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 | Magna Steyr offers shortcut to EV production As car manufacturers start to feel the economic pinch, they are looking to outsource more and more of their product development work to suppliers. That’s the view of Austrian-based Magna Steyr, best-known for its... 10 March 2009 |
 | Giugiaro supercar revives a classic British nameplate It seems almost every brand from the automotive industry’s past is ripe for revival – no matter how long ago cars bearing the brand last rolled off the production line. The latest candidate is Frazer-Nash,... 05 March 2009 |
| Takata strengthens Takata India Takata Corporation engaged in the manufacture and sale of safety systems for automobiles, including seatbelts, airbags, and steering wheels, has entered into a joint venture agreement with Anand Automotive Systems to man... 09 January 2009 | |
| Caparo T1 gets a brand new and more powerful engine After 12 months of highly secretive development, the Caparo T1, which looks and performs like a Formula One car, will be launched in the summer with a new and more powerful engine than previously mooted. The higher... 22 March 2007 | |
| Jean Todt: 'We we have a very strong package' Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro team principal Jean Todt hailed the opening of a new chapter in Ferrari's history with Kimi Raikkonen's win in the first Grand Prix of the year in Melbourne, Australia on Sunday. And he underlin... 19 March 2007 | |
| Ferrari, Australian GP: Race First round of the championship and first victory for Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro. On his debut in a Maranello car, Kimi Raikkonen secured the Scuderia's seventh win in this race, thus bringing the total number of victorie... 19 March 2007 | |
| Morgan breaks with tradition with plan for fuel-cell prototype Many British specialist sports car makers have fallen by the wayside, but Morgan just keeps on going – and now it’s looking to the future with a plan to be one of the first car makers to commercialise a hydrogen fuel-cel... 09 March 2007 | |
| Bosch Electronic Battery Sensor in series production Bosch has started manufacturing the Electronic Battery Sensor (EBS) system to help avoid the most common cause of vehicle breakdowns – a flat battery. With its integrated evaluation electronics the sensor measures the ba... 09 March 2007 | |
| Bertone Barchetta concept Bertone presents the Barchetta concept car in celebration of its 95th anniversary. Based on the floorpan and mechanicals of the Fiat Panda 100 HP, the Bertone Barchetta is an open-topped strictly two-seater sports car th... 09 March 2007 | |
| 2008 Artega GT by Henrik Fisker The new car brand Artega is set to unveil a close-to-production prototype of its debut model.Artega’s aim is the development and production of small-series sports cars that break the mould. Artega was the brainchild of e... 09 March 2007 | |
| Geneva: Tramontana presents its first production model It has never been seen in the automotive history a street sports car which resembles so much a Formula 1 like the Tramontana does. It is the first time in the sports car market that it has been incorporated a 100 % carbo... 09 March 2007 | |
| Lada C-Class concept coupè at the Geneva Motor Show It is quite possible that in the nearest future Lada cars will look exactly like that – impetuous and aggressive. The letter “C” at the name of a vehicle, developed by young Russian designers, symbolizes three concepts a... 09 March 2007 | |
| How to improve Triumph TR7, TR7-V8 & TR8 Transform your TR! The ONLY book on Improving these classic sports cars, covers the whole car, includes advice from experienced TR7 and TR7 V8 trade, racing & component specialists. Upgrading the four-cylinder TR7 en... 28 February 2007 | |
| Donkervoort D8 GT Coming to Geneva For the first time in almost 30 years of Donkervoort Cars company history, the brand is introducing a closed sports car. The D8 GT is delivered with the well-known Audi four cylinder turbo power source with 180, 210 or 2... 31 December 2006 | |
| Le Mans-Siegertriebwerk wurde 'Motor des Jahres' Der so genannte „Smallblock“-V8 von General Motors sammelte eine weitere Auszeichnung für seine lange Liste von Ehrungen. Das Triebwerk erhielt die Auszeichnung „Motor des Jahres“ im weltweiten Motorsport im Rahmen der e... 21 November 2006 | |
| Goodyear's Carbon Fiber Tire Wins Award Goodyear''s newest tire, the Eagle featuring ResponsEdge Technology, was selected this week by the editors of Popular Mechanics for the magazine''s Editors Choice Award during Automotive Aftermarket Industry Week in Las ... 06 November 2006 | |
| Corvette Racing Sweeps ALMS GT1 Championships Corvette Racing capped Corvette''s 50th anniversary in international road racing by sweeping the American Le Mans Series manufacturers, drivers and team championships in the season finale at Raceway Laguna Seca. A runner... 25 October 2006 | |
| Sales of Large Pickups and SUV Models Revive as Gas Prices Drop The recent decline in gas prices has brought an increase in owner loyalty rates for pickup trucks and SUVS, which had been adversely impacted by higher fuel prices earlier in the year, according to real-time retail tra... 19 October 2006 | |
| To Keep Trucking, Cleaner Diesel Will Require Natural Gas, Policy Change On October 15, 2006, ultra-low- sulfur diesel fuel (ULSD) was introduced at retail fuel stations around the United States. Designed to reduce soot emissions from diesel engines by 97 percent, ULSD is consistent with th... 18 October 2006 | |
| Dunlop Winter Tire Features New '3D' Sipe Technology Even if you haven''t yet experienced the third dimension of water - as a solid - you may want to consider a "3D" winter tire now. Dunlop has a new "3D" winter tire to combat solid water - snow - and recent colder weather... 17 October 2006 | |
| New Clean Diesel Fuel Hits Pumps Nationwide Sunday Starting tomorrow on Sunday, October 15, operators of more than eight million diesel-powered trucks and buses plying America''s streets and highways will be able to fill up with a new, ultra-low sulfur fuel that is 97 pe... 16 October 2006 | |
| From Hydrogen to Natural Gas, Southland Fleet Operators Will Learn About Alternative Fuel Options at the Southern California Clean Vehicle Technology Expo With the cost of diesel fuel rising daily and regulatory agencies continuing to enact fleet rules to push for emission reductions from California''s fleets, the timing of the Southern California Clean Vehicle Technology ... 11 October 2006 | |
| Air Products' Mobile Hydrogen Fueler Powering California Road Rally Participants Air Products'' (http://www.airproducts.com/.) mobile hydrogen fueling technology will be on the road fueling vehicles in parts of Southern California from Oct. 4-8 as part of the California Fuel Cell Partnership''s (CaFC... 05 October 2006 | |
| Goodyear Sells Global Tire Fabric Operations to Hyosung The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (NYSE:GT) has agreed to sell its global tire fabric operations to Hyosung Corporation, pending government and regulatory approvals. The transaction is also subject to certain closin... 08 September 2006 | |
| Quantum's Hydrogen Vehicles Featured at Statoil Opening of Norway's First Hydrogen Station Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc., (NASDAQ:QTWW) today announced the delivery of the first four of fifteen hydrogen-fueled Toyota Prius hybrid vehicles to Miljobil Grenland AS, a participant and vehicle p... 08 September 2006 | |
| Record-Breaking Heat Wave Spikes Sales of Cool-or-Heat Seats Cool or Heat, LLC announced today that the record-breaking summer heat wave of 2006 also created record-breaking sales of their newest product, the Cool-or-Heat Seat. The company''s patent-protected product easily instal... 01 September 2006 | |
| Goodyear Launches Fuel-Efficient Truck Tire Lines In a dramatic move to lower trucking fleets'' and owner-operators'' total operating costs, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (NYSE:GT) today introduced a new fuel-efficient commercial tire technology and three new t... 25 August 2006 | |
| Save on Gas and Avoid Traffic This Fall With Verizon Wireless With record prices at the pump and the promise of more traffic on the roads as summer vacations come to an end, Verizon Wireless is highlighting several mobile services that help workers commute more efficiently during t... 23 August 2006 | |
| The Hartford Offers New 12-Month Auto Insurance Policies Many auto insurance policies are offered on a 6-month basis, and the rates for those policies can sometimes change when the policy is renewed. To give its customers the advantage of having one policy rate for an entire y... 21 August 2006 | |
| Hybrid owners get their own lobby group A new and 100 percent independent group -- the Hybrid Owners of America (http://www.hybridownersofamerica.org/) - - is being launched today to organize and advocate for the interests of the roughly 500,000 Americans who ... 18 August 2006 | |
| Gordon Murray joins Caparo as advanced concepts director Vehicle light-weighting guru Gordon Murray has been appointed director of advanced concepts at Caparo Vehicle Products. By applying his strategic planning, vehicle conceptual design, production design skills and motivati... 17 August 2006 | |
| First Ever Around-the-World Race for Alternative Fuel Powered Automobiles Alternative fuel and hybrid powered automobiles will be competing in a first ever around-the-world race to prove the viability of the latest sustainable automotive technology. This race of the 21st century, "Great Race W... 16 August 2006 | |
| Independent Repair Shops Not Confident Car Makers Will Share Service Information Seventy percent of independent repair shop owners, service advisors and technicians have no confidence that car companies will always provide access to the necessary information and tools for repair, according to a surve... 09 August 2006 | |
| NAVTEQ Announces Availability of StreetMap Data for ArcGIS Product Line NAVTEQ (NYSE:NVT) , a leading global provider of digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle navigation, has collaborated with ESRI to begin shipping a new dataset for ESRI StreetMap Premium, the latest str... 09 August 2006 | |
| Co-operative Financial Services: Top Ten Tips for Greener Driving Climate change and environmental issues are high on the Government agenda hence motorists driving polluting ''gas guzzlers'' are facing the threat of further increases in car tax in the not too distant future. With this ... 09 August 2006 | |
| FEV Engine Technology Launch World's Most Fuel Efficient Delivery Vehicle The future of vehicle propulsion was showcased in New York City recently when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and UPS unveiled the most fuel-efficient and cost effective delivery vehicle in the world. While it... 09 August 2006 | |
| Students to Explore Auto Careers in New Car Dealerships Students across the U.S. will learn about the wide variety of career opportunities available in automobile dealerships during Automotive Career Month in October -- an initiative sponsored by the National Automobile Deale... 09 August 2006 | |
| Russian President Putin Chooses Global Electric Motorcars for the 2006 G8 Summit World leaders from the leading industrialized democracies, including the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, Japan, Germany, Canada and Italy, will travel in clean, quiet GEM electric vehicles while attending this summer''s... 30 June 2006 | |
| Russo-Baltique Impression A resurrected Russian brand, Russo-Balt (Russo-Baltique) made its first public appearance at the Villa D''Este Concours d''Elegance over the weekend. Here''s the official press release on the new Impression:It ... 27 April 2006 | |
| Geneva Motor Show: Loremo LS concept Bavaria is well-known for its innovative car-makers and Loremo AG is the newest of this breed. The company was founded in 2000 by Gerhard Heilmaier, Stefan Ruetz and Uli Sommer and is planning to introduce a small series... 01 March 2006 | |
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