Toyota takes home a handful of awards as one of the hottest cars of theier. We are putting a safety package on all of our carls. Its starting the prius today. This is emergency braking. Things like dynamic radar Cruise Control allowing drivers to be much safer in cars. The shows best and boldest coming up. Welcome back to the special editio of our world at the north American International auto show. High. For decades, the nations favorite pickup truck an now wants to involve both as an company. We are in fro of the fusion this is what i find to be fascinating of ordment it is not just an Automobile Company but transitioning into an automobile and mobile company . Mobility company. Tell us about this. We have a wonderful core business an its designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing great cars, suvs, trucks and now electric vehicles. We are seeing the societial factors particularly in urban areas people want more access versus ownership of vehicles soo we are saying how can ford play a role in that . Thats why were thinking of ourselves as an Automobile Company. You mentioned access versus ownership. Ink magazine said 22 of uber customers are delaying the purchase of cars as a result of uber. So if thisontinues to be the trend, how do you see ford fitting in to car ownership . Well, and thats the big opportity for us because when you look at the traditional Auto Industry around the world, it is we get about 6 of that. Transportation services with ride hailing, mass transit, about 4. 5 trillion and w w get about 0 of that. I see. We want to make peoples lives easier and a thing we are announcing here at the show is something calledord pass. Think of it as a digital and a physical platform that consumers can use both owners to make ownership experience better and nonowners to help them with mobility in terms of borrowing a vehicle, sharing or parking. A lot of owners of cars are minorities, millions. Africanamericans, latinos, asian americans. Absolutely. Coming to dealership ownership, according to the National Association for minority dealers,nly 5 of dealerships are owned by minorities. That breaks out to roughly 1,000. Why is this the case and what ca be done to improve those numbers . Well, at ford we have been working many, many years on this. Percentage of minorityowned alers because the Management Team should r rlect the population of who we sell to. Right. So its really about finding great candides, candidates who also have grown up in the Auto Industry because auto retailing is a demanding business. Sure. But we are always on the lookout and continue to lead in this area. What are you most excited about next year for ford . Im excited about everything. I mean sure you are. Were coming off 2015 with a lot of momentum. Coming into 2016, we have all the great products, we are doing a lot on the mobility side but we said last year that we were going to deliver a breakthrough year both from a growth standpoint and financial standpoint. We have done that and provides good momentum. Congratulations on a great year. Thanks. Good stuff. Coming up, imagine what you stay with us. After a stressful day you may need a little help falling asleep. To get a good nights sleep and wake recharged. Unisom sleepminis. A stressful day deserves a restful night. Welcome back. At this years auto show power and speed are hot topics but technology is winning the race. Bmw north american ceo shares with me their muchtalked about air tou which will change the way we interact with our car. Ceo of bmw, thank you for joining us. My pleasure. Bmw, that you just rolled out here, beautifully designed cars. Where does the inspiration for the design of bmw come from . A couple of things that are typical for bmw design is all starts with the its about small overhangs. Its already moving even if its at a stand still. A component of the design i would imagine technology plays a role in the design and i know that air touch is just released and seems to be a phenomenal innovation. Can you tell us a little bit more about air touch . We have gesture control where you go like this, you go like this, you go like this andnd the car will do something that is defined previously and linked to your gesture. Okay. Now, air touch gives you an actual feedback on the gesture so you actually did hit a little fence there that youre touching something because there is an airstream going up. So you feel that you actually have hit the right positions in order to initiate something. It is like an invisible buffer. What are you most excited about with regard to bmw in this coming year . Im very excited about the have enough what we call vault activity vehicles, the production out like x5, x3s, introduced the x4 m 40i we w wl have enough product for the marketplace. We know theres a new survey of 22 of uber customers are delaying the purchase of their car because of uber. So as we look at this world between ownership and access, how does bmw fall in between those two . We have started in 2010 i believe in europe a Car Sharing Program with bmw in many called drive now which we are now bringing we have brought to the united states. Because we see, clearly, the demand of car sharing rather than car owning and it may just be at a certain time in persons life he wants to share the car and eventually will buy a car again. Right. But you want to be there, we because more and more we now talk about millennials. Right. Do want to share a car when they need it but then will drop it off and forget about it and move on and i think we need to be in their marketplace and we have been in europe for quite sometime. Very successfully. Really good point. You mentioned millennials. Are you using a different strategy to attract millennials even in the design of the car, even in the colors you are using . Anything specific youre focused on with millennials and buyers . What is changing is that millennials have a different definition of luxury than baby boomers, meaning that theyre much more into technology, into connectivity, theyre much more interested in seeing their apps on the screen of the car, making sure that their lifestyle is integrated into the car than saying, well, i love those tires and the sound of the car. We have to make sure that this thank you very much for joining us. Wish you the best this year. Thank you. Thank you. Up next, using Innovative Technology with powerful performance. Scoop on the coupe. Welcome back to our world with black enterpse. International auto show. Having the latest innovations is high on the list for car buyers and infinitis vp feels the newest model is going to exceed consumer expectations. Thank you very much for joining us on our world. Thank you having me. Infiniti hasa a love by many consumers. Yes. Who is, though, the infiniti consumer . A young business professional, someone up and coming, someone thats readily do move out of the mainstream brand and something more luxury like. Okay. It is a premium car company and compete with bmw, mercedes and lexus. We are in front of beautiful carls here. Absolutely. Q60s. Yes. The first thing that consumer wills see is the great styling of the car. Looking at the q60 compared to its predecessor, it is absolutely gorgeous. Okay . Right. The interior of the car, we have great deck no long that the direct adaptive steering and communicates the input to the wheels faster than the mechanical system and communicate thedrivers input 1,000 inputs per second. Okay. So giving the driver more traction and control of the vehicle driving so it goes in that direction. Theres not a lot of play in the wheel. What about other technologies, for example autonomous driving very popular. Whenenill we s s a fully autonomous driving infiniti . The car has lane prevention and the capability for a taste of what the aon the mouse future looks like. Okay. What are you most excited about when you look at the infiniti brand, either over the next year or few years . This year we are launching a lot of vehicles, for example, this is the new flagship. Okay . Were very, very excited about this car. Theres a lot of design and input that went into designing this car. Obviously, very excited about it. We have the new qx30 crossover we have a refresh to the qx60 later this year, also. Interesting. How are you getting the message snout are you using heavy social media . Whats the Marketing Strategy . Talking to people like you, paul. There you go. We have a full array of Marketing Strategy that we use to try to get the message out, whether through tier one marketing and advertising for social media. Super. We talked to National Association for minority automobile dealers and talked a lot about the trickle down effect around having minorities at the top of the company impacting the company and the consumers. Rit . You are minority. Yes i am. Do you believe that your posion, your role impacting the company and shifting it towards being a more daverse entity . Absolutely, absolutely. When you look at nissan and infiniti. We are a very, very diverse company. The leadership at infiniti, we come from all parts of thth globe. The ceo from brazil. The chairman of north america from spain. We are all over the place. Mixing bag. Thats a special thing and most unique things about our company. And i really appreciate that about nissan and infiniti. Super. We appreciate that about you and the infiniti company. Thank you very much. Appreciate you. Thank you, thank you. Pleasure. Thank you. When we return, one of the hottest properties here at the show. Stay with us. 3, 2, 1 smile alright. Big smilele smile hey, honey howd it go . Thanks, dad theres my smile the happy meal. With fresh, delicious, california grown cuties. Only at mcdonalds. Protect your smile against plaque. Act advanced with plaque guard helps prevent plaque and gingivitis, kills 99 of bacteria of protection. Actt advanced. Winter nasal congestion. Is it a cold . Sinuses . Allergies . For all of them. Theres allegrad. A maximum strength decongestant for 24 hour relief. One of the hottest auto makers is toyota. They cbeated a new generation of Emotional Experience of consumers. Strategy that ceo jim lint says keeps the company on top. You are a bigtime winner. Toyotas a bigtime winner. We covered the National Association of minority own dealership owners and you took home one half of the awards. Why do you think that the toyota brand resonates with the multiculturealeal audience . E understand the audience. We have been working for decades to make sure we have the right communication to that marketplace and built the right cars for that marketplace. Its important for us, as well, that, you know, not only in our workplace but in the dealerships, in our supplier base, thats america. Thats important. Absolutely. Why do you think it is that not only one of the cars purchased in the dullhood we the first reliability and durability. Often the first car isnt necessary a first car. It is oftentimes a used car and p they have great value. They have great styling. They drive well. And they last for a long, long time. The average car on the road today for us is almost 15 years old. You mentioned the marketing message. Now, how does toyota differ in their message to consumers versus the other Car Companies . I think para of it is we want to be very authentic and to do that we have Multicultural Agencies and we work to come up with executions of adveveising. Okay. Not necessarily just for multicultural markets. A lot of the work that they do, the great work that ty do, we actually run in general markets. So i mean, theres brand advertising. We talk about the purchase fund. In this. Purchase funnel starts with people a a interested in the overall toyota brand. That they can trust us. That it can be their favorite experience at the dealership because its more than just the hardware and car today. Theres hardware, software. Its the purchase experience. Right. The s svice experience. Its all of that rolled into one. Absolutely. Now, you just mentioned whens in the car, it is still incredibly important. Yep. What are you most excited with regard of technology of toyota . Evolution of safety in the vehicle. If you look at the ultimate goaoa being autonomous driving cars, that will be fully autonomous i think by about 2025. 2025 . Yeah. It is a while. But there will be a progression. Today starting in model year 15 and through 17 we have a safety package on all of our cars. Its starting the prius had it today. So this is emergency braking. This is things like dynamic radar Cruise Control. Things that will allow drivers to be much safer in cars. Per hour and maybe not paying attention, the car will put a mat cli stop so all of the sensors are bui into cars today. Its some point in the future, probab by 2020, we will be able to integrate all those sensors together so that we will have highway autonomous cars. Right. In the event that the driver makes an error, the car can correct for him. That then will progress again by 2025 where they could be totly autonomous driving in an urban environment with bicycles and passengers and dogs and kids running around. Jim, ceo of toyota, thank you. Always a pleasure. Appreciate you. A similarrediction came from vp and general manager of the lexus division. I sat down with him. Take a look. I want to start with congratulating you. Lexus picked up some big awards at the diversity volume leadership. Why do you think the lexus brand resonates so much with the multicultural audience . We have the amazing Multicultural Agencies we work with. If it werent for them, we wouldnt really have any kind of substantive insight in terms of how we should market, where we should market. Obviououy, we need to start with wonderful product. Right. Believe me, they make us they really position us in a manner that puts our best foot forward. You referenced beautiful product. This is a beautiful product. Just unveiled yesterday. Tell us about it. Lc 500. First time that lexus ever had a vehicle in the lexus prestige coupe segment. As we try to build and evolve the brand from just sedans to Performance Vehicles and luxury Performance Vehicles this fits intotohe category for us. What new technology cane expect . One of the newest aects is platform. This is a platform tt one, we two, you can expect moving forward just about any front engine, rearwheel drive car uses the new plplform. Okay. Theres a lot of safety aspects of the vehicle you might imagine. Pedestriandetection. Precollision system. Radar Cruise Control. Lane assist. Thats standard on the vehicle. Precursor to self aon the mouse orrelf driving cars . Thats absolutely a huge topic of theuto show right now and the entire industry. Well continue to kee a very close watch. I think there will be some fanttic safety aspect that is come out of that kind of technology. Sure. And i do think complete autonomous out int 2023, 2025. Well benefit by safety aspects of that technology and for us at lexus i think we are trying to work more towards mobility even for senior citizens. Right. Con garage ligss on your award. It is a pleasure toave you on our world. Thank you. Appreciate it. And that does it for this special edition of our world with black enterprise. Be sure to visit us on the web at black enterprise. Com our world. Like us on facebook, follow me on twitter. See you next week. Right now broward deputies trying to figure out what caused a deadly accident late last night. Nbc 6 has new details this morning. A historic meeting. Nbc 6 in cuba with what is being id about the pope meeting with the head of the Russian Orthodox church. Plus, the big chill. A dangero drop in temperature for much of the nation. A look at the weather theyre floridas most accurate first alert forecast. Good morning everyone. Welcome to nbc 6 south florida today. Its saturday, february 13. Im sharon lawson. 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