Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 14, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free january car makers geared for High tech in the 90s Malcolm Abrams and Harriet Bernstein personality key the push by car makers to build use Friendly vehicles will get a serious boost in the coming thanks to the memory storage capabilities of inboard computer the preferences of each Driver who uses the car will be stored in the memory Section and then activated by his or her specially coded Driver personality when the Driver slides his key into the electric motors will Whir to setting the various to preselected Posi the system shown on Fords hex Ghia Aerostat concept Van goes far beyond the seating memory feature available on some of today luxury the rear View mirrors swivel to just the right Angle and the safety Belt shoulder strap is positioned where the Driver feels most the Brake and accelerator pedals adjust up to four allowing Driver to find just the right according to Charles Ford motor chief of Light truck Chassis system vividly demonstrates what we might see in family vehicles of the these advanced components Are but certainly within the Driver personality key is also a Builtin Security when it is removed the vehicle is electronically it is Safe from Jim dying and hot wiring because the which controls All elec tronic cannot be activated without the Odds 60 per cent Price future future stuff by Malcolm Abrams and Harriet looks at consumerism in the 21st offering a catalogue of fun and stimulating products that will Likely be available by the year tire Check and fill if youve Ever had a Blowout on a Highway and who youre going to really appreciate this la test bit of Auto it will not Only Alert you to a Low it will actually fill the tire while youre on the the called produced by techno guidance of uses sensors mounted on each wheel to detect any change in tire this information is then relayed to the cars Central if the pressure de creases to 15 Psi pounds per Square Inch a Check tire warning will begin to Flash on the dash and an audible Beeper will warn you to get the car off the explains inventor Shrikant this is the system Gandhi and techno guidance use and it is already available on a few luxury their latest Howe takes it one step by Means of a Reservoir mounted on the inside of the wheel Carbon dioxide can be added to the the system monitors the tire pressure in All four tires and automatically adjusts the pressure to maintain it at the Driver programmed level to provide bet Ter Road improved fuel Economy and peace of proper inflation pressure can not Only prevent blowouts and save it can also save your and with a Premium set of four tires costing up to the Auto Matic tire Check and fill cant get Here soon Odds 90 per cent Eta 1992 Price Light sensitive the idea of car windows that adjust their tinting to the brightness level outside seems straightforward enough after Haven those eyeglasses been available for years Ford motor Glass division has taken the concept a step fur they Call it switchable privacy and use cd the same mechanism found in the display faces of digital wrist basically it adjusts the transparency of the Glass from fully transparent to nearly a slight variation of this feature will be used in rear View depending on the illumination fall ing on the Mirror from the head lights of cars the mirrors will vary their reflection to offer Glare free rear and an electroluminescent Halo surrounding the mirrors will help the Driver locate them quickly in the Over at general motors Charles head of the corporate design acknowledges pm is working on the same i expect to see Glass the kind where you dial in opaque or Clear depending on How hot the Sun its Likely that the whole upper part of the car will be Odds 75 per cent Eta 1994 Price four wheel steering sure four wheel steering is Al ready but so far its a flashy Novelty on sports models rather than an important safety and driving by the four wheel steering should be As com Mon As front wheel the strength of four wheel drive is in lows peed situations the Back wheels turn about five degrees in the opposite direction of the front and although five degrees Doest sound like a it makes a huge differ ence when youre trying to Park your car in a tight at High speeds four wheel steering greatly improves particularly when making fast Lane changes on the four wheel steering is not just for Speed demons and car its for every right Only the High Cost is holding it but four wheel steering is coming in the greater mass production should bring the Price Down and put it on every car except the lowest priced Odds 100 per cent Price tomorrow in Tempo future stuff for parents investors embrace global funds by Chet Currier associated press investors have wasted no time in speculating on the Bene fits of growing International Trade in an increasingly democratic in recent weeks they have scram bled to buy shares of country funds investing in parts of the Globe ranging from Germany to Chile or As Wall Street closed the books on these funds were the latest in a Long line of hot financial properties helped keep the Market bub bling in among the 42 new York Stock Exchange issues that doubled or More in Price in eight were closed end investment companies specializing in securities of a single country or foreign the Spain fund almost tripled also in the top ten were the Asia Pacific the thai fund and the Germany world events sparked enthusiasm for these Heiko in vestment strategist for Deutsche Bank projects that the opening of Eastern Europe in raise the worlds total economic growth by a full percentage in the investors searched frenetically for upwardly Mobile countries ready to follow such modern Success stories As even if that reasoning were As Good As it Many analysts say buyers of country funds seem willing to pay too nearly All the country funds Are closed end investment companies they have a fixed number of shares that Trade on Stock exchanges or in the overt counter so the Price they command is determined by Market and can fluctuate above or below the net value of the assets they some country notably in the far have traded at premiums since their in part because foreigners have few other ways to participate in those countries equity country funds in Europe and elsewhere that once traded at discounts also have soared past the value of the investments they in recent months the share prices of single country closed end funds have been bid up to unrealistic asserts Norman an analyst at the value line invest ment Chrysler Quality called pm reliability seen lagging continued from Page Auto Industry officials have been critical of the associations report in the past questioning its method of 1 compiling complaints without taking into account the number of cars of each Model a Chrysler Canada official said he did not want to comment on the latest report because it would lend credibility to the report blasted several Chrysler in Mazda was rated Clear but Toyota and Honda Are closing the but North american automakers lag be with Ford and Gen eral motors All requiring a deductible on repairs after the first the report Fords larger cars perform but the Tempo and the Topaz have had too Many said the which called the escort a repairs become expensive for the escort in its third and the current Model is being phased out this the report said general motors Assembly Quality is improving but reliability computer Zeden Gine controls and the four Speed automatic transmission Are cited As Chrysler was lambasted for shoddy Assembly fragile body defective computer con trolled automatic transmission and Early Wear on suspensions Are con Distant Chrysler Canada declined to comment on the the association has received slightly fewer complaints from Honda and Mazda owners than from Toyota the report said Toyota traditionally gets fewer com plaints than the other looking into the safety and environment will be big sell ing said the 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