Airbus Aircraft Converted to Formula 1 Cars

Racing car event 'jet land' Formula 1 will be held on 1 November 2009 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. This moment appears to be used by Etihad Airways of Abu Dhabi by paint all over the body of the plane with the symbol of Formula 1.

"We are very happy, we can fly our fleet with F1 theme to the whole world," said Executive Vice President of Abu Dhabi Etihad Airways, Peter Baumgartner, in the information submitted to the VIVAnews through a spokesman IPM Public Relations, Teddy Arifianto, Tuesday, 13 January 2009.

Plane wich get the spray 'air brush' is a type of Airbus A340 600 series. In the picture, this plane display has a dynamic design with white on the front of the plane. There are also red in the fuselage. The official F1 logo placed in the plane machines. Do not forget the famous chequered flag displayed on the back or plane tail.

This aircraft is operated on Etihad flight from Abu Dhabi to London, Sydney, New York and Toronto. Etihad ensure, that aircraft design will attract the attention of racing fans around the world while spreading enthusiasm of F1 Grand Prix event in the United Arab Emirates.

Before this A340 aircraft, the company based in the capital of the United Arab Emirates also has an A320 aircraft which also be painted with special symbols F1 car racing event. A320 aircraft has been flying since last year to every country in the short-haul route on flying network Etihad including Amman, Cairo and Beirut.

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Car Donation Tips

Donation do not know what materials are donated. Any little material that you give, big role for some with less fortunate.

But if you decide to donate the materials such as a car, you need some consideration. If its wrong step, not a donation you make, you may stuck in bad things such as a fraud.

So it is a good idea to follow these tips such as following to donated a car.

- Avoid the Third Party
There are various parties in the TV or on the advertisers board who claim themselves ready to distribute your car. But many do not know if this organization is taking a hit as 50 to 90 percent of car prices.

To prevent, do first small-scale research on this organization. Find out if they are professionals in dealing with problems like this.

- Find the Right Charities
When the organization that you want is not capable handling materials like car, then find the appropriate agency.

In 2009, agency such as this organization has been easy found. Don't be lazy to search up to find the right organization. Especially now we have Internet the easy way for your research.

- Recalculate
When you finally decide to use services charity organization, directly discussing about price-cutting from their services. Recalculate carefully until you do not feel disadvantaged.
- Identify the Charity's recipient
The most important thing in a charity is the right target. Cars are not cheap, but first recognize the charity's recipient to match your qualifications.

Do they need this charity? or perhaps they able to buy a new car. Usually the most secure services use your friend you trust.

From their information you can consider qualified candidates for the recipient. Whether he is eligible to receive this assistance?

- Make a Self Shipping
When found the right target, more secure if we deliver for your own. Not mean to show of, but as a preventive step from unwanted things.

- Send it carefully
Want to prevent damage? Be careful when you drive the car you want to illicit. Not good
not take the car with the charity or damaged disability?

- Examine
Donations such as this type of has a big risk, because of that re-examine the administration.

Make sure that all legitimate and effective. Do not fall into the wrong hands especially used as a tool of crime. Happy charity :D

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OPINION: The real cost of unionized auto workers? $70/hour? Try $38!

There are plenty of people in this country who would desperately love to see all unions go away. Over the course of the congressional hearings on an automaker bailout this week many of those people have continually brought up the un-cited "fact" that UAW workers get $70/hour in wages and benefits as opposed to about $40 or so for non-unionized workers at the foreign owned transplants. While the UAW and the Detroit automakers have made more than their share of mistakes and deserve a good chunk of the blame for what is happening, there is a major problem with this particular argument. IT'S NOT TRUE!

UAW members do not take home $70/hour. That is the automaker's cost per active employee. What's the difference? The latter figure is total spent by automakers on wages and benefits divided by the number of active employees. The cost of benefits includes the pensions and health care costs for the hundreds of thousands of living retirees in addition to active workers. Those punching the clock every day, don't get a dime of that. As of last year, UAW workers made an average of $28/hour in wages + $10/hour in benefits. The rest went to retirees, a cost that is borne by the automakers. The reality is that unionized and non-unionized autoworkers actually make very similar wages and benefits. Continue reading after the jump.

[Source: The New Republic, via DailyKos]

You might be wondering why the UAW has had such a hard time organizing the US factories of Honda, Toyota, Nissan and others. A major part of it is because the workers there don't see a need to join. They already make as much as their unionized counterparts. The fact is that in industries like this, companies will often tend to match the compensation offered to union workers just to keep the union out. When I was growing up in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, there were two big steel companies in town, Stelco and Dofasco.

Stelco was unionized and Dofasco was not. Both companies paid workers essentially the same. My father worked at Stelco and went on strike three times over his 30 years there. Every three years when there was a new contract at Stelco, Dofasco automatically matched it for their employees. If the United Steel Workers at Stelco didn't pay the price to get those raises do you think Dofasco workers would have got them? Not a chance. It's exactly the same with the auto makers.

Since I can't find the precise quote at the moment, I'll paraphrase the late Studs Terkel, who asked someone who was anti-union, "Do you like going home from work at 5 o'clock? Do you like having health care benefits? Do you like having paid time off? You may not be in a union, but if you have any of that, you can thank union workers for it." Before unions fought for reasonable work weeks, health care, and workplace safety in the first half of the twentieth century, few Americans had any of that. Don't kid yourself that big corporations would give any of that from the goodness their hearts.

Yes unions have gone too far at times, but as we have clearly seen with the financial collapse in the last few months, non-union financial "geniuses" are actually far more to blame for the current predicament than those who punch a clock every day. The real reason so many are pushing for chapter 11 is not to save the automakers, because that will almost assuredly not happen. They want to break the union contracts. The problem is doing that will ultimately cost this country a lot more than $70/hour.

It's time to stop demonizing and start addressing the real root causes of this problem. That is the fundamentally flawed mechanism we have for paying for health care in this country and the ability for people to finance the purchase of vehicles. Until we put the screws to the financial "geniuses" things will only get worse.

Cadillac One Presidents Cars

The Presidential State Car is the official state car used by the President of the United States. It is also known as Cadillac One and here it is it all its glory.

Cadillac One Presidents Cars

The Presidential State Car is the official state car used by the President of the United States. It is also known as Cadillac One and here it is it all its glory.

Ford Taurus in Detroit Auto Show

Detroit - After getting a loan fund of the United States Congress, Ford directly launched their newest sedan placed in the Ford Taurus Detroit Motor Show (DAS) 2009 Sunday (11 / 1) in Detroit, USA.

"Latest Taurus give new definitions to expectations of consumers are expected in a sedan. Quality, fuel efficiency, high-end technology and the best design integrates in this car, "says America Ford President Mark Fields.

New Ford Taurus with Duratec V6 engine with a capacity 3.5-liter priced start U.S. $ 25,995. This Price is the same as 2009 models. As sedan in its level, Taurus saving benefits of the latest form of transmission system SelectShift (R) with a paddle shift control and four-wheel drive.

Ford claims the quality of materials and details of the latest production is equivalent to the Taurus premium sedans made in Germany, at both the exterior and interior.

"We wish to respond to consumers around the world about a high peforma car that still sparing fuel and low emissions," said the head of Ford engineering Pete Reyes.

According to the plan, Ford Taurus 2010 edition will be built starts in the Ford assembly plant in Chicago, USA

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2008, Audi Achieve 1 million Cars

In the middle of recessionary storm, Audi AG is able to achieve sales target 1 million cars in 2008.

This is the first time in the history of the successful German manufacturer sell 1,003,400 units in a year. Increased 4.1 percent from the previous year sales only 964,151 units.

"This 13 years record be a success by the whole Audi team," said Managing Director of Audi AG, Rupert Stadler, as quoted from topspeed, Friday 9 January 2009.

"We will continue this tradition until 2009. We also have the mission to make Audi the best brand in the world," he added.

Sales of Audi helped by Audi Q5 and the youngest members in 2008, the Audi A4 family.

Last variant rise 17.4 percent in December to be 82,800 units. Higher than sales in December 2007 which only reached 70,523 units.

Best sales going on Europe and Asia-Pacific region, not less than 822,100 units sold in these two regions.

While in Australia, was increasing 30.2 percent compared to last year with total sales reaching 9,410 units.

I think, Audi is the best car brand with a fantastic level of sales. Able to exceed the sales of cars with the same level. How do yo think about this?

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The New Honda Accord 2009

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The New Honda Accord 2009 on Show Room

The next generations from Honda in this Year. This is Hoinda Accord 2009. Eighth generation of Honda Accord is very near to its release. So how would 2009 Honda Accord Coupe that is going to be launched around the spring or summer of 2008 look like.

We have very little information on that but what we could claim is that it would very much resemble 2009 Honda Accord Coupe Concept, revealed in January at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.We could very much expect a choice between 4-cylinder engine and a V6. The next generation V6 (with Honda’s i-VTEC variable valve timing) is going to be more fuel efficient as claimed by company. V6 with its Variable Cylinder Management (VCM) technology will surely make it possible as the technology de-activates every other cylinder when the car is cruising under light load to reduce fuel consumption. Once higher power is required engine runs with its all the cylinder activated.

There is no doubt for the safety features of the future Honda Accord Coupe due to Honda’s Safety for everyone initiative. Honda has set up a baseline of safety features for all its future models. 2009 Honda Accord Coupe will be for sure have front and side-impact airbags for people sitting at front seats, the curtain style head protection airbags for both front and rear would fall in the basic safety features. The electronic stability control and advanced anti-lock brakes presence could not be denied. ACE i.e. Honda’s Advanced Compatibility Engineering body structure would be present which incorporates a front-end frame structure primarily designed to wholly soak up and dissolve crash energy over a big area in case of a frontal collision.

New Ferrari F70

The Ferrari F70 will be based on the Aurea Concept launched by Ferrari in 2004. The Aurea Project was born from the desire to place the F1 DNA on a normal car. This is what the new F70 will be about: a car with the design and power of a F1 car, but specially designed for the road.

On designing the Enzo, Ferrari needed to make some compromises in order that both the design and the technologies of the car to be satisfied. So they build the Enzo on aerodynamic consideration. But when they build the FXX they have realized that the Enzo could have all the technologies they had to give up. And in the F70 case all the aerodynamic will be hide under the car. The result is that the exterior design of the F70 won’t be affected by compromises, like in the case of the Enzo due to the aerodynamic technology developed by Ferrari and used in the FXX.

The front design will combine modern elements inspired from F1 cars with retro touches from the old supercars. The F70 will be made of carbon-fibre, and this will help to reduce the weight, thing that is necessary considering the big output of the car.

Like on the future F430 CS, the F70 will feature Magnesium sport wheels and the carbon grille in the back (also good to better cool the engine). The brakes will be upgraded with bigger discs, the soft Pirelli P-Zero tires give the car enormous grip, and the interior is completed with deep sport seats.

In the same style as the Ferrari P4/5, the F70’s two exhaust pipes will be mounted like the F1 cars on the top of the back end, and other two down in the diffuser.

The Ferrari Enzo it is powered by a V12 engine delivering 660 hp. The power on the F70 will grow with around 100 hp. Initially there were rumors that the F70 will have an output more than 800 hp, but Ferrari said that they have no intention of building a competitor for the Bugatti Veyron, and also a car with such an output will generate lots of problems, including heating and weight.

It is expected that the V12 on the F70 to deliver not more than 750 hp. This output will help the car to make the 0 to 60 mph sprint in less than 3 seconds and a top speed of 235 hp.

Source : http://www.streetrally.info/ferrari-f70.html

Eliminate Cigarette Smell From Car

YOU like smoking in the car? Often cause the rest of the smoke smell, especially for people who do not smoke while you ride the car.

In fact, although not smoking in any car, the most important components in the cabin cool car long run will not remove the smell scrumptious. Often the smell is out from the AC when we first turn.

Important action in the no savory smell of AC is the attention to air circulation. How, before turning off the engine and car AC fan, try turning off the AC first. And that is not less important, Make it about 30 minutes to open all doors and windows. This we can do in the garage after the car activated throughout the day.

Both the above is quite effective in preventing the growth of bacteria or fungi. Fungi that is easy to breed in the humid room that smells triggered.

Of course, the cleaning measures also need to be fixed. Clean the AC air filter regularly minimum every 30,000 km or 18 months. When the vehicle is not equipped with AC air filter, clean evaporator at least once every 2 years.

The steps AC cleaning can apply the following suggestions, namely: to prepare a bottle containing 20% fragrant liquids and 80% water. Mix until evenly distributed; spray mix into the cavity air (air intake) AC. Make this time AC on. AC on the level of the fast will give maximum results. After spraying, leave the AC still up more than four (4) hours.

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