After Road Atlanta, then Detroit, Mazda’s diesel-powered racecar scored a hat trick this last weekend at Mid-Ohio. The difference this time is that it was the team owner’s car taking the checkered flag with Sylvain Tremblay and Tom Long scoring the win. Long had won the pole position and the team led the bulk of
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One week before Le Mans, Audi lifted the veil on how the technology it is using in racing is also beneficial to production cars. Audi said that 15 years of engine development have been shaping Audi’s Le Mans prototype racing commitment. Through intensive development work the engineers have repeatedly compensated for the restrictions imposed by
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Audi is making a big diesel push, introducing three more TDI models. Audi is expanding its TDI models with the A6 TDI, A7 TDI and Q5 TDI. These new TDI clean diesel models join the newly-introduced A8 L TDI, and highly-successful Q7 TDI. EPA estimated fuel economy figures for the new clean diesel introductions are
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If you’ve been paying attention, you might have noticed 2015 is the unofficial launch year for production hydrogen fuel cell vehicles – that is, if you don’t count Hyundai which got started with its ix35 last year, and Honda which has soldiered forward with its lease-only FCX Clarity in California since summer, 2008. Aside from
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Jeep has revealed the price of the Liberty-replacing compact SUV to wear the Cherokee badge. The base level of the Jeep Cherokee will be the Sport model with a starting U.S. MSRP of $22,995. This Cherokee will have, according to Jeep, a fuel economy rating of up to 31 miles per gallon (mpg), through the
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Johnson Controls will supply lithium-ion batteries to power large plug-in hybrid trucks as part of a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) electrification initiative. About 120 work trucks, to be used by publicly owned utilities and municipal electric companies, will utilize plug-in hybrid power systems by Odyne Systems, LLC, using Johnson Controls’ batteries. Odyne, in conjunction
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Volkswagen of America announced that it will challenge the existing Guinness World Records achievement for the “lowest fuel consumption-48 U.S. states for a non-hybrid car.” Two drivers will pilot a 2013 Passat TDI clean diesel, leaving from and returning to Volkswagen’s Herndon, Va. headquarters. This 8,000-mile, 48 contiguous state drive entails traveling west along a
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Toyota opened a new chapter in its European operations with the official start of production of the new Auris Touring Sports and Auris Touring Sports Hybrid. These Auris models are built at Toyota Manufacturing UK’s (TMUK) Burnaston car plant. Welcoming Toyota’s continued investment in British jobs and manufacturing, the Secretary of State for Transport Patrick
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Volkswagen’s “261-mpg,” range-topping, limited-production, diesel plug-in hybrid wundercar is either hyperbole or one extreme hypermiler, or maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle. Even with careful driving, real world mileage from the XL1 is said to sometimes plummet to less than 50-percent of VW’s exalted claim, according to Automobile magazine. The mystical European concept
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Lightweight materials, alternative fuels, extremely low fuel consumption are all key words for the car of today, but not so 30 years ago. These were the very properties that formed the basis for the LCP 2000, Light Component Project. This was a concept car study aimed at the future and the environment, presented by Volvo
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