Transport
The world is smaller today than it has ever been before. We can move anything anywhere with the greatest of ease and it's only getting better. Your competition is no longer just down the road, it's all over the world and we're always finding better ways to transport things.
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Frank and Lisa Serafine, owners of Prodigy Customs in Orlando, Florida, have always loved Firebirds , but as with many large families, Lisa had to buy an SUV to transport their kids. "We build some of the wildest Pro Touring cars on the planet for other people," Frank says. "But we have three boys, and although Lisa craved a Firebird, she could only dream of having one before now." |
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Thursday 11 December, 2008 05:07 PM |
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"There's no future for the company as a stand-alone," said Corker, addressing Chrysler CEO Bob Nardelli last week during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on a bailout for Detroit's carmakers.
Nardelli vehemently disagreed. But the senator's point distilled Congress's dilemma regarding Chrysler: Why should taxpayers bail out Detroit's smallest automaker if its ability to survive is doubtful and its deep-pockets majority owner, Cerberus Capital Management LP, won't put money into it? |
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Tuesday 9 December, 2008 12:21 AM |
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Many members of Congress say they know what the car company of the future should look like.
"A business model based on gas — a gas-guzzling past — is unacceptable," Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said late last month. "We need a business model based on cars of the future, and we already know what that future is: the plug-in hybrid electric car."
But the car company Schumer and other lawmakers envision could turn out to be a money-losing operation, not part of a "sustainable U.S. auto industry" that President-elect Barack Obama and most members of Congress say they want to create. |
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Monday 8 December, 2008 01:17 AM |
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Motorcycle design hasn't changed much in the last 100 years. Pour gasoline in, ignite, and blam, things start turning and that sweet exhaust note starts singing. Most powertrains we see rolling on the road today are based on ancient principles and old physics. There have of course been innovations and renovations to our beloved motors. Metals have gotten lighter and stronger, electronics more reliable and sophisticated, and itty bitty computer chips do the mechanical thinking. But now we ride on the precipice of a propulsion revolution and have to pause and wonder: Where the hell is this road taking us?
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Friday 5 December, 2008 06:17 AM |
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This year’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, arguably the most prestigious of all annual automotive events, was the ideal location to introduce something truly special to the global car-collecting elite: the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport – not only the world’s fastest, structurally stiffest and most expensive form of open-top motoring, but also the most complete.
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Thursday 4 December, 2008 05:12 PM |
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European aviation giant Airbus has compiled a surprisingly comprehensive dossier detailing every aspect of archrival Boeing's work on the 787 Dreamliner, using information gleaned from Boeing's own suppliers and proprietary documentation to assemble a candid critique of the ambitious but troubled aircraft.
The 46-page document titled Boeing 787 Lessons Learnt examines every part of the aircraft's development, including key design, certification and production issues, to a degree rarely seen and calls into question the European aerospace consortium's intelligence gathering methods.
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Thursday 4 December, 2008 01:11 PM |
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Delphi Corporation has announced that, following several years of development in cooperation with Daimler engineering teams, the new Mercedes C250 CDI will premiere Delphi's revolutionary Direct Acting Piezo injector.
The new Direct Acting Common Rail (CR) from Delphi represents a radical break-through in diesel injection technology as, for the first time, the injector needle is directly activated by the piezo stack, removing the hydraulic circuit and its associated lag and energy consumption. This change enables vehicle manufacturers to comply with future emission legislations while providing more power and uncompromised fuel economy. |
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Wednesday 3 December, 2008 01:17 PM |
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Lotus won seven F1 titles, and pioneered too many automotive engineering firsts to mention. Its road cars are legend for their roadholding, light weight and remarkable power-to-weight ratios and anyone who has driven one will perhaps also mention their distinctly spartan interiors and lack of creature comfort. That all changed this year with the announcement of the Evora. It will be the world's only 2+2 sports car when it hits showrooms early next year and it has another significant world first—it's the first Lotus with a luxury interior and, as the delicately worded press release puts it, "a more refined ownership experience."
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Wednesday 3 December, 2008 12:34 PM |
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A rare, record-breaking 1954 Dodge Firearrow III Sport Concept by Ghia and a one-of-a-kind 1950 Saturn 'Bob Hope Special' will take center-stage at RM's prestigious Automobiles of Arizona event, January 16th in Phoenix, Arizona.Each unique examples of automotive styling from the 1950s, the Arizona auction marks the first time these particular one-off cars have come to auction. |
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Wednesday 3 December, 2008 02:59 AM |
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It's a bird, it's a plane , it's ... both! While aircraft have always borne a resemblance to their feathered counterparts in the sky, new research at U of T is bringing the two even closer together.
Inspired by nature, mechanical engineering professor Shaker Meguid is currently developing aircraft wing designs that imitate the amazing flight of birds by altering the planform of the wings in order to optimize the aerodynamics for a given flight stage.
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Tuesday 2 December, 2008 01:44 AM |
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The bug, stripped of its engine, transmission and most of its interior, was covered in a fresh coat of primer. The car is the ongoing project of a small group of mechanical engineering students, known as the EcoHawks, working to design a car that can achieve a fuel efficiency of 500 miles per gallon
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Monday 1 December, 2008 09:41 AM |
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IS A BANKRUPTCY THE BEST OPTION FOR GENERAL MOTORS, Chrysler and Ford ? While their CEOs insist otherwise and the risks would be high, a growing chorus of outsiders says yes. "It's the only real option that would allow GM to take the steps necessary for its long-term survival," asserts John Casesa, managing partner of New York's Casesa Strategic Advisors. |
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Sunday 30 November, 2008 09:54 PM |
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U.S. automakers faced a barrage of demands recently that they provide evidence and assurance that they would use federal bailout money to transform their companies to produce automobiles of the future, using advanced technologies and featuring hybrid or plug-in vehicles. And in his 60 Minutes interview on Nov. 16, Obama said that before backing a big loan package he wanted to be sure “that we are creating a bridge loan to somewhere as opposed to a bridge loan to nowhere.” |
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Sunday 30 November, 2008 09:51 AM |
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To the average person, a tire is a tire - simply a necessity to get your vehicle from one place to another. To an off-roader though, a tire is what gets him across the diverse terrain that is his playground. High-horsepower engines, crazy articulations, or long-travel suspensions don't get pushed to full use if the tires used on your rig are ineffective. Your tires and their performance can determine whether you get to the top of a trail hill, get across that dune or mudhole, or allow you to safely haul your boat to the lake for the weekend. There are a lot of variables when it comes to tire talk, but we'll do our best to decipher some of those choices here. |
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Thursday 27 November, 2008 09:16 AM |
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A turkey is a special kind of car which, though no lemon, is out-of-date the second it rolls off the lot. Like the bird that gives it its name, it is an inferior creature that lacks an appeal to any superior automotive taste, even if enjoyed by the wealthiest consumer. Nevertheless, this is the week we can appreciate turkeys both in bird and car form. Below is our list of the ten greatest automotive turkeys, something to give thanks for — especially if you don't own one.
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Thursday 27 November, 2008 01:13 AM |
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As the 787-8 production crisis came to light from September 2007 to March 2008, senior Boeing executives consistently maintained that the company had enough engineering resources to solve that problem as well as keep other development efforts, such as the 747-8, on track. |
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Wednesday 26 November, 2008 05:11 PM |
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The DeLorean needs no introduction to those that have seen Back to the Future movies 1 and 2 - it's the vehicle "the doc" built into a time machine. Big screen fantasy aside, though, the DeLorean is one of the most groundbreaking cars of the early 1980s. |
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Wednesday 26 November, 2008 05:26 AM |
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Imagine a craft that could make 100 knots underwater, with a propulsion system so compact and powerful that it would leave ample room for payloads — small combat teams bound for missions on the shore, for example.
Electric Boat , the Groton, Conn.-based submarine builder, is part of a team that won a Pentagon contract to explore the high-speed sub two years ago. The progress has been encouraging enough to make it possible that such a craft will move from the research labs to open-water testing as early as 2010. Much of the research work is being conducted at Pennsylvania State University’s research testing facilities. |
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Tuesday 25 November, 2008 01:35 PM |
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Innovative fuel cell packaging demonstrates green performance potential
Honda today revealed the Honda FC Sport design study model, a hydrogen-powered, three-seat sports car concept, at the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show.
The FC Sport emphasizes the design flexibility and potential of Honda’s V Flow fuel cell technology - already deployed in the Honda FCX Clarity sedan - and reconfigures it into a lightweight sports car design with an ultra-low center of gravity, powerful electric motor performance and zero-emissions. The design study concept is inspired by supercar levels of performance through low weight and a high-performance, electrically driven fuel cell powertrain. |
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Monday 24 November, 2008 05:41 PM |
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It has become conventional wisdom that the reeling U.S. auto industry desperately needs to innovate. The hard part for Detroit is working out how.
There is hope, even for an entrenched, sprawling company such as General Motors. We don't need Michael Moore to imagine the misery that would be unleashed if GM were to go under. But before we spend more taxpayer money bailing anyone out, let's recognize that Detroit's worst failure is a recent one, not the long-gone blunder of betting that SUVs were the future. |
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Sunday 23 November, 2008 08:33 PM |
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A University of Dayton professorwith intimate knowledge of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner said the plane will beworth the wait despite recent announcements of production delays.
"It's a great airplane. For a customer who flies a lot, the Dreamlinerwill be fantastic," said Raul Ordonez, a University of Dayton associateprofessor of electrical and computer engineering. "It will be a treat to flyin it."
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Sunday 23 November, 2008 03:43 PM |
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