What’s a luxury car doing with alternative fuel sources?  I thought that was reserved for the masses?  Well, I wouldn’t have believed it until I saw this wonderful BMW 7 series luxury sedan that has Hydrogen as a second fuel tank.  I’ve heard hydrogen is a viable fuel option, but for a luxury car?  I guess it’s about time.  ...

With peak oil prices very much at our doorstep, if not there already, it’s only logical to look for alternate sources of fuel for our favorite and indispensable cars.  We have so many prototypes of electric cars unveiled in motor shows for the last decade.  But nothing really moved them into mainstream production.  Until now. So ...

I know people who devote time, effort and oodles of money to beef-up their car’s audio systems.  I can’t blame them.  The after market is certainly fueling this with new models of sound amplifies, controls boxes with parametric equalizers and exotic speakers that can rival home systems, to attract car owners into investing to make ...

Working on your laptop PC while on the road can be a great help when you have something urgent to attend to.  I often find myself doing that when commuting in between offices while at work. You certainly don’t want to do this if you do the driving.  This is best reserved to people who are driven.  I saw a brochure on the 7-series ...

I was pleasantly surprised to get into a new cab the other day and experience something I don’t normally get when commuting to the office.  That’s full-bodied road music.  The cab drive was kind enough to tell me that the previous owner of the cab he was driving was an audio freak, installing 12-inch subwoofers at and a 100-watt ...

The multichannel surround sound is already a decade old as far as home entertainment is concerned.  It’s about as old as the DVD that has made all that possible. And over the last few years, I’ve seen an emerging interest in doing the same for the small space inside cars.  Vans and SUVs might be a good place to start but I ...

If they can put in-seat videos in a plane, why not on the ground?  An excellent idea.  Why not?  Just about all the amenities you get when flying can be made available on the road.  Many luxury cars and SUVs already sport one for the back seats. With the craze going for mpeg4 videos you load on ipods, it shouldn’t be difficult building that the video facility in vehicles.  You have the mp3 sounds replacing much of the CDs, so the next step is ...

I’ve read a lot of car enthusiasts lambaste the Veyron for having a poor power-to-weight ratio.  The car body is just too heavy for its size, requiring a tremendous engine source to propel it to the speeds as promised. Not surprisingly, you have a 1005 BHP W16 turbo charged engine that is perhaps the next powerful one after a helicopter engine.  Bugatti engineers can probably learn from Porsche when they propel a light Carrera GT body with just a ...

From a distance, this looks like a Lamborghini Reventon.  But when the door opens, it doesn’t have the scissor doors of the Lambo.  No, it’s a lot faster.  In fact, it set the Guinness world records to officially carry the title of the world’s fastest car in production, beating out the former holder Koenigsegg CCX at ...

The Hybrid 250mph Koenigsegg CCXR is expected to debut next year to take away the crown from the Bugatti Veyron as the fastest production supercar on earth. Koenigsegg modified its earlier CCX’s 5-litre twin supercharged V8 to use E85 biofuel – a stronger octane fuel.   This makes the CCXR a green supercar that is reported to ...