Some months ago here at Motoring Weekly, we wrote about the V12 motor developed by some Australians who “stretched” a General Motors LS1 V8 to be effectively 1.5 engines - and they were casting a full block rather than connecting two motors together. Now we have found a company that has gone the other way with the LS1 - they have shrunk it down to a V4. Motus, a now defunct … [Read more...]
Waymo Cars Under Attack
There has been a lot written about robotaxis - most about the safety aspect of the vehicles and especially during the current testing period. A lot of commentators agree that humans are at the heart of most accidents, so if you can get the vehicle’s systems to do all the work there is a theory that the road toll will reduce. That of course depends on humans developing bug-free … [Read more...]
Winter Tyres
Motoring Weekly is based in Sydney and as such has no need for this type of tyre on its vehicles! What are winter tyres and how do they differ from summer tyres? For many people in the northern hemisphere, changing tyres is a biannual process - switching tyres to suit the prevailing weather conditions, indeed if anyone in the southern climates of Australia were to go skiing … [Read more...]
Solaris Elettra
Back towards the end of the time when Motoring Weekly was a podcast (at the end of 2010), we wrote a small article about a new vehicle called the Solaris Elettra - another vehicle that was supposed to be manufactured in Africa. What happened to this vehicle? The plan was simple - build an electric car in Ethiopia. The company that thought up the idea was Freestyle PLC, a … [Read more...]
More Ford VW Collaboration
At the recent auto show in Detroit, Ford and Volkswagen announced another collaborative tie-up. This comes at a time when Ford have announced some poor numbers and the proposed agreement could help both parties reduce costs. It is not the first time that the two companies have shared technology, platforms and other components - Motoring Weekly recently wrote about Ford using … [Read more...]