Mazda recently made an announcement about its future with regards to power units. It was an announcement that helped the industry know what their plans were and how they were going to achieve them. Mazda has been one of the last manufacturers to say what they were going to do because they were seen as the last bastion of the internal combustion engine with their SkyActiv-G … [Read more...]
Subaru KX21 Engine
This a motor that I didn’t know existed until late last year - and is a great use of an engine designed for other purposes. Motoring Weekly recently wrote about Coventry Climax racing engines and they repurposed water pump engines that went into cars! Late last year I was looking at Karting New South Wales with a view to joining their board. Sadly I didn’t get on it, however … [Read more...]
EU MPs Vote for Higher Emissions Reductions
The European Union is keen to see the end of the internal combustion engine, which is really interesting considering that the European manufacturers are behind the eight ball when it comes to electric vehicles. In October MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) voted to increase the reduction of carbon emissions by 40% by 2030. The original agreement was to reduce them by … [Read more...]
Coventry Climax Racing Engines
Coventry Climax was a specialist engine builder founded back in the early years of the industry. Their glory days were in the 1950s and early 1960s when they built several very successful racing engines. This article will concentrate on the engines they built initially for Formula 1, some of which ended up being used in the US and some were shipped to Australia for the Tasman … [Read more...]
Delphi Fuel Efficiency Technology
The industry is in a state of flux at the moment - the media loves the idea of electric cars, although no one talks about where the electricity to recharge the vehicles is coming from. Honda and several other manufacturers are still developing fuel cells and Motoring Weekly recently wrote about the Nikola truck that uses this technology. There have also been articles about … [Read more...]