BRITISH ENGINEERING FIRM Ricardo has announced that it will collaborate with Weifang Shengrui Power Machinery Technology on the development of an advanced eight-speed automatic gearbox.

The Ricardo-Shengrui deal will result in a gearbox that will have more ratios than any other Chinese-made transmission, but will also - its makers claim - rival some of the world’s [...]

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While there is still no news on whether we can expect to see the Genesis sedan here in Australia, Hyundai has announced that its new luxury car will strut into 2010 with an eight-speed automatic gearbox.

The Genesis currently features a six-speed ZF box – the same box used by the likes of BMW – mated [...]

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