11 million vehicle involved in VW emissions scandal

11 million Volkswagen vehicles worldwide are involved in the scandal that has erupted over its rigging of US car emissions tests. The state of the art Software that triggers the pollution controls only when the car is being tested for emissions.  The German car giant has admitted massaging the emissions tests in the U.S. The Environmental…

Global electric car sales to hit 1 million mark

  The global electric car sales figures is expected to hit the one million mark after September. This optimistic figure includes sales of both the Plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) as well as the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) which is basically a hybrid vehicle with an electric motor as well as an internal combustion engine…

Man rides away with Harley Davidson bike

Do you have an insatiable craze for super-expensive bikes? but does the size of your purse discourage you from having any dreams let alone serious thoughts of owning one and would you rather not want to bother yourself with big EMIs every month? Then most people would either put off this idea of owning one…

Bentley Bentayga

Bentley the Bentayga, a 600-horsepower vehicle that will hit 50 miles per hour in four seconds. According to the company, their top speed of 187mph (301kmph), is officially the fastest production SUV in the world costing £170,000. The Bentayga has a huge W-12 engine, there are also cabin controls for selecting your surface and a…

League of SUV’s

  Lamborghini, the Italian maker of super sport cars announced that it plans to build an SUV version. Already, Aston Martin (Aston Martin Lagonda), Rolls- Royce and Bentley, Lotus, Maserati, Jaguar and Alfa Romeo are also planning to introduce SUV’s avoiding the name instead   “ High bodies  Rolls motorcar”,  “performance crossover- Jaguar. ” Low fuel…

Ford scraps cardiovascular detecting car seat research

In 2014, Ford had allocated  a research budget of $5.5bn  £3.63bn. Research into Ford’s one of the project  to develop driving seats that could monitor a driver’s cardiovascular system for irregularities, using  a camera and sensors on the steering wheel and detect heart attacks and engage steering and breaking systems to bring the car to…

Toyota in new £1bn investment in China and Mexico!

The Japanese carmaker Toyota is planning to invest  Y150bn ( £1bn) to build new plants in Mexico to  target better sales in US and China. The two plants are expected to increase Toyota’s annual production capacity by 300,000 vehicles. The group last year sold  10.23m cars and trucks Whizzing past their rival  Germany’s VW  10.14m.…

Self-driving cars of sci-fi movies soon to became a reality!

British Government is Investing £19m for the driverless car Transport Minister Claire Perry is set to announce  next week  about the trials and use of  Self-driving cars on British roads, following a 6 month  study into the practical, legal and safety issues of driverless cars. Driverless cars are safer and neither get drunk, nor have accidents (the only exception was…

125 miles per litre Fuel efficient moped with a Honda GX35

Three mechanical engineering students  from Government Engineering college at Barton Hill in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, designed and developed a prototype vehicle which runs upto 125miles  per litre of petrol. This will be one of the 12o entrants competing for fuel efficiency contest ” Shell Eco Marathon”  to be held at Phillippines between  26th February and 1st March.…