Monday 29 November 2010

Quinton Rampage Jackson’s Car – Audi R8 on 22s

Quinton Rampage Jackon, the UFC fighter, crashed his car earlier this week. This is what the car looked like before the accident. It has gloss black and high polished 22s with a high polished lip.
This is one of the best looking cars out there and these wheels look very good on the car. I like the staggered set up and the deep lips. The only problem I have with the wheels are the step lips. Step lips are a very old style and dont look good on these kinds of cars.
After the accident, Rampage said, “I am fine, the little old lady is fine, but my car got hurt, and for that I’m sad.”

Robinson Cano’s Red Ferrari California


Robinson Cano just might be the AL MVP this season and is currently battling the Texas Rangers in the playoffs. When the all star second baseman for the New York Yankees isn’t at Yankee Stadium, he might be seen riding around in his red Ferrari California.
This car was customized by MC&A Customs, the same guys who worked on his Porsche Panemera. It is staggered on Forgiato Maglias, red and black center with a chrome lip. Usually I say that if you dont have chrome trim on your car, the chrome lip does not look good. This car is an exception. The wheels really work here with the red and black center matching the car, and the chrome lip really stands out along with the chrome exhaust tips.
MC&A has a very impressive clientele of baseball players, and for good reason. They keep knocking out home runs with their amazing taste and superior quality work.
Red Ferrari with tan interior is always a good choice. Very nice customization takes this car to the next level.

Saturday 27 November 2010

Felix Hernandez | Mercedes GL 550



This is Felix Hernandez’s white 2009 Mercedes GL 550 completely customized by MCA Customs in Miami. This big SUV is a great compliment to his Maserati Quattroporte that we posted earlier.
This car has a crazy body kit, not sure who makes it. It is really aggresive but I think it works. The GL is a little boring without it. The white and chrome Vellanos are also a good match for this car. You can never go wrong with chrome on these big SUVs.
Just like Platinum Motorsport on the west coast, everything MC&A Customs in Miami touches turns out awesome.

Darren Mcfadden’s Buick on 32s!

Where do I begin? Darren McFadden is the running back from the Oakland Raiders out of the University of Arkansas. The former Razorback really spent a lot of money on his vehicle by going all out at California Wheels.
This 1972 Buick Centurion has a purple candy paint and custom purple and green interior. It is sitting on 32″ Asanti wheels with 335/30/32 Yokohama tires. The wheels are painted green and purple in the center wit ha chrome lip. It has a 15″ custom suspension lift. It also has a custom metal dash, willwood brakes, and custom stereo. I love the fact that he sticks to his roots and builds a better version of the donk he used to have in Arkansas.
This car is clean and original. Im sure a lot of people will hate on this car, but we have nothing but love for it.












Friday 26 November 2010

T-Pain’s Rolls Royce Phantom Drop Head



This is T-Pain’s red Rolls Royce Phantom Drop Head. The Drop Head is one of the most luxurious rides money can buy. T-Pain has equipped this car with some custom 24″ wheels, color matched red to the car with chrome trim and a chrome lip.
A red phantom is very rare and it looks great. Love how he went with the brushed aluminum hood upgrade. Could have went a little bigger with the wheels but it still a good fitment. The meat on the tires will help protect the wheels when you hit a pot hole in this 7000 lb car.
I would expect a little more flash out of T-pain, but it is a beautiful car and nice set up.

Classic Hero Cars from the World of TV.


Cop shows… I love them. As a kid we’d sit in front of the television and watch every type of cop and P.I. show that we could affix our adolescent eyeballs on. Shows like Magnum P.I., Starsky and Hutch and Simon and Simon made us, as kids want to be private investigators. Not only did these shows fill our TV sets with action, but the late 1970s and 1980s were the heyday for the hero car on television. Hell, there’s even a show on this list that’s on TV right now. The Ferrari Testarossa from Miami Vice, the 1976 Ford Torino from Starsky and Hutch and the 1982 Trans Am from Knight Rider all helped set this guy on a lifelong path that would be filled with automobiles. Below is a list of 10 amazing TV shows whose main star was of the four wheeled kind. Obviously some of you out there may be a little young to remember these, but after reading this, do yourselves a favor and look them up. You’ll be glad you did!

Shelby Out of Gas in Factory Five Court Case.

Factory Five Racing
The Shelby Cobra is probably one of the most recognizable automobiles ever created. Its shape, sound and persona are legendary, as are the vast amount of replicas that have been produced over the years. Factory Five Racing is one such replica company, as they’ve been pumping out beautiful recreations of these cars since 1995. Over the last few years though FFR has been tied up in a court battle with Carroll Shelby, due to the fact that Shelby felt that he had the right to trademark the iconic shape of the 427 S/C Cobra. Keep in mind now the original Cobra was base off an AC, a car for which Shelby had nothing to do with.

Source: BMWBlog.com Feelin’ EVIL! Evel Knievel’s Stutz Black Hawk for sale on eBay!

Evel Knievel
From the 1960′s until the early 1980′s there was one man who glorified the daredevil like no other. His name was Evel Knievel and the motorcycle stunts that he attempted were the stuff that legends are made of. His most famous stunt, the jump attempt at Snake River Canyon at Twin Falls, Idaho, fail miserably, but that didn’t stop him from becoming one of most famous daredevil entertainers in history. Knievel past away back in 2007 and now it seems that someone is trying to cash in his fame by selling one of his old rides. The car in question is a 1974 Stutz Black Hawk, an automobile that in my opinion takes tackiness to the level.

Thursday 25 November 2010

A Catholic priest named Father Ferdinand Verbiest has been said to have built a steam powered vehicle for the Chinese Emperor Chien Lung in about 1678. There is no information about the vehicle, only the event. Since Thomas Newcomen didn't build his first steam engine until 1712 we can guess that this was possibly a model vehicle powered by a mechanism like Hero's steam engine, a spinning wheel with jets on the periphery. Newcomen's engine had a cylinder and a piston and was the first of this kind, and it used steam as a condensing agent to form a vacuum and with an overhead walking beam, pull on a rod to lift water. It was an enormous thing and was strictly stationary. The steam was not under pressure, just an open boiler piped to the cylinder. It used the same vacuum principle that Thomas Savery had patented to lift water directly with the vacuum, which would have limited his pump to less than 32 feet of lift. Newcomen's lift would have only been limited by the length of the rod and the strength of the valve at the bottom. Somehow Newcomen was not able to separate his invention from that of Savery and had to pay for Savery's rights. In 1765 James Watt developed the first pressurized steam engine which proved to be much more efficient and compact that the Newcomen engine.
The first vehicle to move under its own power for which there is a record was designed by Nicholas Joseph Cugnot and constructed by M. Brezin in 1769. A replica of this vehicle is on display at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, in Paris. I believe that the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D. C. also has a large (half size ?) scale model. A second unit was built in 1770 which weighed 8000 pounds and had a top speed on 2 miles per hour and on the cobble stone streets of Paris this was probably as fast as anyone wanted to go it. The picture shows the first model on its first drive around Paris were it hit and knocked down a stone wall. It also had a tendency to tip over frontward unless it was counterweighted with a canon in the rear. the purpose of the vehicle was to haul canons around town.
The early steam powered vehicles were so heavy that they were only practical on a perfectly flat surface as strong as iron. A road thus made out of iron rails became the norm for the next hundred and twenty five years. The vehicles got bigger and heavier and more powerful and as such they were eventually capable of pulling a train of many cars filled with freight and passengers.
As the picture at the right shows, many attempts were being made in England by the 1830's to develop a practical vehicle that didn't need rails. A series of accidents and propaganda from the established railroads caused a flurry of restrictive legislation to be passed and the development of the automobile bypassed England. Several commercial vehicles were built but they were more like trains without tracks.
The development of the internal combustion engine had to wait until a fuel was available to combust internally. Gunpowder was tried but didn't work out. Gunpowder carburetors are still hard to find. The first gas really did use gas. They used coal gas generated by heating coal in a pressure vessel or boiler. A Frenchman named Etienne Lenoir patented the first practical gas engine in Paris in 1860 and drove a car based on the design from Paris to Joinville in 1862. His one-half horse power engine had a bore of 5 inches and a 24 inch stroke. It was big and heavy and turned 100 rpm. Lenoir died broke in 1900.
Lenoir had a separate mechanism to compress the gas before combustion. In 1862, Alphonse Bear de Rochas figured out how to compress the gas in the same cylinder in which it was to burn, which is the way we still do it. This process of bringing the gas into the cylinder, compressing it, combusting the compressed mixture, then exhausting it is know as the Otto cycle, or four cycle engine. Lenoir claimed to have run the car on benzene and his drawings show an electric spark ignition. If so, then his vehicle was the first to run on petroleum based fuel, or petrol, or what we call gas, short for gasoline.
Siegfried Marcus, of Mecklenburg, built a can in 1868 and showed one at the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. His later car was called the Strassenwagen had about 3/4 horse power at 500 rpm. It ran on crude wooden wheels with iron rims and stopped by pressing wooden blocks against the iron rims, but it had a clutch, a differential and a magneto ignition. One of the four cars which Marcus built is in the Vienna Technical Museum and can still be driven under its own power.
 

 




 






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صور روز رايز 2011 - مشاهده لرولز رويز 2011- مميزات لرولز رويز 2011- صور روز رايز
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* lexus * new for 2011

The CT 200h is Lexus' newest gas-electric hybrid, a small hatchback that Lexus claims will combine outstanding fuel economy (42 MPG on the combined EPA cycle) with rewarding driving dynamics. Combined powertrain output is 134 hp, and Lexus says the CT 200h will get to 60 MPH in 9.8 seconds.
ES: The ES 350's 3.5 liter V6 has been re-tuned to run on regular (87 octane) fuel. Power drops slightly to 268 hp and 248 lb-ft (down from 272 and 254), but Lexus says the ES will still go 0-60 in a quick seven seconds.
 
2011 Lexus CT 200h

CONFIRMED FOR 2011

2011 Infiniti M37

CONFIRMED FOR 2011:
EX35: The EX gets a 7-speed automatic transmission, dual-zone climate control, and 18" wheels (replacing last year's 17s) as standard equipment. The gauge lighting has been revised, the option packages have been shuffled around a bit, three new colors have been added to the paint palette, and the stone (grey) interior color has been dropped.
FX35/FX50: A power liftgate is now standard and one new paint color has been added. The FX50 now comes with 20" wheels instead of last year's 21" wheels, and there are some minor changes in option packages and interior trim colors.
G37: "Self-healing" scratch-shield paint is now standard, and coupes and convertibles get a revised front fascia and new wheel designs. Sedans and convertibles are now available in a Limited Edition model with unique interior and exterior trim, while sedans can also be had with a "Sport Appearance" package. The proper Sport package is now available on all-wheel-drive versions of the coupe, and all coupes and convertibles with the Sport package get standard navigation.

Lincoln: What's coming in 2011

2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid

MKT: HD radio now comes bundled with the navigation system.
MKX: Lincoln's mid-size CUV gets a much-needed facelift. Up front, the awkward eggcrate grille for a more Lincoln-like waterfall grille; out back the taillights and exhaust tips are new. Inside, materials have been upgraded and the MKX is the first Lincoln to get the enhanced MyLincoln Touch system, which includes enhanced voice recognition, a revised touch-screen, and cell-phone-like controls on the steering wheel to run the stereo, navigation and climate control systems. The engine has been upgraded to a 3.7 liter 305 horsepower unit.
MKZ: The MKZ is now available as a hybrid, using the same outstanding powertrain found in the Ford Fusion hybrid. The 2.5 liter engine and electric motor produce a combined 191 horsepower, and the MKZ Hybrid can run in pure electric mode at up to 47 MPH. EPA city fuel economy is 41 MPG. Other enhancements include an improved infotainment system with HD radio and the addition of the programmable MyKey system.
NAVIGATOR: Voice-activated navigation with SIRIUS Travel Link is now standard, as is HD ratio. The rear-seat DVD entertainment system now has two headrest-mounted screens.

2010 Mercedes-Benz E350 Sedan test drive


2010 Mercedes-Benz E350 Sport front view 
Mercedes mid-level E-Class is not only their best-selling model in the US, it's also one of my favorite luxury cars. The E350 and E550 sedans have been redesigned for 2010, complete with new styling and a host of new electronic gadgets. All impressive stuff -- but I wanted to see if the soul of the E-Class was still intact. Was it? Read on. $49,475 base, $56,815 as tested, EPA fuel economy estimates 15-18 MPG city, 23-26 MPG highway.




2010 Mercedes-Benz E350 dashboard2010 Mercedes-Benz E350 Sport front view2010 Mercedes-Benz E350 Sport rear view


i don't do well with change. I'm a bit like a two-year-old: Alter my routine, and I respond with a temper tantrum (which my wife finds more amusing than annoying). So I was not very happy when Mercedes announced that an all-new E-Class was coming for 2010.
See, I don't just like the E-Class -- I need the E-Class. I live in Los Angeles, where rush hour is like a road-going version of the Lebanese civil war. You know all those sunshiny happy Californians you see in the movies? We really are like that -- until you put us in a car and plant us on the 405 freeway at 5:07 pm, at which time we turn into bloodthirsty demons who will cheerfully run over our own children if it'll get us home one millisecond faster. To me, the E-Class is -- sorry, was -- the antidote for rush-hour traffic: A road-going cocoon of peace and tranquility. Just getting into an E-Class lowers my heart rate by ten beats per minute. The E-Class was the standard by which I judged $60,000-or-so luxury sedans, and I didn't want to see it change.
Mercedes certainly started out on the right foot: With a bribe. No, they didn't give me cash outright (although if you're thinking along those lines, Mercedes, you know where to find me). What they did is drop the price -- the 2010 E350 sedan now starts at $48,925, $5,150 less than last year, while the V8-powered E550 is $57,175, which is $5,400 less than 2009. Aside from metallic paint -- now a $720 option -- the new E comes with most of the same standard equipment as the old car, including a 6-disc CD

Top Gear USA premieres tonight!

Top Gear logoSunday, Sunday, Sunday! Tonight at 10 pm (9 pm central, and goodness knows when in Arizona) on the History Channel, Top Gear USA will finally hit the airwaves (or, I suppose, the cable-waves). I've been waiting a long, long time for this -- and I don't just mean the last few months of making the show. I mean, like, years.
I'm really happy with the way the show came out, and I'm not just saying that as a staffer -- I'm saying that as a true Top Gear fanatic. Amazing cars, fantastic cinematography, lots of idiocy, and plenty of tire-smoking antics courtesy of Tanner. Episode One is pretty darn good, and the show will get even better in the coming weeks. Check it out tonight and be sure to let me know what you think. -- Aaron Gold

On the road in the Toyota Venza

2011 Toyota Venza








Greetings from Arizona! We decided to get a jump on the Thanksgiving holiday traffic by heading out to my folks a little early. I see every road trip as a potential for experimentation, and this time I decided to try a four-cylinder SUV.

The SUV is a Toyota Venza, and the four-cylinder is Toyota's 182 hp 2.7 liter, also found in the Sienna minivan and Tacoma pickup. And the results were pretty impressive. With two adults, two big kids, a dog, and enough luggage to fill the cargo bay, I expected some foot-to-the-floor action on the mountains to the east of  Los Angeles. But the Venza did way better than I expected, sailing up the steepest grades with little drama. And our fuel economy for the trip -- with the driving split between law-abiding me and my speed-demon wife -- was 25.9 MPG, way better than we would have achieved with a V6.
Overall, I was impressed. Thanks to higher CAFE standards, small engines are here to stay. Okay, the Venza's engine isn't exactly small -- but it's a heck of a lot more modest than the big V6s usually found in 3,600 lb SUVs. I was glad to see that it worked so well. -- Aaron Gold

Least-expensive cars of 2011

2011 Mazda2I like cheap cars, and I cannot lie. Not that I mind testing $70,000 luxo-sedans or $98,000 sports cars, but reviewing entry-level, bottom-of-the-line cars is my true passion. Let's face it: Anyone can build a nice car to sell for fifty grand, but providing good value for $15,000 or less -- especially considering all the safety equipment now mandated by the Fed -- well, that's no easy feat.

cars


An automobile, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers,
which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods.[1] However, the term automobile is far from precise, because there are many types of vehicles that do similar tasks.
There are approximately 600 million passenger cars worldwide (roughly one car per eleven people).[2][3] Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007; they burn over 1 billion m³ (260 billion US gallons) of petrol/gasoline and diesel fuel yearly. The numbers are increasing rapidly, especially in China and India