What does Aston Martin have up their sleeves?

People don’t like refusing money, plain and simple. This is especially true for a company that shows negative earning numbers on its financial report, and Aston Martin is a typical example.

For the 2013 year, Aston Martin has reported a pretax loss of GBP 25.4-million and only managed to sell 4,200 cars. However this does not stop the British auto maker from designing new vehicles. Previously, we have reported Aston Martin has made a special sedan only for selected customers in the Middle East market: the Lagonda sedan.

However, it looks like Aston Martin’s upper management has changed their ideas...

Scion iM Concept Car Sneak Peek

Scion is going to debut the iM concept car in next week’s LA auto show. Today, Toyota gave us a sneak peak of this new model badged with the one and only, Scion brand.

Toyota previously sold the Corolla hatchback version in the US market under the “Matrix” model name. However, Toyota decided to pull the plug after the 2013 model year, due to declining sales. We get it since we all know US consumers aren’t big fans of hatchbacks, right?

In fact Europeans likes hatchbacks more than folks in the US, therefore Toyota is selling the latest hatchback version of the Corolla, called the “Toyota Auris” in Europe...

Lexus LF-C2 Concept to Make its World Premiere at 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show

Today Lexus announced that they will reveal a new concept car at the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show on November 19th. What is the name you ask? The Lexus “LF-C2”. Below is a mysterious photo officially released by Lexus.

We believe the LF-C2 shows some clues about the next-generation IS convertible, or the RC convertible. Lexus will provide more information through a 3-day social media campaign. Please see the below press release for more details.

 November 11, 2014

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Cadillac leaked information on the 2016 ATS-V and we at YouWheel.com wanted to share with you before the LA auto show next week. The 2016 Cadillac ATS-V will be dressed to impress, we promise.

2016 Cadillac ATS-V Specification Highlights

– Equipped with a twin-turbo 3.6L V6 engine based on the one in the CTS VSport
– Output: 450hp, 445 lb-ft of torque
– New features in the engine: titanium connecting rods, titanium turbines in the turbos, 2 water-to-air intercoolers
– Additional radiator to cool the gearbox
– Electronic locking differential
– 6-speed manual transmission, or 8-speed automatic transmission
– Curb weight: around 3,600 lbs

Please enjoy the below gallery...

Volkswagen’s Electric Turbo Engine

There is one major drawback for turbocharged engines. The drawback  is called “turbo lag”, which means the turbo cannot enter into full boosting mode before there is enough exhaust gas to spool up the turbine.  This builds up boosting pressure! What does that mean? It means there is always a delay between the time that an engine receives command to provide high output, therefore the engine can actually provide that amount of output.

There is one solution comes to mind,  Don’t let the turbocharger depend on the exhaust gas to spool up.

This is how an electric turbocharger comes into play

The idea is pretty straightforward...