The 2009
BMW M3 convertible is powered by BMW’s 4.0-liter V-8 making 414 horsepower and 295 lb-ft of torque at 3900 rpm, and it races from 0 to 62 mph in 5.3 seconds. Mated to the engine is a six-speed manual transmission or
BMW’s new seven-speed Double Clutch Gearbox.
The Double Clutch Gearbox was designed for high performance cars like BMW’s M line and comes with a number of customizable settings. Launch Control helps get all 414 horses to the ground effectively while five shift programs in the automatic mode and six shift programs in the sequentially shifted manual mode assure drivers get exactly the response they want.
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Audi Q7 TDI motor is a twin-turbocharched 6.0-liter diesel producing 500 horsepower and 757 lb-ft of torque. All that power translates to 0-62 mph times around 5.5 seconds for the Q7 according to Audi, an impressive sprint for an SUV of its size. Top speed will be limited to 155 mph.
Audi Q7 Quatro is also fairly fuel efficient, achieving just short of 20 mpg in the Q7-equipped model.
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Audi claims that this will be the first production sports car to be offered with a diesel engine. The diesel TT variant will be slower than gasoline-powered counterpart, requiring 7.5 seconds to make 0 to 60 mph sprint. The
Audi 2.0 TDI engine meets the upcoming Euro V standards and 50-state US requirements.
A production schedule of the Audi TT 2.0 TDI is not yet available for Europe .
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1 - First joke
Yesterday I was at the local Wal-Mart. Now I was only in there for about 5 minutes and when I came out, there he was - a damn Motorcycle cop writing a parking ticket …
So, I went to him and said: “Come on Buddy, how about giving a guy a break?”
He simply ignored me and continued writing the ticket.
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The biggest pre-show buzz among boutique builders was for Rinspeed’s amphibious, deep-diving, Lotus Elise-based “sQuba”. Going into the show, we had heard it was actually capable of driving into the water, floating about like a slow motorboat, and then diving beneath the surface like an open-topped submarine.
After seeing a short video loop of the sQuba in action, we were sort of glad it was sitting still. That’s the best way to describe the way the little white Lotus pondered, wheels motionless, several feet below the water’s surface (it can dive to a maximum of 33 feet). Inside, a pair of occupants—seen seconds before in clothes and sunglasses “driving” on top of the water at about a knot .
Even more wrong but equally pointless is the ability of the sQuba to drive on dry land by itself, as in, by remote control, guided by laser sensors keeping it from running over curbs, trees or, say, surfers changing in the beach parking lot as it silently makes its own way back to the sea, perhaps to find others of its kind.
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