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Audi Diesel Wins Sebring

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If you were watching the race last night, you saw an Audi diesel win Sebring. The pitstops for the Audi were filled with photographers snapping pictures of the developing story. You could almost see and feel the enormous change in perception about to take place as millions of people realized the new word for performance was diesel. Diesel pickups have been a growing tide for … [Read more...]

Diesel Engines to Race LeMans

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Over in the auto world, the LeMans 24 hour race has a long and prestigious history where manufacturers are always pushing their new engineering and designs in hopes of winning. The advertising that results from a win can be an even bigger win. All of the car sites are talking at once about the new car Audi is running this year, the R10, and the item of interest to readers of … [Read more...]

IRL Indycar V8 for the Street

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As long as we're talking about car engines in bikes, and because we just think engines are cool, here's an interesting small displacement V8, it's a 3.5 liter, that's 214 cubic inches, Chevy IRL (Indy Racing League) V8 converted to run on 91 octane pump gas. Falconer Engines has been around for quite a long time building their very impressive V12 engine for both auto and … [Read more...]

Alfa Romeo 2.5 liter V6 Harley

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The site says this is a 2.5 liter Alfa Romeo V6 in a Harley frame of some sort. It uses the Harley 4 speed transmission and is, check the photo, a kick start! No other details. I saw this on Jalopnik where they say it's from Australia but nothing on the site indicates that so who knows? Interesting alternative to the Boss Hoss. Italian Cars (scroll down the page) via … [Read more...]

New X Prize for High Mileage

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After yesterday's post about expanding our proven oil reserves, some seem to think The Kneeslider is an unrepentant gas guzzler. No comment. However, everyone may like this new Automotive X Prize that offers $25 million dollars for a car that gets 250mpg. Previous X Prizes for human powered flight and private space flight are done and claimed, the logical extension is to offer … [Read more...]

Are Motorcycle Horsepower Numbers Accurate?

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New motorcycles come out, new horsepower claims are made, but how can you be sure everything is on the up and up? In the auto world, Toyota and Honda have had to readjust their horsepower numbers after running their engines through the stricter SAE standards, the Toyota Camry, for instance, fell from 210hp to 190, a pretty sizable drop. Domestic cars from GM, Ford and Chrysler, … [Read more...]