Volkswagen Up Will Have Three Pistons or More
29 Nov 2010, 14:39 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / Volkswagen excluded the possibility of using a two-cylinder engine in its Up city car, saying that engine downsizing has reached its limits, in spite of Fiat recently introducing the two-piston Twin...
Fiat Builds 200,000th Engine in India
27 Nov 2010, 11:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The partnership between Italian manufacturer Fiat and Indian carmaker Tata Motors is proving to be a very lucrative one. On Friday, the Italian company announced it has produced the 200,000th engine...
Red Bull Still Frustrated with Engine Disadvantage
17 Nov 2010, 06:50 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Although Adrian Newey's designed Red Bull RB6 was by far the fastest racer of 2010, one could still argue that high-speed circuits were never quite its thing. And that's because the car wa...
GM Opens Engine Plant in India
12 Nov 2010, 15:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American manufacturer GM has expanded its commitment to one of the fastest growing automotive markets in the world, India, by announcing the opening of a new engine plant in Talegaon. After spen...
BMW Recalling 130,000 Cars for Fuel Pump Issue
27 Oct 2010, 05:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's a busy, busy time of the year for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the carmakers who conduct their business in the US. German manufacturer BMW is among them a...
Audi Q7 Gets 3.0 TDI 204 HP Engine
21 Oct 2010, 08:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / German manufacturer Audi announced today it is expanding the engine offering for the Q7 SUV with the addition of a new 3.0 TDI 204 hp engine, a V6 unit built to take on and outperform, in terms of ...
Rotary Raptor GT Ready for Action
5 Oct 2010, 14:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Don't you just love those little car manufacturing companies with a mission to impress? If it weren't for them, we might forget that, if certain conditions are met, there's nothing we...
Audi Begins Second Phase of Neckarsulm Expansion
24 Sep 2010, 05:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In what is the second announcement concerning some investments to be made by German manufacturer Audi, after the one which announced the expansion of the carmaker's operations in Hungary, Audi ...
Opel to Build Euro 6 Diesel Engine in Kaiserslautern
17 Sep 2010, 07:07 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / German manufacturer Opel will use its Kaiserslautern site to build a new 2.0-liter diesel engine that will be installed from 2014 onwards on multiple models, including the already-popular Insignia a...
Cyclone Engine Gets New Patent
15 Sep 2010, 08:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The engine which is likely to leave its mark on more than one industry in the not so distant future received another patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office. It is the seventh such protection...
New Opel Meriva Gets Expanded Diesel Powertrain Line-Up
15 Sep 2010, 07:41 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / German manufacturer Opel announced today it has enhanced the engine range of the new Meriva with the introduction of three important diesels, which it believes will account for most of sales in the ...
GM to Manufacture Ecotec Engines in Tennessee
14 Sep 2010, 10:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The speculation about the place where American manufacturer GM will be building the next generation Ecotec engines continues, with the latest such rumor placing the next Ecotec production hub in Spr...
Cyclone Gets New Patent for Innovative Engine
24 Aug 2010, 18:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American startup engine manufacturer Cyclone announced today it has been awarded yet another patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office, this time regarding the pre-heater coil fitted into the uni...
GM and SAIC to Build New Engine, Transmission
18 Aug 2010, 07:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Chinese appetite for American car manufacturers and the glory the same American manufacturers are enjoying in China takes the most diverse shapes these days. GM for instance, already a partner o...
Anna Honda Turns 25
22 Jul 2010, 05:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's a week of celebration for Japanese manufacturer Honda who, after a few days ago announced the production of the 10 millionth vehicle at the Marysville Auto Plant (MAP) in Ohio, let the wo...
Nissan Micra to Get New 1.2l Engine
16 Jul 2010, 07:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Japanese manufacturer Nissan announced today the development of the 1.2l HR12DDR engine, a unit which is said to be capable of achieving power outputs similar to the ones of a bigger, 1.5l engine, w...
Cummins Expands High-Horsepower Technical Center
10 Jul 2010, 09:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American engine manufacturer Cummins announced yesterday it will be expanding the High-Horsepower Technical Center and its engine line, as a means to increase production capacity of clean-diesel and...
Red Bull Qualifying Speed Secret Revealed?
7 Jul 2010, 09:32 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Earlier this week, Red Bull Racing's manager Christian Horner insisted that the exhaust configuration used on the RB6 is not that important as the other teams might think. Soon after figuring o...
Nissan Juke Rocks Japan
6 Jul 2010, 09:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The gamble Japanese manufacturer Nissan took when designing the very unconventional Juke model seems to be paying off, as the model turned almost into an instant hit on its home market, receiving a ...
Engine Goodies Coming from Nissan
6 Jul 2010, 07:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Japanese manufacturer Nissan announced yesterday the range of technologies it is preparing to release for the remainder of the 2010 fiscal year, “the culmination of the company's research...