BMW's previous 3 liter, twin-turbocharged six cylinder engine, the N54 series has been racking up a few complaints and even a series of lawsuits due to an apparently faulty fuel pump. The fuel pump problem manifests itself intermittent stalling, backfiring and loss of power of the engine and the alarmingly high failure rate has lead to a class action lawsuit...
Here we have the result of an American supercar and a German tuning house. People from GeigerCars decided to add some more style but also horses under the hood for the American muscle car and came with an interestint proposal. To start with the power upgrade, we should mention that the GeigerCars tuners added a new 2.3-liter compresor for the...
The Russian tuners from TopCar decided to reveal few official images with the customized interior realised for the tuning kit prepared for the new Porsche Cayenne. The second generation of the German SUV received several improvements inside but the variety of components where the carbon fiber was used stand out by far. At a glance you may think that we...
The Germans over at BMW have revealed their intentions to go into electric power quite some time ago. Not long after came the announcement mentioning a dedication towards the Megacity project. So far, we've got the interesting bits sorted, brimmed with anticipation so here comes BMW's boring stuff, the plan, the economy, the business of the whole thing. The Bavarians...
The Germans at Brabus managed to create a tuning kit for the Mercedes S-Class model, more exactly the S600 version, and they managed to rise the output power to 800 horsepower. Brabus SV12 R Biturbo 800 is the name of the newest tuning kit created by the German tuners, a tuning kit that provides better aesthetics and impressive performance worth...
When you are a Chrysler fan and you find that they're bringing a Fiat to SEMA you can't help but be disappointed. Of course, Chrysler is aware of such a situation so they're also going to be bringing some interesting stuff over to the infamous Las Vegas tuning show. Chrysler marketing aside they do respect their fan base so they're...
With Chrysler being interested in bumping interest for the Fiat brand in the United States it's no wonder when they resort to various marketing cues. Taking something that's basically the essence of legendary cheap European mobility for the masses to the most fun filled, showoff like, money draping car show in America however seems a bit too much. Even so,...
Few days ago Toyota faced a big recall of 1,5+ million units due to some brake fluid leak problems caused by the components supplied by the Japanese firm ADVICS Co., the same supplier that caused this recall for Honda, the reason being exactly the same. However, the Japanese manufacturer claims that there was not any incident happened by this problem,...
General Motors decided to reveal the production process of a wonderful model in my opinion that is the new Opel Astra. All the action takes part at an European plant, more exactly at GM's plant in Gliwice, Poland. In about one and a half minutes (ignoring the intro and outro of the video), the German manufacturer shows us how the...
Launched on October 18, the Latin division of EuroNCAP, LatinNCAP decided to test few models sold in the region. Toyota Corolla, Peugeot 207, Chevrolet Meriva, Fiat Palio and also Geely CK was tested, the last obtaining very bad results at this test. The situation of the Chinese model is the worst possible rather than a very bad one as the...
