Japanese automaker Toyota’s American division, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America (TEMA), is planning to invest $200m to increase V6 engine machining capacity and parts production in three North American plants. ...
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Williams F1 and Mercedes-Benz have announced a long-term engine partnership commencing from the 2014 Formula 1 World Championship season. The agreement will see Williams supplied with a Mercedes-Benz power unit – comprising an ...
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Our Rating: Performance, Ride & Handling 4.5 Comfort & Interior 4.5 Quality & Design 3.5 Value & Features 5 Luxury for less is the Holden VF Calais and Calais V pitch and that's exactly how it translates. The Holden VF Calais ...
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Lotus F1 has announced a four-year partnership with IT services and solutions provider EMC that the team hopes will help lead it to the FIA Formula 1 World Championship. The deal will see EMC aid Lotus with more agile and cost-efficient ...
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Honda has confirmed it will return to Formula One, announcing it will rekindle its partnership with McLaren from 2015. The Japanese brand had been strongly rumoured to return to motorsport’s premier racing category after leaving at ...
Supercar is a term used most often to describe an expensive high end car. It has been defined specifically as "a very expensive, fast or powerful car". Stated in more general terms: "it must be very fast, with sporting handling to match", ...
Volvo is introducing new engine technologies, known as VEA (Volvo Engine Architecture), which the company says will further lower consumption and emissions, and along with electric motor technology render large-capacity and V8 engines ...
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Performance, Ride & Handling 4 Comfort & Interior 4 Quality & Design 4 Value & Features 4 The Nissan Altima already fronts the V8 Supercars program for its marque, but this markedly different production version won't go on sale in ...
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Swedish commercial vehicle manufacturer Scania has unveiled the Scania Streamline series of long-haulage trucks. The new series consists of the Scania G- and R-series long-haulage trucks that are claimed to posses refined technology and ...
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The Audi RS5 DTM racecar due to compete in the European touring car series in 2013 has been revealed at the Geneva motor show. Based on the road-going Audi RS5, the new DTM racer is an evolution of the 2012 car that has spent the winter ...
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Honda is set for a return to Formula One as an engine supplier to leading team McLaren, according to strong speculation in the sport. The move would reunite the McLaren-Honda partnership that dominated F1 in the late 1980s and early 1990s ...
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German automaker BMW has recalled 30,265 units of the X5 utility vehicles in the US over a brake problem. The recall affects the vehicles that are equipped with the V8 engines and have been manufactured between 2007 and 2010. Brake ...
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Opera's announcement yesterday that it would ditch its own browser and JavaScript engines in favor of the open-source WebKit and V8 engines will let it compete in the lucrative iOS market. But Opera's CTO maintained that that was just one ...
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Toyota's big splash at the Chicago Auto Show today was showing off a freshened 2014 Tundra pickup truck. Facing tough, significantly updated competition from Chevrolet, Ford, GMC, and Ram, a Tundra update (which debuted in 2007) was ...
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Porsche says fuel consumption and emissions are central to its future engines but has ruled out fitting a four-cylinder engine to either its 911 supercar or Cayman and Boxster sports cars. The company is still considering downsized ...