(Credit: Automotive News) YOKOHAMA, Japan--Mazda Motor Corp. aims to boost average fuel efficiency 30 percent in the next seven years with new and reworked engines. The company will upgrade almost all its gasoline engines by 2015 and roll out a stop-start idle system, a gasoline rotary engine, and new diesel ......

(Credit: Automotive News) LOS ANGELES--Kia will get its first coupe when the replacement for the Spectra goes on sale next summer. A version of the Koup Concept, shown at this year's New York auto show, will replace the compact Spectra, said Lee Hyun-soon, president of Hyundai-Kia Motors' research and ......

(Credit: Gizmag) As Crave learned recently, there are some impressive technologies out there to train the novice equestrian. And now we've discovered that there are systems available for the beasts themselves--specifically, those trained to race. Kurt Systems, which Gizmag describes as a "Turkish racehorse and camel training equipment specialist," ......

(Credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks) When we took delivery of the 2008 Volvo S80, we immediately opened the boxes, pulled the various panels out, and tried to match up the bag of fasteners with the pictures in the assembly directions. Actually, new Volvos look nothing like flat-pack Ikea furniture, trading ......

(Credit: Terra Wind) What could possibly be better than a million-dollar RV outfitted with state-of-art technology? One that goes in the water, of course. As insane as it may seem, the Terra Wind Amphibious RV" has all the proper accoutrements for a luxury vehicle of its class, including an 6-foot ......