Daily Torque – Automotive News

It is now our tenth friday since we first started this Automotive News QuickLinks. Here is some quite car news:-

[Green News] Flying Car should be available next year – from Terrafugia Transition
[Car Tech] Driving while Blind – Great news for blind people
[Green News] Car Fuel made from CO2 and Sunlight
[Humor] Dog Chew off Cop’s Car Bumper [...]

Friday is here again ! whoohoo. And some quick catch up on some of the news happening this week around the automotive industry:-

$2.93 million Bugatti Veyron Model made of Gold – More expensive than the actual car at $1.7million
Hybrid Retrofit System in 6 hours – This is some cool Hybrid DIY Kit
Flying Car Design, Yee [...]

Previously we have covered the Honda U3-X with a video showcasing the great new technology by Honda. Here is a video that explain more about the U3-X. Wonder if this will just make human lazier? Or is it tiring to balance this thing.

When do you actually seen a green Ferrari? Did you even expect that Ferrari would venture into hybrid technology? But you will most definitely be seeing this for real very very soon this month at Geneva. As this is the leaked pictures of Ferrari 599 hybrid that will be showcase in the upcoming Geneva 80th [...]

I received this from a forward mail about Siemens having a joint venture with famous manufacture Orange county choppers creating the first customized electric chopper !

As mentioned earlier on the Dual Injector System introduced by Nissan, seems that they will be putting this technology onto the smaller Nissan March in Thailand.
I really wonder if the Local Nissan will bring in the March, since this will make them more competitive in the K-Car segment…

Nissan Japan introduced to the world the new Dual Injector System with the purpose of making more fuel efficient engines and also at the same time to be more environmental friendly.

Recently Hyundai have joined the other automakers in the Hybrid race by offering its own Hybrid model.
Instead of creating a Hybrid model, Hyundai uses the flagship Sonata model.
This Hybrid will emit 99 grams of CO2 / Kilometer which definitely achieves the toughest Tier 4 of the European Emissions Standards. In tier 4 the limit was [...]

Jaguar’s XJ series are having the whole chassis body using nothing but aluminium. With the use of this lightweight metal, for sure the car will have better pickup and also uses less fuel…
Check out the video below :

Another super car will be produce by a Spanish company, GTA Motor. This new GTA Spano will only have 99 units produced. Positioned at the market of the Koenigsegg CCXR, GTA Spano is also maximized by running solely on ethanol that enable this car to do 0 to 100 km/h in under 3 seconds with [...]