The Volvo Swedish based automaker has recently announced its intentions of introducing a new powertrain that would output an impressive torque. The Volvo`s new Drive-E 2.0-liter engine is said to be quite powerful, as it would develop 450 horsepower and would be the perfect choice for future rivals like the A45 AMG or the CLA 45 AMG from Mercedes-Benz, which...
Good news from Japan, the engineers at Nissan want to make the next Z car even lighter, leaner and more aggressive. With the current generation of the Z Car, the 370 model, being considerably sharper and more responsive than the competition, that seems interesting. Nissan 370Z The weight loss that seems to be a focus for most major car makers...
The Germans must still be smarting a little bit over whatever happened back in the Second World War, especially since the Americans sort of intervened on the whole situation. Why would I say that? Because the 2011 BMW X1, a very attractive model from Bavaria seems to be reluctant towards appearing on the U.S. market. Not only is that happening,...
Due to the updates within the 2011 BTCC regulations every single of the teams running in this competition have had to make significant changes to their cars. Toyota's efforts at the competition are handled by the privateer teams Dynojet Racing and Hughes Motorsport/Speedworks. Their latest of creations sports a new engine, turbocharged of course as is fashionable these days with...
The Bavarians aren't kidding around with turbocharging. Even though BWM refused to have anything to do with it for a very long time, they've recently gotten into quite a stride with it. It has gotten to the point where BMW has reported that all of their future inline four cylinder engines will benefit from this technical advantage. Now, while the...
In craving for a bit of heritage, the Japanese at Honda gave us a 2012 production version of the Civic Si Concept. In a craving of some hot Japanese coupe performance they made that engine a 2.4 liter as opposed to the previous 2.0 liter unit fitted to hot Civics. The only thing is this, the new 2.4 liter engine...
