Car Industry's 2010 Face Off... ... If 2009 was the year of thundering bankruptcies and an almost total collapse of the American car industry - while the Japanese more or less flourished - 2010 seems to be the exact opposite. General Motors, Ford and even Chrysler – who were technically dead as ... Continue reading >
100+ years since the invention of the self-propelled car, three new engines battle for a place in the automotive future. Which one do you see in your car 10 years from now?
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So we went to an Isuzu rally last week. Before jumping to any sudden conclusions, let us first say that by "rally" we mean "to come together for a common purpose". Although, come to think of it, driving with a copilot through some rain-drenched ...
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The use of motorcycles by various police forces and departments all over the world proved to be one of the most efficient choice through the years, as their maneuverability on crowded streets offer advantages not provided by traditional police vehicles. The ...
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2009 has been so far, and chances are it will still be, a very troubled year in the automotive industry. Brought to its knees by an economic crisis which began in an entirely different sector of the economy, the industry is still engulfed in a major shake down ...
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As we're sure you know from our previous stories, sport divisions are often based on motorsport activities that allowed manufacturers to focus more on high-performance parts and models. In most cases, the sport divisions started as racing teams in various ...
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Top 3 Extra-Terrestrial VehiclesCOVERSTORYBack in the day when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon, for the first time in human history, people started believing that by the time you are reading this piece, millions of our kind will be living on the Moon and on Mars. The crude reality is that it didn't happen, for reasons which do not concern us here. In fact, not only did we not establish a permanent human settlement off-world, as sci-fi authors like to call other planets, but we didn't even manage to build a truly reliable, longrun vehicle in which to make more than "one small step for man". But we did make progress... We set out to give you a brief presentation of the most important attempts made by man to put wheels on the surface of other planets. And there's no better place to start ... >> Read more |
There's no secret HUMMER is one of the most appreciated brands around the world, especially in the United States where the company has sold most of its cars. But behind the HUMMER nameplate there is a long and impressive history, with many dead ends and lots of crucial ...
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One of the most sought after "shows" on American city streets is the passing of a Presidential motorcade. Today, the simple act of the President going from place to place in a car has become a spectacle in itself, a type of parade if you like (some call ...
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Similar to many other sport divisions out there, MAZDASPEED first made history in motorsports before becoming Mazda's popular sport unit we all heard about. It all started in 1967 when an independent racing team, pleasantly surprised by Mazda's two-door coupe Cosmo ...
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From the very early designs used for pottery purposes to the most advanced contraptions known to mankind, the wheel has been continuously driving our civilization like a catalyst in a chemical reaction. We thought it would be a good idea to take a stroll through ...
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The lights, the sirens and the cascade of water, attributes of the modern day fire truck, have a tendency to hide the real role of this type of vehicles, that to save lives. For both kids and grown ups, the fuss created by a fire truck in action is thrilling beyond ...
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French manufacturer Renault is one of the main players in the European automotive industry and through several alliances and partnerships around the world, the company is planning to expand its coverage in yet unexplored regions. However, we're not going to talk ...
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They say behind a very strong man there's always a strong woman. If translated into Formula One racing, one can say that past champions have been either the result of great rivalries (see Ayrton Senna vs. Alain Prost / Nelson Piquet vs. Nigel Mansell, etc) or the ...
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In a little over a hundred years since the automobile took hold of people's imagination, technologies designed to make them accelerate faster and reach higher speeds have evolved with a fury the likes of which we can only see in the aeronautics industry. Still, despite ...
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Sport divisions continue to play a key role for every single automaker that owns one and, despite the difficult economic conditions we're now living in, sport and high-performance cars are still attractive in most regions of the world. Because of that, car ...
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As is often the case, the creation of the MINI brand was spawned by necessity. Not by the necessity to be admired, to shock or to outrun every other kid on the block who owned a car. MINI came to be due to economic reasons, mainly because of the same natural ...
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Ground effects were first implemented in Formula One by Lotus designer Colin Chapman. In a time when equalizing the performances of F1 engines was not an option – in the 1970s that is – the teams using Cosworth power plants were trying to find a viable ...
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Just as we told you in our previous cover stories, sport divisions play a key role for every single car manufacturer that owns one. And just think that all those high-performance models, no matter we're talking about Mercedes, BMW or Opel, are belonging to these units. ...
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Drifting, a motorsport just over 30 years of age, has managed to capture the imagination of a large part of those who own a car. Undoubtedly, there are only few of us who can say that they never tried to get their car into a more or less controlled slide. Be it on ...
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Formula One could have looked a lot different nowadays if Derek Gardner had succeeded in turning his 6-wheel F1 car project – commonly known as Project 34 – into a hit. Well, not that he didn't anyway, it just lasted too short and received too little ...
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After we previously stepped in the worlds of AMG and BMW, today we'll continue our debate over sport divisions around the world with a new and well-known unit: OPC. Mostly known as Opel's sport subsidiary, the Opel Performance Center (abbreviated as OPC) has a ...
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