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You try to be forward-thinking and responsible and what do you get? Forced into a rolling laboratory or some wayward, almost deliberately odd, tiny plastic go-kart. The furious ducking of tax laws and deliberate obfuscation of crash tests mean that you invariably end up in something that is a cross between a mobility scooter and a quad. So the Smart ED appeals immediately. Here is a car that we understand. A car that is packaged well, can seat two generously proportioned adults and some modest luggage with ease and doesn't require the sacrifice of every shred of credibility. Lob in a small but powerful electric motor, ditch the need for the Smart's slightly annoying semi-auto gearbox and you've gotthe perfect commuting car. |
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Time for a spot of science. This Mazda3 i-stop is the company’s first crack at stop/start technology. But unlike other similar systems, it's not as simple as you might think. Here's how it works. When the engine is killed, i-stop knows which piston is in the best position to restart quickest - the one in the ‘combustion stroke' phase, where air and fuel are in the cylinder and ready to be ignited. Sensors pinpoint which cylinder that is, before the mixture is sparked and ignited, forcing the piston dow |
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Time for a spot of science. This Mazda3 i-stop is the company’s first crack at stop/start technology. But unlike other similar systems, it's not as simple as you might think. Here's how it works. When the engine is killed, i-stop knows which piston is in the best position to restart quickest - the one in the ‘combustion stroke' phase, where air and fuel are in the cylinder and ready to be ignited. Sensors pinpoint which cylinder |
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auto news: 470 Horsepower Jaguar XF Supercharged Now On Sale |
470 Horsepower Jaguar XF Supercharged Now On Sale
As of today the revised 2010 Jaguar XF Supercharged is on sale in the U.S. at a starting price of $68,000. The new model improves over the ‘09 model, most notably, under the hood where a larger 5.0-liter engine gets supercharged for a total of 470hp - 50 more than the previous model. Torque is |
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auto news: Ford Leads Charge As Auto Sales Show Signs of a Rebound |
Auto sales in the U.S. show early signs of a rebound as Ford Motor Company posted a sales percentage loss for the month of June of just 10.7 percent. This is the automaker’s smallest sales decline in 16 months, prompting an unusual amount of optimism in the auto industry. Many automakers still suffered significant decline, however, [...] |
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auto news: Camaro Out-Sells Mustang For First Time Since 1993 |
Ford has had it easy in the Pony car segment ever since 2002 when Chevrolet stopped selling the Camaro, but the iconic Chevy is back and making its presence felt. For the fist time since 1993 the Camaro out-sold the Mustang for a whole month. The numbers weren’t even close as the new Camaro sold [...] |
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auto news: Cadillac to Replace DTS With XTS Model in 2012 |
Cadillac’s replacement for the top-level DTS sedan is to be called the XTS and will be built alongside several other GM products at the company’s Oshawa, Canada plant. Production is expected to begin in December of 2011, making the DTS a 2012 model. The XTS will be based on the company’s Epsilon platform, which will also [...] |
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auto news: Hurst To Offer Competition/Plus Package for Dodge Challenger |
Those shifter experts at Hurst have just announced that they will offer a new modification package for the Dodge Challenger… and the real surprise is that it is available for Challengers of all colors. Hurst is well-known for its either white/gold or black/gold paint schemes, but that certainly limits the company’s customer group. This new setup, [...] |
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