Video: When your country floats on oil, your police drive only Porsches

Filed under: Sedan, Performance, SUV, Government/Legal, Videos, Porsche, Police/Emergency, Middle East, Luxury

Qatar's police force has a sizable fleet of Porsche Panamera and Cayenne patrol vehicles at its disposal. How is this? Well, Qatar has lots of oil, for starters, so there's that income. The emirate also holds a 17 percent stake of preferential shares in the Volkswagen Group. So, it's not particularly hard to see how the stable of luxo-cop cars came to be. The force took them for a spin on December 18, Qatar National Day, and you can get a look at the coolest fleet in the video after the jump.

Continue reading When your country floats on oil, your police drive only Porsches

When your country floats on oil, your police drive only Porsches originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments

Source: http://www.autoblog.com/2011/12/31/when-your-country-floats-on-oil-your-police-drive-only-porsches/

Barnes Sadler A and W Ford Jordan Farmar Kyle Busch Kenneth William Schrader US ARMY Chevrolet

2012 Ford Edge EPA Rated Economical 30 mpg Highway & 21 mpg City with New EcoBoost 2.0 L 4 Cylinder Engine 240 hp Torque 270 lb.-ft

Press Release: Ford Edge with New EcoBoost 2.0L Engine Delivers EPA-Rated 30 MPG Highway, Great Performance * The popular Ford Edge crossover with EcoBoost� power is EPA-rated at an economical 30 mpg highway and 21 mpg city * Ford Edge with EcoBoost is now the 13th Ford model/powertrain combination to deliver an EPA fuel economy rating of 30 mpg or more * EcoBoost, combining smaller engines and turbocharging, is a global Ford engine technology that gives customers the power they want and the fuel efficiency they need * EcoBoost vehicles have been ...

Source: http://www.distrocars.com/2012-ford-edge

Ryan Newman Atlanta Hawks UPS Ford Dirk Nowitzki Michael Curtis Waltrip Richard Lee Rudd

Mercedes S 250 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY and ML 250 BlueTEC 4MATIC Declared Greenest in Their Class

Source: http://www.carsession.com/car-news/mercedes-s-250-cdi-blueefficiency-and-ml-250-bluetec-4matic-declared-greenest-in-their-class.html

Braun Racing Toyota Brian Lee Vickers Franck Lagorce Miller Lite Dodge Mario Chalmers Russell William Wallace Jr

Boston Celtics Daily Links 12/30

Source: http://www.celticsblog.com/2011/12/30/2670404/boston-celtics-daily-links-12-30

Chris Lawrence Extenze Toyota Mikko Kozarowitzky Anthony Wayne Stewart Kevin Harvick Andrew Bynum

Free iPad App for motorheads: Christophorus Porsche magazine

Posted on 12.31.2011 12:32 by Philippe Daix Filed under: Porsche | iPad | Cars | Car News

While the Apple Ipad offers all major motorhead magazines in their "Newsstand", they are not cheap. In fact they cost as much as the paper version, unless you get into the subscription thing. Anyways, life on itunes is not easy for us cheap car buff. Porsche, of all brands, is bringing the smile back on penny pincher’s face with a free Ipad app worth downloading. It is called Christophorus, and you can download it directly from this link. Don’t ask me why it is called Christophorasarus, I have no clue.

The app is like many magazine app out there, but while it is free, Porsche has not cheapen out on the merchandise. You will find plenty of interactive content. Whereas the app itself is a little slow to respond, everything slides and flow nicely. It is all about enjoying pretty animations and sharp pictures.

In the edition 352, I particularly enjoyed the sliding layers showing the evolution of the 911 over time. Or simply slide my finger to unveil the cover of the new 991 in dramatic fashion.

If you are a Porsche fan, and who isn’t, you have to download that one. Did I mention it was free!

Free iPad App for motorheads: Christophorus Porsche magazine originally appeared on topspeed.com on Saturday, 31 December 2011 12:32 EST.

read more

---

Source: http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/free-ipad-app-for-motorheads-christophorus-porsche-magazine-ar122359.html

Greg Biffle David Gilliland Furniture Row Chevrolet Regan Smith Oklahoma City Thunder Travis Kvapil

2012 Nissan Pathfinder Teased

Source: http://www.carsession.com/car-news/2012-nissan-pathfinder-teased.html

Rudolf Krause Joe Nemechek Washington Scott Alan Wimmer Hermann Lang Los Angeles Clippers Rasheed Wallace

Report: New car seat concept uses your butt print as identification

Filed under: Etc., Japan, Technology

If Fido can distinguish people and other pooches by their backsides, why not a seat? When students at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology in Tokyo, Japan asked that question, they came up with a car seat fitted with 360 sensors that makes a map of the pressure applied by your posterior. Among the six rumps tested, the seat was 98 percent accurate at sorting one from another.

The ultimate aim is to work with automakers to develop an anti-theft solution that would be available in the next few years. With such a small testing pool, it's too early to start asking the difficult questions about real-world viability (especially when you start to factor in things like different articles of clothing, Costanza wallets, and so on), but we have a feeling this kind of technology will find an application somewhere.

New car seat concept uses your butt print as identification originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments

Source: http://www.autoblog.com/2011/12/30/new-car-seat-concept-uses-your-butt-print-as-identification/

Dallas Mavericks Jonathan Edward Wood Carmelo Anthony Tracy McGrady Scott Speed Yao Ming