Lambo Contest for Design
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Lambo Wins Interior Award—For Composite Deployment
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Lambo’s Limited Edition Miura Homage
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Light Rider
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LaFerrari’s Efficient Steering System
TRW has announced that it is supplying an electrically powered hydraulic steering (EPHS) system to Ferrari for its LaFerrari hybrid vehicle. This is the EPHS system: Â This is the LaFerrari: This is notable because compared with a conventional hydraulic power steering system, the EPHS provides fuel savings of up to 0.3 liters/100 km, and […]
Jeeps Modified for Moab
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Just In: Ed Welburn to Retire; Mike Simcoe Gets New Job
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Kaizen to Eleven
On Wednesday Toyota Motor Corp. announced its financial results for the fiscal year that ended on March 31, 2017, and things were not all that cheery. That is, its consolidated net revenues ($255.528-billion) were down 2.8 percent; operating income ($18.465-billion) was down 30.1 percent; and net income ($16.954-billion) was off 20.8 percent. Down, down, down. […]
Karma from California
Chances are, you (like me) missed the 2017 U.S. Open Polo Championship broadcast on CBS last Sunday. If that’s the case—or if you made a trip to the refrigerator at the wrong moment—you didn’t see the first-ever 30-second TV commercial for the Karma Revero. “The what?†you might wonder. The Revero is described by the […]
Kia Creates a Crossover—Hybrid
Steve Kosowski, manager, Long Range Planning & Strategy at Kia Motors America says that back in 2011-2012, the executives at Kia in Korea—as well as their opposite numbers at Hyundai—decided that they needed to develop an all-new platform for an “eco vehicle.†This vehicle could come in different flavors, conceivably, as in hybrid, plug-in hybrid, […]
