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Skoda To Be Responsible For EA 211 Engine Development For Volkswagen Group

While the Volkswagen Group has a strong commitment and determination to electrify its range during this decade, it is still not ready to stop offering models powered by internal combustion engines (ICE). Not all markets and regions are ready to use only electric vehicles (EVs) so there will still be a need for combustion engines, and therefore some development needs to continue.

Being a large group with 9 car-making companies (Volkswagen, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Skoda, SEAT, CUPRA, Audi, Lamborghini, Bentley and Porsche), the Volkswagen Group obviously has a lot of R&D resources which it can use. This allows the massive costs of R&D to be spread out, enabling better competitiveness for each brand.

One example is the MEB platform (it stands for Modularer E-Antriebs Baukasten or modular electric-drive toolkit) which has been developed specifically for EVs. First used in the Volkswagen ID.3 in 2019, it is now being used by new models in the other brands and even by Ford.

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‘Op Selamat 20’ Records 1,389 Accidents On Second Day

On the second day of ‘Op Selamat 20’, staged in conjunction with the Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebrations, a total of 1,389 accidents were recorded around the country.

According to the Bukit Aman Traffic Investigation and Enforcement Department, of the 1,601 vehicles involved in the road crashes, 1,159 were cars, 112 were four-wheel drive vehicles, 192 were motorbikes, and 81 MPVs.

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1,600 ps Bugatti Bolide Now In Development Testing Phase

The first time the world heard about a super Bugatti (actually all Bugattis are super anyway) was in late 2020 when the idea of a lightweight, track-only hyper sportscar was presented. The following year, at The Quail (a motorsports gathering) in August 2021, the carmaker announced that it would develop the Bolide, as the car would be known, into a limited production model.

The production run would be for just 40 units, all built around the iconic W16 engine. 20 months have passed and during that time, the engineers have been developing the car to an entirely new level of engineering, aerodynamic and technological innovation.

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CUPRA Presents DarkRebel Concept In The Virtual World

Over the past 5 years, SEAT, the Spanish manufacturer in the Volkswagen Group, has been building CUPRA as a performance sub-brand. The name is derived from CUP and Racing, which reflects the motorsport heritage as SEAT was active in motorsports in the 1990s with an Ibiza model called the Cupra.

As with the performance brands of some other companies, the CUPRA division was born out of SEAT’s unit which was involved in competition and high-performance development. When it started as a business unit, it gained a degree of autonomy in design while using Volkswagen Group hardware. Thus while SEAT products have been largely adapted from Volkswagen models, CUPRA has unique designs that are more sporty and dynamically oriented.

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Thai Gang Smuggles Fuel From Malaysia To Thailand

The “Jae Fang” gang, according to Thai assistant national police chief Pol Lt-Gen Surachate Hakparn, utilises pickup trucks and lorries to transport items to Malaysia before refuelling at petrol stations there and travelling back to Thailand.

The smuggling syndicate used vehicles with modified fuel tanks to transport hundreds of thousands of litres of fuel to a storage facility at a warehouse in Hatyai, Songkhla, about 30km from the Thailand-Malaysia border.

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Finally… A S2000 Type R (But Not From Honda)

Honda’s Type R series of gained legendary status almost immediately each model was introduced. Today, Type R variants of the Integra, Civic, NSX, and even Accord – are much sought-after by enthusiasts and collectors worldwide.

Unusually though, the S2000 was never given a Type R variant in all the 10 years that it was produced. Why Honda never developed a Type R (there were Type V and Type S variants in Japan) has never been clearly explained and some think it may simply have been a case of not having enough potential sales numbers.

Anyway, thanks to Evasive Motorsports, a 21-year old performance tuner in California, there is finally a S2000 Type R. 20 years after the last S2000 was produced, Evasive Motorsports has created its own interpretation of what the S2000 Type R ‘should have been’ with its S2000R resto-mod.

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