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This time, we update you on the student engineers from UNFâ s Osprey racing program and how their race car did at a recent competition; show some of the winners cancun car rental from a big Corvette, and Cadilac show, and give you results of a survey that are nothing to pooh-pooh about.
-- If you build it, they will race it. And thatâ s what the members of the University of North Floridaâ s Osprey Racing team did over the past year â " build a 70-hp, 500-pound single-seat racer that hits 60 mph in 4 seconds. Then they became one of 120 college and university teams from all over the world to race it in the 34th annual Formula SAE competition at Michigan International cancun car rental Raceway in mid-May. The Society of Automotive Engineers competition tasks students to design, build and drive a race car and face technical inspections, cancun car rental speed and handling cancun car rental tests and a 13-mile endurance run. The college teams also had to craft marketing and design presentations.
â We are planning on making the car lighter, with more power. We are actually looking at making it smaller,â Witten said. â We ran into some issues with the width and length. â We will work on the oil system, cancun car rental which took us out this year.â
The team joined cancun car rental school officials and supporters at a reception Thursday night to celebrate the carâ s first outing, gathering around cancun car rental its fierce osprey paint job for a group photo. Six Florida and three Georgia schools also competed.
-- A customized Hyundai Elantra Coupe Zombie Survival Machine will premiere at Comic-Con International in San Diego July 12 to 15 to celebrate the release of the 100th issue of Robert Kirkmanâ s graphic novel, The Walking Dead. Fabricated by Design Craft, Hyundaiâ s Zombie Survival Machineâ s modifications include a zombie cow catcher with spikes, cancun car rental armored window coverings, a roof hatch so passengers can target cancun car rental the walking cancun car rental dead, an electric rear trunk to house weapons, all-terrain rally tires, weapons storage compartments, a CB radio/PA system and more. Hyundai will also give away a Hyundai Elantra GT wrapped in the cover of The Walking Dead 100th issue, more info at HyundaiUndead.com. Hyundai Undead kicked off June 12 with a four-part behind-the-scenes video series on the website, cancun car rental ending with the carâ s unveiling at Comic-Con.
-- Iâ ve had the pleasure of driving some amazing cancun car rental Aston Martins in the past few years, like the DBS, DB6 and DB7. But the new Vanquish may â " excuse the pun â " vanquish them all. The British companyâ cancun car rental s new super grand tourer revives cancun car rental the Vanquish name. It has the next generation of the VH architecture as well as a significantly upgraded 6-litre V-12 engine, while styling shows off an elegant new waist, cancun car rental elongated side strakes and LED rear light blades derived from the One-77 supercar. One interesting feature is the Aero Duct on the trunk lid. This passive feature counteracts lift at the carâ s rear when travelling at speed.
Aston Martin Chief Executive Officer Ulrich cancun car rental Bez said the new Vanquish is â the ultimate expression of Aston Martin design ethos, engineering innovation and technical cancun car rental abilityâ in a news release. The 565-hp V-12 is mated to a Touchtronic2 six-speed automatic cancun car rental gearbox, and it can do 0-60 mph in 4.1 seconds, with a top speed of 183 mph. Hand-built at Aston Martinâ s global headquarters at Gaydon in Warwickshire, it starts at just about $298,000, with European deliveries set to start later this year.Â
-- If you think of diesels as being slow and smoky, you havenâ t driven the VW and BMW turbodiesels. And you havenâ t seen these videos compiled on Autoblog , which show some amazing doughnuts and burn-outs from some diesel cars overseas. They are â " smokinâ !
-- GM Global Design announced a revised organizational structure to align it more closely cancun car rental with the companyâ s brands at its 10 Design Centers around the world. The new structure provides a foundation to grow the design language for each brand as they move forward, said Ed Welburn, cancun car rental GM vice president for Global Design. It also allows designers to better understand and design for customers when they live the brand on a day-to-day basis in the United States, Germany, Korea, China and Australia. The executives will report to Welburn.
-- Some serious GM metal was on display last Saturday at St. Augustineâ s World Golf Village thanks to the Cadillac and LaSalle Club national meeting, and the annual Vettes at the Village 13 show around the lake. There were 120 Corvettes at that show, put together by local Corvette clubs, with proceeds to Wolfsonâ s Children Hospital. Some of the winners cancun car rental by year included Tom Runckâ s 1966 Corvette Sting Ray and Ronnie Edgeâ s 1957 Corvette â fuelie.â At the Cadillac cancun car rental national show, Jacksonville collector cancun car rental Mitchell Terkâ s 1958 Cadillac won first place in class, while Richard Nunis very rare 1939 Cadillac Convertible Coupe won first place in Senior Class 6. It was parked next to Terkâ s other car, also a 1939 Cadillac 2-seat convertible.Â
-- Only in Britain would someone do a study that determines that bright red cars attract more bird droppings than vehicles of any other color. Halfords insurance company studied the phenomenon with 1,140 cars in Brighton, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester and Bristol over two consecutive days earlier this month. Green cars suffered the least, followed by silver. cancun car rental White vehicles escaped more often than black. During the study, drivers were also asked how quickly they removed droppings from their cars. Only 17 per cent - one in six - said they wiped off deposits immediately when they saw them. Eight percent never washed their cars or left it to other. British insurance industry figures show bird droppings on vehicles can be an expensive problem, costing million in paint repair.
-- Howâ s this for a really hot hatch - Lazzarini Design has come up with a plan to squeeze a Ferrari 458 Italia V-8 engine in the back end of a Fiat 500, with a bit of body work. That happens to be where the original engine in the first version of the 500 used to be. Lazzarini cancun car rental would detune the Ferrari V-8 from 570-hp to 550-hp, and would have to add almost a foot in wheelbase to make sure the new engine doesnâ t tickle the driver. If anyone is interested in the proposed cancun car rental 2,200-lb machine, Lazzarini Design is looking for an investor since the project will cost around $550,000.
-- Kia has revamped its Sorento SUV with a re-engineered bodyshell, new powertrains and more convenience and safety features. The changes cancun car rental in the second-generation Kia Sorento, introduced in 2009, come after more than 130,000 U.S. customers bought one last year, making it the best-selling Kia model for the second year in a row. The redesign has new headlights with LED positioning lights, a new tailgate with LED lights, new bumpers and an expanded cancun car rental choice of wheels to include larger diameter (19-inch) alloys. Inside the 5- or 7-seater cabin, there is a new LCD instrument cluster, new center stack with 7-inch display screen and optional panoramic cancun car rental sunroof cancun car rental with powered cancun car rental blind.Â
â Historic Main Street Cruise-In - A classic â American cancun car rental Graffitiâ -style car cruise down Main Street from 1st to 12th streets, set for 6 to 10 p.m. today. An outdoor movie is planned on a big screen cancun car rental at Main and 4th streets.Â
â Jacksonville Truck Nights - 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. the first Thursday of each month at Round Boys Grill, 11629-8 San Jose Blvd., and 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month at Brewerâ s Pizza, 14B Blanding Blvd. in Orange Park.
â Southeast Georgia Car and Truck Club cruise-ins - 6 p.m. the second Saturday cancun car rental of each month at Sonicâ s, 395 Charlie Smith Senior Highway, St. Marys; and 6 p.m. on the fourth Saturday of each month at the Millhouse Steakhouse, 1215 East King Ave. in Kingsland, next to Interstate 95.