ferrari enzo

The largest ever gathering of Ferraris seen in the Southern Hemisphere will take place in Sydney on Sunday 13 August when more than 130 of the legendary Italian supercars come together to help raise money for the Westmead Children’s Hospital in the Darling Harbour Exhibition Centre.
Organisers plan to have on display at least one of every Ferrari road car produced since 1960 and there will be a genuine Ferrari Formula One car on display as a representative of Ferrari’s unique record of success at the pinnacle of motorpsort.

Leading the display will be cars described as the greatest super cars of their eras, the Ferrari Daytona, the Ferrari F40 and the Ferrari Enzo, named after the automotive genius who founded Ferrari. Also on display will be latest examples of today’s Ferrari range, the F430, F430 Spider and the 612 Scaglietti. Other classic Ferrari models on display include the Ferrari 275 GTB and the 575 Maranello, named after Ferrari home town.

Alongside the cars, there will also be comprehensive displays charting the history of Ferrari and explaining the exceptional technology that has driven Ferrari forward at the cutting edge of both motorsport and road car development.
Organized by the Ferrari Club of Australia, the display will enable the public to see unique and rare cars that are normally hidden from public display. The Club members are also donating there time, as well as precious cars, to the event to ensure the maximum amount of money car be raised for the Westmead Children’s Hospital.

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ferrari 288 GTO

Of the many great Ferraris built, the 250 GTO is what many think is the greatest. Exactly 22 years after the first GTO was launched in 1962, Ferrari announced a new model with the legendary GTO badge, the 288 GTO.

The engine was good for 400bhp. Top speed is 190 mph (305 kph). Lightweight materials were used throughout the car. The entire body was made of kevlar, fiberglass and aluminum. But because of safety reasons, the doors were made of steel. The 288’s weight was low at 2550 lbs (1156 kg). 60mph (100 kph) comes in 5 seconds.

Ferrari built the 288 for one reason only; to homologate it for racing. The “O” in GTO is taken from the Italian word “Omologato”, homologation in English. Gran Touring racing was the idea for the 250, Ferrari had other plans for the 288. The very popular Group B rally class would be where the 288 would race. This meant Ferrari had to build a minimum of 200 road going GTOs to get it homologated. Production started right after its 1984 Geneva launch. A total of 273 GTOs were built.

An Evoluzione version with very revised bodywork was first shown in 1986. This was going to be Ferrari’s entrant for the Group B events. Under the aerodynamic body was a 600+ hp version of the turbocharged V8. Five cars were built but none of them were ever entered in a rally. After a number of terrible accidents, Group B was cancelled for 1987 effectively cutting the lives of many great racing cars short, including the 288 GTO’s.

Today the 288 GTO remains as one of the most sought after ’modern’ Ferraris. With only 273 288 GTOs produced, it has the smallest production figure of any road going Ferrari built in the last 30 years.

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krl

Menanggapi surat di Kompas (24/2) ”Kereta Ekonomi Dibatalkan, Penumpang Telantar” yang disampaikan oleh Ibu Quaristi Natalia, kami mohon maaf atas ketidaknyamanan. Sebagian besar armada kami sudah berumur sehingga layaknya orang berusia lanjut terkadang performanya kurang maksimal. Ditambah lagi jam operasi cukup panjang dan kerap membawa beban di luar batas kapasitas angkut sebuah rangkaian KRL. Oleh karena itu, penumpang yang naik sampai ke atas atap rangkaian adalah termasuk yang mempercepat KRL mengalami kerusakan.

Pada tanggal 2, 3, dan 4 Februari 2009 memang mengalami kerusakan pada komponen utama penggerak mesin KRL, dan untuk memperbaiki butuh waktu lebih dari satu hari. Selama ini pembatalan KRL semata-mata demi alasan keselamatan serta keamanan operasi KRL, dan juga para penumpang. Saat ini KRL tersebut sudah beroperasi kembali.

Tentang jadwal KRL yang terpaksa batal, solusi yang ada untuk sementara adalah menyarankan kepada pelanggan kami bila perjalanan KRL mengalami gangguan untuk menggunakan rangkaian KRL keberangkatan berikutnya.

Solusi tersebut karena kami sudah tidak memiliki cadangan rangkaian KRL lagi. Armada yang kami miliki seluruhnya sedang/sudah melayani di lintas masing-masing. Oleh karena itu, menggunakan KRL berikutnya, merupakan salah satu solusi yang dapat diambil oleh pengguna setia KRL Ekonomi Bogor/Depok-Jakarta pada saat ada rangkaian KRL yang terpaksa batal karena ada gangguan mesin. Konsekuensinya mungkin memberatkan penumpang KRL Ekonomi, yaitu harus menunggu KRL berikutnya dan tentu lebih padat karena diisi oleh penumpang dari dua jadwal keberangkatan KRL

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ford Focus RS

Ford has finally released the long overdue press statement on the Focus RS, and to make up for the delay it’s 9,000 words long! However, we just picked out the interesting figures for you and put together a gallery of all the new pictures.

As we had already reported (but is now confirmed…) the Focus RS will start from £24,995 (around $35,000 US), and it will have a 300 hp engine that will shoot the fast Ford from 0-62 in 5.9 seconds and go on to an unlimited top speed of 163mph.

300hp seems like a lot to be going through a FWD car, and the reason that Ford did not opt for AWD is brought up by team RS Chief Engineer, Dirk Densing:

“Front-wheel-drive was our preference all along. All-wheel-drive systems add cost, weight, inertia and consequently, fuel consumption. Compensating for the significant weight of an all-wheel-drive system requires dynamic compromises we preferred not to make. If you can achieve the performance you want without steering disturbance, then front-wheel-drive is a better performance car – lighter and with a more precise, linear steering response than AWD. With the work of our advanced research team in Aachen, we were able to achieve this and deliver something genuinely different,”

Well, as long as they have achived this without, as Dirk puts, it ‘steering disturbance’ (silly amounts of torque steer…) then fair play to Team RS, but we shall let you know when we get our hands behind the wheel on the launch.

A new specially developed ESP system keeps you on track and has be designed to work with the driver. Although it can be turned off Ford boffins reckon that it goes round the Nburg ring just as fast with it on.

The Focus RS has also been tested at Fords Lommel Proving Ground in Belgium and has beaten the previous lap record set by the Ford GT, so it turns out this could just be the fastest Ford ever.

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new mitsubishi lancer evo 10 FQ-400

It was only a matter of time before Mitsubishi's British engineers tired of relentlessly beating the FQ300 and FQ360 versions of their homegrown Evos. So it's no surprise that after a 400-hp version of the Evo X successfully campaigned in the Britcar Championship, Mitsubishi finally gave the go-ahead to its crack team of in-house tweakers to produce a road going version for public consumption. The FQ400 is on its way. If the Mitsu team holds true to the original ADR Motorsport-developed Evo, expect a new turbocharger, exhaust manifold and fuel system, along with a reworked ECU to make use of the extra boost and petrol. Naturally, output will be related to the FQ400's name, with 400hp being delivered to all four wheels through a manual gearbox. A top speed of 170 mph and a 0-60 time of around 3.5 seconds shouldn't be too hard to achieve, and with a reworked suspension, upgraded brakes and some aerodynamic enhancements, Lambo owners should think twice before cutting the FQ400 off at their first track day at Silverstone. Pricing hasn't been released yet, but expect the Mitsubishi Evolution X FQ400 to crest the £45,000 mark when it goes on sale next year in the UK.

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Solar USB Flash Disk (JD-666D)

Product Description

Dimension: 59 X 23 X 9 mm
Product Description
1. Support dual-mode BIOS start, USBZIP and USB hard drive.
2. USB port, driver, plug-and-play, hot-swappable.
3. Small size, extremely light weight, moisture-proof earthquake.
4. Under WinMe/Win2000/WinXP system except Windows98 no need drivers.
5. The data encryption may divide into the plate the public data data district and encryption district, arbitrary to segment.
6. LCD screen powered by solar energy, and it no need to replace batteries
They can Changed altenately between dark and lights flash indoor or outdoor
Crystal with whole body, built in colorful logo, creat plentiful personanity logo to memory digital files, gifts, advertisment promtion gifts and collection.

Standard packaging is as follows:
1. Product packing: Colored package including specification, Warranty cards and CD-ROM drive
Full Size: 123 X 85 X22 mm
Carton Size: 59 X 26.7 X 39.5cm
Number: 200 pcs
Net Weight: 5.4 kg
Gross Weight: 10 kg

Simple packing:
Each product packs with OPP bags, a inside box with 50 products, a outside box with 10 inside boxes
Carton Size: 27 X19X49cm
Number: 500 pc s
Net Weight: 13.5 kg
Gross Weight: 14.5 kg

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USB watch

Geek watches. I L-O-V-E geek watches. I have watches that take pictures, record voice memos, make calculations, store phone numbers and tell me which way is North. Although I enjoy each one in its own way, they all have one very obvious thing in common: they LOOK like geek watches. Few tools are more effective at creating a “dinner for one” scenario than a calculator on your wrist. Heck, I’ll torture myself by doing the calculation on my phone’s tiny dialpad before I head to a party with that sucker. So you can imagine how impressed I was when I received the new Memory watch from Edge Memory.

We get plenty of gadget shipments around here so it took me a minute to realize what I was looking at: A 64 MB USB 1.1 drive encased in a wrist watch. Cleverly lodged inside the strap is the USB cable that connects the watch drive to any computer with a USB port. Right out of the box this looks like a really nice watch. Not chunky, thick or button covered.

I am a huge fan of portable USB key storage devices. Requiring no power of their own, I’ve had a small 32 MB USB drive stored in my wallet for years. Unfortunately, it was also one of the first of its kind and required you to install drivers in any PC you wanted to use it in. The new variety are plug and play on any PC running Windows 2000, ME, Windows NT and XP. The Memory Watch is no exception and even comes with software allowing you to secure your data.

Like all self respecting gadget nuts, I left the instructions and software back in the box and just plugged it into my laptop (Win XP Pro). Sure enough, I had a new drive show up seconds later. I was doing the drag and drop two step with utter abandon at 4.2MB per second. Once the transfer completed, I disconnected it, tucked the USB cord back into the strap and headed out for the day. As usual, I brought the device down to all my favorite electronics shops. The staff were pretty juiced at how low key they had managed to keep the storage function. It may say 64MB and USB on the watch but most folks would never notice it.

Below is a photo comparing the size of the Memory Watch with my normal Guess watch and my uber geek Casio Wrist Camera.


Overall I was very impressed with this product. My only gripes are minor. There is no backlight lighting on the display and apparently no fluorescent paint on the needles so it’s virtually impossible to tell the time in the middle of the night. It also has no alarm functions, however I rarely every use that feature on my other watches. Other than that, the unit’s a killer. I plan on handing them out as holiday gifts to both geeks and non-geeks alike. You can pick up a 128MB version for yourself for $89.00, what a steal!

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