USA Today ran an article a couple of days ago about cities converting one-way streets back to two way. Evidently one-way streets became popular in fifties to improve traffic flow, and to make evacuation easier in the event of a nuclear attack. The…
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Audi goes diesel with their small sportster, TT 2.0 TDI that gets 44.3mpg!
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For the first time since the car's debut a decade ago Audi has decided to drop a diesel engine into the TT sports car. Audi is even claiming that the TT will be the first series production sports car with a…
Volkswagen could join IRL in 2011 to promote TSI or TDI engines
click the Ganassi Racing car for a high-res gallery from the 2008 Detroit Grand Prix
For the last few years, Honda has had the IndyCar engine supply market all to itself as Toyota and Chevrolet departed to pursue other ventures. At the end of the…
Gordon Murray talks about his 80 mpg T25
Is it possible to make a car that carries 4 people comfortably, meets modern safety standards, provides decent performance and gets 80 mpg for barely more than $10,000? Even more impressive would be to do it without electric or hybrid drive. If it's…
Toyota Hybrid site asks: What's your reason?
Hybrid pioneer Toyota has put up a new “Web 2.0” site to promote their hybrid vehicles. Owners of hybrids can create their own content on the site to demonstrate why they own one. Users can create a personal profile and then use graphics and video to…
Tokyo 2007: Volkswagen Space Up!
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Last month at the Frankfurt Motor Show Volkswagen unveiled the first member of their “New Small Family” in the form of their modern day Beetle successor the up! As the NSF name implies this was just the…
Three races in, Formula One teams already abandoning KERS
Apparently, hybrid drive systems aren't catching on in Formula 1 this year. The new 2009 rules allowed, but did not require the addition of hybrid systems called KERS or kinetic energy recovery systems. Over the course of the 2008 season, teams spent…
Next-gen Mini Cooper to match diesel efficiency with turbo DI inline-three
It's no secret that BMW, like many other automakers, is working on smaller three-cylinder engines for its future products in order to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. Some of those engines will go into the next generation of Mini products.…
A dozen 2011 Chevrolets to offer 6-speed automatics
Once the Chevrolet Cruze goes on sale this fall, an even dozen models from the Bowtie Brand will be equipped with six-speed automatic transmissions. Adding more ratios to transmissions offers automakers more flexibility in tuning engines for better…
2012 GT500 to feature 500 horsepower, twin-turbo “Coyote” V8, or not?
2010 Ford Shelby GT500 – Click above for high-res image gallery
While the two variants of the Ford Shelby GT500 that we've lived with since 2007 are undoubtedly fast in a straight line, they have a major flaw. They are simply too heavy. For a variety…