Posts Tagged ‘engine components’

GM recalling 90,000 vehicles for various issues

Thursday, September 13th, 2007
GM is recalling 90,000 vehicles to fix issues such as safety foam, timing chains, and engine components. The models included are the 2007 Chevrolet Equinox and Pontiac Torrent, 2001 Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra with the 8.1-liter engine, and the 2.2-liter Saturn L-Series line.In Equinox and Torren......

SEMA 2007 Spotlight: Cosworth, you had us at low compression VQ35DE

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Click the image above for more engine pr0n from Cosworth.If you had the good fortune of being at the Cosworth booth in Vegas two years ago, all you'd see is a few Formula One engines and a number of talkative engineers. Oh, how 24 months and a development center in Torrence, CA can change things.Gal......

Nissan Skyline to adopt Pop-Up Engine Hood

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Safety standards are getting tougher the world over, and in Europe newish regulations require more protection for pedestrians in a collision. In the past, designers have coped with these regs by adding more square footage to the front of a car, making the hoodline higher to put more space between a ......

Bentley unveils most powerful model ever: The Continental GT Speed

Monday, May 28th, 2007
click above image to view the largest high-res gallery of the GT Speed anywhereThe Bentley Continental GT Speed is the most serious piece of hardware ever built by the boys and girls from Crewe, England. 600bhp. 202mph top speed (the first Bentley to pass 200mph). 0-60mph in 4.3 seconds. The numbers......

Cambridge engineers develop “talking” Fiat

Monday, April 30th, 2007
Who would have thought that Pixar would turn out to be a prophet of the automotive industry? In creating its talking automobiles for the computer-animated film Cars, the Disney-associated studio might have done just that, as a group of engineering students in England have demonstrated.The team at Ca......

2008 BMW M3 coupe priced from £50,625 in UK

Sunday, March 4th, 2007
click above image for more high-res shots of the 2008 BMW M3We're admittedly smitten over the new BMW M3 coupe and have passed along every morsel of information we've come across over the past few months. With the new M3 officially unveiled, however, the only real question left unanswered is how mu......

More Power for Vauxhall’s Vectra and Monaro VXR models

Friday, July 28th, 2006
The lads at Vauxhall, the British version of Opel, have been keeping busy with their tuneriffic VXR editions of the Vectra and Monaro.Let's start with the Vectra. It comes in hatchback (pic after jump) and wagon bodystyles, and its turbocharged 2.8L V6 is good for 276 horsepower (280 PS) and a 6.1-s......

A brief history of Trans Am racing

Friday, April 28th, 2006
With an apparent resurgence of muscle cars coming from Detroit, many are reminded of the "good ol' days" of Trans Am racing. This particular series mutated from the SCCA's B-Production Sedan class when the decision was made to award a manufacturer's title - a move that eventually dragged Ford, Gener......