Antony Ingram, Contributing Writer

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  Mazda Spawns World's First Capacitor Brake-Regeneration Tech Antony Ingram November 28, 2011

  With the stunning Mazda Takeri concept car due at the 42nd Tokyo Motor Show beginning Wednesday, the company will pioneer a piece of technology that improves the fuel economy of its cars by 10...

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  Most Beautiful Cars Of The Year? We Hope It's Inner Beauty

  There can be few things more subjective than automotive beauty. As the saying goes, one man's meat is another man's poison. That being the case, we think we might just have been poisoned by the contenders for Most Beautiful Car of the Year at the 27th International Automobile Festival. Held in...

  Antony Ingram November 23, 2011
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  New Mercedes-Benz SL: "Less Weight, More Vision, More Sound"

  Before the introduction of more extreme vehicles like the McLaren-Mercedes SLR and the current gull-wing Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, the regular SL-Class sports car was top of the tree in the Mercedes hierarchy. As such it was often a technological leader, frequently sharing innovations with the S-Class...

  Antony Ingram November 23, 2011
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  Autonomous Toyota Prius Gives Test Rides At 2011 Tokyo Show

  Unless you're a rich businessman or lazy teenager, you probably see cars as objects to drive, rather than be chauffeured in. A Toyota Prius available to test at the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show might make people think a little differently, as an example of the hybrid will be giving show-goers rides...

  Antony Ingram November 23, 2011
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  Smart 341 Parkour Wins Los Angeles Design Challenge 2011

  Whatever you think of the Smart brand and its diminutive two-seater city cars you have to commend its bold, fresh take on modern motoring. It's easy to get the impression that, after years of posting huge losses, the brand is riding out the market until tiny, fuel-efficient cars become genuinely...

  Antony Ingram November 22, 2011
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  McLaren Opens High-Tech Production Center To Build MP4-12C

  To produce a state-of-the-art supercar, nothing less than a state-of-the-art production facility will do. Until recently, production of the McLaren MP4-12C has been handled in the cramped confines of the McLaren Technology Center (MTC), not an ideal situation for the larger production volumes...

  Antony Ingram November 22, 2011
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  Top 5 Apple iPhone Apps For The Volkswagen Fan Antony Ingram November 21, 2011

  You know the drill here people: It's a Monday, everyone's least favorite day of the week.
  
  Actually, we don't mind Mondays that much as it's a perfect excuse for us to find something that makes the...
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  BMW, Hyundai Partner With Tech Leaders On In-Car Networking

  Outwardly there aren't too many similarities between German sports and luxury car maker BMW and the more budget-orientated Korean maker Hyundai. In fact, until Hyundai launched cars like the Genesis and Equus they didn't even compete in the same market segment. Yet a new deal between the two...

  Antony Ingram November 21, 2011
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  Road Inc iPad App Could Be Best Yet For Gearheads

  There are plenty of car apps available to tempt the obsessive gearhead, from racing games to apps that measure your cornering G-force. If you consider yourself a more discerning automotive connoisseur, you might want an app to match. That's where Road Incorporated comes in, a new app for the Apple...

  Antony Ingram November 18, 2011
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  Volkswagen eT! Concept: Can't Phone Home, Can Drive Itself

  Volkswagen has a long history of commercial vehicles, from the iconic Type 2 split-screen and bay-window buses of the 1950s through to the 1970s, past Rabbit-based pickups to the surprisingly rapid diesel T5 Transporters sold today in Europe. They've not all been as high-tech as VW's latest concept...

  Antony Ingram November 18, 2011
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  Ford Mustang Track Apps LCD Screen Tests Your Driving Skills

  The 2013 Ford Mustang looks to be taking a leaf from the Nissan GT-R's book in an effort to make its driving experience more interactive than ever. The GT-R has always been a car known for its in-car tech and when the R35 was launched it gave drivers access to more display functions than ever...

  Antony Ingram November 16, 2011
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  Vespa 46 Blends Technology, Style Both Old And New (Video)

  We tend to feature four wheels rather than two here at All Car Tech but we're always prepared to make exceptions for objects of great beauty and technological interest. That's why you're looking at the Vespa Quarantasei ('46') concept (via Wired), the embodiment of a possible future direction for...

  Antony Ingram November 14, 2011
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  World Record Truck: 4,500-HP, 200-Plus MPH Freightliner Antony Ingram November 14, 2011

  With the huge loads and huge distances that big rigs have to cope with, the big power and torque numbers they make from massive diesel engines can be a bit of a shock to those most used to cars.
  
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  Mondays: Much More Fun With Bionic Bopper Cars

  We feel sorry for Monday sometimes. It's had the misfortune of being placed after the weekend, and through no fault of its own reviled by adults and children everywhere for spoiling their free time. Maybe if we had access to some Bionic Bopper Cars every Monday, the day's reputation would improve...

  Antony Ingram November 14, 2011
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  Toyota And Intel To Jointly Develop Next-Gen Infotainment

  As our technology becomes more intertwined with our daily lives cars were previously at risk of getting left behind. Information and media systems developed in-house were often clunky and dated quickly - just take a look at a built-in satellite navigation system from only a few years ago compared...

  Antony Ingram November 11, 2011
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  Gran Turismo 5 Downloads Could Appear "Every Two Months"

  It's hard to believe it's been almost a year since Gran Turismo 5 was launched to an expectant audience, following years in development. That year seems to have flown by but it was only recently that the first proper downloadable content pack was released on PlayStation Network to give players...

  Antony Ingram November 11, 2011
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  Big Brother Caught Watching: GPS Trackers Found On Cars

  At what point would you consider the attentions of the powers that be to breach your privacy? How about discovering that your car had been fitted with a GPS vehicle tracker without your knowledge? That's what happened to a young Californian man known only as Greg, according to Wired. The...

  Antony Ingram November 10, 2011
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  Scientists Create World's Smallest Electric Car

  Think "Nano Car" and Indian maker Tata's budget minicar might come to mind. A Smart ForTwo is pretty small too, and there were even smaller cars driving around Europe in the 1950s during fuel shortages. None of them were quite as small as a new "car" created by scientists at the University of...

  Antony Ingram November 9, 2011
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  Ferrari's Future Cars Staying Aluminum, Not Carbon Fiber Antony Ingram November 9, 2011

  The battle of lightweight materials is becoming one of many players.
  
  Companies like Mazda are striving to cut down weight with clever use of high-strength steels. Lotus has always gone the way of...
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  Forza Motorsport 4 Downloadable Content: November Speed Pack

  Not to be out-done by the recent Gran Turismo 5 downloadable content packs, Turn 10 has announced the November Speed Pack. In the pack, out now, your $7 or 560 Microsoft points will gain you access to ten brand new cars, from undisputed classics like the 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air, through legendary...

  Antony Ingram November 7, 2011
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  The iMove: If Apple Designed Cars... (Video)

  We've speculated before that if technology giant Apple were to build a car, then licencing Gordon Murray's aptly-named iStream process would be a good place to start, with no prior experience creating cars. We could never see Apple releasing a car as ungainly as the T.25 or electric T.27 though...

  Antony Ingram November 7, 2011
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  Video: How Do You Make A Car? BMW Explains With New 1-Series

  As long as your car starts, stops and does so without going wrong too frequently, most people aren't really bothered how it all came together. Even so, it's a facinating process to observe and there's now a video showing how much effort actually goes into making the new BMW 1-Series compact, from...

  Antony Ingram November 4, 2011
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  Would You Trust Cruise Control Using An Android App?

  After a hard day at the office, sometimes you just want to jump into your car, switch everything to automatic and waft home using as little effort as possible. Cruise control is a godsend in these scenarios, taking some of the stress out of highway driving. We aren't sure it'd be quite so stress...

  Antony Ingram November 3, 2011
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  Electric Cars Becoming Responsible For Tech In Regular Cars

  We sometimes wonder if, back at the dawn of the motor car, sides were as divided between traditional horse and carts and cars, as they are today with regular fossil-fuelled vehicles and those harbingers of doom, hybrids and electric cars. Almost certainly, we suspect. Initially slower and noisier...

  Antony Ingram November 3, 2011