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A few weeks ago, at the Paris Auto Show, Audi unveiled its long-awaited Porsche 911-fighter in the R8. Due to ship (in 8-cylinder form) during the first half of 2007, the R8 is an aluminum bodied, mid-engined, four-wheel-drive (Quattro), two-seater. The car will initially be available with Audi’s 4.2l [...] Last week, I wrote a post titled, Leadership vs. Management, in which I outlined my view on the differences between the two disciplines. Since then, I’ve gotten several emails asking about the key attributes of great leaders and how an entrepreneur starting a new business can make sure that they’re the best leader possible. While [...] A friend and cohort at Carbon Design Systems, Scott Seaton, made the following comment on my post Selling – How to Make the Best Out of a Second Place Finish. I think it’s important enough to warrant its own post: “The interesting point is that there is a bigger picture to the positioning yourself [...]
OK, it’s not the most refined sports car ever made, but the Solstice GXP is one terrific bang-for-the-buck vehicle. The roughly 3000 pound GXP edition gets 260hp and 260 ft-lbs of torque out of its direct-injection, turbocharged 2.0 liter, four-cylinder motor. Not too shabby. This model also offers a stiffer suspension and [...]
The new R-Class sports-tourer, wagon, SUV, mini van, vehicle is cool. It looks great and has seating for about 64,000 people inside. To accommodate the girth and lack of flexibility of some of the larger occupants, Mercedes decided to put large rear doors on this baby. So large, in fact, that [...]
Consuming fewer jigawatts of power than a late model DeLorean, the HoverMower by Eastman Industries appears to have been delivered straight from the future. According to the web site: “The HoverMower floats effortlessly on a cushion of air; without any wheels it mows in any direction following the contour of [...] A friend of mine gave me a panic call this weekend looking for advice. It seems that he decided he wanted to fire one of his employees and was stuck on how to do it. As he explained it, while the employee in question was relatively productive with and quite skilled at his assigned tasks, he created a [...] Well, it’s been pretty ugly, but the Pats are now at 4-1 for the season. They beat Miami 20-10 today, but it could have gone either way. Three turnovers by Miami certainly was the difference in the game. Last week’s win at Cincinnati looked brilliant, but the other 4 games this year have [...]
The BMW 3-Series, perennial winner of every auto magazine’s top-10 cars of the year award, is reinvented once again. The new 335i is stuffed full of a twin-turbocharged 3.0 liter inline 6-cylinder engine generating 300hp and 300 ft-lb of torque (max torque available at only about 1400 rpm – let’s hear it [...] I read loads of magazines every month, most of which I subscribe to. Sure, the delivery mechanism is so . . . yesterday, but I find the experience richer and the format much easier to manage than the online version of the same information which, of course, is not even always available. Because I have so [...] |
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