Friday, October 11, 2013
Toyota Yaris Sedan 2014
The car has been updated with the latest styles , the company has developed manufactured by providing them with twin 4-cylinder engine to its customers can choose between the first 1.3 - liter capacity and the second 1.5, and both engines fall with very 4-speed Auto .
Drive a Toyota Yaris Sedan 2014 1.3 - liter is available in three packages S , SE and SE as well as many new colors characteristic .
And is characterized by a Toyota Yaris Sedan SE 2014 as containing central locking as well as power windows and four loudspeakers , sports seats and 15 - inch wheels and control the sound and distinctive body kit and gorgeous.
Car prices Toyota Yaris Sedan 2014 Toyota Yaris Sedan
Yaris Sedan 2014 it starts to AED 48,500 including equal 49.5029 SAR 1.3-liter model
53,500 AED including 54,615.44 equal to 1.5-liter model and a Toyota Yaris car sport sedan
At 56.900 dirhams including equal 58.0866 SAR and if the client chooses the SE model of the Toyota Yaris Sedan 2014 will be the price of AED 57.900 including equal to 59.1075 .
Photos of the car Toyota Yaris Sedan 2014 Toyota Yaris Sedan
Drive a Toyota Yaris Sedan 2014 1.3 - liter is available in three packages S , SE and SE as well as many new colors characteristic .
And is characterized by a Toyota Yaris Sedan SE 2014 as containing central locking as well as power windows and four loudspeakers , sports seats and 15 - inch wheels and control the sound and distinctive body kit and gorgeous.
Car prices Toyota Yaris Sedan 2014 Toyota Yaris Sedan
Yaris Sedan 2014 it starts to AED 48,500 including equal 49.5029 SAR 1.3-liter model
53,500 AED including 54,615.44 equal to 1.5-liter model and a Toyota Yaris car sport sedan
At 56.900 dirhams including equal 58.0866 SAR and if the client chooses the SE model of the Toyota Yaris Sedan 2014 will be the price of AED 57.900 including equal to 59.1075 .
Photos of the car Toyota Yaris Sedan 2014 Toyota Yaris Sedan
Stanford Solar Car
Just as co-eds are getting wrapped up in college football playoffs, a group of Stanford Universitystudents are dusting the sand off their shirts after a week in the Australian outback.
The team designed, built, and raced a solar-powered car 1,864 miles from the edge of northern Australia to the southern port of Adelaide.
Forty-eight teams made up of high school and college students from 24 countries competed in the cross-continental race, which promotes advanced solar-power technology that could fuel cars of the future.
Stanford took fourth in the biennial Bridgestone World Solar Challenge behind the Netherland’s Delft University of Technology, which placed first.
And although there is no cash prize, the first team to cross the finish line wins more than bragging rights. Many of these students go on to accept coveted engineering job offers.
Stanford students that participated in the past were offered jobs and internships with prestigious companies like Tesla Motors, Apple and Google.
The Stanford team spent two years designing and building Luminos, a carbon fiber car that can travel up to 70 mph and is powered almost entirely by the sun.
During the race the car averaged between 40 and 55 mph due to overcast skies and rain that often blocked the sunlight.
In addition to the overall design, the students built an original motor for the car.
In addition to the overall design, the students built an original motor for the car.
Each day, the cars travel as far as they can until 5 pm to avoid fender-benders with kangaroos that cross the road at night
“We learn a lot from designing and building almost everything on our car and we place a very high value on that,” said Jason Trinidad, an undeclared sophomore who took turns driving the car.
“It may cost us in placing in the race, [but] it does produce exceptional engineers.”
The team has 50 members who pitched in throughout the process, while 16 traveled to Australia. Stanford first participated in the challenge in 1989 and Luminos will be the team’s eleventh entry.
Professors say that students had guidance but no actual participation from faculty or professionals. The race is a chance for students to get their hands dirty and advance alternative energy technology at the same time.
“It’s good that challenge is in the title. It pushes the envelope and now things that weren’t possible before are possible today,” said Stanford professor and team advisor Sven Beiker.
Each day, the cars travel as far as they can until 5 pm to avoid fender-benders with kangaroos that cross the road at night. The blazing sun, although necessary to power the car, provides other challenges.
“The Outback is hot, lotta flies, not very comfortable place to be when you’re driving,” Ford said. Students on the solar team put in four-hour shifts driving in 90 degree weather, jammed in their single passenger car.
“They will probably come to a sense of, ‘Oh, you know what, a car that actually has air conditioning or a nice stereo or something like that, that makes a lot of sense,'” said Beiker.
This year the race encouraged more practical or useful designs that included four wheels and a roomier inside; previous vehicles had two wheels and barely enough room for the driver.
“Super efficiency is one thing, but to get consumers to subscribe to a high efficiency vehicle, that’s a whole different story,” said Beiker.
2015 Ferrari F12XX -
The Ferrari F12berlinetta and its predecessor, the 599 , are some of the baddest front-engine, V-12 supercars in the world. Poke each with a sharp stick, and they will easily hit 60 mph in less than 3.5 seconds, and deliver lap times ahead of anything else with the engine out front.
But the Ferrari pricing and positioning strategy seems backwards to some outsiders. The 458 is the entry-level car, then the FF wagon , then the F12 and ultimately, the million-dollar LaFerrari .
As the flagship production car line, the F12 is absolutely one of the best cars ever made. Period. Its high-dollar clients like it so much that the previous 599XX program of special, owners-only racing events has become a major profit center for the Prancing Horse.
A bit like renting a car for about $50,000 a day for a few days a year, the Corsa Clienti and XX evolution programs have some rich history with Ferrari. Worth recalling that the 288 GTO Evoluzione both directly spawned the F40 and a whole generation of turbocharged sports cars from Japan.
So to really get buyers to open the checkbook wider than ever, the F12XX program must whet their appetite for the front-engine exotic, but also leave them wanting even more. A buyer of one car suddenly owns two red stallions. It does not take an accountant to know how lucrative this double-down selling strategy is.
Of course, spending time on Yas Marina circuit or Imola with hundreds of racing-overalls-wearing Ferrari engineers does bring a bit more street cred when wearing a red baseball hat back home in the standard F12 .
So what do these double-rich buyers want from the XX program of the latest F12 supercar? Will it be a lightness and stripped-out racing program, a test-bed for new tires and manettino settings?
Or just a fun way to set the brakes on fire while keeping the wide-eyed racing stare of F1 heroes?
This exclusive TopSpeed rendering shows a speculative preview of the next Ferrari F12, which we have dubbed the F12berlinetta XX - or just F12XX for short.
Viper
C/D: How did you get started racing?In this new series, we peek into the personal stables of the people behind our favorite cars. Russ Ruedisueli (roo-duh-SELL-ee) has been racing in Formula Vee and Formula Ford for more than 20 years and, at 54, continues to successfully compete in SCCA events. That experience cross-pollinates with his day job as the head of Chrysler’s SRT and motorsports engineering.
RR: Tom Wilkinson [now communications manager at Chevrolet] started racing out of Waterford Hills, Michigan, in a Formula Vee, and that was like my introduction to heroin. He got me out there crewing with him and then got me into the car and through driver’s school. A couple years later I moved up to Formula Fords, and that’s where I’ve kind of landed.
C/D: Those are very different from the cars SRT sells.
RR: Yeah, they are. But the basics of making a car handle and respond so that the driver is comfortable still apply. If the driver is comfortable, you get better lap times and better race results.
RR: Yeah, they are. But the basics of making a car handle and respond so that the driver is comfortable still apply. If the driver is comfortable, you get better lap times and better race results.
BMW Outlines i3’s
Wacky World: BMW Outlines i3’s Bizarrely Named Trim Levels
BMW has finally released rudimentary details surrounding its i3’s trim levels and standard and optional features. If you were expecting the German automaker to utilize its recently deployed Luxury, Sport, and M Sport trim level categories (dubbed “lines” in BMW-speak) for the otherworldly i3, well you were dead wrong. Instead, the Bavarians have gone full psychedelic on its carbon-fiber-intensive electric car, offering it in three unique “Worlds.”
Hold onto your hat, folks, because this gets weird. Each “World” correlates to what us earthlings commonly refer to as trim levels or models. The base i3 is called Mega World, and is followed by the Giga World and top-spec Tera World. Why BMW chose to name the different i3 iterations after various powers of 1000 is beyond us, not the least because we’re not sure whether an i3 Tera World really is 1,000,000 times better than a Mega World. (Hopefully it doesn’t cost a million times more than the Mega, which we assume is the base i3 BMW previously announced would cost $42,275.) Anyhow, here’s what separates the i3s, in non-nerd terms:
i3 Mega World: Standard 19-inch wheels; navigation; BMW ConnectedDrive; 7.4-kW on-board charger; LED headlights, taillights, and daytime running lights; and “Sensatec” and sustainable cloth interior trimmings. A leather-trimmed steering wheel is also included, but the capacity to overcome the guilt drawn from needlessly killing an animal for steering-wheel embellishment is not.
i3 Giga World: adds Giga-specific 19-inch wheels; leather- and wool cloth–wrapped interior; decadent contrasting stitching for the leather-wrapped steering wheel; universal garage-door opener; keyless access; a sunroof; and satellite radio.
i3 Tera World: adds Tera-specific 19-inch wheels, full-leather interior, textile accents with contrasting stitching, and anthracite floor mats.
Mercedes-Benz S-class Coupe Spy
: The coupe variant of the new Mercedes-Benz S-class. It will replace the CL-class, and while it remains close to the outgoing model's position at the top of the brand's lineup, it’s now designed to be a stunner—as we saw at this year’s Frankfurt auto show when Mercedes previewed this car with the Concept S-class Coupé. The S-class coupe will be lowered by a full inch and a half from the sedan’s ride height, and exhibit several aggressive and unusual styling elements: a wide and protruding grille, horizontally stretched taillights, and side mirrors perched on the shoulder line rather than the front quarter window—the latter an element we’ll see more of from Benz’s sportier offerings.
The interior of the new S-class coupe will retain key elements of the S-class sedan, such as the dual TFT displays and the column-mounted gear selector. Considering it will be lowered by a considerable margin, rear-passenger space will be somewhat tighter than in the CL, but it should remain comfortable enough for grown-ups. The CL’s frameless and pillarless windows will remain a trademark of the two-door S-class.
Why It Matters: The S-class coupe will underscore the bold market positioning of the S-class. Daimler hopes that after killing off its Maybach über-luxury brand, the S-class will be considered the best car in the world. Therefore, the coupe must venture deep into Bentley Continental GT territory, and offer a level of luxury and performance on par with the handbuilt vehicles that roll out of Crewe. With no comparable offerings from Audi or BMW, the S-class coupe aims to help prove that Mercedes is the quintessential luxury brand.
What's more, the S-class coupe is intended to quell criticism of the polarizing Chinese-market-driven styling language launched by chief designer Gorden Wagener.
Platform: The underpinnings of the Mercedes-Benz S-class coupe are shared with the car’s four-door counterpart, and the bones will serve as the foundation for an upcoming fabric-top convertible, too. Mercedes aims to drop considerable weight from the outgoing CL through the use of high-strength steel and aluminum.
Powertrains: The S-class coupe will share its powertrain options with the sedan. There will be two twin-turbocharged V-8 models: The S550 will displace 4.7 liters and pack 455 horsepower, and the S63 AMG will have a 577-hp, 5.5-liter. Of course, 12 cylinders will be on the menu, too, in the form of the S600 and the S65 AMG. The S600 will use a twin-turbo 6.0-liter V-12 making a fair amount more than 500 horsepower, and the S65 using the same layout to achieve 621 horses. All-wheel drive is likely to be standard on the S63 and available on the S550, but Mercedes has hinted that it would like to keep its 12-cylinder models exclusively rear-wheel drive. A seven-speed automatic should be the only transmission available at launch, but it’s possible the brand’s upcoming nine-speed could be ready in time to supplant the less-endowed gearbox.
Competition: Bentley Continental GT, Rolls-Royce Wraith.
Estimated Arrival and Price: Mercedes-Benz will launch the S-class coupe in late 2014 as a 2015 model. Prices will begin near $120,000 for a base S550 and approach $250,000 for a well-optioned S65