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Lexus Not Getting BMW Diesel Engines
Lexus Not Getting BMW Diesel Engines

18 Dec 2011, 18:29 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / As some of you might have heard already, Toyota and BMW has signed an agreement under which the Japanese manufacturer will provide hybrid tech, while BMW will offer up its diesels, most notably the ...

 
President Barak Obama Sets Fuel Standards For Big Vehicles, Including Fire Trucks
President Barak Obama Sets Fuel Standards For Big Vehicles, Including Fire Trucks

10 Aug 2011, 06:56 UTC · By: Dragos Serban / For the first time, fuel consumption and emissions of heat-trapping gases standards will apply to fire trucks and concrete mixers, heavy-duty and all trucks in between, as announced on Tuesday by Pr...

 
EV Sector Sales Dropped by Half in the UK
EV Sector Sales Dropped by Half in the UK

27 Jul 2011, 14:46 UTC · By: Dragos Serban / The U.K. government and industry remain confident that electric cars will see an upswing in demand, despite a dramatic fall in the EV sales sector. According to figures made public by the RAC Founda...

 
Porsche Cajun Three-Door Crossover Is Coming
Porsche Cajun Three-Door Crossover Is Coming

15 Jul 2011, 07:56 UTC · By: Dragos Serban / The word is out! Porsche intents to build a three-door coupe crossover that’s meant to challenge its direct rival the three-door Range Rover Evoque. The Prosche Cajun is expected to be launche...

 
VW Golf VII Prepares for Making the Entrance
VW Golf VII Prepares for Making the Entrance

12 Jul 2011, 08:22 UTC · By: Dragos Serban / German automaker Volkswagen is currently working on the Golf VII, which is expected to debut at the Geneva Auto Show in March 2012, before it will hit the streets in October that year. According to ...

 
Diesel Engines for Jeep in 3 Years
Diesel Engines for Jeep in 3 Years

8 Apr 2011, 12:23 UTC · By: Cosmin Voicu / In three years time, Jeep could offer diesel engines for some models in its range on the U.S. market, according to Mike Mantley, president and CEO of Chrysler's Jeep brand. Manley also said tha...

 
Mercedes Benz Celebrates 75 Years of Diesel Engines
Mercedes Benz Celebrates 75 Years of Diesel Engines

19 Jan 2011, 18:19 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Fifty-years after Carl Benz invented the petrol-powered automobile, the W 138 series 260 D was presented at the launch as the first series-production passenger car with a diesel engine. In fact, pro...

 
MINI Cooper SD Heading to Geneva?
MINI Cooper SD Heading to Geneva?

17 Jan 2011, 08:11 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / When they first started to make a name for themselves, diesel engines had to struggle with their bad reputation as being noisy and lackluster. However, current generation units are proving just as g...

 
Mercedes, Audi Betting on Diesels in the US
Mercedes, Audi Betting on Diesels in the US

12 Jan 2011, 10:08 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Diesels have always had to deal with the stigma of being slow, noisy and dirty. But US customers have recently started taking notice of more economical models like the Audi A3 TDI, which accounted f...

 
BMW X5 Will Go on a Diet for Next Generation
BMW X5 Will Go on a Diet for Next Generation

12 Nov 2010, 15:19 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / BMW, who is a company best known for creating four door sporty saloons, has not forgotten the model that actually brought it the most money over the past 10 years. The third generation of X5 should ...

 
Aston Martin Says No to Le Mans Diesel
Aston Martin Says No to Le Mans Diesel

20 May 2010, 07:04 UTC · By: Dan Mihalascu / Aston Martin Racing boss David Richards said his team will not switch to diesels like the dominant Peugeot and Audi teams have done in order to win the Le Mans 24 Hours race. Audi and Peugeot use di...

 
WTCC Boost Pressure for Diesel Engines
WTCC Boost Pressure for Diesel Engines

22 May 2009, 14:04 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Following the multitude of penalties handed by the FIA to the World Touring Car Championship drivers during the last few rounds of the 2009 schedule, the ruling body has decided to change some of th...

 
Diesel Power...
Diesel Power...

14 May 2009, 14:51 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ... some say that the real diesel revolution started in Europe about 20-25 years ago, and that that era is about to end with the introduction of higher efficient and smaller gasoline engines. Plus, ...