Posts Tagged ‘car diesel’
Click above for a gallery of the 2008 MINI Cooper S.If you were planning on hitting one of the 82 U.S. MINI dealers to get your hands on a fuel-efficient Cooper or Clubman, it looks like you'll need to look at plan B. Skyrocketing fuel prices has lifted demand of the little British icons to the poin......
Chateau Clubman: Aznom’s rolling MINI wine cellar
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Click for high-res gallery of the Aznom MINI ChateauMothers Against Drunk Driving are not going to like this one. Italian coachbuilder Aznom, which has previously rolled out custom MINIs like this pickup "tender", has now produced a Clubman inspired by a vintage of another sort. The Aznom MINI Chat......
Paris unveiling rumored for MINI SUV
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Common sense says that MINI is gearing up to unveil its convertible Cooper before the end of the year, but according to AutoTelegraaf, the purveyors of everyone's favorite retromobile is planning to debut its new SUV in Paris. The Dutch site claims that the cabrio version of the Cooper and Cooper S ......
Owning a Mini could improve your personal life
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Click above for live high-res images of the JCW Minis from GenevaCar-obsessed readers of Autoblog may not have any problem thinking of their car as a social expression of who they are, but that's not necessarily true for the majority of the population of the world. Many people consider their car a ......
First Drive: 2007 MINI Cooper, Cooper S, and Convertible
Monday, February 5th, 2007
I just posted about 125 photos of the new 2007 MINI Cooper, Cooper Convertible and Sidewalk to the Roadfly “First Drives” Photo Album.I’ll be driving the new 2007 MINIs tomorrow at Firebird Raceway and around the hills of Scottsdale, AZ afterwhich I’ll post initial comments.Check back in a w......
Report: Audi Q7 to get Le Mans-derived V12 TDI
Monday, July 24th, 2006
Audi's gonna do it. According to a German report, they're putting a race-derived 6.0-liter V12 TDI in the Q7 SUV for 2008. The street version of the V12 TDI will be the most powerful passenger car diesel in the world, with -- get this -- 500 horsepower and a staggering 720 lb ft of torque on tap. An......
Pass me the lab coat; I have diesel engines to build
Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
New passenger-car diesel engines from the Ford-Peugeot Citroen alliance will require workers to be trained to work in a sterile environment. The common-rail diesel design, requiring all cylinders to be injected with fuel at the same pressure, needs a dirt-free environment to ensure there is no block......