Bentley To Use Diesel Engines and Drop 6¾-liter V8
17 Aug 2012, 08:03 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / While Rolls-Royce customers don’t want to hear about green powerplants, with the company dropping plans to use hybrid or all-electric propulsion after negative response from customers, it seem...
Internal Combustion Engines - Still Predominant in 2050
6 Aug 2012, 08:19 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / If you as a 10-year-old what the car he will drive in 2050 will be like, he’ll draw you a pretty picture of a rocket or a hovering machine. After all, it’s hard to imagine things will st...
After Electricity, Rolls-Royce Customers Reject Diesel As Well
2 Aug 2012, 14:25 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / It seems that Rolls-Royce will not be adopting a diesel engine under the bonnet of any of their cars, any time soon. Apparently, according to autocar.co.uk, who have inside information, RR customers...
US Diesel Car Sales Up by 27% in the First Half of 2012
1 Aug 2012, 14:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Stricter emissions regulations that what we have in Europe have prevented most manufacturers which offer diesel engined cars to sell them in the US. However, as diesel have gotten cleaner and more r...
Porsche Panamera Diesel Tuned by mcchip-dkr
31 Jul 2012, 11:54 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Porsche Panamera Diesel has recently received a tuning package from German aftermarket developer mcchip-dkr, which targets the engine bay, as well as the connection to the road. As you would ...
Volkswagen to Bring Phaeton Back to US
27 Jul 2012, 08:57 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Volkswagen sold the Paheton in the US from 2004 to 2006, selling just over 2,000 units in the process. However, this sales figure was far off what they were planning to sell and 2006 was the last ye...
New Mazda6 Diesel Coming to US in Late 2013
23 Jul 2012, 12:36 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Mazda has been working hard to redefine its vehicles through its new Skyactiv technologies that aim to improve efficiency and we are here now to focus on the oil-burning side of this game. To be mor...
Tiny but Sexy French Maids in Fuel Clean Engine
17 Jul 2012, 09:23 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Romanian fuel chain Rometrol has had the Efix fuel lineup for a while now, but they’ve managed to put a new spin on the idea that it’s good for your engine. To put this simply, their ...
BMW Confirms 2.0-liter 4-Cylinder Diesel Engine for US
16 Jul 2012, 09:16 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The US market is slowly but steadily starting to receive diesel engine options and the latest carmaker to jump the bandwagon is BMW, which has recently confirmed that it will introduce a 2.0-liter, ...
Chrysler Adopting ‘EcoDiesel’ Brand Name?
9 Jul 2012, 07:10 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Chrysler will apparently be adopting a new denomination for its diesel-engined offerings, giving up “CRD” in favour of something which is ‘more 2012’ - “EcoDiesel&rdquo...
By 2018, Over 12% of Cars Will to Be Diesels
21 Jun 2012, 11:10 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Following in the footsteps of Europe, countries around the world are just starting to embrace the diesel engine as a viable alternative to its spark-aided counterpart, the petrol engine. Around half...
The Ultimate Engine Sound - Made by a Diesel
19 Jun 2012, 12:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / You may know that we here at autoevolution are very interested in performance diesels and we would like to see more sporty diesels on our roads. However, despite the fact that the number of such car...
New Maserati Quattroporte Spied on the Fiorano Track
14 Jun 2012, 08:34 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With the Q1 2013 launch of the new Qattroporte by Maserati drawing ever closer, we are happy to report that the car has been spotted numerous times undergoing various testing procedures, on the road...
World Health Organization Deems Diesel Fumes as 'Carcinogenic'
13 Jun 2012, 14:44 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The World Health Organization (WHO) have moved the status of diesel fumes from the ‘probable carcinogen’ category to the ‘carcinogen’ category. Of course we are aware that di...
Ram 1500 to Get Diesel Engine
8 Jun 2012, 13:54 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Ram 1500 is a trusty workhorse and you really couldn’t argue with the fact that a diesel engine hidden under its hood would bering a bouquet of assets to the car. We know, we’ve rece...
Not So Clean Diesel
5 Jun 2012, 10:22 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Welderup, a “complete custom fabrication shop specializing in one-of-a-kind vehicles”, as the company recommends itself, is sick and tired and sitting around and waiting for The Apocalip...
Mazda to Bring Skyactiv-Diesel to US Grand AM Racing Series
4 Jun 2012, 11:26 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Mazda’s Skyactiv program is a different approach to the issues of fuel efficiency and emissions, and a breath of fresh air in an industry over-saturated with ‘plug-in this’ and &ls...
A Diesel Bike, Would You?
2 Jun 2012, 11:29 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The idea of a diesel motorcycle has been around for quite some time now, and it's still a mystery why it hasn’t been developed on a larger scale. While the motorcycling world has always r...
Gilles Is a Fan of SRT Performance Diesel
30 May 2012, 14:13 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Right now, BMW is leading the field in performance diesel technology with their powerful straight-six tri-turbo engine fitted to the 5-Series, X5 and X6 M Performance models. Audi also has a powerfu...
Maserati Preparing Artificial Exhaust Sound for Future Diesels
30 May 2012, 06:53 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We have to admit that the automotive industry hasn’t evolved all that much in terms of exhaust sound. Nowadays, we’ve got titanium exhaust that save weight and valves that control the no...