10% increase in Iran’s auto production

The acting director of Saipa Automotive Manufacturing Group here on Wednesday said vehicle production in Iran this calendar year ( starting March 21) will increase by 10 percent.

The Mehr News Agency quoted Mohammad-Reza Roshani Moghadam saying that Iranian automakers have entered a new stage of designing and technical proficiency.

See here..

WAGONPARS CO: Train Producer in Iran

Wagon Pars has aimed to enter to international Market and produced passenger coaches for BANGELADESH, freight wagons for SUDAN and fuel tank wagon, CREAL wagon for Syria.

See here

Iran: CNG Revolution Continues

Natural gas vehicle (NGV) program is continuing extensively throughout the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Attending last week’s 2nd Conference and Exhibition on CNG and Related Industries provided a valuable opportunity to gain insight into the world’s fastest growing NGV market.

See here

IFR Aspid Sports Car With Unlimited Settings

The Spanish carmaker IFR is a company behind a two-seater sports car with the name Aspid. It is based on a brand new technology making it possible to almost infinitely tweak the suspension, throttle mapping, steering and ECU while on the move. They even stated that a number of manufacturers are interested in using it on their own models.

The system will replace the Sport and Comfort settings which a normally pre-programmed inside the car. Instead drivers will be to fine-tune every aspect of the car’s set-up on a touchscreen display. An unlimited amount of different settings would be available under the top of your finger.

Examples are changing the roll in the suspension of the car or tweaking the ECU to change the exact amount of power or torque as well as the steering weight or throttle mapping. You can choose the amount of G-force you want in a bend. The car will tell you how fast you have to take each bend.

---

2008 IFR Aspid.

2008 IFR Aspid.

2010 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe and Cabriolet

2010 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe

Teasers, hints and intimations of what's coming at this year's Frankfurt Motor Show hit the web daily, even hourly, now that we're just over a month away from the event. But Porsche went ahead and went one further, revealing high-res photos and key details of its upcoming 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo.

2010 Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet

Both Coupe and Cabriolet forms of the car will be unveiled at the show, which runs September 17-27 in Frankfurt, Germany. The new 911 Turbo will be the centerpiece of Porsche's display, with its newly updated drivetrain technology taking the spotlight.

A 3.8-liter direct-inject flat-six boxer engine generating 500 horsepower of torque makes for a 0.2-liter and 20-horsepower improvement over the company's previous flagship sports car, paired with the new seven-speed Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe (PDK) dual-clutch gearbox, it's enough to shoot the car to 60 mph in just 3.2 seconds.

But despite adding power and speed, the car also comes in with an 18% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions and improved fuel efficiency, though official EPA fuel consumption figures aren't yet available.

An important update for the 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo is an optional three-spoke steering wheel with paddle shifters that remedies the main complaint drivers make about the Porsche PDK system - its cumbersome button-shifters - dedicating the left paddle for downshifts and the right paddle for upshifts, the way it ought to be.

Finally, the optional Porsche Torque Vectoring (PTV), combines with the standard Porche Traction Management (PTM) all-wheel drive and Porsche Stability Management (PSM) to provide an electronics package that leverages the mechanical differential for more performance while maintaining total control.