Ferrari FF Makes Its UK Public Debut At The 2011 Goodwood Festival Of Speed

MARANELLO – June 17, 2011: Ferrari is proud to exhibit its new flagship V12 four-seater, the FF, at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, alongside the front engined V8 California and the mid-rear mounted 458 Italia.
The FF ushers in an entirely new GT sports car concept and represents not so much an evolution as a true revolution with the Prancing Horse’s first ever four-wheel drive system. The FF is the first road car to take drive to the front wheels from the front of the crankshaft, rather than through a separate transfer case. The innovative and patented 4RM system weighs 50 per cent less than a conventional four-wheel drive system and ensures perfect weight distribution (47:53) for the optimum driving performance that clients expect from a Ferrari, even for a Grand Tourer with four seats.
Exceptional performance comes courtesy of the new 6,262cc direct injection engine which develops 660hp at 8,000 rpm. In tandem with its transaxle dual-clutch F1 gearbox, stunning acceleration (0-62mph in 3.7sec) is guaranteed.
Ferrari’s new flagship V12 four-seater melds to an unprecedented level an extremely sporty, high-performance character with incredible versatility, superb comfort and sophisticated elegance, guaranteeing both driver and passengers an absolutely unique driving experience.
Also taking part in the event is the Ferrari 458 Italia, an 8-cylinder two-seater berlinetta with a mid-rear mounted engine, which represents a genuine break with the past in terms of Maranello’s previous high-performance sports cars. Designed to fulfil the expectations and ambitions of our most passionate clients, the 458 Italia continues the Ferrari tradition of putting the thrill into driving as a result of track-derived technological innovations.
Thanks to a 4,499cc V8 engine, which punches out 570hp, the F1 dual-clutch gearbox and a 1,380kg dry weight, the 458 Italia boasts an extraordinary weight-power ratio of 2.42 kg (a power-weight ratio of 413 hp per ton). This means it sprints from 0 to 62 mph in under 3.4 seconds and hits a maximum speed of over 203mph.
The 458 Italia on display this year at the Festival of Speed will be a “bi-colore” Rosso Fuoco (dark red) car with a Nero Daytona roof (black). This car encapsulates the racing pedigree of the 458 Italia with the full carbon-fibre interior and exterior packages, including carbon-fibre rear diffuser, side sills and F1-inspired front winglets.
The Ferrari California is the Prancing Horse’s first front-engined V8 which shares styling cues with one of the greatest designs from Ferrari’s history, the 250 GT California. The new California, however, is packed with the latest technology and includes Ferrari’s first application of the dual-clutch 7-speed gearbox, a direct injection 4.3 V8 engine with 460hp, the latest F1-Trac traction control system, multi-link rear suspension, and, of course, an innovative retractable folding hardtop that opens or closes in only 14 seconds. The California has already received the critical acclaim of the automotive press around the world, with Top Gear claiming it is a “proper God’s honest, marrow-deep Ferrari”, and Autocar describing it as “absolutely bloody marvellous!”
The Ferrari California on display at Goodwood features a “bi-colore” roof, with the car painted in Tour de France (dark blue) and the roof and A-pillars in Grigio Titanio (Silver) to echo the tradition of bi-colore berlinettas of the 1950s and 1960s. The car on display in the Supercar Paddock also features host of extra factory-fit options from the Carrozzeria Scaglietti Personalisation Programme, such as diamond-stitching on the rear seats and Cavallino stitching on the headrests.
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Source : http://www.theautochannel.com

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Car style batik bring promising turnover

Interest in modifying cars come with batik motifs embellish the home modification business. Besides looking different, the car has dibatik, usually, also soared. As a result, its business prospects are also quite bright.
Batik is already a new trend for the clothing industry. The development is so rapid design motif. Of objects relating to clothing or fabric, now, batik has penetrated into other media. One car.
Just look at the steps of PT Mercedes-Benz Indonesia, which recently launched the limited edition Smart car with a body wrapped in batik motif. Microcar produced by Daimler AG offers car body design with a batik motif and the archipelago of urban camouflage that can suck people's interests.
Some home modifications to orders enjoying the "batik" cars and other media. Pay Sholahuddien, owner Gafix Pay Water in East Jakarta, for example, had received orders batik three cars owned by Blue Bird taxis. He takes about 10 days to paint a batik motif on the body's three cars.
Tommy Dwi Djatmiko, owner of Graphic Mastomcustom Airbrush System, South Jakarta, is also working on a project with a batik style of automotive modification. Last year, in collaboration with designer Carmanita, he successfully "batik" Mercy C 250 CGI at the request of PT Mercedes-Benz Indonesia. "I'm optimistic, this business will increase," he said.
Decky Irawan, owner of Beta Motorsport in Surakarta, also see the trend of "batik" car continues to rise. He never painted batik a car with the theme "Modis make Manten Java". His work won three trophies at the same time in a contest modification in Surabaya, the beginning of May. "The car modification batik started a trend. It used to just patch the animation, is now beginning to switch to the motif, "he said.
Unlike the usual modifications, batik cars or other objects do need a different atmosphere. According to Pay, all must be originated from the love of batik. "Batik motifs on objects of any kind will not be swallowed up by time, it is always valuable and elegant. Moreover, his touch was to Indonesia, "he said.

Business promise
Armed with this love, but a "batik" car, Pay also developed batik to multiple media, such as casing mobile phones, laptops, refrigerators, motorcycles, even excavators. "Perhaps, the only excavator in the world with batik motif is that we've ever made at the request of PT Kobexindo," said Pay. Excavator he was working on for 10 days.
Although states still pioneering stage car batik business, Pay said, the tariff modification motif is not cheap. He pegged the cost of USD 8 million for "batik" a car, $ 18 million for "batik" one unit of excavator, and Rp 2.5 million for "batik" a motor. "Capital in the automotive batik is about 30% of the total cost of what I wear," he explained in KONTAN.
Rates of modification was comparable to the benefits. Relying on its unique design, Tommy saw, batik car value higher than usual modifications. For your information, the price Mercedes C 250 CGI has ever worked on Tommy approximately USD 670 million. But, after the body "dibatik", with the auction process, the car was valued at Rp 1 billion.
According to Tommy, for lovers of art, may be, a car costing billions still cheaper when compared with awards in the arts. Still, "People who do not like batik and art might argue differently," he said.
However, Ratno Halim, fitter Some Sound Car Audio in Jakarta had "batik" Toyota Alphard Vellfire Daniel Mananta VJ's, warned, because related to cultural or ethnic motives, business continuity modification motif is highly dependent on the customer.
But, if it turns out profitable from an economic standpoint, it is not possible modifications to the car with batik designs can be a beautiful investment fields. "Both in terms of aesthetics and popularity, the more valuable car. Because, with the character of batik on a car, people will more easily remember who the owner, "he said.
Decky illustrates, from the experience so far, profits from the sale of cars that have been modified batik between 15% to 20% of the selling price of the car. This margin can be thicker if the right to choose the design. For instance, "I wear batik parang motif because the first is only used by the nobility. Thus, by design, the car looks very graceful, "he said.
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Robot Love in China

A company in China launched a new sex robot. The surplus, a beautiful robot is claimed to be able to communicate and identify its owner.
Sex Love is who created the robot. With the ideal posture as high as 165.1 inches, the manufacturers apply a soft synthetic leather and muscles of the silicone gel is a metal frame strung with modern tech.
Love Sex manager, Li Jian, said the robot costing £ 3,000 or about Rp41, 9 million were targeted high-paid executive men are too busy to have a real partner.
When deciding to buy, customers can select a face and figure robot cult. Robot selection will then be programmed to recognize its owner's face. Programmed at the same time determines the choice of language to converse with the owners.
Li Jian said the robot was equipped with a remote control for controlling the movement of long distance. By pressing one button on the remote, the robot can change its position, even thrilling one part of his body.

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Menamcing curious claims its sophistication, this sex doll managed to create a crowd when attending an exhibition in Sex Culture Exhibition in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province.
Sex robot offers an alternative for fans of puppet sex. The manufacturers claim, robot sex is more impressed than the realistic sex doll that has been widely circulated.
Robot sex free first went on sale in America in early 2010 ago. TrueCompanion, the manufacturer of the product menklaim which they named 'Roxxxy' as the world's first robot sex. Doll robot is designed specifically as a date.
The robot is equipped with artificial intelligence program to study things like preferred and non-users."He will be able to talk, listen, follow conversations, and feel the touch at once become your real friends," according to TrueCompanion statement on their website. "He can have an orgasm when you touch it."


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New Kawasaki ZX-10R 2011

Kawasaki has upped the ante in the literbike wars with the most technically advanced sportbike it’s ever created. Its traction-control system is not only highly sophisticated, it is also standard equipment and is the first high-performance TC to be fitted to a Japanese sportbike.
A few weeks ago, lucky canine Pete came away from riding the new Ninja at Road Atlanta gushing about the transparent nature of the Sport-KTRC TC. “The system’s activation is notably seamless and not nearly as assertive as Ducati’s DTC,” he wrote in his First Ride review. He also praised its improved chassis and rippin’ 170-horse powerplant.  And the MO staff agrees that this is one of the most attractive Ninjas ever.

One caveat: Kawasaki recently placed a “technical hold” on ZX-10Rs, withdrawing shipped models from the market until it solves a still-undisclosed problem, rumored to be within the engine but not something that could cause catastrophic failure. Kawasaki is playing conservative with this issue, but you can bet they’ll have it sorted promptly.
Anyway, you can’t buy a cheaper TC-equipped sportbike than the ZX, ringing in at $13,799. A racetrack-developed ABS system adds $1000 to the price.
Although we still need to sample the 10R on the street and in the company of its rivals to judge its ultimate potency, we’re already believers in the potential of this exciting new literbike. Pete ended up his review warning the other Japanese brands: “Honda, Suzuki and Yamaha had better step up their game ASAP or risk a shrinking profile in the literbike wars.”

Sumber : www.motorcycle.com

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