All the critical systems in a modern car -- engine, transmission, brakes, stability controls -- are linked to a single electronic system called the Controller Area Network bus, or CAN bus.
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The snafu comes amid talks between the two companies concerning Fiat trading its small-car and small-engine technology for a 35.0% stake in Chrysler.
One success so far: Barra pushed to speed up the consolidation of GM's three small-car engine lines, arguing that it shouldn't wait four years to introduce a single, more fuel-efficient engine that could be used worldwide.
The Veloster is seriously snouty, a consequence of it being a front-drive car with a transverse-mounted engine (the Veloster is very much a mechanical clone of the new Elantra, complete with torsion-beam rear suspension).
With 90% of Ceradyne's revenues coming from such big defense contractors as Hughes, Martin Marietta and McDonnell Douglas--and with the ceramic car engine still several years off--Moskowitz is now searching hard for nonmilitary ceramics applications.
This week it unveiled a prototype version of its 7-Series saloon car that has a hydrogen-powered engine.
It is already possible to buy a piece of kit that plugs into a car's engine-management system and sends data to an application on an Apple iPhone.
Thanks to the efficient turbocharged, common-rail, direct fuel-injection diesel engine, the concept car is still very fuel-efficient.
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This slowing effect is used by Lotus to simulate engine braking, in which resistance inside an internal-combustion engine decelerates the car.
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With so much torque pushing a 565-kilogram car, the engine doesn't need a transmission.
With so much torque pushing a 1, 250-pound car, the engine doesn't need a transmission.
That pulse is capable of burning out the electronics in a car, including its engine-management system, without harming the occupants.
The money will support the introduction of its new Civic and CR-V car models and a new 1.6-litre diesel engine.
Start the engine of the running car, and run it for 1-2 minutes while revving the engine to higher rpm.
It had a V-8 engine, arguably one of the first in-car phones, and parachutes, which were deployed to help Batman turn sharp corners.
The LF-A supercar prototype, equipped with a 500-horsepower V-10 engine, is a follow-up to a concept car Lexus debuted on the 2005 auto show circuit.
The car has a V8 engine, five-speed manual transmission and 102, 755 miles on the odometer.
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You can't beef about the car's engine, the Detroit-built Multiair, which coaxes 101 horsepower out of 1.4 liters of naturally aspirated displacement.
The winning design was submitted by Sangho Kim of Pasadena, California, and the result is a car with a 6.2-liter engine, eight cylinders, automatic transmission, rear-wheel drive and 430 horsepower.
But when he tries to wield "The Force" on his dad's new car, the engine roars to life -- with a little help from dad and his keyfob, of course.
The results are then handed from the cloud to the car, where the in-vehicle intent engine from QNX Software Systems performs the remainder of the speech analysis to determine how to act.
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By eliminating the bulky V6-engine option in favor of a smaller, 4-cylinder turbocharged engine, Hyundai could design the car on a smaller, lighter steel frame.
Beneath its carbon fiber skin the 6.5-litre V12 engine and seven-speed single-clutch gearbox get the car to 60 miles per hour in a flat three seconds.
Chrysler says this is the highest torque rating of any naturally aspirated (non-turbocharged or supercharged) sports car engine in the world.
The powertrain, which we saw earlier on a concept car, combines a V6 bi-turbo gas engine with a 95 horsepower electric model for 416 total system horsepower.
The current F1 rulebook has limited certain areas of car improvement: a 10-year freeze on engine development is in place, Bridgestone tires are standard issue to every team and testing in season is restricted.
Stadler drove out onto the stage at the Las Vegas Hilton in an Audi e-tron Spyder concept car, a hybrid vehicle with two electric motors and a twin-turbo V6 engine, capable of zooming from 0 to 60 in just 4.7 seconds.
Yesterday, AUDI AG chairman Rupert Stadler gave his own keynote address at CES, driving out onto the stage at the Las Vegas Hilton in an Audi e-tron Spyder concept car, a hybrid vehicle with two electric motors and a twin-turbo V6 engine, capable of zooming from 0 to 60 in just 4.7 seconds.
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