Ford to Create Communication Standard for All Cars
26 May 2011, 05:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After having kicked off a California tour starring its new smart cars on Wednesday (vehicles that can communicate with one another), Ford announced that it is planning to make car-to-car communicati...
Audi Motorsport Facebook Page Launched
25 May 2011, 14:25 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / This is the latest social effort made by Audi Sport is to make itself present on Facebook, just in time for the 24 hour race at Le Mans on June 11/12. The company brags the new virtual meeting place...
Introducing the Windscreen of the Future
25 May 2011, 14:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For years now, we've been trying to envision how the cars of tomorrow will look and feel like. Since we live in a time when everything seems to be on fast-forward, imagining a radical change in...
2012 Mercedes-Benz CLS-Klasse Gets Its Own iPad App
25 May 2011, 12:57 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / If you don’t have an app, you basically don’t exist. This is the concept that seems to be guiding today's world, and automakers make no exception to that unwritten marketing rule. T...
Break Free from Traffic Jams With TomTom GO LIVE 800 Series
25 May 2011, 06:39 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / With the latest addition to the GO portfolio, TomTom makes connected navigation more accessible and offers a helping hand to drivers stuck in traffic. The new TomTom GO LIVE 800 series comes with a ...
Ford Using Hollywood Avatar Technology for Global Expansion
24 May 2011, 14:47 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / While this isn’t the first we hear that Ford is using similar technologies as those used for James Cameron's blockbuster movie Avatar, this time the data differs. The company not only use...
Iveco Announces New Euro VI Engines With SCR Technology
24 May 2011, 10:15 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Iveco and FPT Industrial announce their willingness to meet the new Euro VI regulations for emissions by means of a unique SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) technology, which will be introduced on...
Michelin to Launch Flat Free Tire in 2014
24 May 2011, 09:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Michelin Challenge Bibendum in Germany was not only about green motoring this year. Organized by one of the largest tire producers in the world, the event was the venue of choice for Michelin to...
Ford Demoes Heart Rate Monitoring Seat Technology
24 May 2011, 06:04 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The latest development added to Ford’s in-car health and wellness research portfolio is a car seat that can monitor a driver’s heartbeat via electrode sensing, a technology that uses six...
Ferrari Style Motorcycle Helmet by Newmax Revealed
20 May 2011, 12:58 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Fans of the Prancing Horse, but who are more into two-wheeled vehicles, can now choose to stay protected by wearing the Ferrari Style helmet from Newmax, created as an homage to the historic Maranel...
Jodie Kidd Launches La Martina for Maserati Anniversary Polo Shirt
20 May 2011, 11:26 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Argentinean company La Martina has been commissioned by Italan sports car maker Maserati to create a special edition polo shirt intended to celebrate 150 years of the unification of Italy. Thus La M...
Volkswagen Develops Road Junction Assistance System
20 May 2011, 07:55 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Volkswagen Group Research, in collaboration with other vehicle manufacturers as part of the INTERSAFE-2 research project, has developed a range of innovative systems to assist drivers at intersectio...
New BMW Beach Collection Now Available
20 May 2011, 06:52 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / BMW is one automaker that knows how to profit the most from its notoriety and thus plays with consumers' minds, making fans of the Bavarian auto brand spend their money not only on its coveted ...
Audi's Climatic Wind Tunnel, the Key to Le Mans Success?
19 May 2011, 19:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Three weeks from now, the best of the best and the most resilient will lineup at the start of what is probably the best-known endurance race in the world: the Le Mans 24 Hours. An event which gives ...
Volvo Trucks Uses Smartphones to Provide Service Instructions in Workshops
19 May 2011, 13:14 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / In a move that is targeted at improving the company’s aftersales services, Volvo Trucks is currently testing the use of smartphones - a consumer-based technology- in their workshops. As the ...
Fiesta RS WRC Confirmed for DiRT 3 Video Game
19 May 2011, 10:42 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The most recent addition to the much anticipated new DiRT 3 video game is the 2011 Fiesta RS WRC, a car that will reportedly make driving almost as fun and challenging as the real thing. That thank...
Volvo Working on Inductive Charging System for EVs
19 May 2011, 08:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the electric vehicle charging infrastructure in Europe falling way behind that in the US, in terms of both rate of development and companies willing to take on the challenge, the automakers tha...
Mazda SKYACTIV-G 1.3L Engine Does 70 MPG
18 May 2011, 14:53 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Mazda has a really big dream, and that is to reduce its fuel economy by 30 percent over the next handful of years. A brand new engine 1.3-liter gasoline direct injection will play a big part there, ...
Diagnostic App Coming from Ford. Not for the Car, for the Driver
18 May 2011, 07:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Since the day smartphones have begun taking over the automotive world, not a single moment has passed without us hearing about one type of app or another that allow you to do this, or that, or monit...
BMW Working on Left Turn Assistant
17 May 2011, 05:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Slowly, but painfully surely, the cars we see on the roads today are turning into machines that can drive themselves. Cleverly disguised as help tools for drivers who are either too lazy or too dumb...