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Tomorrow's world: Ford's downsized 1.0-litre Ecoboost

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Jesse Crosse, 25 January 2012 17:41

Direct injection petrol and diesel, hybridisation, downsizing, turbocharging, twin-charging the list of efficiency-boosting, fuel saving features being offered in new cars is becoming so long, buying a new one is like revising for exams. Is there room for another? Apparently so, but since there’s no official name for it yet we’ll call it ‘super-downsizing’ or in other words, using a ...

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Tomorrow's world: Ford's downsized 1.0-litre Ecoboost

Tomorrow's world: Ford's downsized 1.0-litre Ecoboost

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Jesse Crosse, 25 January 2012 17:41

Direct injection petrol and diesel, hybridisation, downsizing, turbocharging, twin-charging the list of efficiency-boosting, fuel saving features being offered in new cars is becoming so long, buying a new one is like revising for exams. Is there room for another? Apparently so, but since there’s no official name for it yet we’ll call it ‘super-downsizing’ or in other words, using a ...

Hyundai will launch Veloster Turbo in 2012

Hyundai will launch Veloster Turbo in 2012

Rated 4 out of 54

Tim Pollard, 07 November 2011 11:26

Hyundai has confirmed it will bring a 1.6 turbo version of the Veloster coupe to the UK in the second half of 2012, as first revealed by CAR. It should make an interesting alternative to the VW Golf GTI brigade. The new blown four-cylinder engine is called the Gamma 1.6 T-GDI by Hyundai - and it develops an unusually high ...

Tomorrow's world: lightweight carbon composites

Tomorrow's world: lightweight carbon composites

Rated 4 out of 54

Jesse Crosse, 10 October 2011 09:09

Once all the dust settles on The Great Battery Farce (the idea that the world's ills will be taken care of by sticking a battery in everything that moves and charging it up) we may eventually face up to the fact that the best way to move something around more economically, is to move less of it. That means making ...

Alfa Romeo Mito TCT (2011) comes to the UK

Alfa Romeo Mito TCT (2011) comes to the UK

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Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 28 January 2011 12:47

Alfa Romeo's first twin-cluch gearbox is launching in the Mito - and the Mito TCT is now available in the UK. The MultiAir 1.4 is the launch engine for the TCT twin dry clutch transmission. Typically for Alfa, it's technically interesting: Alfa claims it enhances performance and comfort, gives a sportier feel and more importantly in the current climate, reduces CO2 emissions. Combined with ...

CAR interviews Lambo bosses Stephan Winkelmann and Maurizio Reggiani (2010)

CAR interviews Lambo bosses Stephan Winkelmann and Maurizio Reggiani (2010)

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Tim Pollard, 16 April 2010 09:49

CAR sat recently sat down for a one-to-one interview with Automobili Lamborghini president and chief executive Stephan Winkelmann and R&D director Maurizio Reggiani. The two bosses discuss future plans, what having Porsche as a partner means, the prospect of hybrid Lambos and how they’ve coped with a global recession that’s wiped 40% off their sales.CAR: Supercar makers had a torrid ...

Tomorrow’s world: Fiat's MultiAir engine tech

Tomorrow’s world: Fiat's MultiAir engine tech

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Jesse Crosse, 14 October 2009 16:50

Fiat this year launches what it claims is a big step forward in variable valve timing: MultiAir. It's the first time that a manufacturer has made a properly variable valve system a production reality, and will slowly be rolled out across most of Fiat's and Alfa's car ranges.How does Fiat's MultiAir vary from existing variable valve timing (VVT) systems?Current VVT ...

More tech details of Rolls-Royce RR4’s V12

More tech details of Rolls-Royce RR4’s V12

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Tim Pollard, 23 March 2009 16:23

Rolls-Royce today confirmed a handful of new details for the ‘baby’ Rolls, codenamed RR4 and previewed in the 200EX concept car at the 2009 Geneva motor show. The RR4 will be powered by a unique Rolls 6.6-litre turbocharged V12, producing ‘upwards of 500bhp’, the company disclosed. Drive is sent through an eight-speed ZF automatic gearbox. Details were released as the ...

Fiat launches new MultiAir engines

Fiat launches new MultiAir engines

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Tim Pollard, 09 March 2009 14:02

Fiat showed off the detail of its new MultiAir engines at the 2009 Geneva motor show – and we’ll finally be able to buy the tech on the new Alfa Romeo Mito supermini later in 2009. The brains behind the common-rail injection system that shook up diesel technology have now produced a new technology designed to make petrol engines more ...

Ferrari A1GP car completes wind tunnel testing

Ferrari A1GP car completes wind tunnel testing

Rated 4 out of 54

Tom Richards, 04 August 2008 18:35

Ferrari likes to win, and so, not content with having to fight McLaren for the Formula 1 championship, it is venturing into the A1GP series. From the start of the 2008/09 season all A1GP cars will be Ferrari powered, thus guaranteeing the Prancing Horse victory. With a driver, but without fuel, the new A1GP car weighs 695kg, while the 4.5-litre ...

Nissan GT-R to be revised for Europe

Nissan GT-R to be revised for Europe

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Tim Pollard, 01 May 2008 18:14

Nissan is fettling its GT-R before it goes on sale in the UK in April 2009. It might have just announced a new lap record at the Nurburgring – chief test driver Tochio Suzuki shaved nine seconds off the GT-R's previous record of 7min 38 – but Nissan's engineers are already working on upgrades to the everyman's supercar.Chief vehicle engineer ...

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