Fuel combustion | Move over, Prius | The Economist

HCCI 'Diesel-like' gasoline engine

Here’s the link: Fuel combustion | Move over, Prius | The Economist.

I don’t know how many of you read The Economist. There are a couple of semantic errors in this article about Diesel technology, but overall it is nice to see a lot of thought going toward improving the EFFICIENCY of internal combustion engines. Not to mention Diesel getting good press.

Car Photo of the Day: Name all the cars.

This might be too easy, but after the last two stumpers you guys need a softball tossed at you. Go ahead, smack it hard!

Four are easy. There are SIX cars visible though, which might up the difficulty quite a bit.

And here I thought I knew all the cars visible… there are actually SEVEN!

If you look closely at the “embiggen’ed” photo above you will note a sliver of car between the Corvette and Cayman. The reverse angle shot (see my last comment below for the URL) ID’s it as one of a Ferrari’s “sedan/coupe” type cars from the 70s.