GM has partnered with Teijen to bring the widespread use of carbon fiber to every day cars. As many of you know, carbon fiber is a strong, lightweight, composite material used in everything from body panels, to frames, and trim work. It’s typically been reserved for high end sports cars, super cars, and luxury vehicles. …
Category Archive: General Discussion
Dec 15
The all new SL Mercedes
The All new Mercedes Benz SL series will be hitting show rooms in the spring of 2012. The always popular SL series gets a major reworking featuring all new more aggressive styling, new engine choices, better fuel economy, and more innovative luxury features. Only details of the SL550 have emerged so far and it’s looking …
Dec 14
More details on the Caddy ATS emerge.
As we approach autoshow season more and more info on new cars is trickling out. Today we learned that the new Cadillac ATS will have a trio of engines available on the start. The engines will be the 2.0l turbo i4 LNF, a 2.5l NA i4 and a 3.5 V6. The 2.0t is from …
Dec 13
Transaxles
This is the first in a series of light technical articles by Michael Adams. We will endeavour to post at least one of these per week. If you have a specific topic or car component that you’d like to see discussed / explained, please let us know. If you’ve been following the V8 Supercar Car …
Dec 13
The Viper Returns!
Chrysler announced today that the Viper will be back in 2013, which we already knew. However, we did not know that, starting in late 2012, they will reopen the Conner Plant near Detroit, bringing back 150 jobs. The plant is getting reworked as well. Long live the Viper!