Archive 2007 GMC Yukon Denali Test Drive A Truck for Car Lovers MSRP: $36,460 — $47,780 General Motors’ latest line of full-size SUVs, including the GMC Yukon Denali, impresses with refinement and comfort. The question remains, how badly do you need a hefty truck that guzzles fuel? The all-new ’07 Yukon Denali is part of General Motors’ brave new world of full-size, big-engine SUVs, which are stubbornly coming to market while gas prices continue to push past an average of $2.50 a gallon. Critics deride the troubled corporation for being out of step with the times, but GM is convinced that the market for such brutes will continue to flourish. At 750,000 units a year, full-size ...

Competition For Russia’s Next Presidential Limo Shifts Into High Gear July 23, 2013 It looks as if a Chrysler 300 had assembly-line sex with a Rolls-Royce. Or at least that’s how one colleague described the winning design of a Russian presidential limousine concept car unveiled a few days ago. It’s a beauty. Why President Vladimir Putin hasn’t immediately ordered production to begin, we’ll never know. So far, there’s been no comment from the Kremlin about the muscular model. Putin had previously announced his desire to replace the current Mercedes and BMW sedans used by top Kremlin officials with a fleet of new Russian-made limousines manufactured by the ...

News about Motor Cars Wings-Sharks series to begin Friday All the times aren’t set yet, but the Red Wings have a schedule for the first four games of their second round series against San Jose. 2011-04-27 13:32:00 | DetNews.com Tigers’ Phil Coke hits bump in road in transition to starter Two starts in a row, both of them against the Mariners, Coke has had that mixed postgame look of anger, disappointment and frustration. It stems from the feeling of letting his team down. Long-Term Introduction: 2011 BMW 550i xDrive Sedan: If there’s a midsize sports sedan standing above the rest, one could argue that it is BMW’s 5-series. So we thought it critical that we spend ...

ABRITES Commander for VAG Component Protection Manager (generation 1/2) As part of the security strategy, some parts of the modules build in the VAG vehicles, implement the so called “component protection”. This is a mechanism dedicated to prevent exchange of modules between different vehicles without central authorization from the VAG online database. Such modules build in another vehicles activate the “component protection active” DTC and are with restricted functionality when build in another vehicle. This special function allow to remove this “component protection active” trouble code and allows to the module to works with its full functionality. The ...

Next-gen VW Phaeton to debut in Detroit? If at first you don’t succeed, try again: Volkswagen is set to debut a new flagship sedan at next January’s North American International Auto Show in Detroit. However, the Phaeton set to grace next year’s Detroit show stage might not actually be a production-bound model. Instead, the automaker is reportedly planning to gauge consumer reaction to the big, Audi A8-based VW-badged sedan. The Phaeton’s reintroduction comes in response to demand from the top of VW’s executive hierarchy as the automaker seeks to expand its presence in the U.S. A brand as large as Volkswagen needs a halo project in the upscale segment, VW CEO ...

W12 Engine W12 Engine Napier Lion One of the most famous W12 engines was the Napier Lion (Broad arrow), which was produced by Napier at Acton, West London, from 1917 to the late 1930s. This mostly alloy engine had a capacity of 24 litres (1 cu ft) and produced from 450 to 900 horsepower (336 to 671 kW; 456 to 912 PS). It was used in many racing cars by John Cobb and Malcolm Campbell, racing aircraft such as the Supermarine S.5 Schneider Cup winner, and speed boats such as Hubert Scott-Paine’s Miss Britain III. This configuration had three separate four-cylinder banks, each at 60 degrees offset from one another, as opposed to the “double V” layout used by Volkswagen-Audi (VAG). ...

Laser-Hybrid Welding Drives VW Improvements Laser-Hybrid Welding Drives VW Improvements A hybrid process that combines a laser beam with gas metal arc welding produces benefits Volkswagen could not achieve with either process alone Laser beam welding and arc welding both have long been used in industrial production and permit a wide variety of applications. Both processes have their specific areas of application, as described by the physical processes of energy transport and by the obtained energy flow. Energy is transmitted from the laser to the arc by means of high-energy infrared coherent radiation using a fiber-optic cable. The arc transmits the heat needed for welding by a high electric ...

We climbed into the premium, leather-adorned cockpit, fiddled with an array of dials and switches, ran through our checklists, adjusted the radio and tightened our seatbelts. We were cleared for take-off, and as we applied full-throttle, a big grin drew its way across our passengers’ faces. As we approached cruising speed, we activated the ventilated, massaging seats and suggested that rear seat passengers Recline, relax, and enjoy the ride. Sounds like a pretty nice corporate jet, doesn’t it? Well hold on to your hat, Myrtle, because this ain’t no jet; it’s the Volkswagen Phaeton W12. This top of the line luxury cruiser comes to you by way of the same folks that promoted ...

2004 Volkswagen Phaeton V8 Review By Bob Gordon Co-Publisher I have test driven lots of cars during my review research over the years…most of the cars I drive do not elicit even a second look from the folks around town…but this time it was different. Driving a new VW Phaeton brought me the kind of attention that only a trophy wife can generate from a bunch of car guys who have seen it all. During my week with the Phaeton the car served me well, as I drove the back roads of Kentucky on my favorite test drive routes…up and around…in and out of the hollers…from bumpy county roads to high speed interstates…from the gym to the supermarket and from the gas station to the car wash and ...

Published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) Germany: Power struggle at Volkswagen “Resistance” to the EU commission By Dietmar Henning 20 September 2008 On Friday, September 12, 40,000 workers at the central Volkswagen auto plant in Wolfsburg demonstrated against the company’s largest shareholder—the Porsche group. The Porsche group is working together with the European Commission to abolish social gains won by autoworkers in the 1960s within the framework of the so-called Volkswagen law. The demonstration, called by the industrial trade union IG Metall to coincide with a meeting of the company’s supervisory board, was the largest in the company’s ...