An inquest into the death of Welsh gym owner Gerald Mellin has found the businessman decapitated himself in his Aston Martin DB7
after an argument with his estranged wife. According to the court,
Mellin tied one end of a rope to a tree, climbed into his DB7 and
wrapped the other end around his neck. Mellin then jammed [...]
Buried in a New York Times article on "Low-Carbon Chic" (vomit) comes confirmation the Tata Nano, the $2500 (or maybe a bit more) mini-car will offer a MDI compressed air engine as an option. Tata has been backing MDI for a while now, and off-the-cuff we mused at the idea of the compressed air engine [...]
Automakers across the globe are in a frenzy to produce highly efficient, fuel saving vehicles that remain relatively inexpensive, yet still offering the modern conveniences and safety features consumers have grown to expect. While development on advanced drivetrains is going strong at almost every automaker, Japan’s big four (Honda, Toyota, Nissan and Mazda) realize that [...]
We’ve been hearing rumors about a partially solar-powered Prius, but Car and Driver’s got some info on the 2010 model scheduled to make an appearance at the Detroit Auto Show in January, and it doesn’t appear that sunlight plays a part quite yet. The popular hybrid gets a more angular shape, but it still basically [...]
Top Gear has been slammed by its broadcaster, the BBC, for glamorising drinking while driving. The corporation’s governing body, the BBC Trust, reprimanded Top Gear after a viewer complained that the “blatant use of alcohol while driving” by Jeremy Clarkson and James May was “grossly irresponsible.”
The incident happened during a a special edition of [...]
Ferrari is planning to cut the CO2 emissions of its cars by 40 per cent before 2012. The company’s president, Luca di Montezemolo has suggested that hybrid power will be part of that process. His comment will be seen as confirmation that Ferrari is developing a road version of the Kinetic Energy Regeneration System [...]
Drive a Manual I truly believe if you’re not driving a manual transmission, your car is driving you. Most of the time an automatic transmission will make the right choices, but it can’t see everything you can. A torque converter, the device that transmits energy from the engine to the wheels in an automatic transmission, [...]
If you lack a wise uncle who knows just about everything involving car repairs, DriverSide might be a nice stand-in. The free car management site offers estimates on how much standard repairs and parts for your make and model should cost, based on third-party estimates and your zip code. You can also see what your [...]
If there’s anything to remember this weekend as gas prices reach $3.831 per gallon, it’s to not fall for gas-saving gadgets. These gadgets are hidden in a corner of your local auto parts store or advertised at 3 a.m. on television, but the fact of the matter remains that they just don’t work. Popular Mechanics [...]
This image popped up over the weekend being touted as a prototype BMW M1 snapped during a candid moment in a Spanish hanger. As we all know, major automakers regularly keep priceless, top secret, never before seen but completely finished supercars stored in regional airports, without camo on them. Well, there was that one time. [...]
