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The diesel-powered Audi TT doesn’t sound like the real deal, but Thomas Falkiner found wicked performance behind the muted snarl of its engine.
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Sunday 5 July, 2009 10:35 PM |
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General Motors Corp said Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co. submitted an offer for its Opel division, giving the bankrupt US auto maker more options in the event negotiations with Magna International Inc fail. |
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Sunday 5 July, 2009 11:49 AM |
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Luxury carmaker Aston Martin has forged an alliance with Toyota to develop what could be the world's first luxury city car.
Aston Martin today released a photo of the Cygnet concept, which is a Toyota iQ with restyled front sheet metal |
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Tuesday 30 June, 2009 05:13 PM |
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After nearly a decade of mighty labor and no little expense, he has built a hydrogen-fuel cell car --albeit one so tiny it's more like a buggy. If the money holds out, he intends to make 50 more of them and then test market the Riversimple Urban Car by leasing it out to residents in a British city center in just three years. |
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Tuesday 30 June, 2009 12:17 PM |
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Bombardier Transportation announced today that it has completed the Neihu Line, an extension of the existing Muzha Line, in Taipei, Taiwan. This unique, large-scale project involved the design and supply of the 15-km Neihu Line and fleet of 202 vehicles, as well as the simultaneous retrofit of the Muzha Line. Ultimately, the new and existing vehicles, operating as married pairs, will run compatibly on both lines. |
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Monday 29 June, 2009 02:40 PM |
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The sector is pinning many of its hopes for the future on the development of electric/petrol and electric/diesel hybrid engines integrated with known performance enhancing technologies such as fuel injectors and superchargers. Other projects are looking at marrying other ‘green’ options such as regenerative braking and kinetic energy storage with hybrid engines. |
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Monday 29 June, 2009 12:35 PM |
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Turbomeca is pressing ahead with a radical design for a new generation of helicopter engines to deliver a quantum leap in operational efficiency. “If we do not shoot for a 30- to 50-percent improvement in fuel burn for 20 to 30 years from now, the helicopter will be no more than an airshow attraction and will no longer be a business tool,” the French company’s president Pierre Fabre told AIN. “Also, we have to reduce pollution and noise if there is to be a future for vertical flight.” |
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Monday 15 June, 2009 08:14 PM |
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Founded in 1996, FAKT is headquartered in Germany and has divisions in China, Sweden and Italia. FAKT is authorized as a testing laboratory by the accreditation body of the "Kraftfahrt Bundesamt", German Approval Authority, and is one of the five independent testing laboratories accredited by the "Kraftfahrtbundesamt" for complete vehicle, systems and parts certification within the German statutory defined domain. |
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Thursday 4 June, 2009 12:54 PM |
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IN a surprising discovery UK researchers have found that wings which direct air to waggle sideways could cut airline fuel bills by 20 per cent.
The new research could have a major impact on the aerodynamic design and fuel consumption not only of planes but also of cars, boats and trains.
The new approach uses tiny air powered jets to redirect the air, making it flow sideways back and forth over the wing and dramatically reducing mid-flight drag. |
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Monday 1 June, 2009 02:00 PM |
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Before there was a looming bankruptcy , there were monster tail fins, tons of chrome, the 'Vette, Caddy and the Riviera. There was star designer Harley Earl, trendsetting Chief Executive Officer Alfred Sloan, mom-and-apple-pie ads and good-as-gold shares of stock. There were stunning displays of future highways at the 1939 World's Fair and the historic recognition of the UAW after the 1937 Flint sit-down strike. |
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Sunday 31 May, 2009 10:25 AM |
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In the gloomy basement cafeteria of New York's Jacob Javits Center, Henrik Fisker is choking down a chicken sandwich and imagining a new kind of American car company. Almost everything is outsourced--engineering, components, the electric power train, manufacturing. No messy work rules to worry about, no postretirement health care. |
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Friday 22 May, 2009 02:56 PM |
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Is this the future of motorsport? While Audi advances diesel technology in Le Mans, VW explores CNG and Formula 1 gets in on the act with KERS energy recovery, other companies are fantasising even further about how racing cars can be powered. |
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Thursday 21 May, 2009 07:38 PM |
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Machines are not meant to be loved. Who ever swooned for a Boeing 737 on their charter flight to Malaga, or fell for the 5.45 from Waterloo to Surbiton?
But some machines transcend practicality: Concorde, for example, or the great steam locomotives of the 1930s. And then there's the Mini - 50 years old this week and, to my mind, not only a machine worthy of devotion, but a work of creative and engineering genius. |
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Tuesday 19 May, 2009 08:59 AM |
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May 18, 2009 The world record for a car sold at auction tumbled as predicted on the weekend when this 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa fetched 9,020,000 Euro (more than USD$12 million) at the “Ferrari Leggenda e Passione” in Maranello, Italy. Beautiful, rare (only 22 similar models were made) and with a rich and successful race history that began with a debut in the Buenos Aires 1000km in 1958, the 250 TR chassis no. 0714TR was snapped up by an anonymous phone bidder. |
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Monday 18 May, 2009 10:39 AM |
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Better Place today achieved a milestone in accelerating the mass-market adoption of electric vehicles by demonstrating the world's first battery switch technology along with electric car charging spots.
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Thursday 14 May, 2009 08:14 PM |
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It may sound easy enough , but don't try this at home. To test the performance of new pressure-based air bag sensors equipped on the 2010 Taurus and 2009 Ford F150, Ford engineers have employed equipment more commonly found in shopping malls than in laboratories, such such as water cannons, basket balls, shopping carts. |
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Thursday 14 May, 2009 06:12 PM |
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With the 'Low Emissions' TTXGP fast coming up, and the fact that we're geeks at heart and love to see new technology brought to motorcycles and racing, here's a brief roundup of various efforts of entrants to this years inargural TTXGP event, held on the Isle of Man on June 12th |
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Wednesday 13 May, 2009 03:07 PM |
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Harman Becker Automotive Systems , the automotive division of Harman International and Lotus Engineering have reached an agreement to jointly develop noise management solutions using Lotus’ patented Active Noise Control technologies. Exclusive rights are granted to Harman to manufacture the latest technology solutions for the worldwide vehicle market. The agreement includes all of Lotus’ Active Noise Control technologies comprising Road Noise Cancellation, Engine Order Cancellation, and Electronic Sound Synthesis. |
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Wednesday 13 May, 2009 01:06 PM |
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An air-powered bike designed by a team of engineering students from India. To help combat the ever-increasing pollution levels in the atmosphere, they designed themselves a working model that runs on air rather than gasoline
. http://www.slipperybrick.com/2009/05/indian-students-design-an-air-powered-motorcycle |
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Tuesday 12 May, 2009 02:47 PM |
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A lightweight electric motor designed by Oxford University engineers is to power a new four-seat coupé, with track tests scheduled for the end of 2009. |
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Tuesday 12 May, 2009 11:50 AM |
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