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Renault Revealing New Clio R.S on July 3

Renault Revealing New Clio R.S on July 3

Renault will reveal the look of the new Clio R.S on Tuesday, July 3, at 3:00pm Paris time.  Renault will reveal more about the car then. One change that appears in the photos is that it will be a five-door with the handle hidden in the C-...
02.07.2012 | 1275 views | 0 comments
Bentley 4.5 Liter Blower Sells for £4.5 Million at Bonhams Auction

Bentley 4.5 Liter Blower Sells for £4.5 Million at Bonhams Auction

The Bonhams auction at the Goodwood Festival of Speed set records for the sale prices for Bentley and Rolls-Royce.  A Bentley 4.5 liter Blower that held the speed record in 1932 has sold at Bonham's auction at Goodwood for £...
29.06.2012 | 5341 views | 0 comments
Nascar Team Owner Rick Hendrick Builds His Own Camaro Engine

Nascar Team Owner Rick Hendrick Builds His Own Camaro Engine

Chevrolet is currently building special, racing-only COPO Camaros with either a naturally aspirated 427 cubic inch (7.0 liter) V8 or a supercharged 327 cubic inch (5.3 liter) V8. The cars are meant for National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) drag raci...
29.06.2012 | 932 views | 0 comments
First 2013 Viper Sells for $300,000 at Auction for Charity

First 2013 Viper Sells for $300,000 at Auction for Charity

The first 2013 SRT Viper GTS was put up for auction at the Barrett-Jackson Orange County on June 23, and it raised $300,000 for the Austin Hatcher Foundation for Pediatric Cancer. The 2013 Viper uses an all aluminum 8.4 liter V10 mou...
29.06.2012 | 1119 views | 0 comments
Skoda Builds 500,000th Superb at Kvasiny factory

Skoda Builds 500,000th Superb at Kvasiny factory

Skoda has completed its 500,000th Superb at its factory in Kvasiny, Czech Republic. The specific car was a white Superb Combi Laurin & Klement. “Half a million Skoda Superb produced – that is a number which makes us p...
29.06.2012 | 9915 views | 0 comments
BMW Sells 300,000 X1s in 2.5 years.

BMW Sells 300,000 X1s in 2.5 years.

The BMW X1 has been a major success for BMW. It has sold 300,000 of them since their introduction in 2009. The compact crossover market is starting to grow with Opel Mokka and Audi Q3. It is about to grow the X1 even further by introducing it to t...
29.06.2012 | 1472 views | 0 comments
Ford Estimating Driver Workload to Decrease Distraction

Ford Estimating Driver Workload to Decrease Distraction

Ford is beginning to pack its cars with technology with Sync and MyFord Touch. Now it is working on decreasing the distraction that those systems cause by monitoring drivers and deciding when they do not need notifications.  Ford calls th...
29.06.2012 | 908 views | 0 comments
Jaguar Showing Hybrid XJ at Goodwood

Jaguar Showing Hybrid XJ at Goodwood

Jaguar has surprised us with one last car that it is bringing to Goodwood. It has created a research vehicle that it calls the XJ_e plug-in hybrid.  The XJ_e is a parallel hybrid with the company's 2.0 liter, turbocharged four-cylinde...
29.06.2012 | 2221 views | 0 comments
Opel Announces New Business Plan to Return to Profitability

Opel Announces New Business Plan to Return to Profitability

The Opel Supervisory Board has ratified a new business plan that it hopes will return the company to profitability.  The main points of the plan are developing new products with a new sales strategy. A revised brand strategy. Reducing cos...
29.06.2012 | 1625 views | 0 comments
BMW and Toyota Agree on Green Technology Co-Development

BMW and Toyota Agree on Green Technology Co-Development

Toyota President Akio Toyoda and BMW Chairman Norbert Reithofer signed a memorandum of understanding today in Munich that the two companies would begin sharing hybrid and fuel cell technology and begin developing new technology together.  ...
29.06.2012 | 4842 views | 0 comments

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