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This article is the one article that has made me re-consider buying a hybrds just as avoiding bargain priced houses beside a high voltage utility line.
In a statement, Toyota said: “The measured electromagnetic fields inside and outside of Toyota hybrid vehicles in the 50 to 60 hertz range are at the same low levels as conventional gasoline vehicles. Therefore there are no additional health risks to drivers, passengers or bystanders.”
The statement adds that the measured E.M.F. in a Prius is 1/300th of the European guideline.
The tests conducted by hybrid owners rarely approach the level of thoroughness of those run by automakers.
Donald B. Karner, president of Electric Transportation Applications in Phoenix, who tested E.M.F. levels in battery-electric cars for the Energy Department in the 1990s, said it was hard to evaluate readings without knowing how the testing was done. He also said it was a problem to determine a danger level for low-frequency radiation, in part because dosage is determined not only by proximity to the source, but by duration of exposure. “We’re exposed to radio waves from the time we’re born, but there’s a general belief that there’s so little energy in them that they’re not dangerous,” he said.
The next A6, which will probably show around 2011-12, will also be based on the MLP architecture and should definitely be an improvement over the current car. I don't really like any of MB's recent styling efforts, and the next E is no exception. Ugly.
I sympathize for the majority of NYC taxi drivers that soon may be forced to drive hybrids. IMO those cabbies will be better off driving new low emissions diesels.
Canadian fish? Yeah Pacific Wild Salmon is amazing. High Omega levels that is supposedly good for the heart and no high toxicity levels like farmed fish. Anyways I yearn for those great seafood restaurants that you have within your Floridian vicinity.
But, truthfully, none of the aforementioned represents the M3's prime competition. Indeed, theMcar's fiercest foe may come from the company's own showroom in the form of the nearly new 335i. Marry the 335's twin-turbo six with BMW's own sport suspension package and some sticky rubber and you have a sporting car worthy of the BMW name with enough left over to buy the kids a Honda Fit for college graduation.
As a BMW 335i owner with a sport package the above words confirms my view too! :shades:
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For me it goes like this: I want a C63 to play with, because it makes me feel like a 17-year-old, but it'd tire me out if I drove it everyday. I want an RS4 day-to-day, but think I'd hanker after something more throttle-adjustable now and again. The M3 is the best all-rounder, but I'm not really into the M3 image and ubiquity.
So there's the Lexus. Brilliant, exciting, slightly mad Lexus. It's flawed. It's not for the hardcore among us. But for some reason I'm drawn to it. Drawn to the technology, drawn to the fact there'll only be 150 in the UK per year. Drawn to its oddness.
So, for once, I'll leave the choice of what to take to you. Last one back to the UK isn't trying hard enough
You can read the whole article here
And, like a penguin reincarnated as a lion with a machine gun, at times it gets giddy with the sheer joy it and cannot contain itself any longer, screaming with euphoria Needless to say, it was an engine I fell in love with. It lurks under the huge bonnet power-bulge that is only the start of the scattering of sporty tinsel and glamour that mean the hard-edged version of the otherwise pretty boring IS is yelling at you before you’ve even fired up the V8.
Slot the gear-lever into drive and take off. Flipping heck. Letting the V8 off the leash is like, well, doing exactly that - letting it off the leash to have a run around the park.
Seldom do I get the chance to really sit back in the driving seat and give in to genuine surprise. But here, at the wheel of a car from a manufacturer known best for durability and discreet reliability, I was flabbergasted as the IS-F took off and headed for the horizon.
The whole article is here
Looks like the Brits are digging the new Lexus super sedan.
I'm sure y'all have been, but if not, I most highly recommend a trip to our Nation's Capitol. If nothing else, it reminded/reinforced that the idea, conception, governmental model and ideals of this country are just so right. I'll leave the execution of our ideals throughout history to your discussion. Where is George Washington when we need him? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you...
Toured the Capitol Building, sat in the House Gallery and was entertained by a Representative from the Great State of South Carolina. Thank you, Rep. Barrett for a fun, enlightening time. Watched a resolution presented and objected to regarding The Delta Queen. Kids were getting fidgety, so had to leave before all the yeas and nays were tallied, it was a close race. Fabulous tour guide, Albert Caswell the "unofficial Poet Laureate" of the Capitol.
Also, rode to the top of the Washington Monument, toured the Bureau of Engraving and Printing ("The buck starts here!") several Smithsonian Museums, showed the kids the White House.
I had two very emotional moments, chilling, prideful, patriotic, depressing, scary...:
First was at the National Air and Space Museum at Dulles Airport. Go, do not miss this museum! One section of the museum was dominated by a large, familiar looking, shiny metal aircraft. As I drew closer, I noted the name: THE Enola Gay. Stopped me in my tracks, as a cold shudder engulfed my body. A show-stopper for me...
The Second was the Vietnam Memorial. Crowded, beautiful, chilling, depressing, stunning, reverant. I would imagine any Baby-Boomer would have such feelings. I looked through the index for the name of my summer camp counselor who, if memory servers, received a draft number in the 30s that summer oh so long ago. To this day, I remember his name, the look on his face when he received his number. Much to my relief, his name was not on the wall. "Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, we're finally on our own..."
Also visited the WWII and Korean monuments which were also sobering, but Vietnam was, unfortunately, "my war." Stopped in front of the IRS building and booed rather loudly.
Stayed in Landover, MD. Took the T, I mean Metro, into the city daily. A relatively clean, efficient subway system. One funny note: Each day the Metro would go by RFK stadium just before going underground. ONe day it appeared that there was a tractor-trailer school training future 18-wheel drivers in the parking lot of RFK. The next day, one of the very tall light towers was on the ground in that same parking lot, no sign of the tractor-trailer folks!
Great vacation, so much to see and do. Almost all free, but you do need tickets for the Washington Monument tour, Capitol and Bureau of Engraving. All worth it.
Go, even if you've gone before.
'21 Dark Blue/Black Audi A7 PHEV (mine); '22 White/Beige BMW X3 (hers); '20 Estoril Blue/Oyster BMW M240xi 'Vert (Ours, read: hers in 'vert weather; mine during Nor'easters...)
As for the Enola Gay, that airship saved many American and Japanese lives in the long run. That is the way I look at it.
And yes, the Viet Nam Memorial is bleak and stunning. All those names. All those heroes....
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Sorry, just in a mood. I sincerely hope there is no "Planet of the Apes" ending in store for our tiny little planet...
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In an interview, one of the Enola Gay pilots said that he is often thanked by WWII vets, who "knew" that they wouldn't be coming back from Japan. He said the whole thing makes him a bit uncomfortable. Curiously, Bockscar has largely been forgotten. It's the Buzz Aldrin of nuclear bombers.
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Unfortunately, here in the US, Lexus is anything but "different."
'08 BMW X5 4.8i • '06 Audi A3 2.0T DSG • '05 Audi S4 Cabriolet
'08 BMW X5 4.8i • '06 Audi A3 2.0T DSG • '05 Audi S4 Cabriolet
Oh, they know. Believe me, they do. They just have to get on their feet in Europe before they can develop specific products there.
'08 BMW X5 4.8i • '06 Audi A3 2.0T DSG • '05 Audi S4 Cabriolet
Isn't it funny how this works? Five years ago, they needed twin-turbochargers to make that power.
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Regards,
OW
It took 2 years to get the burial set but it was good for my family to know closure.
Arlington says it all regarding all wars. Your chills were my chills.
BTW, excellent MPG on the TL loaded! I assume EW had you in Chauffeur Mode!
Regards,
OW
When will be the new RX available another 16months?
Another possibility is that Lexus will unveil it in this year's LA autoshow and put it on sale in spring next year as an early '10.
That probably means the Brits have good taste...
I know just look at the statement below:
It's flawed. It's not for the hardcore among us. But for some reason I'm drawn to it. Drawn to the technology, drawn to the fact there'll only be 150 in the UK per year. Drawn to its oddness
The author is drawn to the IS-f for 3 reasons and the two reasons are because it is odd and there are only 150 of them. Different indeed!
Also note the author recognizes how flawed the IS-F is since it is a car that is suppose to serve the hardcore among us like the BMW M3 and Audi RS4 does and in that regard it fails. No wonder there are only 150 of these odd and flawed cars selling in the UK. In fact I am even surprised that they are able to sell 150 of them.
It all started about two years ago, when a ship carrying 4,703 shiny new Mazdas nearly sank in the Pacific. The freighter, the Cougar Ace, spent weeks bobbing on the high seas, listing at a severe 60-degree angle, before finally being righted.
The mishap created a dilemma: What to do with the cars? They had remained safely strapped down throughout the ordeal -- but no one knew for sure what damage, if any, might be caused by dangling cars at such a steep angle for so long. Might corrosive fluids seep into chambers where they don't belong? Was the Cougar Ace now full of lemons?
So it decided to destroy approximately $100 million worth of factory-new automobiles. "We couldn't run the risk of damaging the brand name that Mazda worked so hard over the years to develop," says Jeremy Barnes, the company's corporate-affairs director for North America.
Wall Street Journal
From the R&T comparo and just on the performance specs alone:
0 - 60 mph
RS4: 4.5 sec
M3: 4.6 sec
IS F: 4.2 sec
C63: 4.1 sec
1/4-mile time
RS4: 13 sec
M3: 13 sec
IS F: 12.6 sec
C63: 12.5 sec
Slalom
RS4: 70 mph
M3: 72.9 mph
IS F: 70.9 mph
C63: 69.3 mph
Skidpad
RS4: 0.94 G
M3: 0.95 G
IS F: 0.93 G
C63: 0.93 G
Braking, 60 - 0 mph
RS4: 118 ft
M3: 113 ft
IS F: 116 ft
C63: 113 ft
Braking, 80 - 0 mph
RS4: 204 ft
M3: 195 ft
IS F: 201 ft
C63: 201 ft
Source: Road and Track
Wasn't that from the R & T review in which the BMW M3 was ranked Numero UNO among all of them.
And by the way wasn't the IS-F ranked among the lowest ?
I dont have the riveting details of that article since I speed read all my auto mags at a grocery check out counter.
Imagine a Toyota Prius, but faster, cleaner and greener. Such a car is coming soon and will launch at the Detroit auto show in January 2009.
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Sources suggest that the next Prius will be some three to four inches longer and about an inch wider, but crucially will not be significantly heavier.
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One, Toyota will re-engineer the Prius' unique gas engine/electric motor/battery powertrain to make it more efficient, more tightly packaged and to extend the driving range using battery the electric motor.
Two, Toyota will install a bigger 1797 cc four cylinder gas engine to cope with the bigger body and counter criticism in some quarters of the weedy performance of the current 1.5.
With the new 1.8, output's expected to shift from today's 75 bhp to a more rousing
100 bhp. This together with a next generation electric motor should lift combined system output from the current 110 bhp to some 160 bhp, sources predict.
As such, the next Prius will be significantly faster, especially off the line and in low to mid range. But advances with the motor, battery and recharging inside Toyota's trick Hybrid Synergy Drive means economy won't be adversely affected.
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Different markets around the world have their own take on exactly how green and frugal the Prius actually is. America, for instance, rates the 2008 Prius at a far more real world-like 48 mpg/45 mpg/46 mpg for city/highway/combined.
Japan's 10.15 mode, nevertheless, while not perfect, does give an idea of the kind of efficiency improvements we can expect with the next Prius (ie some 10 per cent-plus) and suggests, perhaps, that America's Combined rating for the 2010 Prius will lift up to the 50-55 mpg mark.
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Toyota meantime is also working on Plug-in versions of the next Prius, of course. The idea of being able to recharge the Prius' battery pack from a standard domestic socket to extend the vehicle's driving range in electric mode is the next step along way to lifting the Prius into yet another eco stratosphere.
Tests are now under way on European, American and Japanese roads with a fleet of prototypes and Toyota has already announced that it plans to launch sales of Plug In Hybrids (fitted with state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries) to fleet buyers in the US and elsewhere by 2010.
However, plug-in won't come at launch in 2009 and as widely reported, Toyota has also put back the planned intro of state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries for the standard Prius due to worries over reliability, pricing, supply and other factors.
Lightweight and high power, Li-Io is the definitely future, however, and Toyota has also said that it is actively now looking into mass production of the batteries in Japan together with Panasonic.
So to start with, the Mk 3 Prius will kick off with nickel-metal hydride batteries, as now. But the battery pack and indeed the whole system will be more efficient and tightly packaged.
As usual, M3 is the scalpel of the bunch!
Regards,
OW
I don't think anyone would disagree with that.
In any case, I am not interested in any of these cars in the near future. Only some thing like a GT-R would get my money for a sport car.
The next S4...
- 350+hp supercharged V6
- 0-60 mph within 5 seconds
- $45k starting MSRP
I'll become an Audi owner when that happens.
I got a nail in the tire yesterday, and the tire place was packed with people, so I decided to take it to the Audi dealer where I purchased it....They said they didn`t fix tires, and made no more effort to help out...other than suggest the tire place....It may sound meaningless, but for me not....I guess the coming up suv will either be a Lexus or a bmw.....Audi has made some good strides building their dealership base, but they still have a ways to go, at least here...The product is a good one, so again I suggest anyone buying any new car, to check the dealership out thoroughly before buying....A good dealership makes all the difference...Furthermore this isn`t to suggest the Lexus dealer hasn`t changed --for the worse--as I haven`t been there for a couple of years, but I`l find out pretty soon Tony
Didn't make it to Arlington (or the Zoo...) but will next time. I've been to Arlington in my youth, I remember my mother crying at JFK's grave, watching the changing of the guards... Again, the ideals of this great land are just ideal...
No, the EW, being a morning person (Unlike yours truly) drove both first legs. In her RX, she drives like a little old soccer mommy. But in the TL, she does me a bit more proud (actually exceeds the posted limit!). I wonder why?
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I haven`t seen your name before, so welcome .....I guess what I am trying to do is not have a bigger problem---such as a dreaded disease--
Because technically, it's not "her" car?
I do that all the time. When I drive dad's 4Runner, mom's Camry or sister's Accord (my old one) I have tendency to drive them harder than my IS350...
Probably be near to the concept.
Any plans lexus might add another new SUV ?
I guess probably not for another 4years
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