Zagato teases upcoming TZ4 with holiday greetings?

Filed under: Concept Cars, Classics, Alfa Romeo, Design/Style

Close your eyes and picture the most beautiful contemporary sportscar designs. Were the Perana Z-One and Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione in the mix? Well, perhaps they ought to be. Now open your eyes and look at the image above.
What you’re looking at is a holiday card from the [...]

Report: Mini to extensively rework BMW’s upcoming three-cylinder for tight confines

Filed under: Diesel, MPG, MINI, Green Daily

2011 Mini family – Click above for high-res image gallery

Packaging any engine into the restrictive area found under the Mini Cooper’s bonnet can present a challenge for engineers. For example, Mini engineers managed to shoehorn the newly-released 1.6-liter four-cylinder diesel into the Cooper’s tight confines, but it took a [...]