We’ve featured no shortage of Audi tuners here on PD, particularly for the smaller four- and five-cylinder models, where tuners extract jaw-dropping power figures and sometimes exceed 300km/h. For a change we’re featuring mcchip-dkr’s latest Audi S8 Plus performance package, which starts life with a 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 churning out […]
Day: 20 May 2016
HSV to continue on after Commodore production ceases – report
HSV has given the strongest indication yet that a hotted-up version of the next, imported Commodore will indeed be part of its future lineup and that it intends to continue doing the design and finishing work at the Clayton, Victoria workshop. Holden Special Vehicles currently only offers rejigged performance versions […]
Stunning Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato unveiled
Aston Martin will launch another collaboration with Italian coachbuilder Zagato, the Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato Concept, at Italy’s Villa d’Este Concorso d’Elegance. The two companies have worked together for 56 years, with recent examples including the DB7 and DB9 Zagato, V12 Zagato, stretching all the way back to the first […]
Koenigsegg developing insane 1600cc four-cylinder engine
Maniacal Swedish manufacturer Koenigsegg has signalled its intention to produce a tiny 1.6-litre four-cylinder engine that could produce just short of 300kW. Chinese marque Qoros recently unveiled a cam-less powertrain which utilised Koenigsegg-derived technology, for use in its production cars, and it’s understood it has now begun funding Konigsegg’s testing. […]
Uber testing driverless taxi technology with Ford Fusion
Uber has been spotted testing autonomous driving technology in the US, signalling a possible move away from human taxi drivers in the future. An autonomous hybrid Ford Fusion produced by Uber’s Advanced Technology Center (ATC) was seen cruising the streets of Pittsburgh. The test car was fitted with an advanced […]
New Honda S2000 rumoured, to celebrate company’s 70th birthday
Honda may be planning a return of the iconic S2000 name, as soon as 2018, according to rumours. This would go well with the company’s slowly-growing sports car range. American automotive blog Car and Driver is quoting a source, who at this stage is still anonymous, that says the Japanese […]
Genesis G70 mid-size sedan confirmed, luxury SUVs on the way
Some details of Genesis’s future lineup seem to have been slipped out, with confirmation of a mid-size sedan called the G70 and an all-new mid-size premium SUV. A timeline of Genesis’s future product plans has been published by The Korean Car Blog, believed to have originated from official documents, showing […]