auto and car design

Friday, September 17, 2010

Saturday, September 4, 2010

2010 Renault Twingo Gordini RS Wallpapers

2010 Renault Twingo Gordini RS Car Picture

2010 Renault Twingo Gordini RS Side View

2010 Renault Twingo Gordini RS Interior

2010 Renault Twingo Gordini RS Photo

2010 Renault Twingo Gordini RS Rear Angle View

Friday, September 3, 2010

BMW 335IS Coupe 2010

BMW 335IS Coupe

One of our readers points out that cutting carbon footprint at home, getting rid of the car, and emphasizing walkability is all well and good if you’re mobile, but what if walking is a problem? Sit home and mope?

While talking about automated mobility may be a slippery slope in the next city, let’s take a look at what’s out there. Actually we are now beginning to see the production of quite an array of electric vehicles for the next city (and without a $25 billion federal subsidy…).

We have many qualms. Though some are very inexpensive, small, and light, they are certainly not built with sustainable materials in sustainable ways – and none of the manufacturers is touting the cradle-to-cradle nature of their production (recycled, recylable, renewable) – but it strikes us as better than a Hummer, by some margin.

Electric Smart car. Just another car in a smaller package, or a new way of thinking? $35k.

Our favorites are the littlest, the lightest, and smallest. Kind of like golf carts that are enclosed. These are the ones that allow for local urban mobility without pretending that we can commute for two hours one-way, or make a weekend run from DC to Boston. For that, in the next city, we’ll need something else – not cars – like trains. If the next city is to be about people, and local life, and neighborhoods, and sustainability, and not cars and all their attendant destruction, then thinking really small seems like the only way at all.

Startlab’s Open Street model. A bit more than $22k.

There is one available soon, supposedly, called the Tesla. Hard to suppress a laugh at that name… Anyway, the manufacturers claim over 200 miles between charges and a top speed of 125 mph. Cost is north of $110 grand. This sounds more like substitution than rethinking – greenwashing if you will. Here we can see what we can do, but not necessarily what we should do.

Tesla: 0 to 60 in just over 3 seconds, top speed 125 mph.

Anyway, dear reader, there are options for those with mobility challenges, options that permit participation in the next urban life without pumping breathtaking amounts of carbon into the air. In the end though, these little electric devices need to be coupled with a new way of making our communities – destinations within your neighborhood that are just a few blocks away, not across town or out in the suburbs. For many, even city dwellers in most cities in this country, walking a half mile or a mile doesn’t get you to the garlic you need, or the trattoria where you want to be. This must be the highest priority as we reshape the places where we live and work. Mr. Kamen, we need a two-door Segway with wipers and a heater, please.

Myers Motors NMG (no more gas) one seat electric car – a tricycle. $30k.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Diesel Porsche Cayenne in the performance of RUF

In a few years the popularity of diesel engines for almost ceased to yield their gasoline brethren, in this regard, and various tuning-studio began to pay more attention is diesel-powered.

In turn, the studio invited the RUF kit for the diesel version of the Porsche Cayenne. Recall that part of the standard Porsche Cayenne gives 240 hp and 549 Nm of torque.

After upgrading the engine began to give 288 hp and 580 Nm of torque, the highlight was the completion revised system ECU. The cost of this kit is 3850 Euros.

For those who really need the speed, can choose the second set, which makes 310 hp Porsche Cayenne and 630 Nm of torque. To drive the SUV up to this level in the RUF established a new turbocharger and re-configure the system ECU. The cost of this option have already reached 7,300 euros.

Data on the maximum speed, acceleration time and fuel consumption will be issued tuner a little later.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

In Moscow International Motor Show world premiere sports car Porsche 911 GT2RS.

At the Moscow International Automobile Salon - 2010 (MIAS-2010) today held its world premiere sports car Porsche 911 GT2RS.

This is the most powerful sports car in the company's history, its power is 620 horsepower. The car accelerates to 100 km in 3.5 seconds., Maximum speed of 330 km / hour.

Externally, the new 911 GT2 RS 911 GT2 from different elements of the carbon fiber with matte black carbon fiber structure, wider wheels and extended front wheel arches, new wheels in light alloy with a central mount and inscriptions "GT2 RS" on the doors and rear lid.

In the passenger compartment integrated safety cage, for the sake of weight reduction internal door handles are replaced by hinges, and standard chairs have given way to an easy two bucket seats. Basic Interior - black, equip items on the ceiling, seats, center console, doors and steering wheel trimmed with red Alcantara