Top 4 UK Motor Shows
If you’re a car nut, then spring probably makes you think of car shows long before daffodils and baby animals! Soon enough, winter will be behind us, and showgrounds all over the country will be getting prepared for some real automotive spectacles. If you’re looking to attend your first show or you just want a
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New Mexico may receive $16.9 million from Volkswagen settlement
New Mexico is expected to get almost $17 million from a federal settlement with Volkswagen in a lawsuit declaring the automaker’s diesel engine emissions violated the Clean Air Act– cash that could be used to develop electric car charging stations and natural gas refueling spaces along highways. However just if the state is ready to
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Car hits the kitchen, driver dies
A DRIVER died and an elderly couple got the shock of their lives when a car crashed through the cooking area of a house in the West Australian Wheatbelt town of Gnowangerup. The Holden Commodore had actually struck a neighbouring property prior to landing upside down in the kitchen area of a home on Yougenup
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Ford makes “side-by-side” 1965/2015 Mustang display
Tourists to the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum can now have an especially innovative trip through automobile history without needing to take more than a couple of steps. Ford and the museum, which is on the premises of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Campus located in Alexandria, Virginia, have teamed up to
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Bloomberg: BMW Profit Lowers
BMW AG’s profit downed 2.5 percent in the first quarter as vehicle prices dropped while continuing battle with Mercedes-Benz to keep its status as the world’s biggest developer of luxury automobiles. The average cost of BMW’s automobiles decreased 5.9 percent to about 33,700 euros ($39,100) in the quarter as demand for cheaper vehicles like the
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The recently created World’s tiniest engine can enter living cells
Researchers have made the world’s tiniest engine– just a couple of billionths of a metre in size, which utilizes light to power itself. The nanoscale engine, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, could form the basis of future nano-machines that can navigate in water, pick up the environment around them, and even go
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Porsche Cayenne Diesel, E-Hybrid receives the Platinum Edition
Porsche is providing a new Platinum Edition for the Cayenne Diesel and Cayenne S E-Hybrid models. This plan adds several appearance upgrades, interior comfort additions, and safety technologies. Package is going to be offered worldwide. The diesel and plug-in hybrid models in both models, the Platinum Edition consists of bi-xenon headlights utilizing the Porsche Dynamic
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Karma to unveil its renamed luxury electric car this summer
Karma Automotive is moving ahead to finish development of a high-end electrical automobile that it prepares to formally unveil this summertime with a brand-new battery, charger and electrical functions. The company has actually renamed the automobile to prevent association with its troubled predecessor, which headed out of production in 2012 after money-troubles and a recall
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Mitsubishi states U.S. mileage ratings for its cars are appropriate
Mitsubishi Motors Corp, which has confessed manipulating fuel economy tests for mini-vehicles in Japan, on Wednesday stated its automobiles for the design years 2013 to 2017 sold in the United States have appropriate mileage ratings. Mitsubishi said it has actually gone back and re-tested the models from those model years offered in the United States
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General Motors will be investing $789 million in Spring Hill, $118 million in Bay City
General Motors Co. stated Wednesday that it is going to invest more than $900 million at 2 of its U.S. factories. $788.7 million will be invested at its Spring Hill, Tennessee, producing complex for a new engine program. That investment is expected to make 792 new jobs and maintaining 16. The Detroit automaker likewise revealed
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Jay Kay buys Kermit Green Ferrari LaFerrari
Ferrari LaFerrari is already sold out with a production limited to 499 units. Owners are slowly taking their orders and the recent celebrity to get his car is Jay Kay form Jamiroquai. Jay Kay is best known as the lead singer of the British funk/acid jazz band Jamiroquai and to petrolheads he is also known
Volkswagen announces new 2014 Amarok Ultimate
Volkswagen Amarok has proven to be quite popular and you can see more of more of them especially in Europe used for construction, transportation and so on. Here’s a new special model called Amarok Ultimate with bi-xenon headlights, LED daytime running lights and slightly modified appearance with additional chrome elements. Bi-xenon headlights with LED daytime
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2015 Alfa Romeo 4C in U.S. spec is heavier than the Euro model
Alfa Romeo 4C is one of the coolest compact sports cars on the market. The Euro-spec model weighs just 895 kg (1,973 lbs) and is powered by a turbocharged 1.75-liter four-cylinder engine with 240 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque connected to a dual-clutch transmission, enabling it to accelerate from 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) in
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Infiniti working on Juke-based ESQ crossover for China
Infiniti, the luxury marque from Nissan has been quite busy lately and will soon offer a small ESQ crossover developed exclusively for China to meet Chinese tastes. The model is based on the Juke Nismo with a 1.6-liter turbo four producing 197 horsepower and is basically badge engineering. From first images we can see ESQ