We’ve already got a soft spot for Fiat’s 500 Abarth, but this conversion from German tuner Karl Schnorr raises the little car’s game to another level.
The first upgrade to catch our eye is the red painted 7x17ins alloys from OZ, which Schnorr will supply for just over 1,000 Euros. Schnorr also promises better road holding from a special coilover kit, which lowers the Fiat a few millimetres and costs 1.270 Euros fitted.
But it’s the two-stage power upgrade that we’re most interested in. Power Level I costs 950 Euros and lifts output by a useful 28hp to 163hp, but power level II at 5,050 Euros takes the car into proper performance car territory.
According to Schnorr an engine software remap combined with a sport exhaust system and a bigger turbocharger give the Fiat 500 an additional 65hp taking the total output to a heady 200hp. No acceleration figures are quoted, but with a 1035kg kerbweight it ought to fly. We’ve just had a go in Fiat’s own £16,100 EsseEsse version of the 500 Abarth (the standard 135hp Abarth is £13,605) which makes 160hp, and that was fast enough to be jolly good fun - watch this space for RacingPete’s review…
Ok, so the site is over a year old now, and once again I have proved that I can’t even manage to update my own site more than about once every 3 months.
There are a few things I would like to do but as usual have so much on my plate, it is always a case of when.
To be brutally honest as well, no-one ever comes to my site anyway, occasionally the odd potential client.
Maybe I’ll just have a think for a while and see what I should do. I still love Wordpress though and believe that is the way to go.
You have been dreaming about flying a personal jetpack for way too long. Your wait is finally over!
Jetlev Sports Inc. is proud to introduce the JETLEV-FLYER, the recreational jetpack almost anyone can enjoy over water. It is designed for safety, stability, ease-of-use, and precise and effortless flight controls. Learn to take off, fly, turn, hover and land in as little as six minutes.
We have to apologise up front that you can’t get this phone here because Nokia has decided [wrongly] that only people in Hong Kong appreciate Bruce Lee.
And would pay over the top money to get a special edition phone with Bruce stamped all over it. That doesn’t mean we can’t tease you horribly though because we desperately want one too.
This is the N96, Nokia’s flagship multimedia phone Hong Kong-style: a Limited Edition Bruce Lee mobile with his face and signature carved on the back, and bundled with numerous accessories and a cool Bruce Lee action figure from Enterbay.
However, it does cost an estimated £800 here [Chinese]. The only consolation is possibly the best promo video for a phone I have ever seen
There’s actually a lot more to this bloody shower curtain Halloween decoration than meets the eye. There’s the obvious stuff, of course, like the homage to Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho. And the blood splatters and hand prints themselves say a lot about the owner.
But beyond that, there’s a little something extra in store for guests who need to drop off the candy corn in between Trick or Treats.
The subtle surprise is a woman’s blood-curdling scream, which is accompanied by the music from Psycho.
The ruckus starts up when someone enters the bathroom courtesy of a AA battery-powered motion sensor and a speaker. It’s $20, which isn’t too bad considering your guests will probably take a knife to it themselves
after the gag gets old. [Things You Never Knew Existed via OhGizmo]
“Search 121,617,892,992 web pages” claims the front page of the new search engine Cuil (pronounced “cool” apparently.) Those 120 billion pages are about three times as many as Google actually indexes, according to developer Anna Patterson… and she should know as until 2006 she worked there. Presented in a kind of “magazine style,” Cuil will apparently get more pertinent results as it drills into the contents of a page, unlike Google’s complex ranking system. Since two more of the development team also worked for Google, and there’s $33 million of venture capital behind the new site, it is certainly going to be an interesting development to keep tabs on. Cuil starts taking search requests today.
