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13 June 2011 - Currently ZF manufactures a very good 8 speed automatic, the 8HP, for longitudinal mount applications. This is the gearbox that’s showing up in the ‘F’ code BMWs. It utilizes three ‘overdrive’ gears, with fifth having a ’1:1′ ratio. Six speed gearboxes often are set to use fifth and sixth as overdrive gears, fourth being 1:1.

11 June 2011 - The Swedish automaker, known for manufacturing some of the safest cars out there, is currently working on a new technology that is meant to help reduce the risk of collisions with wild animals. The new safety system alerts and automatically brakes for animals on the road, and is based on technologies from the Pedestrian Detection with Full Auto Brake, introduced in 2010.

09 June 2011 - The European division of Volvo has just announced it has released a new mobile application that allows the driver to stay in touch with his car via an iPhone or Android smart phone. He or she can thus control it after the car is parked, from anywhere and at anytime.

07 June 2011 - Nissan Motor Co. and other Japanese automakers are turning eco-friendly cars such as electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid cars into external power sources for the home as they aim to turn them into a type of rolling battery. The trend is getting an extra push from green cars that helped supply emergency power in areas hit by the March earthquake.

4 June 2011 - The revised and refreshed version of the Demio (known as the Mazda2 in Europe) has just been released by Mazda onto the Japanese market. As you might already know, the 2012 model year now features the Japanese carmaker’s new 1.3-liter SKYACTIV-G direct-injection gasoline engine.

02 June 2011 - It seems that the automotive world is going to undergo such rapid development within several years ahead, because there has been a kind of vision of what the windscreen looks like in 2020. Autoglass currently released their new 2020-dashboard concept: everything will be included on the dashboard, which is then projected to the car’s windscreen.