Challenging convention and setting its own rules, the new Jaguar XF fuses the style and performance of a sports car with the refinement, space and sophistication of a luxury saloon. This is the beginning of a new era for Jaguar.
Challenging convention and setting its own rules, the new Jaguar XF fuses the style and performance of a sports car with the refinement, space and sophistication of a luxury saloon. This is the beginning of a new era for Jaguar.
Filed under: Motorsports, Etc.
While we’re mere hours away from installing an eBay-special driveshaft into Project LeMons, the crew over at Grassroots Motorsports has officially wrapped up its $2007 Challenge. We can only imagine what we’d do with an extra $1,507. Maybe strap a snowmobile motor where the passenger seat would reside that powers an engine cooling fan from an M1 tank to suck our RX-7 to the tarmac, ala Chaparral 2J. Well, Cheaparral Racing (get it?) did exactly that to a 1989 Chevy Corvette, creating over 1000 pounds of down force and waling away with the win at GRM’s 7th $2007 Challenge.
The “Sucker ‘Vette” as it’s been affectionately dubbed, joined a host of other competitors, ranging from an over-riced Civic to a Zamboni, and all the standings can be viewed over at GRM’s site. We’ve included a couple of videos shot during the event after the jump.
[Source: Grassroots Motorsports]
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Filed under: LA Auto Show, Etc., Nissan
The Car: The 2057 Nissan OneOne is billed by the Japanese automaker as a “family pet”. Like Fido goes and fetches the paper, the OneOne can go off and ferry the kids to soccer practice, pick up the groceries and do other chores without the owner’s supervision. It moves around by flexing synthetic muscles in its leg to create a skating motion much like rollerblading. When traveling fast the OneOne hunkers down low to the ground, but can raise itself for better maneuverability in congested areas.
The Future According to Nissan: Natural selection has chosen the Aibo to survive and thrive at the expense of numerous robot pets that were introduced at the turn of the century. Nissan, known for its love of dogs, has seen that the Aibo evolve into an autonomous robot it can sell as a family pet. Named the OneOne (code for Aibo v11.0), this new human companion comes with synthetic muscles that will scurry it along roadways guided by GPS with your most precious cargo aboard. Kids and adults both love the OneOne because it doesn’t shed or spring a leak on the carpet, it comes when you call and, well… domestic canines went extinct in 2018 from a botched recall of accidentally poisoned Kibbles ‘N Bits, so this is all we’ve got.
Weirdness Factor (1 - I could buy that today, 10 - OMG WTF): 6
Gallery: 2007 LA Design Challenge: 2057 Nissan OneOne
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Filed under: Aftermarket, Tuners, Supercars, Ford
Germany’s GeigerCars is responsible for some ungainly creations, normally turning up the wick on vehicles that have no business being fast in the first place. But when the firm directs its resources towards exotic American muscle, it’s the automotive equivalent of Henry Kissinger - absolute power corrupting absolutely.
By ditching the stock supercharger and installing an upgraded unit, the Geiger crew was able to increase boost pressure from 0.8-bar (11.6 psi) to 1.25-bar (18 psi). After installing new throttle valves, replacing the air filter, equipping the GT with a new exhaust and remapping the ECU, they were able to bring power levels up to 701 HP and 617 lb.-ft. of torque. 60 now comes up in a scant 3.5 seconds and top speed eclipses the double-century mark by 11 mph.
Keeping the GT from pirouetting at speed is an adjustable suspension that drops the supercar by 60mm over 20-inch wheels wrapped in 245mm tires up front, with 21-inchers swathed in 325s out back. Aside from the new ride height, GiegerCars left the rest of the body unscathed, save the rear bumper that houses new four-inch exhaust tips.
GeigerCars’ full press release is after the jump.
[Source: World Car Fans]
Gallery: GeigerCars Ford GT
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Filed under: LA Auto Show, Etc., Mercedes Benz
The Car: The 2057 Mercedes-Benz SilverFlow is the most traditional shape we’ve seen so far of the 2007 Design Challenge entrants. It looks like a futuristic car with a super sleek designed inspired by Merc racers of yore. The designers, however, didn’t leave their imaginations at the door, having crafted the SilverArrow from micro-metallic particles that can be arranged by magnetic fields into pre-selected forms kept on the car’s key fob. For easy storage, the entire car can melt into a puddle of metallic goop, only to be reassembled by the power of magnets when you’re ready to drive again.
The Future According to Mercedes-Benz: After the market was flooded with cheap carbon fiber from China in the early 2020s, Mercedes-Benz engineers went on the hunt for a new material that would be exclusive enough for automobiles crowned with the silver star. They found their ingredient when downloading the classic film Terminator 2: Judgment Day into their brains via the NetFlix neural delivery service. Inspired by the T-1000 character’s liquid metal form, Benz engineers went about reverse engineering the technology that came back from 2029 to 1991. Because of their efforts, the world was blessed with liquid metal a few years before it was supposed to be developed by Skynet. Take that future computer overlord!
Weirdness Factor (1 - I can buy that today, 10 - OMG WTF): 4
Gallery: 2007 LA Design Challenge: 2057 Mercedes-Benz SilverFlow
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Filed under: Sedans/Saloons, Jaguar
So anyway, that new 2009 Jaguar X-Type we showed you this morning — the one currently being crucified in the comments? No need to worry: it’s not coming here. On the same day it announced the updated version for the rest of the world, Jaguar has officially pulled the plug on the X-Type in the US. The car’s biggest sales year was 2003 when it was first introduced, and it has not met expectations since. Not even the introduction of the wagon for MY 2005 helped. Of course, perhaps if more people knew the wagon existed in the first place, it might have made somewhat of a difference. I say this as I carry on a parallel IM chat with Neff, who had no idea the wagon was available in the US until about 5 minutes ago. Suffice to say that the estate could have been marketed more effectively. The 2008 model (above) will continue to arrive until March, and after that, the X-Type turns into a pumpkin. You’ll probably be able to snag a nice deal on one at the local Jaguar store, and there’s no shortage of value-priced examples on the used market, either. Jaguar expects the XF to make up for lost sales of both the S- and X-Types when it arrives.
[Source: AutoWeek]
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As many of you know I’m an avid gamer and have been looking for a good gamehosting/server company for a while. Well… I found one.
So I’ve been looking around for a while trying to find a good hosting company for my counterstrike clan - we’ve been looking for a CSS clan server somewhere in the UK that was cheap and fast and haven’t had much luck until now. After spending a while looking around I found a company called UK3X.
I did a bit of research in to them and it turns out that they’re a UK based company. After playing on their public servers for a bit the whole clan got some really low ping times so we went ahead and ordered a server. We’d been worried about actually sorting out the cost for it but they even let us split the cost between the entire clan rather than paying in one go. This is so awesome - saved us having to get everyone’s money up front which would have been a nightmare to organise.
As well as the counter-strike source gaming server we’ve also taken a web hosting package with them and a teamspeak server - costing us only a few pence each a month in reality so can’t complain… so far our pings have been incredibly low and the support guys have been wicked - much better than any other servers we’ve tried.
Moral of the story is if you’re thinking about web hosting, gaming / clan servers or TS2 servers then you should really check out UK3X - they offer all the big games and pretty much anything else. The support guys were excellent sorting everything out so I’ll certainly be using them again.
If you need a good game host or a good place for your website check out www.uk3x.com
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Filed under: LA Auto Show, Etc., Mazda
Gallery: 2007 LA Design Challenge: 2057 Mazda MotoNari
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Filed under: Coupes, Etc., Ford
The crew over at the MustangBlog procured a copy of the 2008 Mustang Ordering Guide and after combing through the corporate doc they came across all the details of the beloved Bullitt Mustang.
On the outside, color choices will be appropriately limited to Highland Green and Black, while 18-inch Charcoal Satin Finish Euro-Flange rollers frame dark grey brake calipers holding on to Performance-grade Carbon Metallic pads up front. The ‘Stang is dropped by Ford’s Sport Tuned suspension kit that includes new shocks, springs and a stabilizer bar, while a Bullitt emblem faux filler cap, a spoiler delete and a new upper grille, sans Pony badge and fog lamps, completes the exterior adornments.
Performance-wise, the Bullitt gets the Ford Racing Power Pack, although we’re not sure if it’s just limited to the cold-air intake system or if it’s the full monty, including new mass air meter, Ford Racing oil filter and new mufflers. The Bullitt will come equipped with a reflashed ECU, so we’d guess it’s a bit more than just an intake, especially considering that the exhaust comes with 3.5-inch tips. A Ford Racing strut tower brace emblazoned with a serialized label stretches across the engine bay, while out back a 3.73:1 LSD makes sure the extra ponies make it to the ground. Ford decided to nix the space-saver spare in favor of a tire inflation kit, presumably to save weight.
Inside, a black interior with the Sport Leather Seat Appearance package accompanies aluminum accents in the form of a ball shifter, sill plates and pedal covers, while a custom steering wheel is fitted in place of the stock unit.
Now, if we can just get Dodge to release a comparably equipped Charger, we’re going to set the team of Neff and Nunez loose on the streets of S.F.
[Source: MustangBlog]
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