Makers Archive

  • Hyundai makes its own Top Gear car review!

    Hyundai makes its own Top Gear car review!

    Here I attach the new Hyundai TV advert that you need to check out if you are a Top Gear fan: The car in the advert is the Hyundai Tucson  ix35 I personally think it is hilarious! lol The car in the advert is the...

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  • Audi TV adverts taunting competitors.

    Audi TV adverts taunting competitors.

    Audi TV adverts are well known for their originality. Most people would agree that they do some of the best car adverts you can find. However, sometimes they like teasing and making a laugh of their competitors, such as BMW, Mercedes, Volvo… Watch the next...

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  • Automotive Testing Company of the Year: Applus IDIADA

    Automotive Testing Company of the Year: Applus IDIADA

    Applus IDIADA Automotive Technology SA won the Automotive Testing  Company of the Year awarded by Automotive Testing Technology International Magazine. The following lines describe the Applus IDIADA company , (extracted from FISITA website): Applus IDIADA, as a global partner to the automotive industry worldwide, supports...

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  • Photographing the oil impact

    Photographing the oil impact

    Edward Burtynsky 2005 TED Prize winner Edward Burtynsky has made it his life’s work to document humanity’s impact on the planet. His riveting photographs, as beautiful as they are horrifying, capture views of the Earth altered by mankind. In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows...

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  • Nürburgring fastest lap times

    Nürburgring fastest lap times

    The Nürburgring is a motorsport complex around the village of Nürburg, Germany. It features a modern Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer old North loop track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg...

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  • Sit back and watch!

    Sit back and watch!

    That’ one of the sickest pieces of drifting I have ever seen. This is the original video presentation: Tanner Foust drifts his Rockstar Energy Drink Scion TC Drift Car on a legendary stretch of Mulholland Highway known as “The Snake”. Watch Tanner unleash his 600hp...

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  • The Mercedes SLS AMG “DNA”

    The Mercedes SLS AMG “DNA”

    1954 Mercedes 300SL Gullwing. If you are a bit of a car fan you must be visualizing this car in your mind right now. Well, the SLS wants to be the reincarnation of the famous Gullwing. That’s why it keeps almost the same proportions as...

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  • Automatic Clutch Wear Compensation

    Automatic Clutch Wear Compensation

    Automatic Clutch Wear Compensation When clutches wear the pressure required to activate the clutch increases significantly. Also, more space is required for installation. But, ZF developed a system which automatically compensates the wear. This mechanical maintenance free system keeps the diagram springs always in the...

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  • Nivomat, the automatic ride height control system

    Nivomat, the automatic ride height control system

    Nivomat is a vehicle suspension system created by ZF Sachs. While most other suspension systems rely on springs, struts and shock absorbers, Nivomat replaces all these components with a single component which provides damping, ride stability and constant ride height control. Nivomat uses a pump...

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  • Power steering

    Power steering

    Power steering Nowadays almost all cars have power steering. But this luxury only started being fitted to cars in the 1950s. Chrysler Corporation, which was the first manufacturer  to intrude power steering to commercially available vehicles, called its hydraulic system “Hydraguide”. Power steering is a...

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