Posts From King World News
– What an odd duck the Indianapolis 500 is—embracing the latest in technology while steadfastly holding tight to traditions so old half the audience is unlikely to understand them without an explanation from a helpful pre-dementia graybeard. – Today, for example, was Carburetor Day, an hour of pre-race practice to allow mechanics to properly adjust the carburetors on the participating race cars. In 2000, bowing to the vernacular of the
The next-gen Porsche 911, due to be launched about four to five years from now, will most likely be available as a plug-in hybrid, according to sources familiar with the project. Internally called the 992, the fully redesigned model will be powered by turbocharged flat-six engines; four-cylinder models are possible, but an unlikely option. – – The plug-in hybrid will draw from technologies developed for other Porsche models, such as
Bad news for Porsche 918 Spyder owners: Porsche is recalling a bunch of the quickest-ever production hypercars for a wiring problem affecting vehicles manufactured up until April of this year. Alert every 918 owner you know. – The problem has to do with the electric wiring harness for one of the car’s many radiator fans, which can chafe up against a carbon-fiber component in certain cases. Porsche says the fix will involve rerouting
– BMW has a proud history of launching design studies at the famous Concorso d’Eleganza at Villa d’Este, on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como. Over the past few years, BMW has worked with traditional coachbuilders; this time around, the project was conceived and executed in-house. That’s entirely appropriate, as the design team under Adrian van Hooydonk and Karim Habib set out to recreate one of the brand’s icons: the
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– Each forthcoming car, truck, and SUV is an as-yet-unrealized promise, but none emerges wholly from the ether. Clean sheets of paper are found at Staples not car companies, whose planners juggle plants, partnerships, powertrains, and platforms to feed global sales channels. This guarantees a high likelihood of product success, but often also a bland if competent uniformity. So, when something reaches off the page and slaps you in the
– Ever wonder just how dimensionally similar—or different—today’s rides are compared to those of the past? It’s always on our minds, as it seems like every new-car reveal is accompanied by detailed lists of where inches or pounds were added relative to the previous iteration. Few modern cars manage to shrug off this generation-over-generation inflation; the 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata comes to mind, being dimensionally smaller than before. The current-generation
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