2010 Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid: Porsche’s first cleaner-and-greener machine combines a 333-horsepower V6 with a 52-horsepower electric motor that can solely operate at speeds up to 140 km/h or in tandem with the gas engine as required.
An eight-speed automatic transmission functions in either mode. Porsche claims the hybrid will hit 100 km/h in seven seconds and average about 9.0 l/100 km in combined city/highway driving…Â Details
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, knows what he wants from the Big Three auto executives: They should bow down to stockholders and apologize.
That’s one of the milder suggestions from Capitol Hill as to how Detroit’s top brass should behave.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., wants them to resign. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Ct., thinks that General Motors Chief Executive Richard Wagoner should “move on.” …Â Details
Automakers envision electric cars as a solution to gas price jumps. Environmentalists see bluer skies. And electric utilities? They could be the biggest winners of all.
Electric cars use lots of juice and are typically plugged in to recharge at night when utilities have excess power-generating capacity. That’s great for power companies.
But electric cars and plug-in hybrids, which are expected to start hitting the streets next year, could pose a challenge for …Â Details
Remember how much fun you had as a kid, pushing a button and watching in awe as your Hot Wheels mini sedan cruised from its accelerator and raced up an impressive loop? The simple things that satisfied in our youth were always covered in a veil of fantasy, though, weren’t they? Once we realized the possibility of having more – more stunts and boosts, more of that adrenaline feeling that the cars could fly off the track at any given moment – we felt disappointed by a one-loop, one-trick pony. Toy companies would be too limited to realize the “asphalt labyrinths” from our imagination, so these virtual raceways would have to settle for a virtual home…..
….TrackMania DS can be thought of as the spiritual successor to Stunts some 20 years later. That’s not to say there weren’t numerous other attempts to offer racing alongside track building, but few seem to do it as well as TrackMania…. Details