Mercedes-Benz doesn’t have one. Neither does BMW. Nor Volvo or Saab or any of the Brits save Lotus, and not—at least since the short tenure of the Ford GT—any of what’s left of the Big Three. Exclude the Italians specializing in exotics and Porsche, hardly a volume manufacturer, and the only luxury relatively-mass market carbuilder making a mid-engine automobile today is Audi. That car is the Audi R8.
Indeed the Audi R8 places its engine behind the passenger compartment and in front of the rear wheels…Â Details
Most people picture an oddly-shaped, pretty slow machine that has a limited traveling range when they think of an electric vehicle. Even if they imagine the Tesla Roadster Sport that makes it to 60 mph in just 3.7 seconds, that’s weak sauce compared to some of the EVs that show up at the events held by the National Electric Drag Racing Association (NEDRA).
The association was formed in 1997, and has…Â Details
Video Automobile Sports Car – 2010 Ferrari 458 Italia on Road! – Finally we’ve have seen it! A bunch of Ferrari 458 Italias driving in Maranello for some test drives. Two of them are driving on road, two others are loaded on few trucks and another one is the old mul…
 Honda Motor Co.’s withdrawal from Formula One racing in December to save money may give it an advantage over rivals: fresh blood from an elite cadre of engineers to improve its Civic compacts and Odyssey minivans.
The automaker reassigned the racing team’s 400 engineers to speed up development of new technologies to improve fuel efficiency and emission levels for mass-produced cars.
“F-1 was all about pursuing the best energy efficiency to achieve speed,†Kazuo Sakurahara, who led Honda’s team of F-1 engineers, said in  … Details