Monday, 28 October 2013
Saturday, 5 October 2013
Audi RS6 Avant
This is the most powerful car that Audi makes. It has 412kW and 700Nm. That makes it ballsier even than the halo R8 V10 Plus. It is a grand tourer, a straight-line mauler built for inhaling great distances in imperious comfort.
The RS6 is all about that engine. The wagon’s subtle musculature belongs to a Q-car, despite those colossal flared nostrils, but any pretensions are stripped away when you plant your foot. It’s an almighty shove in the kidneys at any speed below 200km/h, and it sounds like hearing Krakatoa through headphones.
The twin-turbo V8 is adaptable, reducing itself to four cylinders when cruising, allowing a healthy economy rate of 9.8L/100km, but at full noise it’s a roaring mathematical beast. It’s also faster to 100km/h than the last model (and the Lamborghini Gallardo, for that matter) with a 0-100km/h time of just 3.9 seconds.
The only remaining oddity is the three available top speeds: 250km/h, which is standard; 280km/h if you plump for that Dynamic Package; and the ‘full German’ limit of 305km/h, available if you tick a $20k carbon-fibre ceramic brake option box on top.
If the R8, Audi’s halo car, is a precision scalpel in Ingolstadt’s cutlery drawer, the Avant is a harpoon: a great big two-tonne autobahn masher. With most cars, the outback horizon is a white whale, but the RS6 fires you at it and reels it in.
Charles Hong
Super Car Blog Australia
image source:http://www.themotorreport.com.au/content/image/2/0/2014_audi_rs_6_avant_overseas_01-1205.jpg
The RS6 is all about that engine. The wagon’s subtle musculature belongs to a Q-car, despite those colossal flared nostrils, but any pretensions are stripped away when you plant your foot. It’s an almighty shove in the kidneys at any speed below 200km/h, and it sounds like hearing Krakatoa through headphones.
The twin-turbo V8 is adaptable, reducing itself to four cylinders when cruising, allowing a healthy economy rate of 9.8L/100km, but at full noise it’s a roaring mathematical beast. It’s also faster to 100km/h than the last model (and the Lamborghini Gallardo, for that matter) with a 0-100km/h time of just 3.9 seconds.
The only remaining oddity is the three available top speeds: 250km/h, which is standard; 280km/h if you plump for that Dynamic Package; and the ‘full German’ limit of 305km/h, available if you tick a $20k carbon-fibre ceramic brake option box on top.
If the R8, Audi’s halo car, is a precision scalpel in Ingolstadt’s cutlery drawer, the Avant is a harpoon: a great big two-tonne autobahn masher. With most cars, the outback horizon is a white whale, but the RS6 fires you at it and reels it in.
Charles Hong
Super Car Blog Australia
image source:http://www.themotorreport.com.au/content/image/2/0/2014_audi_rs_6_avant_overseas_01-1205.jpg
Friday, 4 October 2013
BMW i8 Spyder
i8 Spyder. Not the sound of a Queenslander expressing hatred for an arachnid, but BMW's roofless, two-seat hybrid concept.
It'll be unveiled at this year's Beijing auto show later this month and is, as you'd imagine, a pretty good sign that Munich's going to give us a drop-top to join the i8 coupe. For those hard of memory, that's the 250km/h, 2L/100km sportster due to land in showrooms come 2014.
Underneath, there's an aluminium chassis with a lithium-ion battery buttered along its length, keeping the centre of gravity nice and low and achieving a 50:50 weight distribution. It's got the same plug-in powertrain as the coupe, too; a petro-electro melange of 95kW electric motor driving the front wheels and three-cylinder turbo petrol engine sending 165kW to the rears (that's 260kW in all).
All together, it makes 550Nm of torque, which gets it from 0-100km/h in 5.0 seconds and a tethered top speed of 250km/h. And it's claimed it can do 30km on the battery alone.
Unlike the 2L/100km coupe, the convertible only claims a piffling 2.5L/100km, but charge time on a domestic socket is impressive; BMW says it would be "less than two hours". It'll do 30km on EV power alone, and the batteries are charged up when you coast, cruise and stop.
There are, as you'd imagine, some spurious concepty add-ons. Also included are a pair of electric scooters housed under a transparent tailgate, a camera-based proactive collision warning feature, and the interior can be pre-warmed on a cold morning so it's all toasty and warm when you go to drive it.
Charles Hong
Super Car Blog Australia
image source:http://www.netcarshow.com/bmw/2012-i8_spyder_concept/800x600/wallpaper_02.htm
It'll be unveiled at this year's Beijing auto show later this month and is, as you'd imagine, a pretty good sign that Munich's going to give us a drop-top to join the i8 coupe. For those hard of memory, that's the 250km/h, 2L/100km sportster due to land in showrooms come 2014.
Underneath, there's an aluminium chassis with a lithium-ion battery buttered along its length, keeping the centre of gravity nice and low and achieving a 50:50 weight distribution. It's got the same plug-in powertrain as the coupe, too; a petro-electro melange of 95kW electric motor driving the front wheels and three-cylinder turbo petrol engine sending 165kW to the rears (that's 260kW in all).
All together, it makes 550Nm of torque, which gets it from 0-100km/h in 5.0 seconds and a tethered top speed of 250km/h. And it's claimed it can do 30km on the battery alone.
Unlike the 2L/100km coupe, the convertible only claims a piffling 2.5L/100km, but charge time on a domestic socket is impressive; BMW says it would be "less than two hours". It'll do 30km on EV power alone, and the batteries are charged up when you coast, cruise and stop.
There are, as you'd imagine, some spurious concepty add-ons. Also included are a pair of electric scooters housed under a transparent tailgate, a camera-based proactive collision warning feature, and the interior can be pre-warmed on a cold morning so it's all toasty and warm when you go to drive it.
Charles Hong
Super Car Blog Australia
image source:http://www.netcarshow.com/bmw/2012-i8_spyder_concept/800x600/wallpaper_02.htm
Nissan GTR
And it'll most definitely be on fire because Nissan told that this special Nismo GT-R will lap the Nürburgring in under 7m 18s, comfortably eclipsing the current car's lap record, and moving it further to the top of the unofficial King of the ‘Ring table. Oh, and that's quite a bit faster than Porsche's new GT3, too, a claimed 7m 22s. Woah.
We first got wind of this Super GT-R a few months back, when Nismo - that's Nissan Motorsport - officially unveiled its global HQ in Yokohama, Japan, making the legendary tuner an integral part of Nissan's business. So on the launch of Nissan's 370Z Nismo model a Nissan spokesman told TG.com how this Super GT-R will be the "hardest GT-R ever". That's quite a firework, but then the standard GT-R, if you can call it 'standard', is a bombastic piece of kit.
Nissan was, naturally, extremely coy about the details, only telling us that the car is currently in the development phase, but "will be of great value and offer the same concept as other Nismo products: more power, better handling and improved looks."
When pushed on power gains, there were some nervous smiles, most probably because rocket science is a risky business. The current GT-R comfortably produces 406kW and 630Nm of torque, but Nissan told us the Nismo version will probably produce "more than 425kW".
Undoubtedly, there will be suspension and aero tweakery too, though we'll have to wait and see. Stay tuned, as Nissan tells us it will appear in the second half of 2014. That, dear Internet, will be the definitive Nismo product, so expect some thunder...
Sub 7m 18s, in a Nissan. Sheesh.
Charles Hong
Super Car Blog Australia
image source: http://www.themotorreport.com.au/content/image/2/0/2013_nissan_gt_r_overseas_02_1-1102.jpg
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Telsa Model S
What is Telsa？ Is that a unit of magnetic field strength or magnetic flux density? Is that an American Rock band? Or, is that the famous scientist,Nikola Tesla?
The answer is NO! None of them is right.
The Tesla Model S has won numerous awards and recognition such as the 2013 World Green Car of the Year, 2013 Motor Trend Car of the Year, Automobile Magazine's 2013 Car of the Year, Time Magazine Best 25 Inventions of the Year 2012 award, Consumer Reports' top-scoring car ever, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA top ranked 5 star safety rating.
It will definitely change the life style of human beings. It will lead the life, just like Apple did few years ago.
Henry Bi
Super Car Blog Australia
image souce: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/images/stories/large/2012/05/10/136699532.jpg, http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2012/09/2012-tesla-model-s-fd.jpg
The answer is NO! None of them is right.
Tesla Motor Company, a manufacturer of electric car company, founded in 2003, is headquartered in the heart of California's Silicon Valley. Its founder is a Silicon Valley engineer, Martin Eberhard, while investors are SpaceX founder
Elon Musk. Tesla Motors is the first lithium-ion battery electric car company in the world.
The Tesla Model S is a full-sized electric four-door hatchback produced by Tesla Motors. First shown to the public at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show as a prototype, retail deliveries started in the United States in June 2012. The Model S was released in Europe in early August 2013, and the first deliveries took place in Norway, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official range for the Model S Performance model equipped with an 85 kWh lithium-ion battery pack is 265 miles (426 km), topping the Tesla Roadster and making the Model S the electric car with the greatest range available in the market. The EPA range for the model with the 60 kW·h battery is 208 mi (335 km). EPA's energy consumption is rated at 237.5 W·h per kilometre (38 kW·h/100 mi) for a combined fuel economy of 89miles per gallon gasoline equivalent(2.64 L/100 km). Tesla had also scheduled the release of a base model with a smaller 40 kW·h battery expected to deliver a range of 160 miles (260 km) but decided against this entry-level model, citing low demand.
Elon Musk. Tesla Motors is the first lithium-ion battery electric car company in the world.
The Tesla Model S is a full-sized electric four-door hatchback produced by Tesla Motors. First shown to the public at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show as a prototype, retail deliveries started in the United States in June 2012. The Model S was released in Europe in early August 2013, and the first deliveries took place in Norway, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official range for the Model S Performance model equipped with an 85 kWh lithium-ion battery pack is 265 miles (426 km), topping the Tesla Roadster and making the Model S the electric car with the greatest range available in the market. The EPA range for the model with the 60 kW·h battery is 208 mi (335 km). EPA's energy consumption is rated at 237.5 W·h per kilometre (38 kW·h/100 mi) for a combined fuel economy of 89miles per gallon gasoline equivalent(2.64 L/100 km). Tesla had also scheduled the release of a base model with a smaller 40 kW·h battery expected to deliver a range of 160 miles (260 km) but decided against this entry-level model, citing low demand.
The Tesla Model S has won numerous awards and recognition such as the 2013 World Green Car of the Year, 2013 Motor Trend Car of the Year, Automobile Magazine's 2013 Car of the Year, Time Magazine Best 25 Inventions of the Year 2012 award, Consumer Reports' top-scoring car ever, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA top ranked 5 star safety rating.
If you think, a safe modern economical car cannot provide a strong power, you are totally wrong. Tesla Model S Performance can accelerate to 100 km/h in 4.4 seconds. This result is enough to compare with a lot of traditional energy super cars.
Henry Bi
Super Car Blog Australia
image souce: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/images/stories/large/2012/05/10/136699532.jpg, http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2012/09/2012-tesla-model-s-fd.jpg
Wednesday, 2 October 2013
Mercedes C63 AMG Coupe
The C63 AMG doesn't feature the new 5.5-litre twin-turbo V8 being
rapidly rolled out across the AMG range. Instead, it gets the good ol'
6.2-litre, naturally aspirated V8. The reason? The turbos meant the new
V8 wouldn't fit in the coupe's engine bay. That tells you everything you
need to know about how AMG works.
It's good. Real good. The C63 Coupe bellows like a freshly branded John Prescott, spins up its wheels with reckless abandon and underlines everything that's correct about overpowered, rear-drive cars.
Blindingly quick, too. The C63 simply obliterates the 0-100km/h dash in 4.4 seconds - point-two faster than the current supercoupe acceleration king, Audi's RS5 - and does so in such a no-nonsense fashion that you wonder why manufacturers ever bother with prissy things like ‘four-wheel drive' or ‘subtlety'. Where the RS5 judders its power back and forth trying to keep you on track, the AMG leaves it all up to you. You know where the engine is, you know where the power's going - if you end up in a drainage trench, it's your own fault.
Which might give the impression that the C63 is a scary brute to drive. It isn't. In fact, treat it gently, and it's as benign as a heavily sedated grizzly, ambling without fuss and with a surprisingly compliant ride. But click the gearshifts into one of the sharper settings - the C63 gets a seven-speed, wet-clutch auto 'box - and unleash your Right Foot of Solid Plutonium, and the AMG becomes a reckless, tail-happy loon, an eminently controllable drift thing.
So we'd take the C63 over the RS5 every day. But what about the M3 coupe? The BMW is undoubtedly a daintier drive, and, even though its gives away 37bhp to the Merc, we suspect it'd be a fraction faster around a racetrack. But the C63 will smear a bigger grin across your face every day. It looks delicious too, with swollen front arches, sinewy bonnet budges and a delicate carbon-fibre lip on the bootlid.
Unimprovable, then? Not quite. AMG is readying a ‘performance pack' bolt-on, which boosts overall power to 480bhp. We can't imagine that'll do anything but improve this wonderful, life-affirming object. All hail AMG, where too much is never enough.
Jack Wu
Super Car Blog Australia
source: www.topspeed.com
It's good. Real good. The C63 Coupe bellows like a freshly branded John Prescott, spins up its wheels with reckless abandon and underlines everything that's correct about overpowered, rear-drive cars.
Blindingly quick, too. The C63 simply obliterates the 0-100km/h dash in 4.4 seconds - point-two faster than the current supercoupe acceleration king, Audi's RS5 - and does so in such a no-nonsense fashion that you wonder why manufacturers ever bother with prissy things like ‘four-wheel drive' or ‘subtlety'. Where the RS5 judders its power back and forth trying to keep you on track, the AMG leaves it all up to you. You know where the engine is, you know where the power's going - if you end up in a drainage trench, it's your own fault.
Which might give the impression that the C63 is a scary brute to drive. It isn't. In fact, treat it gently, and it's as benign as a heavily sedated grizzly, ambling without fuss and with a surprisingly compliant ride. But click the gearshifts into one of the sharper settings - the C63 gets a seven-speed, wet-clutch auto 'box - and unleash your Right Foot of Solid Plutonium, and the AMG becomes a reckless, tail-happy loon, an eminently controllable drift thing.
So we'd take the C63 over the RS5 every day. But what about the M3 coupe? The BMW is undoubtedly a daintier drive, and, even though its gives away 37bhp to the Merc, we suspect it'd be a fraction faster around a racetrack. But the C63 will smear a bigger grin across your face every day. It looks delicious too, with swollen front arches, sinewy bonnet budges and a delicate carbon-fibre lip on the bootlid.
Unimprovable, then? Not quite. AMG is readying a ‘performance pack' bolt-on, which boosts overall power to 480bhp. We can't imagine that'll do anything but improve this wonderful, life-affirming object. All hail AMG, where too much is never enough.
Jack Wu
Super Car Blog Australia
source: www.topspeed.com
Go! Go! Go! - F1 2013
As a loyal fan of racing games, you can't miss this series - Formula 1.
In real world, F1 is the most important racing events, but also the most expensive sport. The racing cars always use the most advanced technologies in the word. Each year, there is about 10 teams participating and they race to compete the championship throne After 16-20 races all around the world. While Europe is the sport's traditional base, and hosts about half of each year's races, the sport's scope has expanded significantly during recent years and an increasing number of Grands Prix are held on other continents. F1 had a total global television audience of 527 million people during the course of the 2010 season.
F1 reflects the resilience of life, indomitable spirit and the most cutting-edge technology in the world.
Last year’s F1 2012 represented a satisfying culmination of several years of increasingly good F1 simulations. With little headroom left for a game built to cater for current-generation console hardware, this year’s F1 2013 is a largely iterative edition. The core, current-day season content feels mostly familiar, and the racing itself has benefited from tweaks rather than overhauls. Codemasters' efforts here are focused on inserting quality recreations of classic cars, drivers, and tracks from the ’80s and ’90s, though it never quite feels like they're utilised to their full potential. The overall result is an admirable ode to F1 and an excellent racing game on its own merits, but one that may underwhelm returning owners of F1 2012 and still leave fans of classic F1 a little wanting.
In F1 2013, you can get the most authentic experience about Formula racing.
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
Nissan 370Z
Which is what happens with the 370Z when it hangs out with a gaggle of committed sportscars. It has its volume turned down to seven.
The Z-car reads like a heavy hitter: two-seats, 3.7-litre V6 up front and driving the rear wheels. It carries the torch from the muscle car that was the 350Z, this time with sharper styling , big changes underneath and useful tech like Rev Synchro Control that blips the throttle in a heel-and-toe stylie better than even the best racing drivers.
It’s a very grown-up, well-fettled improvement. But, and there is a but, in this company, the 370Z feels too everyday.
The engine is quiet. The throttle response is mushy, the steering easy but without ‘think it, it is done’ intuition. It’s not that the theory is wrong – just that it seems to have been designed primarily as a sexy, useable car that can go fast, rather than a fast car that’s so charismatic you make compromises to own it.
Stuff like the fact that it feels solid, but that’s because it’s quite heavy at around the 1,500kg mark. It feels easy, but that’s because you have to push through useability sponginess to get to the response. And when you do, it gives all the indications of being a lairy RWD car, but then when you go nuts, it is actually massively benign.
Make no mistake, the 370Z makes huge sense – not least with pricetag – but right here, right now, it’s the car that gets the least lascivious glances. Shame, really.
Charles Hong
Super Car Blog Australia
image source: http://www.hdwallpapersinn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Nissan_370Z_GT_3.jpg
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