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MINI John Cooper Works Range gets a new engine

MINI JCW range gets new engines MINI has had a play and a tweak with the 1.6 litre turbo engine in the MINI John Cooper Works Range to make it more appealing. The Geneva Motor Show this year saw the debut of the latest MINI JCW – the MINI Countryman John Cooper Works – and with it output figures we though might be arriving across the MINI JCW range. Those figures saw the output of the 1.6 litre lump in the JCW rise to 215bhp and, surprisingly, managed to come in with economy figures for the JCW Countryman that were much the same as the rest of the JCW range.

Ferrari World Abu Dhabi – the petrol-head theme park

The impressive structure of the Ferrari World Theme Park on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi Makers of super cars may be having something of a torrid time at the moment with the world saving instead of spending. But if you have an iconic brand there’s more than one way to skin a cat to bring in the revenue. Cue Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi which has now risen from the desert and well on the way to being finished for the grand opening in 2010.

EPA rules greenhouse gases pose danger; more regulation expected

The EPA has proposed a finding that greenhouse gases from new vehicles and industrial plants pose a danger to the public, kicking off a process that could result in tighter regulation of carbon dioxide emissions. The EPA's findings come two years after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the agency to determine whether these emissions contribute to harmful air pollution under the Clean Air Act or whether the science is too uncertain.