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GM looks for new product boss

General Motors is about to get another product boss. The question is, who? Vice chairman Tom Stephens will move to the freshly minted position of chief technology officer for GM on Feb.

Audi RS5 TDI Concept gets electric turbo and 380bhp

The Audi RS5 TDI Concept (pictured) gets an electric turbo It’s two years since Audi revealed it was working on an electric turbo to be used in a twin-turbo setup, with the electric turbo able to offer boost pressure from much lower down the rev range than a normal turbo. That has turned in to the Audi RS5 TDI Concept, where Audi has replaced the normal RS5‘s V8 with a 3.0 litre TDI engine with a small electric turbo for low rev work and a bigger turbo to do the higher rev stuff. The electric turbo works from the off to provide maximum torque of 553lb/ft from just 1250rpm, before the bigger normal turbo takes over at 3,000rpm to continue the boost.

Audi Q7 Project by Project Kahn

The Audi Q7 Project by Project Khan Having worked over the products of Land Rover in recent years to keep the orange inhabitants of Cheshire loftily mobile, Project Khan has now decided that Audi is deserving of its gifts and has set about ‘Khan-ising’ the Audi Q7. And actually, in many ways, the Audi Q7 benefits from some of Khan’s work. The Audi Q7 isn’t the most iconic or visually appealing SUV on the planet, and rather than detracting from what’s on offer some aspects of the Audi Q7 Project do enhance.