International Engine of the Year Awards Turning into a Fiasco?
26 Jun 2014, 20:43 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Ladies and gentlemen drivers, please sit down and take notes. In an unprecedented move, a group of carmakers from Europe and Asia have reinvented a few of their engines overnight. There was no offic...
World’s First Glowing Highway Brings Avatar into Real Life
26 Jun 2014, 16:44 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Who ever said SciFi blockbusters have nothing in common with the real world, probably never read Jules Verne’s books, to start with. The dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde learnt there is wealth ...
Google Reveals Android Auto Interface
26 Jun 2014, 12:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Following Apple’s footprints, Google just unveiled its production version Android Auto interface, making its first step towards a future of unified infotainment systems. However, unlike its ri...
Four Decades Since the First Five-Cylinder Passenger Car Engine
25 Jun 2014, 19:08 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Forty years can mean a lot of things for various people and/or companies, but what we know for sure is that for Mercedes-Benz it means a lifetime of advancements in the field of performance diesel e...
Ford & Intel Demonstrate Project Mobii Mobile Interior Imaging Technology
25 Jun 2014, 17:18 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Ford and Intel joined forces to explore new applications for interior video cameras to further enhance the in-car experience for both driver and passengers. It may sound like it came out of the sci-...
In Two Years You’ll Fly to The Edge of Space and Back for $75,000
25 Jun 2014, 16:57 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Arizona-based company World View Enterprises has successfully tested a 10% scale model of the future World View system. The huge balloon will gently fly its voyageurs to the edge of space and back, ...
2015 Ford Mustang Features Enhanced Sync 911 Assist
25 Jun 2014, 15:29 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Introduced in 2008, the 911 Assist was the industry’s first gizmo to call 911 directly following a vehicle crash instead of relaying calls through a third party. But with the 2015 Ford Mustan...
Mercedes-Benz Crosswind Assist Stabilization Explained
24 Jun 2014, 17:58 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Drivers of station wagons, SUVs, vans and large cars in general are probably well familiar with the annoyance and even driving insecurity sometimes brought by sudden strong gusts of wind that act on...
You Can Sail on Ice at 100 mph With the Kaira Boat
24 Jun 2014, 16:51 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / We all tend to think super strong cars packed with hi-tech features are the trend people look for nowadays. Well, think again, because there are folks out there that are all about high-speed saillin...
Californian Company Making “Bolt-On” Autonomous Car Kit
24 Jun 2014, 15:24 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / While each major automaker is struggling to come up with a fully autonomous driving car, a rather small company says they can make current cars to do the same using their newly developed kit that co...
Opel Astra GTC Now Available With New Turbo Diesel
24 Jun 2014, 12:39 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Set to replace the 1.7-liter oil burner produced at GM Powertrain Poland since the dinosaurs were still around, the 1.6-liter CDTI turbo diesel will provide the Opel/Vauxhall Astra GTC with better g...
Alen 68 Is the Turkish Yacht of Your Dreams
23 Jun 2014, 19:42 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / One of the most recent ongoing projects the Turkish boatyard Alen Yacht is working on is the spectacular Alen 68. Having a capacity of 16 passengers, the 68-foot (20 meters) vessel features vast ent...
2015 GMC Sierra Denali Gets Magnetic Ride Control
23 Jun 2014, 17:01 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Yup, you heard that right - General Motors decided to enhance both comfort and driving dynamics on the 2015 GMC Sierra Denali by fitting electronically controlled dampers, a segment-first on a full-...
Is Harley-Davidson Stepping into the 21st Century?
23 Jun 2014, 15:56 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Now that the hype around the Harley-Davidson Livewire has cooled down a bit, it’s time to ask some decent questions regarding what path the MoCo may follow in the future. For starters, I have ...
The S-Class Coupe Has The Quietest Interior of a Production Car
23 Jun 2014, 15:03 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Not exactly surprising for some, one of the main objectives of Mercedes-Benz when developing the current S-Class (W222) and S-Class Coupe (C217) was a very low interior noise level, with aero-acoust...
Bruise, the Injury Detection Suit for Disabled Sportspeople
23 Jun 2014, 10:22 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Dan Garrett, Elena Dieckmann, Ming Kong and Lucy Jung have joined their creative efforts and come up with Bruise, a special, Star-Treck-esque suit to help doctors quickly find the injury zones of di...
Vaylon Pegase Promises to be a Cheaper Flying Car
22 Jun 2014, 16:18 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Making a vehicle viable for both road and air use poses a lot of challenges, with costs, safety and convenience holding the top of the list. If the GF7 concept solves the last two issues for a ton o...
Dual Carbon Batteries Firstly Used by Racing Team TAISAN
22 Jun 2014, 15:23 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Ultra efficient batteries are on their way to power our dreams. The technology improvement has been revealed last month and now racing Team TAISAN said they'll be the first to test it on track....
Solar Taxi Is Able to Carry Up to 5 People Including a Physically Disabled Person
20 Jun 2014, 17:02 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Solar Taxi design is the project that won the 2013-2014 "A’ Design Award" in the "Vehicle, Mobility and Transportation Design Category." Created by Turkish engineer Hakan G...
Zombie 222 Electric 1968 Mustang Is Ready to Burn Rubber, Silently
20 Jun 2014, 16:51 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As cool as instant torque might sound, seeing an old musclecar doing a burnout without hearing the powerful growl of the engine is as freaky as your worst nightmare. Will we be able to adapt to this...