Posts Tagged ‘nitrous systems’

Supplier CEO attacked and killed by laid-off workers

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
The Tata Nano, which will be the world's least expensive car, has already exacted enormous sums of money and time. A dispute over the location of a new factory has cost Tata close to a year of court wrangling and might end up spoiling a £200 million investment. Now the efforts to build the Nano hav......

American-made Formula Nippon car debuts at Fuji

Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Just under a year since the concept was announced, two brand new 2009 Formula Nippon chassis, designed and built by California's Swift Engineering, have gone through shakedown trials at Fuji Speedway. Autoblog spoke to Team Toyota TOM'S Andre Lotterer, one of the first two F'pon pilots to take the r......

Rendered Speculation: 2011 Ford Focus

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
When we see things like this, we feel like Bruce Banner... having to contain our anger... at not getting... the Euro Focus. But hopefully tomorrow our fortunes will change, and if they do, here' s a look at the Focus we could get in 2011.We were happy enough about the second-gen Focus, and this is e......

Demystifying nitrous oxide, Part II

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
In the previous installment of this series, we discussed the function of nitrous oxide on a theoretical level. Now it's time to take a look at the hardware that is required to successfully employ nitrous as a power adder.Most nitrous users will start with a kit, the thoroughness of which varies with......

Aftermarket auto parts now a $34B business in the US

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
Showing yet another year of strong growth, the specialty-equipment aftermarket parts business grew by 9 percent in 2005 to end up at $34.3B. That's nearly double the size of the market ten years ago, and in each of those years, the auto aftermarket has grown at a faster rate than the US Gross Domest......