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“What’s fun, cheap, good looking, and cleans a hardwood floor with an advanced search and navigation algorithm? An electrostatic dust mop attached to a radio-controlled car. Vroom! This combination has some things in common with a Roomba, but is arguably less expensive. It’s quick and fun to build, and quick and fun to operate. ”
Volkswagen nailed this one.
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Last year, the German Federal Traffic Ministry and the Association of German Automobile Tuners (VDAT) created the Tune It Safe! program, the goal of which is to encourage drivers to adopt safe and legal tuning practices (and presumably have them employ established German tuning firms to do so). To highlight the program, TechArt created a Porsche 911 Carrera S police car for the Essen Motor Show, where it would be displayed as the world’s fastest police car.
Caught testing on the famous Nürburgring test track in Germany, the Skyline GT-R sounds as though it has the twin-turbo V6, I did expected instead of a 4.5-liter V8 as some earlier rumors suggested. The 3.8-liter engine will be fed through a front mount intercooler and make at least 450 horsepower.
In February of 1962, 44 years before the 2007 Lotus Exige S made its debut at the 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show, an 11-year-old boy watched John Glenn become the first American astronaut to orbit the earth.
Later that same year, that same boy watched George Jetson drive away from Molecular Motors in a new Supersonic Suburbanite, and dreamed of piloting his own personal spaceship.
The attitude to life typical of many Italian regions certainly doesn’t apply to Nardo in Southern Italy.
There, under the headline “Beyond 300 km/h”, a high speed test was performed under the auspices of Continental AG in collaboration with the editorial team of the car magazine AutoBild sportscars.
As a potential candidate for 300, the AC Schnitzer TENSION was invited to this event.
After completing the GPS speed measurement on the 13 km long high speed test track, which is basically an oversized circle, the digital instrument display read 331.78 km/h!
So the AC Schnitzer TENSION has done it. It is the fastest BMW in the world and is road legal. This proves that speed does not come from maximum engine power alone, but is the result of a careful engineering of all elements in the overall concept.
[Source: WorldCarFan]
Los Angeles marks the eagerly-awaited debut of the new Volkswagen Tiguan in “concept” form. From the looks of things, if you scratch the orange-trimmed tires and the similarly-patterned leather seats, you’re basically seeing what the car’s going to look like when the wraps are pulled off the production version in Q1 2007. Far more conventional than the rakish Concept A that introduced some of the car’s exterior (the front end) and interior design language, the Tiguan still looks to be a nice entry-ute for VW. The “baby Touareg” flavor works.
All the current VW corporate elements are in place — the grille, the new-style headlamps, etc. — and the simple, good-looking five-spoke wheels are pretty much a lock for production. We like what we see. In a nod to the many “green” themes in play at LA this year, the concept car sports VW’s new BLUETEC “Clean TDI” engine underhood. That’s something we really hope to see on the production car — the American one. Are you listening, VW?
[Source: Volkswagen UK, AutoBlog.com]
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