Mitsubishi Motors has unveiled two of the technologies that will go into the upcoming 10th in it’s generation Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, but let’s talk about them one at a time. We’ll have a look at Twin Clutch SST (Sport Shift Transmission) first – an automated manual transmission with twin clutches much like Volkswagen’s DSG, the current benchmark for dual clutch automated manual transmission.
Much like DSG, Mitsubishi has upt the odd gears (1st, 3rd and 5th) on one clutch and the even gears (2nd, 4th, and 6th) on the other clutch. Under precise system control, the gearbox swaps between gears much faster on the upshifts as the next gear is preselected.
The Twin Clutch SST system has three shift programs – Normal, Sport and S-Sport. Normal mode like it’s namesake is for normal driving around town and highways. It uses low shift points for better comfort and fuel economy.
The Sport mode is to be used in situations like mountain driving, or whenever you need lots of engine braking, keeping the gears in lower ones for longer than normal. Shift points are also higher for more power. S-Sport mode is the mad, rapid, rev to redline mode with the fastest possible shifting.
Mitsubishi did not release the shift times for the Twin Clutch SST so we don’t really know at this moment whether it is faster or slower or equal to Volkswagen’s DSG.
Piezo fuel injectors are all the rage for turbodiesel engines these days for the superior performance they have. Pieze injectors (graphic shown) can inject fuel using multiple jets and multiple injections per cycle, and is the key to reduce in-cylinder emissions, boost performance, and reduce noise. This comes at a cost however – piezo injectors are expensive as the piezo crystal that gives it it’s name is expensive to produce.
Fiat Powertrain Technologies has unveiled the latest revision of it’s 1.9 litre JTD MultiJet 16 valve inline-4 turbodiesel engine, which uses twin stage turbocharging to produce high power and massive torque in a wide RPM range at the same time.
BorgWarner and Volkswagen has developed a new DSG (Direct Shift Gearbox) gearbox codenamed DQ200 which will succeed it’s current DG250 6-speed DSG gearbox from BorgWarner. One major difference relevant to the consumer would be it’s 7-gears compared to the first generation DSG’s 6-speeds. 
The results of the 2007 International Engine Of The Year awards are out. The question everyone will be asking is – will the BMW 5.0 litre V10 be able to persevere and continue it’s reign as the award winner for the third time consecutively this year? Or will it be out-triumphed by a rival from another manufacturer, or perhaps another engine from BMW’s own stables? We find out what the results are after the jump!