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Stainless steel exhaust holds the edge

As the love of speed and the embracing of low emission technology prepare to collide head on, the back end of the vehicle becomes ever more controversial. The exhaust on any vehicle serves several purposes. It will remove all the by-products of combustion from the engine and send them into the air, away from the driver and any passengers in ...

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The new Mazda Renesis Rotary Engine 16X will be delay by another two years

As the global climate changed and initiative to save the mother earth, emissions requirements is tightly enforced over years. Consequently, the Mazda’s rotary engine is now failing to meet emissions requirements set by the engineering team at Mazda. “We will never give up” says Mitsuo Hitomi, general manager of Mazda’s powertrain division, referring to the automaker’s long-running investment into the ...

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Hyundai Plans Luxury Division like Infiniti And Lexus

The success the Japanese rivals at Nissan and Toyota enjoy with their luxury divisions. At this time, Hyundai triggers to launch a luxury division to rival Infiniti and Lexus, and the first step in this direction might be made in the next three years. If everything on track, we would be able to see first Premium’ Hyundai cars on the ...

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The Quick History of Lotus

Maker’s Marque: The History of Lotus – Lotus began as Lotus Engineering Limited in 1952 and has made cars on the site of a Second World War airfield in Norfolk since 1966. – Now owned by Malaysia’s Proton, it was the brainchild of Colin Chapman, a highly innovative engineer who had a lasting influence on motor racing and died a ...

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Price of Hybrid Cars reduced after removal of excise duties under Malaysia Budget 2011

After the Malaysia Budget 2011 announcement, the removal of excise duties for hybrid cars means that the price tags of vehicles such as Honda Malaysia Sdn Bhd’s Honda Civic Hybrid and UMW Toyota Motor Sdn Bhd’s Toyota Prius could be slashed drastically. [singlepic id=1265 w=630 h= float=] [singlepic id=1303 w=630 h= float=] It is estimated that the Honda Civic Hybrid ...

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Aston Martin affirms the Cygnet isn’t a Toyota iQ

[singlepic id=4054 w=630 h= float=] Aston Martin affirms the Cygnet isn’t a Toyota iQ and it is a genuine luxury city car. Buyers will be able to slather their Cygnet in a bevy of custom interior materials and colours, as well as an array of exterior paint colours. Aston Martin even assured that the pint-size Aston will smell like the real deal.

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Toyota Prius MPV to debut at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show in January 2011

Follow up from our previous posting about Toyota Prius MPV. Toyota confirmed that the larger Toyota Prius will make its official debut at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show in January 2011. Rumors have suggested that the Prius MPV will offer seating for seven with three rows seats, no word on whether or not the bigger Prius variant will use sliding doors ...

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2011 Subaru Forester S-Edition concept

[singlepic id=4128 w=630 h= float=] Subaru Forester S-Edition concept is previewed at Sydney Motor Show, Australia and hint to debut early next year. This Subaru Forester S-Edition concept has a turbocharged boxer 2.5-litre engine which makes 259hp, instead of 227hp in the normal XT model. Torque has also been improved to 347Nm, up from 320Nm. The engine is mated to a 5-speed ...

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