Thursday, July 15, 2010

Graham Hill

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Graham Hill,
looking splendid,as he does,
in whatever he drives,
here,this little BRM v8.
at a wet Spa
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Primeiras imagens oficiais do novo BMW X3

A BMW divulgou as primeiras imagens do novo X3. A nova geração será conhecida oficialmente em Munique no Salão Automóvel de Paris.

Ele é mais largo e alto que seu antecessor e 4,65 metros de comprimento. O porta malas pode acomodar até 500 litros.

Vídeo do Citroën Survolt

Veja o vídeo do Citroën Survolt, pena que o vídeo é bem curto, apenas 6 segundos, mas pelo menos já dá para ter uma idéia de como é o carro.

Motorcycle Monster : Fear

Motorcycle Monster ,   Melbourne,, Australia, Australian monster
Monster Motorbike

Melbourne, Australia - Monster trucks are cool. They are in first class cars: mad energy, 4WDs absurdly large that adults and for children, for my dream to drive.

Since most of them can crush cars.

But the monster bike?

No, this is not a Holiday date yet, but for Acrobat, Ray Bowman, dropped a huge gift to Melbourne Motor Show with a motorcycle beast from hell.

And you can crush a car - having a brilliant yellow Holden Camiras.

Will show the mind bogglingly huge monster motorcycle in 2008 at the Melbourne International Motor Show (MIMS), supported by Ba Detroit Diesel truck engine results ungodly amount of torque.

Ray Baumann establishing that weighs about 10 times the normal family car of 13.6 tons and measures close to 9 meters and more than 3 meters.

It's big, bad and very loud.

Motorcycle Monster ,   Melbourne,, Australia, Australian monster
The Monster Motorbike is doing its part for the
good of Australian motoring: crushing Camiras

Can motorcycle super heavy water 10 feet to crush cars, first gear, although a 6-speed Allison automatic transmission borrowed from the engine just in case you have to watch a few kilometers from the highway.

It is also used for the difference in Eaton two trains bound to lead to the chains on both sides of the rear wheel spectacular.

"We did stunt driving for quite some years," Baumann says: "break a few records and broke my back several times, so this is a way to take less care.

"Now we crush things, which is definitely less risky than jumping them - we have yet to jump things, but not the Auto Show in Melbourne," he said Baumann.

We're not sure whether the motorcycle monster capable of popping wheelies and monos, but Commodores crush party trick is impressive.

Such a huge quantity and in strip form as an alternative to guns, bicycles, motorcycles and the monster was bigger than life.

Motorcycle Monster ,   Melbourne,, Australia, Australian monster
This Western Australian monster will be
one of the 'biggest' attractions at MIMS

Baumann has large wheels, which tower more than people from Caterpillar. They usually cost around 30,000 dollars, but it seems the other hand, this would reduce costs.

Normally used for mining trucks and Caterpillar, prevalent in Western Australia, where they can cart around 300 tonnes of gravel, bicycles and motorcycles over the monster in a custom white wheels, which adds much to the beauty of a bike. As blood drips and decals.

Built crush car hire in Perth, and Ray Baumann spent three years developing the car, which according to reports, the surprise of viewers during the demonstrations earlier in the West.

If you plan on heading to Melbourne for cars, and be careful where you position your car ...

Terminator robot salvation for its motorcycles. Technology, cars and motorcycles

Technology,  cars and motorcycles, Terminator robot ,

Bergairah cars bad-ass they give you a head start with chicken? Well, this will not happen if you go up in the Robot Auto Terminator Salvation. One of the weapons were "serious" movie star of the new Terminator Salvation, the concept of robot bike impressive with an extraordinary self-government that allows itself the right under extreme cases. Of course it will not make the girls go "wow" but "[Oo]."

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To make sure the bad guys to be in love go up in the steering wheel, and muscle Steel two, futuristic bicycle design did not prove the absence of faith. We are scared to take life as it is proven, with the mission of the agenda. In addition, the heart of the novelty may not be strong enough to see one in the garage ... Two Wheeler, the bike has a design of future prove anything less than breathtaking. We were afraid to ride it this is proving to be alive, with the mission of deadly agenda. May as well, the heart of the grandmother not be strong enough to see one in the garage ...

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Citroën Survolt o elétrico em Le Mans Classic

O Citroën Survolt é um esportivo elétrico que foi apresentado no Salão de Genebra, e agora a Citroën o levou para testes no Le Mans Classic, evento reservado a carros históricos, que foi realizado no circuito francês de Le Mans.

O Survolt tem 3,85 metros de comprimento e possui dois motores elétricos que o deixam com 300 cavalos que o levam de 0 a 100 km/h em apenas 5 segundos e chegando a velocidade máxima 260 km/h.

Ele é alimentado por duas baterias Lithium-ion de 140 kg cada e uma capacidade de 31 kW que o deixam percorrer uma distância de 200 km’s apenas com uma carga.

O carro foi pilotado por Vanina Icxk, filha do ex-piloto belga de Fórmula 1 Jacky Ickx.



Automobile forgotten password

Automobile,  forget, greatest car,

The potential is the greatest car in private, secret, until now, it seems that in many cases, to forget. It allowed the big SUV in my garage for the occasional trip to Wal-Mart 10 miles or run two miles of the volunteer fire station when the siren sounds. But has not the capacity, size, energy, and this group to bring me, my friends, and we are in the mountain bike cycling away or 1,100 miles with a cargo of furniture and books the house of my son in Florida.

A century ago, and gasoline for cars of the revolution in personal mobility. I've done this so thoroughly and quickly became one of the routine aspects of our daily life. Mobility and powerful and it is natural that many people, especially in a group of anti-car, has forgotten its importance. On any day in which he might happen to read this, Americans traveling 11000000000 miles on their cars and go to work or to eat with friends, shopping, and visiting the doctor or dentist, pick up the materials needed to house the project, and moving the kids to soccer or pets to the pressure, education and training in the tasks that a couple of hours, had only been thinking before the car, and was carefully planned days or weeks.

These wonderful opportunities, whether we use a lot or little, is woven deeply and invisibly into the fabric of our economy and our lives. Americans and we do not just buy a car from point A to point B and we do not buy a car with the average of 20 meeting - the expectations of the trip 40 miles a day. We buy them the idea they can take us when and where we want, day or night, the weather is good or bad. What's more, we buy them for their ability to withstand not only for ourselves but our families, friends and close to a poker game, team, softball, and dogs and cats, antiques, tools, fishing rods and supplies Avon, picnic lunch , pregnant women and paint, and Salvation Army volunteer, cookies Church Bazaar, WTC and saddles, groceries, tools, holiday and all we can to comfort and safety of a dream in all parts of the city or the country. And, oh, yes, we can pull a boat or two dirt bikes or pony trailer behind our backs, as well.

These powerful capabilities are essentially replace the internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles with electric vehicles (EVs). Able to develop electric vehicles than ever before possible longer delivery vehicles are routinely? This is not just a question of the group, but in addition to the scope of the enormous power reserve for a real-life loads and dealing with emergencies, and the quality of the wrap or unexpected delay.

Take, for example, the case of the famous and long-awaited (to the U.S. in December (F Lev April, with a range of expected 100 miles. Praised the car as a breakthrough for the group for the 'decent' F size with room for five. We may recently warned that the range of 100 miles may not be realistic. now one of the best engineers warned in April that reduction of this group life by up to 40 percent under what most drivers consider typical driving conditions. Hidetoshi Kadota, Journal of the chief engineer, say for example, if you're driving in heavy traffic on a cold day and the use of your heater, and is expected to decrease your range to about 62 miles. According to the leadership in about 15 miles per hour. at higher speeds, this group is likely to be.

If you happen to be driving in a very hot day, using your air conditioner, you must rely on a range of 70 miles, and if you keep a speed of 50 miles per hour under. But in a beautiful day, if you do not need either heater or air conditioner, you can create more than 130 miles of riding in your life, if you cruise at 38 miles per hour remained constant. Kadota estimates consider not only speeds up the vast majority of drivers will find unacceptable funny, based on what they seem on paper with one driver. Any of the passengers. Do not mount a significant heavy.

This is not the means of most Americans expect in their cars. While in some quarters that it might be interesting to even contemplate a theoretical range of 100 miles, let's put this in perspective a bit. The following is a title of the world of cars, January 15, 1914: "Ford to build such a long time searched for an electric car." It is noted that the subtitle of the car "Is your hiring 100 miles Edison battery." Article reveals that a large Thomas A.. Edison "has been developed especially for battery electric Ford succeeded so well battery 400 pounds, and able to run 100 miles without recharging, guaranteed."

Automobile,  forget, greatest car,

Well, history tells us anything about The Edison battery electric or Ford, which is not. It is sobering to consider that after nearly a century of April with a sandwich "of 18,000 dollars for the lithium-ion battery", which weighs 660 £, promising the same group who were "stressed" with a battery Edison, again before the First World War.

Manufacture electric vehicles from a century ago seems instinctively to recognize without fully recognizing that he could not provide a potential rival petrol-powered. Go back and review the Declaration cars between 1900 and 1920. Ads for electric cars to tend towards the image of the light, elegant, glassed-in vehicles pull up to the point of the city with an elegant lady dressed in Haris. Ads for petrol cars to tend towards the roaring "touring" cars on the open road to somewhere, loaded with passengers, a bloody man stared, wreaths bent over the steering wheel is huge.

Early F-makers offered quietly "odorless" and "noise" transfer to hair stylist AD, the shop, or garden club. Makers of ICE offered power, and magic, and adventure has no limits embodied in one of the car ads most famous of all time, and writes for Playboy Jordan in 1923, riding a two-seater that appears in the lack of clarity in silhouette roaring "somewhere in West Laramie" with "broncho [Thus marriage], breach of guidance - push" on the wheel. Certainly, it was a masterpiece of Madison Avenue hyperbole, but he spoke the truth of the car possible (not to mention that ineffable something that makes us love or hate our cars).

Given these possibilities, the Americans continue to embrace the expression of most media very useful, and versatile, and satisfying means of personal transport and developed than ever before.

Obama administration is now supporting the efforts of Congress in the distribution of 6 billion dollars more to enhance support for electric vehicles battery through further research, and build a house shipping devices, and tax credits for buyers F. The government has already poured 2.8 billion dollars in research battery, began doling out 25 billion dollars in loans to the automakers of the programs of AF, and continues with the $ 7,500 tax credits for buyers F. Accompanied by promises of broad and vague to wean us from oil dependence "."

These efforts may lead to more assertive specialized electric vehicles in the U.S. auto market. In other words, we will create, at the expense of great country, and another one due in the second or third "short visit" a car for those who can afford it or simply can not miss these tax cuts attractive. But will not replace the electric vehicles never or even a significant increase ICE cars and even if they can not get close to matching the full potential promised to gasoline or diesel-powered cars and handed over more than a century.