Le préparateur Rinspeed avait annoncé il y a quelques mois sa volonté de présenter une voiture sous-marine au prochain salon de Genève. Promesse tenue !
La sQuba est en effet capable de se déplacer sous l’eau, tel un sous-marin jaune sorti tout droit d’un délire de créateur d’automobiles. A l’origine, Rinspeed a voulu rendre hommage […]
Feb 17, 2008 | By: webmaster | 1 Comment
L’équation est simple et alléchante. On la doit à des étudiants de l’Université du Sud de l’Australie qui ont conçu le Trav’, pardon, le Trev.
Ce drôle d’engin posé sur trois roues, qu’on dirait coupé net à son extrémité arrière, peut embarquer deux personnes façon avion biplace. Ca, c’était pour la présentation générale. Car le plus […]
Jan 30, 2008 | By: webmaster | No Comments
Ratan Tata rolls the window down and talks about the vision and conviction, the innovation and improvisation, and the leap of faith that went into creating the People’s Car
My first doodle was to rebuild cars around the scooter, so that those using them could be safer if it fell. Could there be a four-wheel vehicle […]
Jan 10, 2008 | By: webmaster | 1 Comment
Despite the decreasing number of road deaths across the Continent, these countries’ burgeoning economies have placed more cars on area roads–putting residents at increased risk of traffic-related deaths.
They top Forbes.com’s first-ever ranking of Europe’s Most Dangerous Drivers. We compiled our list by calculating the number of road deaths per million inhabitants in 28 European countries, […]
Jan 03, 2008 | By: webmaster | No Comments
Ratan Tata, head of the tea-to-steel Tata conglomerate, will unveil the “People’s Car” January 10 at a New Delhi auto show that will carry a sticker price of 100,000 rupees, or 2,500 dollars, which some analysts say could revolutionise automobile costs worldwide.
And Tata, which has been on an aggressive overseas expansion drive, is also expected […]
Dec 30, 2007 | By: webmaster | No Comments
Imagine a world where all vehicles are Fords, where the scenic views out the window all look little bit like old skool Nintendo video games (somewhere between Pole Position and F-Zero) and where each intersection brings with it another chance to learn a valuable lesson. If you can imagine that, then you’ll know […]
Dec 30, 2007 | By: webmaster | No Comments
It’s difficult to predict where the automotive world will draw its fuel from in the long term. The internal combustion engine is far from dead and further efficiencies and integration of hybrid technology will lengthen their life span for some time to come. The use of fuels produced from a renewable resource also makes sense […]
Dec 30, 2007 | By: webmaster | No Comments