Sexy China

I’m a bit astonished.

China if you happen not to know is considered as the world’s largest country when it comes to population count. With more than 1.3 billion people, who would have thought that they were not able to create a single good looking car? With all those people, its amazing how not a single one of them were able to make a good looking car.

In view of this, my attention was drawn over the blog which I am currently reading right now. China has now their very own Geely Tiger GT which is the first sexy and cool car to ever come from a Chinese car manufacturer. It was released during the 2008 Beijing Auto Show which amazingly gained a lot of supporter and eventually became the star of the night against its competitors which includes Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Porsche.

Here is the quote about the vehicle I found at the site.

As for performance, it is rumored to be powered by a 3.5 liter V-6 engine that produces 225 horsepower and 340 pound-feet torque. Again, no concrete details but it’s supposed to have a 0-60 mph time in about 5.5 seconds, and a final top speed of around 155. Not too impressive performance-wise, but it’s the styling that blows crowds away.

The Tiger, however, is a car I would be proud to own, and if its styling is any indication, then I think that China could make its mark on the auto industry yet.

Out-of-date Update

I know this is not new anymore, but still I want to blog about it. Pardon my being not the early-bird-kind, anyway as they say, its better late than sorry so here I go!

Honda had just launched a new ad campaign for their Accord based on Skydiving. You can look for the video at Youtube. The video itself actually doesn’t possess even the slightest indication of it being from Honda since it would merely allow users to go to DifficultIsWorthDoing.com. Once you go to this site, it will just appear to be a basic blog about skydiving but a wiser man would definitely observe that the Honda logo in the header as well as there is a build-up for the new Accord.

Green and Mean

This is amazingly one of the best vehicle I’ve seen in my entire life..

Mean and green, exactly something that will allow your eyes to drool.

This model is known as the Scorpion which was created by Ronn Motor Company (RMC), and is expected to be created this fall perhaps by October or so. Unless your blind, you need not to wait for other to tell you how good looking this vehicle is since it is entirely a stunning car that possess a looks to compete with any exotic, but it’s the mechanics that are the real beauty.

This model is the living proof that environmentally friendly cars don’t have to be sluggish and disgustingly ugly. This car is a hybrid, but above anything else, it is run by hydrogen. Yes, you can let your eyes roll now! Goodness I really want to have this model!!! Actually, it runs on a 30-40% hydrogen/gasoline blend.

As anyone would know, almost all kinds of hydrogen cars do make use of fuel cells, a extraordinary but expensive system that should needs to be improved. In this method, hydrogen will enter the fuel cell in where it is electrochemically changed into electricity that is used to powers the car.

The specs are:

Price: $150,000 (estimate)

Engine: 3.5 liter V-6

Top Speed: 200+ mph

Horsepower: 450

Torque: 302 lb-ft.

0-60 mph: 3.5 seconds

Mileage: 40+ mpg

I really want to have one. I just hope my money would suffice enough to allow me to buy such a remarkable and I would say extremely gorgeous model! I can’t wait to see the actual model! I really could not wait!!!!!

PS: as much as I want to provide a picture, I cant find the one that I’ve seen before…my apology.

Matchbox

One of my friend gave me a Matchbox toys for a token and I love it. Somehow it had satisfies my cravings for vehicles. If I could not actually get one model then for sure I can buy this cute matchbox to enjoy the feeling of having a new collection.

Matchbox is a die cast toy brand currently owned by Mattel, Inc. Matchbox toys were so named because the original models were packed in boxes similar in size and style to boxes of matches. The series became so popular that the Matchbox name was once widely used by the public as a genericized trademark for all die cast toy cars measuring approximately 2.5 inches (6.5 cm) in length, regardless of brand. In the 1970s, Matchbox switched to the more conventional, plastic and cardboard "blister packs" used for other die cast cars such as Hot Wheels, although the box style packaging was re-introduced for the collector market in recent years, particularly successfully with the release of the "35th Anniversary of Superfast" series in 2004.

I remember the toy given to me by my dad when I am still young. I love reminiscing the past, it allows me to bring back to my ‘past-me’ someone who had been so brave in struggling to live a normal life despite the abnormalities of my being.

Thanks for the toy Ladee!

Ferrari Aiming for a New Affordable Model?

Really? hmmm

Rumor has it around, it’s flooding the internet, I saw many blogs that feature this topic. They say that Ferrari is on their way in developing a new entry level. It is expected to be a 2+2 V8 hardtop convertible which is aimed to be released on the American market in 2009, although Europe has to have it bit earlier.

Rumors say that the new member of Ferrari will be called the Dino, which is aimed to be one of the most good-looking Ferrari’s ever made. Lets just wait and see the result after all, 2009 is just a year ahead. I hope its really going to be cheaper but without sacrificing the quality. Im itching here, I cant wait to see it!

Buzz..Buzz..Buzz

JAY LENO TOLD DETROIT TO MAKE BETTER CARS!!!

Intriguing. Come on, he must have been taking ‘courage supplements’ to talk this way. What do you think?

"It ain't that hard folks -- make better cars."—these are the same words dubbed by famous late-night television host and car collector. The hosts said that he believes that there aint nobody who builds trucks as competent as Americans do; he took Ford F-150 and Chevy Silverado as examples. He also added that when it comes to performance, American make also lead the scene "The Corvette Z06 has 505 horsepower, comes with a big warranty, and can hit 200 miles per hour. It weighs almost exactly the same as a half-million-dollar Porsche Carrera GT and gets higher mileage - 26 miles per gallon," words that were exactly utter by Leno.

Conversely, he added that Americans are such a failure when making economy cars "In order to make the more expensive car more appealing, U.S. companies feel as though they have to dumb down the cheaper car. When you get into a high-priced, well-made American car today and the key is in the ignition, you hear a melodic bong, bong. But when you get in a cheap American car, like a rental, and the key is left in, it goes plink, plink, and plink. It's just horrible. Every time you use the turn signal, it's like breaking a chicken leg."

With this, he suggests that the Detroit should follow the track created by Harley-Davidson, which had been noted before to have turned around its quality-control problems thus becomes as the market leader. The host further suggests "I believe that, all things being equal, Americans will buy American. It just has to be as good as the competition; it doesn't have to be better."

TRIVIA

For fun, I decided to post this trivia which I found from other site. have fun readers!

Top fuel dragsters accelerate at up to 5g from standing start. The nitromethane injection produces 6000 BHP.

The fastest time for removing a car engine, and replacing it is 42 seconds for a Ford Escort, on 21 November 1985.

An airbag moves up to 4500 mph within a second when triggered. A force of 200g is generated. They are designed to explode at an impact speed of 19 mph. The bag inflates within 40 milliseconds of a crash.

The Ferrari Formula 1 team is unique in the fact that it produces both chassis and engines for its cars.

Ferrari makes a maximum of 14 cars every day.

There were only 107 models of the Ford GT40 made of which only 7 were road cars.

The Worlds longest traffic hold-up was 110 miles long, between Paris and Lyon on the French Autoroute in 1980. A more recent contender for the title was a 100 mile long traffic Jam, near Hamburg in Germany in 1993.

The first known automobile was built in 1668, it was a two foot long steam powered model constructed by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Belgian Jesuit preist.

Luxembourg has the most crowded roads in Europe with 570 cars per 1,000 people.

The first car race ever seen in the United States was held in Chicago in 1895. The track ran from Chicago to Evanston. The winner was J. Frank Duryea, whose average speed was 71.5 miles per hour.

In 1924 a Ford automobile cost $265.

The first auto insurance policy is purchased in Westfield, MA, in 1897