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McLaren Automotive MP4-12C Road Car Announced
March 19, 2010
Not often in the past have super/hyper car manufacturers taken time out to ensure that their cars are not only fast, but economical to boot. If you read our heads up earlier this week regarding the new ‘McLaren Automotive’ performance car’s impending announcement, you may be excited to know that this offering certainly does live up to the hype in almost every aspect.
As Zath is first and foremost, a technology blog, I won’t linger too long discussing what makes it a great car. Other than to say that it certainly will break 200MPH whilst hardly breaking a sweat, it will reach 125MPH in under 10 seconds and it will get back to a standstill in half that time. Suffice to say, it’s really not bad. It also provides petrol heads with an infinite amount of eye candy. A curvaceous body and dazzling paintwork (on the orange display model) make it just as pleasing to look at, as it seems to be to drive.
Continue reading »New McLaren Automotive MP4-12C Road Car Preview
March 17, 2010
High performance motor car manufacturer McLaren, perhaps most famous for their success in the Formula 1 area, have only twice ventured into the road car market before producing two of the highest performance cars in the world at their respective times of release. Tomorrow however, they are set to launch the MP4-12C that comes under a new brand of motor car named ‘McLaren Automotive’.
It is good to see a proper British car manufacturer still flourishing. Since the fall of manufacturers such as Leyland Cars and more recently the likes of TVR, British motor car manufacturing has not exactly been fruitful in recent years. Although McLaren cars may not be ten a penny, what they have produced in the past has done our nation proud with the quality and performance they offer, whatever the price.
Continue reading »Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid Concept Car
March 5, 2010
The world, as you probably know, has in recent years developed somewhat of an obsession with ‘going green’. Renewable energy sources, reducing packaging, but one of the most major breakthroughs in terms of being environmentally friendly must be the development of the hybrid car. A car that can happily switch between a roaring, gas guzzling petrol engine, and a silent (but deadly?) electric one.
Electric concept cars are all the rage now, many have tried their hand in this market, most notably Toyota with the Prius and Tesla with their prestigous Roadster. Now however, there is a new player. Porsche. Well known for their reasonably priced high performance sports cars and a spatter of other vehicles. Certainly, I would never have expected such a manufacturer to unveil not one, but three hybrids. But never fear, they still do the earth shattering speeds you may be used to.
Continue reading »Garia LSV Concept Car – A Road-Legal Golf Buggy?
February 25, 2010
Across the world golfers opt to travel around the course in electrical car’s specifically designed to navigate the course fairly quickly without destroying the necessary tranquility and pumping fumes around the course. For some while now, companies have been striving to create similar hi-tech future cars that are fit for the road.
The demand for fully electrical, or hybrid cars has gone through the roof in recent years and as a result, manufacturers have responded with cars such as the Toyota Prius and at the other end of the market, the Tesla Roadster, both of these examples are helping to spur on development of other environmentally friendly cars like the Fiat Eco-Drive.
Well at this year’s Geneva Motor Show, a less well known manufacturer called Garia, have displayed a street-legal electrical golf car so you can combine your leisure activities with your travel arrangements. Nothing could be more convenient for any golfer I’m sure.
Continue reading »Cars To Become Mobile Wi-Fi Hotspots? Audi A8 Features 3G Internet Access
February 15, 2010
Just the other day I was pondering whether there would be any benefit to including 3G mobile broadband connectivity into cars. Then today I log onto the Internet and do the usual rounds, before I stumble across an interesting article telling me that Audi have joined up with Qualcomm and done this very thing. The navigation system in the new Audi A8’s will now include 3G capability in which a driver just shoves in a connected sim card and it opens him up to a whole host of features previously unheard of in motor cars.
Ok so you’re not going to sit browsing the net whilst in the driver seat, that would be more dangerous than using your phone, but the features are somewhat impressive. For example, when you pass a landmark or spot an interesting building, or a historical venue, the navigation system will give the driver the simple option of pulling information from sources such as Wikipedia regarding that spot. Great eh?
Continue reading »LED Car Sign – Tell Other Drivers What You Think?
December 11, 2009
You know sometimes when you’re driving down the motorway and another driver does something completely unexpected and all you want is for them to know exactly how you feel about it. Well the LED Car Sign is a much better way of letting them know than the old two fingers up in the mirror.
Of course, this sign isn’t abusive, mostly; the signs project messages such as ‘thanks’ or a smiley face. You can also apologise with a simple ‘sorry’, or you can order them to back off. It attaches to the windows of your car via a traditional ‘sucker’ which provides a strong hold as always. It is powered by 4xAA, as well as 2xAAA batteries.
Continue reading »Fiat Eco-Drive Promotes Economical & Environmentally Friendly Driving
October 27, 2009
Several weeks ago, you may have read my previous article on my current 5 favourite Adobe Air apps. Well, I guess it’s not just for personal use after all. Fiat, the car manufacturer, uses an Adobe AIR based application called ‘Eco-Drive’ on their 500 model to assist drivers in becoming more efficient and ‘green’ – this also adds to the 3 Hi-Tech car advances that I wrote about recently too.
3 Hi-Tech Cars Of Today Creating The Future Of Motoring?
October 17, 2009
Here at Zath, we obviously love using hi-tech gadgets, thinking about future artificial intelligence developments and any other cool implementation of technology, so whenever our cars feature a new gadget or gizmo, we approve! However, just take a look at these 3 great hi-tech cars of today that could well influence future car design to the point where we are all driving around in cars that include a combination of all these car technologies!…
Assisted Parallel Parking – AUDI
The new range of AUDI’s have an optional extra, an automatic parking system. In theory, it sounds pretty simple, but the technology behind manufacturing it is something which I personally, wouldn’t begin to try and explain. Basically, the lower body of the car is surrounded in tiny camera’s, similar to those you see on the rear of some cars used for parking sensors.
