VW's Passat: a diesel delightPenny-pincher alert: It has cost WAW about $700 in fuel to drive almost 30,000 miles (48,280 km); assuming $1.10 per gallon for diesel fuel, Volkswagen's Passat TDI travels a mile for just half a nickel's worth of fuel...
Why can't you be more like your brother?" SID and EuroSID have heard it all their lives, and it has driven them apart. Everyone was hoping they'd be identical twins, but it never happened.SID, the elder of the two, was born in America and was...
When Richard Snell became the new chief executive of Federal-Mogul Corp. in November 1996, he arrived with a bitter pill for the company to swallow.In the end, the medicine he prescribed would not only save the automotive supplier from a painful...
First it was small-car platforms, then Buicks in Shanghai; small cars and pickups in Brazil; a Cadillac for every continent. More recently powertrain development is revamped around four centers in the United States, Europe and Japan.By the time...
WHISTLER, BC - Here I am on the edge of this narrow logging trail in the newLexus LX 470 on a pine-covered mountain, and I can see a pink flag marking a run-off ditch that looks to be about a yard deep and 2 yards wide (a meter deep and a coupla...
LucasVarity At SAE '98LucasVarity highlights a wide variety of products and technologies at SAE, including a vehicle-simulation laboratory designed to shrink the amount of time it takes to test brake control systems algorithms; adaptive cruise...