Some years ago I picked up the phone to call Friends of the Earth, very excited to share some good news with them. Dr Craig Venter, the man who had decoded the human genome, had a radical new idea: carbon-neutral fuel that would allow us to leave fossil fuels in the ground but continue to do all the useful things that hydrocarbons have enabled.
Audi Japan is waving goodbye to the R8 by introducing a Final Edition capped at eight examples. It's based on the Performance model with Quattro all-wheel drive.
Michael Steiner, a member of Porsche's executive board for R&D, reveals work has started on next-gen batteries, but a new hypercar is still a long way off.
The turbocharged flat-four engine which powers the Porsche Cayman and Boxster was developed after plans for a twin-turbo, flat-eight supercar were scrapped.