Yachts & Motor Yacht Sales - New & UsedUS YACHTS- Hunter Yachts and Sailboats are distributed in Australia and New Zealand by US Yachts.Spy Shots Confirm Traditional Jaguar is an Endangered Species- September 17, 2008 We've been nervous ever since Jaguar announced they were redesigning the venerable XJ. After all, the XJ is more than just a flagship luxury car -- it's the automotive equivalent of Buckingham Palace, the remains of the Empire with a boot and a bonnet. Even in the lean years of two-inch panel gaps, square headlights, and dodgy digital dashboards, Jaguar's flagship still managed to survive on looks. Gradual updates to a design that until recently was based on Sir William Lyons' original...http://yachts52.com/?p=4066 Faster! Cleaner! Cheaper! High Hopes for Swedish Rail- September 17, 2008 Sure, Swedes end up handing half of what they earn over to the government, but look what they get: universal health care, sparkling cities, world class meatballs. Sweden spends big money on services, which is why it's strange that for many, the country's national rail network doesn't make the grade. But Sweden has big plans. It wants trains that are faster, greener, comfier, and cheaper to operate; and this week took an important step in that direction. After several months of testing, a...http://yachts52.com/?p=4062 The Mercedes Coupe in Wagon Clothing- September 16, 2008 Mercedes will mess with your mind in Paris next month when it debuts a sleek shooting brake (cool British slang for station wagon) it's calling ConceptFASCINATION. And why not Cadillac made a similar move in Monterey last month when it unveiled a classy estate (another cool British word for station wagon version the second-gen CTS. The difference is Cadillac plans to actually build its estate, er shooting... ah, you know what we mean. Mercedes, on the other hand, has no intention of building..http://yachts52.com/?p=4060 VIDEO: Chevrolet Volt in the Wind Tunnel- September 16, 2008 Love it or hate it -- and a lot of people hate it -- the Chevrolet Volt that General Motors unveiled today is one slick number. The General's engineers spent more than 1,000 hours in the wind tunnel, nipping and tucking the angular concept car we first saw at the Detroit auto show to make it as aerodynamically efficient as possible. The result is a car that's more aerodynamic than the Toyota Prius and Honda Civic Insight. We've got more details on that in the story we posted this morning, and.http://yachts52.com/?p=4053 Flower Power: Run your Ride on a Wild Weed- September 16, 2008 An Albany-based company has created a program that encourages upstate New York farmers to grow today's biofuel du jour, a pesky weed known as Thlaspi arvense but more commonly referred to as pennycress or stinkweed. Despite the experiments your college roommate conducted in his '89 Loyale with the windows rolled up, this is believed to be the first time a car has been successfully powered by a weed. We imagine that a certain laid-back bandana-wearing musician will be thrilled to offer such a..http://yachts52.com/?p=4046 Priustoric: GM Builds A Plug-In Hybrid In 1969- September 16, 2008 Toyota and General Motors are neck-and-neck in the race to put a plug-in hybrid in your driveway, but they're recycling an idea GM explored almost 40 years ago and tossed aside like a depleted battery. The concept car with the cumbersome designation XP-883 was nothing more than an experiment relegated to history, but it worked a lot like the Toyota Prius and Saturn Vue plug-in hybrids the two companies are working on today. It was sufficiently ahead of its time for Popular Science to call it..http://yachts52.com/?p=4044 Peugeot Bringing a Hybrid to Le Mans- September 16, 2008 Having joined Audi in providing that diesels can dominate at Le Mans, Peugeot now wants to show that hybrids -- yes, hybrids -- can compete at the top tier of motor sports. The French automaker has unveiled a gas-electric racer it plans to run in next year's Le Mans series. The 908 HDi FAP &34;Hy&34; made a few laps at Britain's famed Silverstone racetrack last weekend before the final round of the Le Mans series, running a kinetic energy recovery system similar to what we'll see in Formula 1.http://yachts52.com/?p=4041 REVA Wants You to Swap Your Gas Cap for a Death Trap- September 15, 2008 Despite what coffee roasters will tell you, there's rarely such a thing as a fair trade. History is full of examples: Kobe Bryant for Vlade Divac, Faust's soul for knowledge, and 10-year Treasury Notes for subprime-filled CDOs. Still, nowhere is a trade more one-sided than at the auto dealership. The buyer is always going to be on the &34;lose&34; side of the win-lose equation (unless of course the buyer managed to conceal from the dealership the car he was trading burned four quarts of oil a..http://yachts52.com/?p=4034 Algal Jet Fuel One Big Step Closer to Reality- September 15, 2008 Commercial airlines won't stop using petroleum anytime soon, but a California startup says it has produced the world's first microbial-derived jet fuel, and independent tests show it behaves just like the stuff refined from oil. Solazyme says analysis of its algal jet fuel by the Southwest Testing Institute showed it didn't freeze at high altitude -- a common problem with biofuels -- and it had the same density, stability and flashpoint of conventional jet fuel. In all, the algal fuel met 11.http://yachts52.com/?p=4032 Congress Wastes Our Time with In-Flight Cell Phone Bill- September 15, 2008 The US Congress' current approval rating is a whopping nine percent. The average American isn't sure what his legislators spend their days doing. The phrase &34;Do Nothing Congress&34; has become a standard part of the American lexicon. Which makes it all the more stunning that a group of representatives is wasting time on a bill that would criminalize cell phone voice calls on airplanes. According to Runway Girl, a group of reps led by Oregon's Peter DeFazio has introduced a bill to the...http://yachts52.com/?p=4030 |