BMW demos a self-parking BMW 730i
BMW has developed a parking-assist technology that can park your car for you while you stand outside the car and watch as the internal robotics and gizmos park it. A prototype of the system has […]
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What is an anti-lag or misfiring system?
I’m sure some of you have heard of anti-lag systems or sometimes known as misfiring systems, thanks to anime like Initial D. You might have noticed that most of the cars have flames coming out […]
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Toyota developing car operating system
If you look at photos of car interior overseas, you could most likely notice that the area where we normally have our 2-DIN sized CD players is taken up by a little computer, with navigational […]
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BMW Extreme Testing Technology
This is amazing. This is a video of BMW’s extreme testing innovations. For a producer of cars so packed with technology, it’s only normal for their testing procedures to be highly advanced too. They actually […]
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New Audi 2.0 TDI with Piezo Injection
Audi has launched a new series of Audi A3 and Audi A4 cars with a new turbodiesel powerplant. The new 2.0 litre TDI powerplant makes 170ps, which is 30 extra horses over the previous 2.0 […]
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2006 International Engine Of The Year Awards Results
BMW totally owned the 2006 International Engine Of The Year awards again, just as it did last year. It’s 5.0 litre V10 engine used in the BMW M5 and BMW M6 won both the Best […]
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Smartuki – Smart ForTwo with Suzuki GSXR1000 superbike engine
Peter Bee, a Smart car enthusiast wanted somemore power out of his little Smart ForTwo. The original Mitsubishi engine in the Smart ForTwo made about 60hp, and through some tweaking he managed to get this […]
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Volkswagen DSG (Direct Shift Gearbox)
Volkswagen’s Direct Shift Gearbox (DSG) is the world’s first dual-clutch automated manual gearbox in a production car. This provides the driver the ease-of-drive of a car equipped with an automatic transmission, but the efficiency and […]
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German luxury marques top technology index
Telematics Research Group has done a study on the use of technology gizmos in cars. BMW and Mercedes Benz tops the list, and Hyundai comes in last. Audi seems to be lagging behind it’s other […]
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Flexi-fuel Cars run on gasoline and alcohol
Flexi-fuel vehicles, short for “flexible-fuel†or “dual-fuel†vehicles are cars that can run on two sources of fuel. Common flexi-fuel vehicles run on gasoline and ethanol. Our Malaysian taxis are also flexi-fuel vehicles, as they […]
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What is a blow off valve, can I put it on my N/A car?
Questions from beginner car enthusiasts on where to get blow off valves for normally aspirated cars are not uncommon as they don’t know what blow off valves are for, and how they work. It is […]
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Nissan’s Collision Avoidance System
Nissan is developing a safety feature for it’s cars to help avoid colliding with the vehicle in front in the case of a possible sudden brake situation. In Nissan’s accelerator pedal safety system, a combination […]
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Bruce Crower’s 6 stroke Crower cycle engine
As we all know, the combustion engine does not really convert the potential energy in fuel to kinetic energy to move the car efficiently. We lose alot of that power – roughly 76% – in […]
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2006 Honda Civic 1.8 SOHC i-VTEC engine
This is for those who appreciate the technology that goes into a powertrain. How does the new 1.8 litre SOHC i-VTEC engine in the new 2006 Honda Civic achieve good fuel mileage (Honda claims 1.5 […]
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Students build hybrid sportscar powered by soybeans
A group of students from the West Philadelphia High School’s Academy for Automotive and Mechanical Engineering have come up with a prototype hybrid car that runs on soybean fuel. And it’s a sports car, which […]
