Archive for February, 2008
Subaru Horizontally Opposed Diesel for Passenger Cars
23 February 2008Lots of manufacturers have been rolling out diesel engines for new passenger car applications but in fairly standard configurations. Fuji Heavy Industries, who build the Subaru, have unveiled the 150 horsepower turbocharged EE20, the first horizontally opposed diesel engine for passenger cars.
The vehicles equipped with the EE20 will be officially announced March 4, 2008, [...]
The Physics of NASCAR
12 February 2008The good old boys aren’t running moonshine anymore. NASCAR is big money racing that left the back roads a long time ago and now, with a lot less room for error than the average race fan might think, the cars rely on science, not “go fast, turn left.” A brand new book, The Physics of [...]