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  Production Mazda Smart Idle Stop System in 2009

  23 June 2008 / 12 comments

  Mazda has announced the world’s first idle-start-stop system that restarts the engine without the use of a special starter, and will put the system into one of its production cars in 2009. The proprietary system […]

  
  

   

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  Antonov Dual-Speed Ancillaries

  29 May 2008 / 6 comments

  We previously saw Antonov advocating the use of a dual-speed supercharger which allowed boost to be delivered effectively over a wider range of engine speeds. Antonov seems to be taking this dual-speed thing quite seriously, […]

  
  

   

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  Volkswagen teams up with Sanyo for battery R&D

  28 May 2008 / 10 comments

  Volkswagen is partnering up with Sanyo to jointly develop high-performance energy storage systems, or in laymen speak batteries that can store LOTS of juice. According to Vee-Dub, Sanyo is currently the world’s biggest supplier of […]

  
  

   

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  Ricardo 2/4SIGHT engine: switches between two stroke and four stroke cycles

  27 May 2008 / 7 comments

  Click to enlarge Ricardo Engineering Consultants (the company that designed and produced the Bugatti Veyron’s DSG gearbox and designed the JCB Dieselmax’s engine) has produced a prototype 2.0 litre V6 engine called the 2/4SIGHT, which […]

  
  

   

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  International Engine of The Year 2008 Results

  12 May 2008 / 27 comments

  BMW has conquered the 2008 International Engine Of The Year awards again, with the N54 Bi-Turbo in the BMW 335i and the BMW 135i taking home the overall award and the 2.5 litre to 3 […]

  
  

   

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  Antonov Dual-Speed Supercharger

  7 May 2008 / 14 comments

  UK-based Antonov Automotive Technologies is advocating the use of a dual-speed supercharger (which they are already producing and continuously improving) for the current trend of downsizing displacement and force inducting engines in efforts to improve […]

  
  

   

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  Prodrive’s Active Toe Control could revolutionize suspension design

  14 March 2008 / 10 comments

  Prodrive is currently developing an innovative system called Active Toe Control that may eliminate the need for complicated multi-link rear suspension setups. Active Toe Control works on the rear axle of a front wheel drive […]

  
  

   

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  Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X Technical Features

  20 February 2008 / 20 comments

  Mitsubishi Motors has published a list of what they claim are technical innovations in the new Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X. The list does look very fancy indeed, and stuff like ETACs will lend the Lancer […]

  
  

   

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  Nokia N78 with FM Transmitter

  12 February 2008 / 29 comments

  FM transmitters have become a rather popular car accessory these days, as most car manufacturers have yet to settle on MP3-capable CD players as a standard feature. Burning a limited amount of tracks to Audio […]

  
  

   

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  New 7-speed AMG SPEEDSHIFT MCT

  11 February 2008 / 17 comments

  UPDATE: Apparently this is an innovative use of a single clutch combined with the 7G-Tronic automated transmission (replacing the torque converter for startups), and not a dual clutch transmission. The MCT (Multi-Clutch Technology) acronym refers […]

  
  

   

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