Mazda Furai.........and some time spended reading Automobile Year 09/08

A picture of this was on a book i recently read and it instantly caught my mind and refreshes my mind bout it....





























The car was called Mazda Furai (风籁) and is based on the Courage C65 chasis from Le Mans series. Its powered by a R20B 3-Rotor Rotary Engine and is pumping out 450 horsepower...













































Unlike many concept cars, the Furai is fully functional and is currently being tested at various tracks. It has run at Laguna Seca and Buttonwillow.














Head designer, Laurens van den Acker, has stated in an interview with Top Gear magazine that there are possibilities of the Furai being used for racing in Le Mans, and he also has strong hopes that the car could be brought to the market.













































Pics from the book, it was called Automotive Year 09/08...

































The Citroen GT which was produce for the Gran Turismo 5 game a little bit similar with the S2000 GT1 built by Amuse on the persuasion and the design from the producers of the game itself. (I once tell someone Facebook that they were not built for Gran Turismo 5 so it seems i made a bit mistake. Sorry T.T~) The book quoted:



















" Light-years from the everyday concerns of Citroen, this project was brought no fruition in conjunction with Polyphony, for the latter's Gran Turismo 5 video game. Drafted under the authority of desgner Gilles Vidal, with Takumi Yamamoto in charge of exterior design and Pascal Grappey of interior design, the sports coupe exalts the most outrageous styling cues with expressive delight. The prototype was elaborated by Estech, who borrowed the chassis and suspension components from a replica Ford GT40, and the car will be powered by a fuel cell. The cockpit is stunning, thanks to the use of a stereo-lithographic technique capable of producing complex shapes with a nickel or copper-effect finish. In these forbidding times, it's reassuring to see Citroen turning its hand to an exercise of this type. "

The iPhone turns out to be a big hit (and so it is!) with Land Rover having implement a iPhone start up system in their LRX concept model.....so if your iPhone is stolen would that means u can't start your car up?
















It even feature the Ferrari California
















And on Motorsport section (yes the book has a Motorsport section) features all the F1 cars individually, and here is the MP4-23, piloting by Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen.
















And here is a A1GP car for next season, it will be powered and designed by Ferrari and will be use on all teams.
















Engine is a V8 from a 430GT, pumping out 600 HP...
















And speaking of the devil~Ferrari 430GT
















And some Rally coverage, which combines Utterly Ridiculous Bravery + Insane Speed + Torque Pumping Machine + Unbelievably Scenic View = R.A.L.L.Y

NA vs NA

C'mon guys, vote ! You still have 4 days left, Is it the McLaren? Or the Ferrari??

More =.=.................

Legion

This is da bomb~ X-Men + Rambo + Dawn of the Death + Constantine = LEGION~~~ (damn that granny scare the hell out of me....)

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Green Zone

Anticipating...

Movie Review on G.I Joe

Its been a couple of weeks ago when i last seen G.I Joe (at the same time after i finished Fighting), the movie, same as Fighting, is one of the movies i've heavily anticipated for 2009. But weirdly, its better than i expected, and its worst than i thought.
G.I Joe is based on a action cartoon in the US that is military-themed. Since then the movie has spawned numerous side stories and has contributed a major success for Hasbro on their toys line. Anywayyyy the stories (as the same in movie) relates Duke Hazzard ( Channing Tatum, who also stars in Fighting....) and Ripcord to the G.I Joe, an elite army consists of the elite from the elites, the best of the best, their like the Dream Team from the World Cup Final. Now heres the funny thing starts......first of all, Duke and Ripcord are transferring the nanomite (or nanocyte) to another place when they are confront by the bad guys which turns out to be Duke's former girlfriend (!) and then when their using bullets, the baddies are using lasers ~(!!), every one dies, and Duke and Ripcord got invite to become Joes (!!!) wow.......................................................................

The thing is the technology gap between the Joes, the Baddies and the, well, military....are toooo big....way too big, that they look like something that came out of outer space. Duke and Ripcord, save in the mission, gets recruited by the Joe, and ends up wearing a 1 million high tech suit each while the other more 'senior' member sits in a van running around......WTF???????? Its wrong the whole movie is....wrong.....wearing latex....reminds me of Power Rangers, Scarlett uses a cross bow but noooo it has laser aiming devices and shoots out arrow or bullet which explodes upon contact like a bomb, reminds me of Power Rangers again. It even uses, in which i think, scenes from Star Wars Episode 1.....with the, underwater battle scene = the space battle scene were Anakin blows up the baddies in the yellow space ship thingy, the Snake Eye vs White Storm scene = Obi Wan and his master vs the Sith, White Storm even attach his sword together, oh guess what, JUST LIKE THE SITH~ If there's one character i find interesting and real enough, is Snake Eyes.....ironically, he doesn't have a single script....

Really this show is meant for kids, in some way its almost as similar to Transformers 2. Where the graphics are the main attractive and there's really no storyline at all........but still, its G.I Joe, wat story you expect~ But it does have some good points........massive CG effects......and the actions just keep flowing and flowing til the end, nothing like this (or close to this) have been on the silver screen before.....so its a new for us, and it works. Really it does keeps u focus on the movie due to the forever non stop actions.....but still, this is a movie which will work for the 1st time, not 2nd.....

Overall...acting is bad....storyline is bad...CG is top notch, action is good and Sienna Miller is HOT~~~ so theres one extra point for the good points so i'll giv it a 6/10....least we still have Sienna Miller or Ana in the film to fantasizes and dreams about when the acting and the unbelievably childish scripts and scenes gets on your nerve....

NA vs NA

The fastest and strongest NA machine in the world....which one will you choose....(click on the pictures for better and higher resolution, feel free to save them as ur desktop wallpaper)
The McLaren F1 LM












































OR

The Ferrari FXX Evoluzione

This is how university life is!!

Holiday-ing in the Countryside...

My good landlord Annie and Carmal took us to the countryside of Alexandria, which is outside of Melbourne(us being Me and Scott, the new guy from US who lives with us for 2 months but now he's bac in the states d...)

The 'House' that we live in, such a nice place to sleep, 5 star service hahaha
















Carmal, Annie and Scott
















a campsite
















Annie being Cowgirl as she says haha
















Amazing hills....
































A lake beside
















Notice this road here, well it was suppose to be a road for ppl to load their boats from the back of their car, almost 16 years ago this place was full of water (from where im photographing) the water has decreased so much that it has become a full fledged land now, with no sign other than this road that can signifies that here is once apart of the lake..
















Someone has been naughty...
















Oh look a lizard~














It quickly goes into the bushes...

















And you can't see it anymore..(click on the picture take a look closer on it, the lizard is still in there ~see if you can spot it out or not ^^)














A Kangaroo, which everyone failed to spot it except me~

































It was waiting for its cub (its baby) apparently and when the cub came they go away with the cub follows the mom's movement exactly haha
















An overview of the whole area from top..
















Me and Scott by Z610i~
















and Me and Scott in his Canon EOS






















Broccoli...
















More Broccoli
















The Lake...






















Which Scott getting stuck there, a helicopter was required to save him haha














Dont mind the disturbance in this photo...wrong hair wrong posture wrong eyes wrong smile every thing wrong....T.T
















And again...in this pic we have the Canon EOS...














And the Z610i.....im really really surprise my Z610 phone can take pics such as this it literally shames those Nokia's 8MP phone...but Scott's cam does have amazing ISO and Macro capabilities....damn i wan something like that...
















Me and Scott trying to light up the fire for the BBQ





























And a nice dinner served...

















ON our way back to Melbourne, i saw this Subaru Impreza WRX STi 22B, which similiar to the old Impreza or the commonly known as Takuma's Dad's Impreza, the GC8 Model but comes 2 door, except that this model is the limited and widebody versioned, coded 22B STi. It has the EJ22 instead of 20, has 350bhp and the same torque as the EJ20 but came more early at 3200 rpm, 800 rpm earlier....if theres a chance i would love to get over there myself and take a pic of that rare piece of art myself, this car is for Subaru as a Skyline GT-R Z-Tune is for Nissan....