such as Western Europe, Chen said.“We’re today not active in the merger and acquisitions market, in the big deals so to speak. We are open for cooperation as always, but fundamentally, we have consistently organically grown our markets by our own capability and sometimes with cooperation,” he said.Has anyone heard from Geely yet? I can’t wait for a Wrangler with Volvo safety and Lotus- tuned suspension. Gear: Diesel Is A “Vital Interest” For The German State. Watch Zoombies Online Hulu there. Diesel- fueled engines have been a staple of the German automotive industry for decades, but as of this moment it looks like Dieselgate will be its death knell. Everyone from Volkswagen to BMW to Mercedes is seemingly pouring massive resources into electric propulsion instead, but that doesn’t mean the German state is giving up, Bloomberg reports: “We have a vital interest in preserving diesel as a technology because it emits far less CO2 than other technologies,” Peter Altmaier, Merkel’s chief of staff, said in a Bloomberg TV interview in Berlin.

At the same time we have to make sure that all the rules are respected and all the regulations are fully implemented.”But how far does Germany go to preserve diesel technology? And when does it give up? Gear: It Turns Out All Those Technological Doo- Dads Are Working. Olds the world over may be lamenting the death of the REAL CAR where you did everything yourself because the REAL CAR MEN like to do everything themselves even the manual spark advance, before dying from drinking too much radium. But a study from the Insurance Institute For Highway Safety says a lot of the new safety tech in cars is actually working: Results of the new study indicate that lane departure warning lowers rates of single- vehicle, sideswipe and head- on crashes of all severities by 1.

That means that if all passenger vehicles had been equipped with lane departure warning, nearly 8. Emmanuelle Full Movie In English. The analysis controlled for driver age, gender, insurance risk level and other factors that could affect the rates of crashes per insured vehicle year.Another IIHS study went on to note that blind spot detection systems appear to reduce lane departure crashes by 1. Sure, a lot of those lane departure warnings might be over- sensitive and annoying as hell, but we’re living. Gear: WHYReverse: My Man Was Thinking Ahead In August.

On this day in 1. Harold D. Weed of Canastota, New York, is issued U. S. Patent No. 7. 68,4. Grip- Tread for Pneumatic Tires,” a non- skid tire chain to be used on automobiles in order to increase traction on roads slick with mud, snow or ice. Neutral: A Volvo Lotus Wrangler.

What the hell does that look like?

Subway's High- Tech Redesign Is Bad and Wrong. I’m not scared to say it: I love a good Subway sandwich. My dad used to take me to the only Subway in town after we went grocery shopping, and I remember tracking my growth based on how much of the toppings I could see over the tall counter. Now, it seems, Subway wants to ruin that experience for future generations. The global chain of faux- bodega sandwiches announced a flashy restaurant overhaul on Monday morning. It’s called the “Fresh Forward” design, and currently, it’s being tested in 1.

Instagram, Facebook’s hotter, snootier subsidiary, may have a massive data breach on its hands. It’s odd, but I can think of at least two things you can bolt onto a car engine that, to non-gearheads, sure seem drug-related. Think nitrous systems, or, as in.

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United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Also, the redesign is bad and wrong. Subway’s plan to introduce touchscreen ordering kiosks is especially bad and wrong. Among other reasons, Subway is fun because you get to work with a Sandwich Artist to construct a floppy log of meat and veggies before your very eyes.

You can see the meat—of dubious origin, I’d add—conveniently laid out on sheets of wax paper. You can inspect the veggies—of dubious age, I’m sure—just chilling and waiting to be installed on your footlong.

Not all Sandwich Artists are cheerful, but hey, at least you two are coming together to create a quick and affordable lunchtime experience. But now, Subway wants to put stupid touchscreen kiosks in its restaurants. They look like the ones you use to get tickets at the movie theater, except sandwich- related. Listen to this. You build your order on a smartphone app or kiosk, send it to a work station (which, according to Subway, may be in the backroom) and then a faceless human slaps together the ingredients without you, leaving you to pick it up at the counter.

Like a zombie! The new ordering process reminds me of that Starbucks app that lets you order and pay for your coffee from your phone. Even then, you usually have to speak to a barista to make sure you’re picking up the right cup of bean water. This new Subway situation sounds unusually anonymous and, frankly, anti- American. The restaurant redesign also includes the addition free wi- fi, USB charging ports, whole tomatoes on display, and a huge new logo glowing on the wall, lording over you. Subway calls it a “Choice Mark.” So presumably, you sit down with your laptop or phone, drink in the free internet all day long, while ordering sandwich after sandwich from an app and picking up your food by a damn kiosk where you can order more food. All the while, the Choice Mark looms over your choice- filled experience, celebrating a future free of face- to- face interactions.

I don’t feel entirely hopeless. After all, the Subway redesign is still being tested and tweaked. And—as the Choice Mark logo suggests—you’ll also be able to choose how you experience Subway. The traditional Sandwich Artist experience with the counter and the meats and the veggies isn’t going entirely (for now), and you don’t have to use the smartphone app if you don’t want to. It’s the principle of the thing that gets me, though. Here goes another vestige of my ‘9.

Maybe I’m being conservative, clinging to the past like this. Maybe, in the future, we’ll get all of our meals from apps and kiosks. Maybe we won’t even eat food any more, instead drawing our sustenance from daily transfusions of youthful blood. Maybe Richard Nixon’s head will be president. Anything is possible, I suppose, even bad things.

I want to give the new Subway design a chance and plan to do so next time I visit my hometown, Knoxville, where one of the demo restaurants is already up and running. In the meantime, I’m following that signature stink down to my local New York City Subway for one last Spicy Italian, a delicious sandwich that I will watch a human being construct with a limited but distinct sense of artistry. Better do it now, while I still can.