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Mini Cooper Cabriolet JCW to show at Geneva

The Mini Cooper Cabriolet John Cooper Works to show at Geneva [ad#ad-1] Ahead of the Geneva Motor Show next month, images have surfaced of the ‘Hot’ new Mini Cooper Cabriolet  John Cooper Works version. The new JCW Mini Cab gets most of the tweaks the standard JCW Mini Cooper gets, including a more aggressive front end. But the heart of the JCW is what goes on under the skin.

What's New: August 2004

Ferrari F430  The F430 is the first of a new generation of Ferrari 8-cylinder models. This new car takes Ferrari?s achievements with aluminium technology, begun with the 360 Modena, to a new level, and offers a series of innovations derived from the Ferrari Formula 1 single-seaters. Two of these are world firsts for production cars: the electronic differential (E-Diff) and the steering wheel-mounted switch, which manages the integrated systems governing vehicle dynamics.

MIT researchers rethink electric-car batteries

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a new battery design for electric vehicles could be a lightweight and inexpensive alternative. The goal for the team's three-year project, launched in September 2010, is to have a functioning prototype ready to be engineered as a replacement for existing electric-car batteries. At this point in the project, the prototype uses a “semi-solid flow” to separate the two functions of a battery--storing energy and discharging it when needed--into separate physical structures.