Pedigree of the Brands - A Different View of the Story... ...Many of us own cars which come from rather famous brands. Plenty of times, even if you hate to admit it, the badge is the main reason to look at a certain car and, in the end, it's the decisive reason in actually choosing the "perfect"model. OK, there ... Continue reading >
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Research into developing better yet more fuel-efficient engines is getting more an more of a rhythm these days, as the 2009 Geneva Auto Show is about to begin. What went on behind the scenes until now gets uncovered, as engine and car manufacturers try to get the upper ...
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Amid new cars, strange concepts and the “Lancia Café”, the 2009 Geneva Auto Show will also bear witness to car manufacturer's attempts to tackle the other modern day problem besides the crisis: fuel consumption efficiency.
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Alternative fuels and fuel-technologies are the new promised land for car manufacturers. The economic crisis seems to have stepped up research and development endeavors towards achieving fuel efficient low or even zero emission engines.
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The Self Inflating Tire, also known as SIT, a technology designed by Coda Development has just won the Tire Technology of the Year award at the Tire Technology Awards for Innovation and Excellence 2009 in Hamburg, Germany.
The name of the technology is pretty ...
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BMW to Help Drivers with AI-Like ILENA SystemTECHNOLOGYYears of research were put into developing systems that would allow drivers to better their driving skills with the aid of the car itself. But now, as the moment in which such systems draws ever closer, are we really ready for them? When it comes to your car, your ride, the statement of your manhood, this extension of your ego, would you let a computer take over? What would you say if something named like a girl would be able to anticipate what you want from your car and make it happen? If it could give you more power when you need it, learn the route your taking to go to work and basically drive itself, but deprive you of any real control? ILENA, the system under development from BMW, tries to answers to all these questions. Unlike what you might think when you first hear its ... >> Read more |
Volkswagen Group of America announced today that 16 Passat Lingyu vehicles will participate in fleet demonstrations at the California Fuel Cell Partnership in Sacramento. The fuel cell vehicles are being added to the existing fleet of eight Volkswagen fuel cell ...
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Tires are undoubtedly some of the most important components when going off-road, together with all-wheel drive capability and extraordinary driving skills. Well, the guys over at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company claim they've developed the first off-road tire ...
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Chrysler will showcases its electric vehicle future at the 2009 Geneva Auto Show when it premieres the Chrysler 200C EV Concept and the Dodge Circuit EV Prototype developed by ENVI, which is an in-house organization that was established by Chrysler in 2007 to focus on ...
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Ford today introduced a new 6-speed SelectShift automatic transmission that will be exclusively available with the new 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 engine. In essence, the transmission box is especially manufactured for better performance but also for enhanced fuel ...
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The automakers' efforts to come up with an all electric engine for the masses are admirable, but obviously not enough. Although low CO2 emission engines are being developed all over the world in ever growing number, this still doesn't completely eliminate dangerous ...
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The creepy future when people will be replaced by robots seems closer than we have expected. Keeping that in mind, Audi and PDM, Australia’s number one Out-of-Home Digital media company, have recently launched the country’s first ever life-size ...
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Ever wondered what the future will look like? Well, there’s no need to wait anymore, at least for car enthusiasts who hoped to experience the functions future cars may bring. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, ...
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Turn on the radio and let the music play as Jaguar is equipping its 2010 product line with HD Radio technology. Because the British luxury automaker likes to keep the pace with the ultimate technology, the HD Radio receivers will come factory installed in the XK ...
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Defrosting the windshield is one of the, let's say, uncomfortable things to be done during the cold season, despite all those sprays and devices promising only milk and honey. Well, it may seem like some people actually managed to develop a high-generation system ...
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The era of the alternators may soon come to an end, as thermoelectric technology becomes a more and more viable energy source. The phenomenon, which uses temperature difference to create an electric potential, is known for some time but was considered ineffective. ...
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Ford is testing an array of new “active” crash-avoidance and driver-aid technologies it will introduce in 2009 by driving prototypes into large, car-shaped balloons to help customers avoid real accidents. Engineers use the balloons as target practice at ...
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In case you want to spend less time in traffic and arrive earlier at your destination, then you should seriously consider taking lessons from... leafcutter ants. As incredible as it may seem, this is neither a joke nor the plot of some science fiction movie but the ...
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Fitted, tuned, armed, dangerous...There is no further need to describe the Humvee or explain what it does. We all know that its primary function is not to carry one's a** around the city streets, with the sole purpose to get that a** from point A to point B. It's ...
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Audi today announced that its UK version of Audi A4 and A5 will receive the company's S-Tronic Sport transmission system, which is expected to reduce gear shifting by approximately 0.2 seconds. Obviously this leads to some improvements, such as the A4 2.0 TFSI ...
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Anyone who thinks garbage becomes useless the moment it's been dropped into the container hasn't been in Huddersfield, United Kingdom. The streets of this small English town are being patrolled by a modified Ford Transit that uses garbage for fuel. The City Council ...
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