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Tomorrow’s world: future petrol engine tech news

By Tim Pollard Motor Industry 28 September 2009 14:15 Petrol engines are changing dramatically. You’ll have heard of the phrase 'downsizing' and most major manufacturers are shrinking their regular gasoline engines to trim emissions and fuel consumption – while employing new tech to keep up the horsepower and torque outputs. This is the holy grail for engineers: maintain the power and performance of the existing big capacity engines we’ve become wedded to, but in a smaller, more economical package.

First Pagani Huayra up for sale in Switzerland

First Pagani Huayra for sale The first Pagani Huayra to come up for sale is being offered by Carugati in Switzerland at a very large premium. We’ve had our doubts about just how many Huayras Pagani has manged to build so far for its customers, but we do know that the car we’ve all seen as the first customer Huayra is now up for sale in Switzerland, Carugati – a Swiss family-run dealers – is offering chassis #1 Pagani Huayra for buyers with very deep pockets. We promised Carugati we wouldn’t divulge the premium you’ll need to pay, but it is substantial.

Smart Forspeed concept (2011) at 2011 Geneva motor show

Remember the Smart Crossblade? Smart has produced another chop-top Fortwo - the Forspeed EV concept due to bow in at next week's 2011 Geneva motor show. The Forspeed apes the 2002 Crossblade, a roofless, doorless concept that was the perfect city runabout...