Audi TTS Coupe
The Audi TTS, both in Coupé and Roadster body styles, combines enthralling sportiness with cultivated comfort. Its two-liter TFSI with the large turbocharger and numerous additional modifications pumps out 200 kW (272 hp) and 350 Nm (258.15 lb-ft) of torque, the latter from 2,500 to 5,000 rpm. With the optional six-speed S tronic, the Audi TTS Coupé sprints from zero to 100 km/h (62.14 mph) in 5.2 seconds and accelerates all the way to an electronically governed top speed of 250 km/h (155.34 mph). The Coupé with the S tronic consumes an average of only 7.7 liters of fuel per 100 km (30.55 US mpg).
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Crash Helmet With A Useful Smell
Cycling crash helmets have just one purpose: to protect the cyclist‘s head. But only completely damage-free helmets do the job properly. It is therefore recommendable to buy a new one every now and again, but nobody wants to throw away a perfectly good helmet. It would be better to know for certain that this is really necessary. A new process developed by German research scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Freiburg makes this possible. The polymer materials or plastics produced by the process start to smell if they develop small cracks. Large cracks really cause a stink. The smell comes from odoriferous oils enclosed in microcapsules. "Cyclists often replace their helmets unnecessarily after dropping them on the ground, because they cannot tell whether they are damaged or not. The capsules eliminate this problem. If cracks form, smelly substances are released," explains Dr.-Ing. Christof Koplin, research scientist at the IWM. The capsules are added to a polypropylene mass which is injection-molded to form the final component. In the case of the bicycle helmet, the microcapsules are inserted in a thick foil made of polypropylene, which is fastened to the head gear.
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Nino Farina Sports Car Based On Toyota Celica Gt-s Is Street Legal
Featured above is limited edition Nino Farina sports car that will make your stomach muscles tighten when you start it. The car is made on the Toyota Celica GT-S and has a renewed engine, suspension, bodywork with 1 warranty (not in Turbo model). The two door Nino Farina is powered by 192HP front mounted engine that can be customized to touch 350HP. Engine can be mated to 6 speed manual or 4 speed automatic transmission, as per customer’s wish. Nino Farina has a wheel base of 2600 mm and its length, width and height at 4340mm, 1935mm and 1215mm respectively. Featuring Ventilated Disc at the front and Servo-assisted ABS brake at the rear, Nino Farina has 2010 Nino Farina bodywork, 18? rims and 245/45 tires. In the interior, there is adjustable power Steering Wheel, Air Conditioning, Center Console, Compass/Temp Gauge, Coolant Temp, Front Bucket Seats, Inside Hood Release, Power Door Locks, Security System and many more. Above all, Nino Farina is street legal and is priced at US$29,990.
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MIT Team Designs Airliner That Uses 70 Percent Less Fuel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers recently released a concept aircraft design that could use 70 percent less fuel than current commercial airliners. The simple secret, they say: Optimize the aircraft for modern, efficient jet engines. Jet engines these days burn much less fuel at slightly slower speeds than the original designs that influenced the swept-wing designs of the ’50s and ’60s. One of the main problems is that most airliners still use leftovers from those designs even though the older jet engines they were designed around haven’t been used by most airlines for many years. Today’s modern jet engines are much bigger in size, and much more efficient and quieter, says professor Mark Drela, the lead designer on the MIT team. “From a purely design viewpoint, they’re really mismatched; the big engines want to go slower, which means the airplanes really want to have less wing sweep,” Drela says. “That’s one of the things we took advantage of.”
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