The opening of the 2009 Formula one season is only a month away in Melbourne, Austraiia and, for the first time, teams will be able to compete with KERS hybrid drive systems aboard. It's not clear yet how many of the teams are actually ready to run…

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Lord Drayson and Jonny Cocker drove their Aston Martin DBRS9 to victory during the British GT championship race at Snetterton England last Sunday. That much is not new. What is new is that this is the…

2010 Porsche Panamera – Click above for a high-res image gallery
With the addition of Porsche, the Volkswagen Group now has ten brands in its stable. Over the last decade, VW has become pretty adept at sharing platforms and hardware. Porsche and the…

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While Ford chose to rehash the compact Focus with a dubious restyling instead of giving us the highly regarded European Focus, Saturn has gone the opposite direction with its smallest model. It has…

GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz is in Geneva today for the big show and while talking to reporters, he reiterated that the company wants to have an electric car in production by 2010. As usual, the biggest speed-bump remains the battery technology since…

2011 Bentley Continental Supersports convertible – Click above for high-res image gallery
The crew from Crewe just spent some time exercising their newest machine in the mountains of Colorado and came back with a fresh batch of photos and video. Our…

Scientists at a Boeing subsidiary have developed a new type of photovoltaic cell that has surpassed an energy conversion efficiency of more than forty percent for the first time. Instead of the usual single-junction silicon cells, Spectrolab…

SAN FRANCISCO (Nov. 21, 2008) – The Renault-Nissan Alliance today announced that Nissan North America, Inc. is committing to working with the Sonoma County community of governments to develop solutions for zero-emissions mobility through the…

Chrysler has announced that they will be extending their powertrain warranty from 3 years/36,000 thousand miles to the life of the vehicle. The engine, transmission/transaxle, drive shafts and axles will all be covered on almost all of their…

In early eighties many carmakers started using turbochargers to try to enhance the power of their engines without cutting into mileage. Unfortunately many of the engines at the time still used carburetors or mechanical fuel injection systems. Issues…