Lotus has just received another award for its environmental research project. Dubbed HOTFIRE, it's a direct injection engine that reduces fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by 15%. With it, Lotus wanted to study the potential gains achieved by pulverising fuel directly in a conventional engine's cylinders rather than using an air/fuel mixture.
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Veteran AMG Mercedes-Benz driver Bernd Schneider, also a former Formula 1 driver, will retire from racing after this weekend's DTM season finale at Hockenheim, Germany.
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The Toyota's Formula 1 test team has decamped to the south of Germany between Munich and Stuttgart this week for an aerodynamic test.
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A delegation of Canadians is heading to London, Great Britain this week in a bid to save the axed Canadian grand prix.
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It is now almost certain that the Force India Formula 1 team will team up with McLaren-Mercedes for the 2009 season and beyond.
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Transmission manufacturer GETRAG and American automaker Chrysler met recently to discuss and attempt to resolve issues surrounding an agreement that went sour between the two companies.
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A new category has been added to the 2009 Shell Eco-marathon Americas, a competition where students are asked to design, build and test vehicles to see who can go the farthest distance using the least amount of fuel. The point of the "Urban Concept" class is to create vehicles that are more fuel-efficient, yet that resemble cars seen on roads today.
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The brand new Borrego from Kia sets several benchmarks in the Kia organization. Borrego is the first mid-sized SUV the company has produced which means just about every part in the vehicle is new. First shown at the Detroit Auto show in January 2008, the SUV is on sale at Kia dealers less than ten months later. Topping things off is the fact that Kia is so confident of their build quality that the Borrego carries a 5-year/100,000 km warranty.
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General Motors has detailed a plan to slash costs at Chrysler LLC but initial attempts to secure financing for the controversial merger have been rebuffed, raising new doubts about whether it can be completed without government aid.
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General Motors has detailed a plan to slash costs at Chrysler LLC but initial attempts to secure financing for the controversial merger have been rebuffed, raising new doubts about whether it can be completed without government aid.
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Asbury Automotive Group Inc. will lose its top sales and marketing executive, Allen Levenson, as the dealership group moves its headquarters from New York to suburban Atlanta.
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Is Hyundai becoming a 'more sophisticated' car brand that has moved on from its value driven image in Europe? Hyundai Motor Europe President Kun-Hee Ahn tells Dave Leggett that the brand is heading upscale on the back of new products that are raising its image. It's also growing fast in Russia and installing plenty of production capacity in Europe.
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Mel Karmazin, CEO of Sirius XM Radio Inc., said today that Sirius XM radios are projected to be installed in 50 percent of all 2009 car models. In 2008, 30 percent of new vehicles had Sirius or XM products. In 2007, the figure was 15 percent.
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Mel Karmazin, CEO of Sirius XM Radio Inc., said today that unified satellite radio networks and receivers are still in the distant future.
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Car exports from India soared 55.93% compared with a domestic market rise of only 5.39% in the first six months of this fiscal year.
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The No. 2 executive at Daimler's premium brand Mercedes-Benz warned today that a sharp plunge in demand for its luxury cars could lead to job cuts.
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General Motors has reached an unusual healthcare and buyout deal with workers at an Ohio SUV plant, closure of which was last month brought forward from 2010 to 23 December.
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