Remember when Oldsmobile embraced the diesel engine?

Mercedes Shooting Break C...

Mercedes introduced the images of a new concept, entitled Shooting Break. It prefigures a future version of the wagon version of Mercedes-Benz CLS. Germans from Mercedes-Benz presented a new concept car, this time based on CLS. Unlike the Fascination Concept, this model is much closer to the production of estate version that is based on the next generation CLS. Mercedes Shooting Break Concept Moreover, this concept...

Alfa Romeo TZ3 Corsa Conc...

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BMW celebrates 25 years o...

Technik may not mean a lot to you because today the subsidiary company of BMW founded in 1985 with one purpose in mind: the development and the construction of BMW concept cars. The company has changed its name since then to BMW Forschung und Technik, or Research and Technology but the people that are behind this division have rarely changed and are responsible for some of the weirdest concept cars ever made. That recent...

Shock absorbers could sav...

they work is simple – they turn the kinetic energy of a car hitting a bump or pothole into heat which is then dissipated. Zack Anderson and Shakeel Avadhany A new invention spawned from the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) while some of the students there went for a joyride on a lovely summer day. You know the kind, the day when you wake up and everything is just right for a trip down a nice road with the...

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Remember when Oldsmobile embraced the diesel engine?

Posted on Nov 16, 2013 in Featured | 4 comments

The 1979 Oldsmobile diesel range. As the 1970s came to a close, automakers were faced with ever-stricter emission regulations on gasoline engines. Thinking outside the box, GM tasked its Oldsmobile division with creating a range of diesel engines that would be immune from gasoline emission standards, while delivering the performance and fuel economy that...