ROLLS ROYCE PHANTOMS

ROLLS ROYCE PHANTOMS SPECIFICATIONS,OVERVIEW,PRICING:

	2009 Rolls Royce Phantom Performance
- 6,749 cc 6.7 liters V 12 front engine with 91.9 mm bore, 84.6 mm stroke, 11.0 compression ratio, double overhead cam, variable valve timing/camshaft and four valves per cylinder - Premium unleaded fuel 91 - Fuel economy EPA highway (mpg): 19 and EPA city (mpg): 13 - Gasoline direct injection fuel system - 26.4 gallon main premium unleaded fuel tank 22.0 - Power: 338 kW , 453 HP SAE @ 5,350 rpm; 531 ft lb , 720 Nm @ 3,500 rpm
	2009 Rolls Royce Phantom Handling
- Four-wheel ABS - Brake assist system - Brake by wire - Cornering brake control - Four disc brakes including four ventilated discs - Electronic brake distribution - Electronic hand brake - Electronic traction control via ABS & engine management - Immobilizer - Responsive suspension - Stability control - Wishbone front suspension independent with stabilizer bar and air springs, multi-link rear suspension independent with stabilizer bar and air springs - Automatic front and rear suspension levelling

2009 Rolls Royce Phantom Exterior

- Body color front and rear bumpers - Chrome/bright trim around side windows - Day time running lights - Driver power heated body color door mirrors with automatic and automatic operation, passenger power heated body color door mirrors - Electric trunk/hatch pull down - External dimensions: overall length (inches): 229.7, overall width (inches): 78.3, overall height (inches): 64.3, wheelbase (inches): 140.6, front track (inches): 66.3, rear track (inches): 65.7 and curb to curb turning circle (feet): 45.3 - Electric foldable mirrors - Headlight cleaners - Projector beam lens Bi-Xenon headlights - Luxury trim wood & leather on doors and wood & leather on dashboard - Metallic paint - Fixed rear window with defogger - Glass electric front sunroof - Tinted glass on cabin - Weights: curb weight (lbs) 5,622 - Windshield wipers with automatic intermittent wipe and rain sensor

	'09 Rolls Royce Phantom Interior
- 12v power outlet: rear and 2 - Air conditioning with climate control and rear outlet 4 - Diversity antenna - Peripheral interior monitoring anti-lift anti-theft protection - Harman/kardon RDS audio system with digital radio, CD player, Disc Autochanger and six-disc remote changer - Automatic door closing - Automatic drive indicator on dashboard - Cargo area light - Cargo capacity: all seats in place (cu ft): 16.2 - Cellular phone - Front seats and rear seats cigar lighter - Clock - Compass - Computer with average speed, average fuel consumption, instantaneous fuel consumption and range for remaining fuel - Full dashboard console, full floor console with covered storage box, full overhead console - Delayed/fade courtesy lights - Cruise control - Front seats cup holders fixed, rear seats cup holders pop out - Display screen front and includes television - Door pockets/bins for driver seat, passenger seat and rear seats - External temperature - Floor mats - Driver front airbag with occupant sensors and multi-stage deployment, passenger front airbag with occupant sensors, occupant switch off and multi-stage deployment - Bucket heated electrically adjustable driver and passenger seat with height adjustment, lumbar adjustment, six adjustments and tilt adjustment - 3-point reel front seat belts on driver seat and passenger seat with pre-tensioners - Front seat center armrest - Two height adjustable electric adjustable active head restraints on front seats, two height adjustable active head restraints on rear seats - Headlight control with time delay switch-off and dusk sensor - Heated washer - Illuminated entry system - Internal dimensions: front headroom (inches): 40.2, rear headroom (inches): 38.5, front leg room (inches): 40.5, rear leg room (inches): 37.3, front shoulder room (inches): 59.4 and rear shoulder room (inches): 56.3 - Low tire pressure indicator - Memorized adjustment on door mirror position and steering wheel position with six driver's seat positions and six passenger seat positions - Navigational systems : information type: full map and voice and touch screen controls DVD and color - Parking distance sensors front, rear and radar - Remote power locks speed sensing - Vehicle speed proportional power steering variable rack - Front and rear power windows with two one-touch - Front and rear reading lights - Rear heater - 3-point reel rear seat belts on driver side with pre-tensioners, 3-point reel rear seat belts on passenger side with pre-tensioners, 3-point reel rear seat belts on center side - Rear seat center armrest - Three fixed bench front facing heated rear seats with zero adjustments - Automatic operation rear view mirror - Steering wheel mounted remote audio controls - Remote control remote trunk/hatch release - Front and rear side curtain airbag - Front seat back storage - Leather seat upholstery with additional leather - Seating: five seats - Service interval indicator - Front side airbag with occupant sensors - Fifteen speaker(s) - Leather covered electrically adjustable multi-function steering wheel with tilt adjustment and telescopic adjustment - Telematics - Illuminated driver and passenger vanity mirror with rear - Ventilation system with micro filter and active carbon filter - Voice activating system includes radio settings, includes phone and includes navigation system

audi a8w car

audi a8w specifications:
Test driving the 2009 A8 W12 is like auditioning at chauffeur school. "Yes, sir. No, sir. Right away, sir."

You acquire manners without even realizing it.

Drivers may sit behind the steering wheel, but the owner sits in the back. Why else would Audi provide more headroom, legroom and interior volume in the second row?

People who buy this car, which starts at $120,000, don't worry about all of the high-tech features available to the driver -- they often do not even know the driver's name.

This car pushes luxury to a whole new level of comfort, and, on weekends, maybe when the staff is given a reprieve, the owner will grab the keys to the A8 and take it out for a country ride.

Do it once, and he or she is destined to fire the chauffeur -- this car was made for driving.

Despite its size (it stretches more than 200 inches) and its weight (topping 4,700 pounds), the Audi A8 W12 provides blistering kinds of numbers. Its 0-60 acceleration time comes in at 5 seconds.

Five flippin' seconds! It has a top speed of 130 mph, which Audi limits electronically -- if it didn't, the car feels like it could break the sound barrier. It's a massive machine that can do anything much smaller sports cars can handle but better.

Blast off smoothly
The 6-liter, 12-cylinder engine hums at any speed pushing 450 horses and 428-pound-feet of torque to the car's all-wheel drive system, simply known as Quattro by the German automaker. The six-speed automatic transmission makes every shift barely noticeable.

The acceleration is actually more exciting than that. Time slows when you're blasting off in this car.

The power courses through you as the car surges forward, responding to your commands instantly. This car doesn't feel nearly as fast as it is. Its responsiveness is incredible. The steering is exact, and the air suspension and rigid body eliminate any movements. It just goes faster and faster in an avalanche of excitement. But driving this hard seems wrong.

Big, burly sedans should not have these abilities. It may wear Superman's tights under its Armani suit, but it still looks too big to be this nimble.

Forget that it's built with Audi's Space Frame construction with aluminum alloy body parts and comes with an aluminum 12-cylinder dual overhead cam engine. And forget that it features more technology and wood trim in the cabin than most executive jets. Really, its ride is smoother than most jets.

Two people could sit in the back playing chess and never realize they're flying down the highway at 110 mph.

Just don't try speeding anywhere near Detroit Metro Airport, where Romulus police will gladly pull you over for the most minor of infractions. In fact, when I drove the A8 W12 down Eureka Road on my way to Middlebelt, I thought for sure the police there were going to stop me just so they could look at this car.

It's that beautiful. The LED daytime running lights along the edge of the headlamps look like electric eyeliner. That big mouth of a grille chews up everything in front of it, and the touches of chrome trim glisten in the moonlight. If this car doesn't say "money" and "power," nothing does. The owner's manual should come in a leather briefcase.

Nearly perfect
Inside, the wood trim looks perfect. The navigation screen hides itself behind a simple panel on the dash. It's there if you need it, not there if you don't. The aluminum trim sparkles, and when you're in the driver's seat, everything you want is a finger movement away. Touch and go. Go really fast.

It has everything -- blind spot detection, radar-controlled cruise control, and even a system that vibrates the steering wheel slightly if you start to move out of your lane. It probably doesn't make a sound because it doesn't want to disturb the owner.

It tracks the road's lines and gently pushes you back into your lane if you go astray.

There is no better flagship on the road today. It exemplifies luxury and performance in a nearly perfect combination.

During my 100-mile test drive, I had to check the odometer to find out when the 100 miles were up. I could have driven all day in the A8 W12.

Better yet, I could have let someone else drive me around all day.

While the A8 W12 has all of the trappings of a sports car, it was made for executives who want the very best for their staff.

source: detnews

honda prius

Honda Insight
Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. are about to go head to head in a high-mileage hybrid smackdown.

In one corner, we have the new 2010 Toyota Prius, the third generation of the most successful gas-electric hybrid on the market by far. Classed as a midsize car because of its interior space, the new Prius weighs in with an EPA fuel-economy rating of 51 miles per gallon city, 48 mpg highway. It's got 24 more horses under the hood than the outgoing model -- combining the 98 horsepower four-cylinder gasoline motor and the equivalent of 36 horsepower from the battery-powered electric-drive system.

In the other corner stands the challenger, the new Honda Insight. The Insight is a smaller car -- it's classified as a compact -- and has a smaller, 1.3-liter four-cylinder engine. It gets its "hybrid" designation thanks to a system Honda calls "Integrated Motor Assist," which uses an electric motor sandwiched between the engine and transmission to give a helping hand to the four-cylinder gas engine. Compared with the hardware-intensive Prius system, this is Hybrid Lite. The Insight's mileage is rated by the EPA at 40 mpg city, 43 mpg highway.


Toyota Pirus

Game over. Toyota wins, right? Not so fast.

Rattling the Champ
Honda has already rattled the champ, and the first round hasn't really begun. Honda priced its new Insight at a shade under $20,000, about $2,000 less than the outgoing Prius base model. In response, Toyota is scrambling to offer a new base-base-model 2010 Prius that will start at $21,000, and held the price of its most popular Prius model at $22,000. The El Cheapo Prius won't arrive until "later this year," Toyota said last week.

A Toyota spokesman said the low-price Prius was planned from the beginning of the program, and is intended for budget-conscious city and state governments that want hybrids for their municipal fleets. But a $21,000 base price Prius will come in very handy for Toyota dealers looking to counter the aggressively low price on the Insight.

Honda has struggled to gain traction in the hybrid segment. Its hybrid Accord model, optimized for power, fared poorly and was dropped. The hybrid Civic has been more successful, but sells only a fraction of the Prius's annual volume. The original Insight, launched in 1999, was the first gas-electric hybrid on the U.S. market and made a splash with its 61 mpg city, 70 mpg highway mileage rating. But the aluminum-bodied two-seater with gawky fender skirts never recovered from the blow landed by the second-generation Prius and faded out of production in 2006.

Honda concluded from the Prius's success that it too needs a five-seater, purpose-built hybrid that functions as a rolling billboard to tell the world "This is a real Green Machine." But Honda is sticking with its bet that the Prius's "two motors for one car" strategy is too expensive and doesn't make sense for value-conscious customers.

The Insight's selling proposition is that it offers minicar mileage in a five-passenger compact with room enough to fit an adult's bike in the back, at a starting price roughly $2,000 to $3,000 below those of other hybrid cars on the market now. The Insight also is priced below the diesel Volkswagen Jetta, which is a solid competitor in the mileage derby at 30 mpg city and 41 mpg highway.

Honda let me test-drive an EX Insight model that had a sticker price of $21,970. With the EX package, you get a few more bells, whistles and toys than the base model: paddle shifters on the steering column, a 160-watt AM/FM/CD player with a USB connection in the center console for your iPod. All Insights have a full complement of safety gear, including side-curtain airbags, stability control and antilock brakes.

The Insight's exterior profile is reminiscent of the outgoing Prius's distinctive lines, reflecting the tyranny of the wind tunnel. The arcing roofline and the hatchback design would severely compromise rear visibility if Honda hadn't put an extra pane of glass in the tailgate. As it is, you have to look past a bar to see the cars behind you.

A Videogame Approach
On the road, the Insight rides quietly. The steering is firm and precise, though this is no sports car. Unlike the Prius, the Insight doesn't have an electric-drive-only "stealth mode." Most of the time, you're burning gas, except when you reach a red light or a stop sign. Then the Insight's engine will shut off until you take your foot off the brake. A little shudder signals the engine is back on after you hit the accelerator, and away you go.

The Insight, like the Prius and the Ford Fusion hybrid, offers drivers an involved videogame approach to maximizing mileage. Hit the big green button labeled "ECON" on the dash to the left of the steering wheel, and small screens in the dashboard display and the car's lighting scheme will signal in various ways whether you are driving for maximum mileage. (At night, for example, the light surrounding the digital speedometer will turn green.)

Eventually, it became clear that to get the best mileage, I should simply engage the cruise control and let the car figure it out. After cruising on country roads, serenaded by spring peepers, I got five leaf icons in the Eco Score screen, and an aggregate mileage as calculated on the computer of 44.2 mpg. (Those who truly master the system will see a "trophy" icon appear in the little information screen.)

The new Insight is a pleasant, highly economical commuting machine. It offers technologies other car makers will roll out in the future as U.S. car makers strive to boost fuel efficiency: the idle-stop function, more assertive mileage monitors, smarter fuel-management systems and electric motor-boosters that are less costly than the Prius's "almost an electric car" technology.

How the competition between the 2010 Honda Insight and the 2010 Toyota Prius plays out will be closely watched in the industry. Low gas prices and a lousy economy have depressed demand for hybrids considerably since the $4-a-gallon days of last summer. Dealers and rival car makers are wondering again whether demand for hybrid cars is almost entirely a function of gasoline prices.

Honda had 4,612 Insights at dealerships at the end of March, one week after the official March 24 launch. Rivals will be looking to see how many moved off the lot in April.

tesla's new electric car

tesla new electric car:
Telsa Electric Sports Car

The future of energy efficiency is on display at the state fairgrounds this weekend. The featured car at the Living Green Expo is the Tesla. It's the fastest, all-electric, American-made sports car and it gets more than 200 miles per charge.

The Tesla is the brainchild of the computer generation. People who made their fortune in the Internet decided to build an electric sports car.

One is owned by Horst Rechelbache, of Aved fame, now an organic farmer living off the grid. He says this kind of car is the future.

"I think it's going to be this race. Who is going to make faster, cooler-looking cars [that are] environmentally sustainable?" said Rechelbacher