Posts categorized under ‘Technology’

Peugeot has launched the world’s first diesel-electric hybrid, despite the world telling us it can’t be done. The costs!, says the world. The technical challenge!, it points out. The woes ...

The biggest influencer of fuel economy is the driver. Low rolling resistance tyres save 3%; auto stop-start can save 5% or more.  The driver, however, can save 20% – and ...

Stop-start or start-stop: which does your car have? Like so many titles in the car world, each car brand has a different way of describing, er, stop-start. Now, logic to ...

Green cars and eco sub-brands have to be a staple of any right-thinking manufacturer these days.  If you’re not showing off your eco credentials with a special badge applied to your ...

Volvo’s Concept You again showed off the firm’s Scaleable Platform Architecture at the 2011 Frankfurt IAA. SPA will underpin most of the brand’s future models. Instead of creating unique platforms ...

There are only so many things you can call a car without losing all sense of rationality. Back in the day, it was L, GL, GLX, Ghia. Throw in a ...

BMW is committed to a future of turbocharged engines, both diesel and petrol, that will enable it to drop each cylinder set down a peg. The V10 is dead, thank ...

Land Rover this week launched the Defender version that will give the oldest Landie on sale yet another stay of execution. The old 2.4-litre Ford Transit engine has been replaced ...

Motoring journalists road-test cars by living with them: doing all the things with them that they’d do with their own cars.  It’s not as glamorous as blasting round the test ...

Twitter addicts need to tweet all the time. Facebook fans need to update their status, and Like the thoughts of others, constantly. Social media is all-pervasive and smartphones make it ...