Ethanol, other alcohol fuels (biobutanol) and biogasoline have widespread use an automotive fuel. Most alcohols have less energy per liter than gasoline and are usually blended with gasoline.

With a small amount of redesign, gasoline-powered vehicles can run on ethanol concentrations as high as 85%. 100% ethanol is used in some parts of the world (such as Brazil), but vehicles must be started on pure gasoline and switched over to ethanol once the engine is running.

Gasoline Direct Injection (GDI) is now starting to appear in production vehicles such as the 2007 (Mark II) BMW Mini. Exhaust gases are also cleaned up by fitting a catalytic converter into the exhaust system.

Most automobiles in use today are propelled by gasoline (also known as petrol) or diesel internal combustion engines, which are known to cause air pollution and are also blamed for contributing to climate change and global warming.

Gasoline engines have the advantage over diesel in being lighter and able to work at higher rotational speeds and they are the usual choice for fitting in high-performance sports cars. Continuous development of gasoline engines for over a hundred years has produced improvements in efficiency and reduced pollution.

Stock car racing, is hugely popular in the USA and is also widely followed in the UK and Europe. It is the most popular form of racing in the United States.

Some of the better-known single-make series are the SEAT Cupra Championship, John Cooper Mini Challenge, and Clio Cup, and at a more modest budget, Ginettas, Caterhams, BMWs, and MX5s.

One-make, or single marque, championships often employ production-based cars from a single manufacturer or even a single model from a manufacturer's range.

Production car racing or known in the US as showroom stock, is an economical and rules restricted version of touring car racing, mainly to restrict costs.

The Sports Car Club of America's SPEED World Challenge Touring Car and GT championships are dominant in North America while the venerable British Touring Car Championship continues in the United Kingdom.

All but one of its previous owners got killed mysteriously in traffic accidents involving the Z, and quickly makes a name for himself on the Wangan. The cars are designed for speed and power, and are based on the exploits of street racers whom used the Wangan as their own personal racetrack.

While not as well known as Initial D, the series gained a cult following after the arcade game Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune was ported to the US by Namco.

Arising from the street culture, import racing venues eventually arose and huge drag racing events at Palmdale, California often packed in over 10,000 spectators per day.

The island of Puerto Rico also has a long history of pioneering import drag racing in the mid 1970s and 1980s, and it is still a huge sport on the island. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, front wheel drive vehicles, mostly Hondas, gained popularity in Southern California.

The Import scene or Import racing scene refers to the subculture that revolves around modifying imported brand cars (commonly referred to as imports), especially those of Japanese brands, for street racing in foreign countries.

An auto show, or motorshow, is a public exhibition of current automobile models, debuts, concept cars, or out-of-production classics. It is commonly attended by automobile manufacturers. Most auto shows occur once or twice a year. They are vital to car manufacturers and local dealers as a public relations exercise, for advertising products, and for increasing publicity.

The 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show was held from November 21 through November 30, 2008, with press days on November 19 and 20.

Formula One cars race at high speeds, up to 360 km/h (220 mph) with the engine revving up to 18,000 RPM. The cars are capable of pulling 5g in some corners. The performance of the cars is highly dependent on electronics, aerodynamics, suspension and tyres.

The A1GP formula provides a single "spec" car for each team. Each car is mechanically identical, built with many technical restrictions designed to limit performance, reduce running costs, and prevent any one or number of teams gaining an advantage through better equipment.

The building of battery electric vehicles that could rival internal combustion models had to wait for the introduction of modern semiconductor controls and improved batteries.

The nation-based A1GP concept was founded by Sheikh Maktoum Hasher Maktoum Al Maktoum of Dubai, initially in 2004. Once the series had received the backing of the FIA in 2005, a management structure including new executive directors Brian Menell and Tony Teixeira was appointed to oversee the sale of franchises for the operation of international teams.

Paddock girls (or umbrella girls) is a term that has been used in professional motorcycle racing for many years. It refers to females employed to hold umbrellas above racers to protect them from the sun. "Paddock" refers to a pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race.

he official job of a race queen is to hold an umbrella over the driver while his car is being worked on. They generally wear some sort of revealing costume (mini-dress, swimsuit, hot pants, or the like), as well as pantyhose and high heels or knee-high boots.

There are businesses dedicated to recruiting and providing pretties for events, classifying them into several categories according to skills and experience.

A motorcycle is a vehicle, ridden for transportation. It does not have 4 wheels like a car. It has 2 wheels like a bicycle. But it has a motor like a car. Nowadays (2008), motorcycles (bikes) are used both for transportation and extreme sports.

There are businesses dedicated to recruiting and providing pretties for events, classifying them into several categories according to skills and experience. A pretty-presenter does product presentations; a pretty-dancer is part of a dance group at a manufacturer's booth; a plain pretty just stands and hands out promotional materials. Wages are lucrative for the most attractive and experienced pretties, several times what they would normally earn in an office job.

In 1983, the sun tan lotion company Hawaiian Tropic sponsored the 24 hours of Le Mans. The company brought its models over from the United States to appear on the racetrack before the race began. These models wore bikinis bearing the company's name. A year later, that practice was imported over to Japan for the Suzuka 8 Hours motorcycle race. The official job of a race queen is to hold an umbrella over the driver while his car is being worked on.

The average age for these girls is late teens to early twenties and demand for them wanes with age. Some go on to become models or even actresses but those who are unable to leverage their career into something larger, sometimes slowly "decline" into AV work, marriage and eventual obscurity. It is not unusual for some of them to have a background as an AV Idol.

Now, we've put together a bevy of booth professionals from this year's SEMA show for you to find out if your "choice" made the cut. So take a gander — perhaps you'll answer differently after taking a look at this year's batch of tire-selling sales professionals. Or not.

High speeds on a motorcycle can also be more exhilarating than high speeds in an automobile. Not only is the sensation of speed greater since the rider is not separated from the environment of the road, but motorcycles negotiate turns by leaning.

Motorcycling is the act of riding a motorcycle. A variety of subcultures and lifestyles have been built up around motorcycling. Motorcycle safety training and equipment is important for motorcyclists' survival on the road, and mandated in several U.S. states and counties.

Setting the idle speed, fuel/air mixture, carburetor balance, spark plug and distributor point gaps, and ignition timing were regular maintenance items for all older engines and the final but essential steps in setting up a racing engine. On modern engines, equipped with electronic ignition and fuel injection, some or all of these tasks are automated, although they still require periodic calibration.

Automobile comes via the French language, from the Greek language by combining auto [self] with mobilis [moving]; meaning a vehicle that moves itself, rather than being pulled or pushed by a separate animal or another vehicle.

If you are in the area I would definitely recommend that you try to make it to this show. This is supposed to be the premier car show that will cater to the aftermarket industry and media of all kinds. Read their mission statement. Also take a look at the companies and magazines that will be in attendance.

Formula One cars use semi-automatic sequential gearboxes with six or seven forward gears and one reverse gear. The driver initiates gear changes using paddles mounted on the back of the steering wheel and electro-hydraulics perform the actual change as well as throttle control.

The term is also used outside of Japan in South Korea, China and other Asian nations. The Korean term for a race queen is a "racing girl". In Thailand they are known as "pretties" and they are used extensively at events ranging from the Bangkok International Motor Shows to minor events such as openings of shopping centers.

Race queens who operate in prestigious events and with a large fanbase can also be found at automobile shows purely to draw crowds where they are nearly as important an attraction as the cars or electronics products that they are promoting. There is a magazine dedicated to them called Gals Paradise.

The fuel used in F1 cars is fairly similar to ordinary gasoline, albeit with a far more tightly controlled mix. Formula One fuel cannot contain compounds that are not found in commercial gasoline, in contrast to alcohol-based fuels used in American open-wheel racing.

Arguably the best thing to happen to formula one in the last few seasons occurred yesterday when Bernie Ecclestone announced that ITV were effectively sacked and would no longer running UK coverage !!! It has been a long time coming with so many fans up in arms with the coverage, the commentators (name James “I am the smugmeister” Allen and the continual commercial breaks.

The Fuel Girls perform all over the world at a variety of parties and high profile events. From driving the Gumball Rally, to performing on stage with Motorhead, previous shows have taken them to Las Vegas, Puerto Rico, San Tropez, Marseille, Hollywood and Miami as well as 'closer to home' events like Movida, SKiN, Maya and Café De Paris in London

The Grand Prix race at Laguna Seca is most definitely the U.S. Mecca for motorcyclists in July. The pinnacle of two-wheel racing makes its only stateside stop of the MotoGP tour. Next year, however, Indianapolis is on board, so you East Coasters will be able to feel the rush of seeing one of the greatest races on two wheels.

Tuning Shows often offer not only great car and bike modifications but also some brilliant girls! Car modifying has been very popular among youth in the United States, especially in Southern California, since the days of hot rods in the 1950s and 1960s.

An average F1 car can decelerate from 100-0 km/h (62-0 mph) in about 17 metres (55 ft), compared with a 2007 Porsche 911 Turbo which takes 31.4 metres (103 feet). When braking from higher speeds, aerodynamic downforce enables tremendous deceleration.

The FIA is hoping to rid F1 of small winglets and other parts of the car (minus the front and rear wing) used to manipulate the airflow of the car. This is in order to not only decrease downforce, but also to increase drag.

Expo attendees began arriving Sunday night and the scene was as you'd expect: Brake adjustments were made, parts were swapped out, and engines were fine-tuned. The paddock wrenching, however, was overshadowed by the events taking place just outside.

The plethora of incidents and safety car periods combined with a track that was falling apart meant that the on track action in Montreal was a little on the ugly side. Behind the scenes in the paddock though, beauty was in evidence in the form of the Red Bull Formula Unas and the obligatory grid girls.

The story of this weekend is BMW. In the last 25 years, since Brabham went down, the three top teams, Williams, McLaren and Ferrari, have had their cosy grip on the sport broken by just one team – Renault (nee Benetton), who won two drivers' titles in the 1990s and another two in the 2000s.

It seems that hot girls and cars have always been together. While it is a fact that nice girls just love nice cars, it is also clear that selling a car with some hot girl on its exhibition is an easy task. Baby Margaretha, is one of car exhibition hot girls.

Cornering is vital to the business of racing cars, and Formula One is no exception. On straights the battle tends to be determined by the power of engine and brakes, but come the corners and the driver's skill becomes more immediately apparent. It's the area where an ace pilot can extract the tiny advantage that makes the difference between winning and losing.

Car races are also great places to find horny cuties. I think mainly it is because most of the races are held in nice sunny places. Hot, tropical weather is better for getting more babes into bikinis and skimpy outfits.