This Will Be The Last 16-Cylinder Engine Bugatti Makes
If there’s one thing Bugatti can say no other modern automaker has offered the world, it’s the W16 engine. It first appeared in the Veyron in 2005, making over 1000 horsepower and powering the car to a top speed of 254 mph, the highest of any production car in the world at the time. Since then, the engine has been retuned multiple times, More...
Honda And Panasonic To Begin Research Experiment On Battery Sharing
Honda and Panasonic announced plans to conduct a research experiment in Indonesia on battery sharing using the Honda Mobile Power Pack (“Mobile Power Pack”) detachable mobile battery with electric mobility products, More...
Ford EcoBlue; 2.0L Technical Wonder.
Major European cities such as Madrid and Paris are discriminating against diesel engines due to officials’ concerns about the types of pollution oil-burners produce. Some municipalities have gone as far as making More...
GKN Driveline China JV Expanding With New Production Facility
GKN Driveline is expanding its presence in China with the construction of a new plant through its Chinese joint venture Shanghai GKN HUAYU Driveline Systems (SDS). The expansion is in-line with GKN’s recently More...
Two New Engines, Including Advanced Variable Compression Turbo, Set To Power The All-New 2019 Nissan Altima
Reflecting the importance of the Altima to the Nissan brand, the company is making its largest investment ever in a new model powertrain development – introducing for the first time, two completely new engines More...
Toyota’s New Engine Is Hyper-Efficient Thanks To Simple Tuning Tricks
There’s a huge amount of new innovation going on in traditional internal-combustion engines. Mazda’s Skyactiv-X uses diesel-style compression-ignition; Infiniti has a variable-compression design. Automakers More...
4 Advantages of Investing in a Custom-Fit Car Cover
Choosing the best car covers for your vehicle involves more than just picking a model, checking out and then laying the cover over your automobile.If you’ve ever doubted whether custom-fit car and truck covers More...
Bugatti Can Now 3D-Print This Gorgeous Brake Caliper From Titanium
Bugatti is the crown jewel of the Volkswagen Group. But the maker of the $3 million Chiron also serves as one of the group’s technical development laboratory, alongside Porsche’s powertrain and Lamborghini’s More...
BorgWarner’s Electric Motor and eGearDrive Transmission Propel All-Electric FUSO eCanter Trucks
BorgWarner, a global leader in clean and efficient technology solutions for combustion, hybrid and electric vehicles, supplies its HVH250 electric motor and eGearDrive transmission for the initial launch of the More...
Understanding The Ford 4.6l/5.4l 3v Sohc V8
I was visiting Ford’s Vehicle Operations (Pilot Plant) in 2002 with a Ford engineering buddy of mine when he decided to show me Ford’s all-new F-150, which was scheduled to debut for 2004. There were several More...