Lotus has appointed Mark Stringer as the new commercial director of Lotus Engineering, the consultancy division of the business. Stringer has more than 20 years of front-line leadership experience
Author: Adam Gavine
Adam Gavine
Adam divides his time as an editor between the worlds of aviation and motoring. These worlds may seem a little diverse today, but autonomous technology and future urban mobility is bringing them ever-closer. Adam is also chairman of the Vehicle Dynamics International Awards.
The new Range Rover Sport has been revealed in dramatic fashion, with James Bond stunt driver, Jessica Hawkins, taking on a challenging ascent of a 193m dam spillway in Iceland against a torrent of water flowing at 750 tonnes per minute. See how the most advanced combination of chassis technologies ever fitted to a Land Rover helped her avoid a perilous 90m drop
ZF has concluded a long-term agreement for Swedish start-up H2 Green Steel to supply 250,000 tons of steel per year from 2025 onwards, accounting for 10% of ZF’s current steel requirements
The 2022 Mercedes-AMG SL-Class roadsters will feature two of the latest suspension technologies from Tenneco’s Monroe Intelligent Suspension portfolio. The new models will be offered with CVSA2 semi-active suspension or integrated CVSA2/Kinetic suspension
NASCAR has partnered with AB Dynamics to conduct an autonomous crash test of its Next Gen racecar using driving robots. The car was driven at 130mph along a pre-programmed course before impacting the banking wall at Talladega Superspeedway. This test provided real-world crash data that AB says is more valuable than that from traditional sled-based tests
The Spring 2022 issue of Vehicle Dynamics International magazine is now available online! Our cover star is dynamics genius Gordon Murray, while the rest of the issue is packed full of dynamics developments and tools, including braking innovation, testing technology, tyre developments, the Lotus Eletre, and more
Road testing in the UK? The world’s best driving roads can be replicated in the UK (though perhaps not the weather), from the Stelvio Pass and Great Ocean Road, to the Transfăgărășan Pass. Alfa Romeo’s team shares the UK equivalents they have found for the world’s most iconic roads
Nissan is developing ‘ground truth perception’, a system that fuses information from next-generation high-performance LIDAR, radar and cameras, to dramatically enhance collision avoidance capability
rFpro, is developing a highly accurate virtual model of the handling track at Nardò Technical Center in Italy. The digital twin will enable vehicle manufacturers to accelerate development of next-generation EV platforms by testing them in a fully representative virtual environment
The installation of a new VI-grade system allows 3D simulation of Ford China’s test tracks in Nanjing, to help accelerate production development times