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  Mercedes Benz Charged Gasoline Injection (CGI)

  25 February 2006 / 3 comments

  Mercedes Benz was the first car manufacturer to use direct fuel-injection in it’s road cars, putting a direct-injection engine into the 1955 300SL Gullwing. Back then, things like fuel economy and emissions were not really […]

  
  

   

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  How does Nitrous Oxide work?

  23 February 2006 / 18 comments

  When it comes to souping up cars, even laymen usually have two words in their heads – turbo and NOS. NOS, or its proper name nitrous oxide. Sounds cool doesnt it? Contrary to popular believe, […]

  
  

   

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  Citroen C6 dashboard meter

  22 February 2006 / 13 comments

  The car dashboard. You will spend most of your time as a car owner facing it. Many car companies have been trying to revolutionize the way dashboard information is presented to you. Honda has it’s […]

  
  

   

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  BMW N54 Bi-Turbo Engine

  20 February 2006 / 12 comments

  After testing their new turbocharged petrol engine on a modified BMW 5-series, BMW has officially announced their new turbocharged petrol engine, the N54 Bi-Turbo. The BMW N54 Bi-Turbo is expected to be installed for the […]

  
  

   

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  2007 Audi R8 Technical Specifications

  9 February 2006 / 6 comments

  Here are somemore details on the upcoming new Audi R8 supercar, based on the Le Mans concept above. A quick recap, the car is supposed to come in 2 variants, one with an entry-level high-revving […]

  
  

   

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  New Goodyear Eagle with ResponsEdge Technology

  8 February 2006 / 4 comments

  You’ve heard of carbon fibre bonnets, roofs, and even sports rims, but have you heard of carbon fibre tyres? Goodyear announced it’s new Goodyear Eagle with ResponsEdge Technology which will begin to be available in […]

  
  

   

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  Honda’s Variable Cylinder Management i-VTEC

  17 January 2006 / 22 comments

  Honda is famous for their 4-cylinder VTEC and i-VTEC engines, but they also have V6 engines in their stables. The Acura NSX had a 3.2 litre V6 and the current shark-faced top of the range […]

  
  

   

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  Eliica, the 600kW electric sports car

  20 December 2005 / 22 comments

  A team of engineers at Keio University led by Professor Hiroshi Shimizu has developed this 8-wheeled electric car called the Eliica. Eliica stands for ‘Electric Lithium-Ion battery Car’ and it has some pretty impressive performance […]

  
  

   

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  BMW TurboSteamer

  11 December 2005 / 45 comments

  BMW’s Group Research and Engineering division has come up with something new to squeeze out every ounce of performance from a combustion engine. Let’s have a look at BMW’s Turbosteamer.

  
  

   

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  Airzed WiMAX Test

  25 October 2005 / 30 comments

  I previously blogged about AirZed introducing WiMAX broadband services here in Malaysia. The only package available right now is the Business package which provides 1mbps download and 512kbps upload with 1 fixed IP. It costs […]

  
  

   

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