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G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.CheersandGears.com Bosch Selling WaterBoost Injection for Turbo Engines Seems since BMW M4 using a Bosch water injection system that works, Bosch has decided this is what the future is for all turbo engines and has come out with a solution kit to sell to all OEMs of Turbo Engines called WaterBoost. Essentially this is added to the intake side with a water vapor injection to cool the piston, increasing density and driving longer life and more power from the engine. This technology is not new and has been around since WWII when it was used in supercharged planes to assist during hard maneuvers and intense battle fights. The early days of water injection for auto's started with the 1962 Oldsmobile Cutlass Turbo Jetfire, water injection made another appearance in the 1980's in Formula 1 cars. Bosch states 2019 for kit availability to OEMS and aftermarket. As per the Seattle Times story, biggest challenge will be to get the OEMs to redesign their intake system to accept the waterboost injector and customers having to refill the storage bottle with Distilled water. The second issue might not be so hard at least for Diesel owners who are already used to filling up their Urea bottles to clean up their emissions. Yet will the average petro driver want to deal with refilling a water bottle on the engine and how long will the water bottle last, what happens once it is empty, will the engine still run or stop or detune? Interesting times we live in for the auto industry builders. Big question is what is the cost? Will it be worth the 5% greater engine performance, 13% less fuel consumption and 4% less CO2 emitted per the Bosch web site? Info Source Bosch web site Seattle Times web site

GMC Canyon Nightfall Edition beats this hands down!

G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.CheersandGears.com $1,500 Vello Self Charging Fold Up Bike! Vello Bikes According to the Bikes web site, it can do 15 miles in pure electric self charging mode or up to 30 min in Turbo mode. The battery pack is in the frame and can regenerate when you brake, coast down hills or pedal. They offer a smartphone app to allow you to lock up your bike, monitor the functions of the bike to customize it for your style of riding.

MB has failed, the car is hideous with a cheap looking front grill on it and the TT V8 turbo is pathetic. HP and Torque are under what I can get in a Cadillac. So how is this better than the CTS-V? Bigger failure to me is that this is an E Class AMG and in the past they have always outgunned everyone else in HP and Torque. It stops at 155mph when the Cadillac V series tops out at 200mph. Transmission is splitting hairs between 8 and 9 gears. The CTS-V beats this with 640 HP / 630 lb-ft of torque. The only thing I will give it Kudos for is the AWD to RWD / Drift mode. That is cool and I have always felt that the V series needs AWD to go to the next level. Nice try MB, but you failed to push the limits as an AMG.

I realize this is just computer generated images, but the outside is just blah, the interior is even worse. The dash just does not work as it looks like a hatchet job. This will sell to badge snobs but the rest will look to more established better built mid size trucks. The GM twins beat this hands down.

Not even sure where to begin on this, ccap summed it up pretty good. Meh!

More money to come in working to settle this mess. Plus I have to challenge the statement harm to Diesel fuel. Yes with proper treatment the exhaust can be clean and diesel engines are torque monsters, but diesel is still a very dirty fuel that harms the planet. This did not harm it as it is already bad to begin with. It for sure did not help it. Be interesting to see how all the individual lawsuits are handled or thrown out, or what?

Even if Lincoln stays like a Lazy boy chair, float ride, squishy tires, etc. There are still plenty of Baby Boomers buying cars that want that type of ride. My father is one of them, he complains about how all the new Cadillacs ride hard, sharp hard edges and wishes he could still get a new DTS and a New first gen SRX. Those to him were Cadillac's best cars ever, even though to me I have to disagree, as Cadillac is building far better auto's now than then. Yet age does have it's requirements. I told him I am sure someone some where has an old low mileage DTS for him to buy and a newer gen 1 SRX. Yes sarcasm is me to my own dad.

Agree, with the car in track mode, that A10 kept it in peak power. Talk about efficient, I am excited to see the A10 get into more auto's and hopefully they do not dumb down the programing. Image the A10 in a V, love to have the supercharged motor with the A10 in an Escalade V edition.

G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.CheersandGears.com OneWheel, Inner City's Newest Transportation! Today, I was introduced to the newest fun way of moving around a city, seeing places and pretty much taking a skateboard, snowboard with a Segway approach of auto balance to a new level. OneWheel, the go anywhere and have fun personal transportation. Gotta say, this does change how one could get around a city quickly plus get to places saving your energy for your sport. OneWheel web site. Check out these additional videos on the product. vid1-v3-HD.mp4

So Chevy has a great page on the ZL1 now. ZL1 Home Page Autoblog did a story on the ZL1 at Nurburg and how it just killed it. Autoblog story Gotta say watching this video make one want to go to a track and drive like hell.

Yup, I would expect the US and Asian models to meet requirements and end up on sales, I think BMW and MB will see a much reduced Diesel offering. The age of Hybrid / EVs are upon us now. After all, you can clearly make up the torque with an electric motor or two. I also expect the usual folks to jump in here and bash the Hybrid / EV comment.

Maybe that is from when they used to smack the Willy on the end to make it bulbous! It could also be taken as a middle ages sex toy! After all the french were sure into kinky things then and now.

H'mmm One wonders if CR is finally acknowledging that America is building good quality rides. Would be nice to see them off their Asian is best everything reporting.

Enjoy your new ride and congrats,

How about just cutting the price so more people will buy rather than take crazy profits and selling less. If they can make a profit with an $11K discount, clearly they need to drop prices.

1) Car is but ugly. 2) Hate the idea of communal car sharing, most people that do that are nasty dirty and I would never use a car2go or zip as they are just a mess inside. The people clearly car less since it is not really their car. Even with a co-sharing where the other person pays money to share a car, most will see it as a disposable auto. NASTY NASTY NASTY 3) Apps system, great another way for hackers to take over your auto, mess it up or worse, big brother watches you and decides they need to take out someone so they cause you to crash. No Thanks 4) Agree with Ocnblu, worth $25 buck of them paying me to drive this so called auto.

But as a stripper, did she properly move her hips and wiggle her assets like an american can?

Seattle nice balmy 50 degrees today this Saturday Oct 22nd. overcast with sun breaks. Loving it!

Still maybe mid way point for them, but my gut tells me there is plenty more auto's for them to buy back.

Awesome, yup, if you like cool climate, very green, then this is the place to be.

Eventually they will need to just merge, drop a name and streamline their world wide platforms to make profit and efficiency.

Back in Seattle and on the internet. Love the cool weather and drizzle.

Mobil pgone reading sucks, cannot really see enough in the photos. Hopefully, it looks better than what I can see. Not really wow'd by the pictures.

Calling for rain in Austin today, Humidty is off the chart. Any moment it will pour!, packing up and heading to the airport. so glad to fly home to mid 40's and down pour of rain.