Ferrari California to get more power and less weight for 2012

2012 Ferrari California - more power, less weight The Ferrari California has been quite the success story for Ferrari. It’s brought in a whole raft of new customers for Maranello and now accounts for the biggest sales numbers in the Ferrari range. Which should be no real surprise – by Ferrari standards the California is almost affordable.

European Parliament: electric cars must make noise

The European Parliament has voted in favour of a European Commission proposal to decrease the maximum allowed noise for new cars, vans, trucks, buses and coaches, in an effort to reduce “vehicle noise nuisance” by 25%. At the same time, the EU has voted in favour of a proposal to force carmakers to fit electric and hybrid electric vehicles with a sound generating device, to improve low speed safety for pedestrians and the visually impaired. On Bing: see pictures of electric cars Find out how much a used electric car costs on Auto Trader The proposed changes, which are expected to become law, would see new car noise levels reduced by four decibels, commercial vehicle noise levels reduced by three decibels.

New Citroen DS3 revealed – the Citroen DS3 Racing

Citroen has revealed the hot DS3 - the Citroen DS3 Racing Last month we told you that Citroen were planning on launching a hot version of the new DS3, and we thought they were going to call it the Citroen DS3 R3. Well, the story was right, but the name wasn’t. Not quite.