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  Volvo showcases new safety technology

  16 December 2007 / 13 comments

  Being known as one of the pioneers in vehicle safety, Volvo has been constantly researching new ways to make motoring safer. Volvo has brought us technologies like the Blind Spot Information System that we have […]

   

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  BorgWarner R2S sequential VGT turbocharger

  14 December 2007 / 7 comments

  BorgWarner has developed a new integrated 2-stage turbocharger called the R2S system, which uses two differently sized turbochargers in a sequential arrangement. The smaller of the two turbochargers is a smaller conventional unit that provides […]

   

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  New cost-effective, simplified DSG from Borg Warner

  6 December 2007 / 10 comments

  BorgWarner is now in final stages of developing a new dual-clutch transmission targetted at small fuel efficient economical cars, especially for use in developing markets like China, India and South East Asia. The new dual […]

   

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  The New Honda FCX Concept Driving Experience

  7 November 2007 / 28 comments

  Click to enlarge During the Honda media trip to Japan for the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show, we also got to visit Honda’s Tochigi R&D Center where we got to see all kinds of interesting and […]

   

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  Mazda RENESIS: Rotary Engine 16X

  5 November 2007 / 10 comments

  It’s been 40 years since Mazda introduced the first rotary engine in the Mazda Cosmo Sport in 1967. This year, Mazda puts another marker on the history of the Mazda rotary engine with the RENESIS […]

   

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  Airbags can cause second degree burns

  18 October 2007 / 24 comments

  The hot gasses that are pumped into an airbag when it inflates can cause some serious injury in certain cases, as a poor 34 year old lady in Melbourne discovered. She sustained deep dermal second […]

   

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  BMW Concept X6 ActiveHybrid at Frankfurt 2007

  14 September 2007 / 13 comments

  The second BMW X6 Concept shown at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show demonstrates BMW’s ActiveHybrid technology, which BMW says is superior to conventional hybrid vehicles in terms of driving dynamics – looking at the assortment […]

   

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  Lotus and Siemens VDO to reveal new engine

  11 September 2007 / 12 comments

  Lotus Engineering and Siemens VDO will be jointly exhibiting a new 1.5 litre 3-cylinder force inducted hybrid engine at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show which should be starting any time now. The new engine combines […]

   

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  LED lighting technology

  14 August 2007 / 27 comments

  While we are still arguing over whether xenon headlamps should be legal or not, the whole world has moved on with the latest in automotive lighting technology – LEDs. Some cars already have LED tail […]

   

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  2007 Mitsubishi Lancer: The New 4B11 Engine

  30 July 2007 / 26 comments

  Since the new 2007 Mitsubishi Lancer is coming soon, I decided to dig up some details on the new GEMA engine under the hood. The previous Lancer that is on sale on our market now […]

   

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  GKN unveils new Vector-Drive rear axle for BMW

  30 July 2007 / 3 comments

  GKN Driveline has unveiled a new rear axle for rear-wheel and all-wheel driven vehicles called the Vector-Drive rear axle, and it’s first application will be in upcoming BMW cars. GKN Driveline worked with BMW’s gearbox […]

   

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  Mercedes Benz DiesOtto inline-4 engine concept

  26 July 2007 / 14 comments

  Click image above to enlarge diagram view DaimlerChrysler has revealed details on what could be the successor to the current 1.8 litre E18 M271 used as Mercedes Benz’s flagship inline-4 engine. Quite a few car […]

   

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  New alternative transmission technologies

  12 July 2007 / 9 comments

  Most of you have heard of all of the mainstream gearbox types – the classic manual, the slushbox torque converter automatic, the automated manual with a computer controlled clutch, the dual clutch automated manual, and […]

   

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  Volkswagen sneak preview of new engine projects

  11 July 2007 / 8 comments

  Volkswagen currently has a few futuristic engine projects running concurrently – one is a diesel engine that uses some petrol engine properties and another is a petrol engine that uses some diesel engine properties. It […]

   

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  Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution’s new S-AWC system

  10 July 2007 / 17 comments

  Click to enlarge The new Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution will have an updated version of Mitsubishi’s S-AWC (Super All Wheel Control) all-wheel drive system. An improvement over the old system is the new addition of ASC […]

   

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