Formula One teams are continuing to develop their KERS hybrid drive systems in preparation for a 2009 season launch. This week, the Honda F1 team wrapped up its 2008 testing allotment at the Jerez track in Spain with a day of running the kinetic…
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German government approves majority sale of Opel to Magna, Russians
With General Motors expected to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York on Monday morning, negotiators in Germany scrambled to finalize a deal to save Opel from insolvency. Following a six-hour meeting in the German Chancellor's office…
Chrysler's Frank Klegon on What's New in powertrains
At the Chrysler's What's New preview of their 2008 lineup at their Chelsea, MI Proving Ground, executive VP of product development, Frank Klegon spoke about some of the companies powertrain plans for the next few years. While he didn't really get…
Focus production to expand to second plant in 2010
In yet another sign of the times at Ford, it looks like the factory that builds what was not so long ago the best-selling SUV on the plant is shifting gears. Ford's Louisville, KY assembly that has built the Ford Explorer and Mercury Mountaineer for…
Reversing the flow to Australia, Volts headed down under
The Lutz has spoken yet again (imagine that!) and the subject once more is the Volt. This time it involves reversing some of the recent flow of machinery between Australia and U.S. GM's Holden division down under was tasked with developing a global…
Detroit 2008: Ford Explorer America Concept says bye-bye to body-on-frame
click above for 50 high-res images of the Ford Explorer America Concept
For more than a decade the Ford Explorer was the top-selling SUV in the US with annual sales topping 400,000 units for many years. The best days of the body-on-frame SUV are…
Frankfurt Preview: BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Concept, turbodiesel plug-in hybrid [w/VIDEO]
After several months of speculation and official teases for the past week, we now finally have all the details on the Vision EfficientDynamics Concept that BMW will show in Frankfurt in a couple of weeks. The speculation about the concept's…
Opel adds Sports Tourer Wagon to Insignia ecoFlex line
2010 Opel Insignia Sports Tourer ecoFlex – click above for high res image
Over in Europe, Opel has expanded it's Insignia ecoFlex line with a Sports Tourer model. That would be a station wagon in American English. Whatever you call it, this handsome…
GM performance guru John Heinricy retires
The Nürburgring record-setting Cadillac CTS-V
Over the past two decades, John Heinricy has probably done more to enhance the performance image of General Motors than any other single individual. From the perspective of a petrol-head, Heinricy has for…
Georgia company quits cellulosic ethanol in favor of garbage methane
The company formerly known as Xethanol Corp, is now known as Global Energy Holdings Group. As a renamed and reorganized company, it has dropped its focus on cellulosic ethanol in the face of falling ethanol prices. Instead, the company will take a…