At the 2010 Australian International Motor Show in October, FoMoCo will take the covers off of the new next-generation Ford Ranger, a compact pickup developed in Australia for sale in 180 global market – except the United States and Canada. “Australia has played a leading role in the development of this latest global Ford product,” [...]
About a month ago, supercar maker Arash Cars dropped some new details and images on their upcoming AF-10. The car, which we’ve been hearing about since 2008, will finally make its debut at the MPH The Prestige & Performance Motor Show at Earls Court in November. While technical specs will remain the same, it is [...]
At the 2010 Paris Motor Show later this month, BMW will hold the world debut of the Concept 6-Series Coupe. Right off the bat you’ll notice that the Concept 6-Series Coupe closely resembles the Concept Gran Coupe that BMW unveiled at the 2010 Beijing Motor Show in April. “This design study for a premium-class 2+2-seater [...]
G-Power, a German tuning company, released last year a tuning package for the X5 M; at the time, they called it their “small” Typhoon body kit. Now, with the launch of the full Typhoon package, their full vision has become clear: up from the 555 HP available in a stock X5 M and the 600 [...]
The X6 represents more than just a new market for BMW; its hybrid shape and interesting countour as well as posture make clear that this isn”t a car for the conservative. But, if the look grows old, or if you would rather push the bar one step further, we have your answer: Vorsteiner, a company [...]
Toyota has confirmed that it settled a lawsuit with the relatives of four family members killed in a high-speed crash on a San Diego freeway. The case was one of the main reasons to bring attention around safety flaws of Toyotas that led to the recalls of millions of cars. The news, which was first [...]
Earlier this morning, egmCarTech reader Ivan Gutierrez sent me an email with a picture of him standing next to former General Motors CEO, Ed Whitacre and some other guy we’ve never seen. When we asked for more details, Ivan wrote us a pretty large paragraph on why Whitacre was visiting Texas Tech – it’s pretty [...]
Audi said that all research activities on Pikes Peak and its driver-less TTS project have been suspended following a helicopter carrying a filming crew crashed early yesterday. “Today”s film crew was shooting a test run of the ‘Autonomous Audi TTS Pikes Peak,’ a joint program involving Audi, the Electronic Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, [...]
Working with a handful of British engineering specialists, Jaguar is testing a flywheel hybrid XF that promises an 80-hp increase and up to a 20 percent improvement in fuel-economy. The project, know has FHSPV (Flywheel Hybrid System for Premium Vehicles), includes a £2.2m investment by the government”s Technology Strategy Board. “The FHSPV is really an [...]
What would the 2011 BMW 7-Series look like if it was worked on by BMW GmbH? Well, it would look like the BMW Alpina B7 of course. But what if you’re not looking for all that extra power that the 500-hp B7 provides? You might want to check out Lumma Design’s new 7-Series bodykit that [...]
