geir ove rapp's weblog » Cars http://blog.geiroverapp.com it's all about technology, life and everything Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:36:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 I’ve got a brand new cassette player! http://blog.geiroverapp.com/2008/04/16/ive-got-a-brand-new-cassette-player/ http://blog.geiroverapp.com/2008/04/16/ive-got-a-brand-new-cassette-player/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:37:04 +0000 geir ove rapp http://blog.geiroverapp.com/2008/04/16/ive-got-a-brand-new-cassette-player/ I just recently got my car back from the workshop after some “reds” broke into it and stole my air bag and stereo. To my surprise the workshop had replaced my CD-player with a brand new cassette player!!! I didn’t even know those things were made anymore! Fortunately I still have my iPod adapter.

“Well, I wus sittin’ home alone an’ started to sweat,
Figured they wus in my TV set.
Peeked behind the picture frame,
Got a shock from my feet, hittin’ right up in the brain.
Them Reds caused it!
I know they did . . . them hard-core ones.”

(Bob Dylan; Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues)

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Some of you may remember the Fiat Cinquecento from the 50s-70s. (I don’t, but my student colleague from Italy reminded me. Thank you, Enrico!) Abarth, a tuning company in the Fiat group, have no put their hands on the new new Fiat 500. The result is what you can see on the picture, a little 1.4 liter 16v turbo charged 135 horsepower Scorpion.  The car will be shown at the 2008 Geneva International Motor Show later this month.

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I have been working on a analysis on Volvo Cars at school lately. (Yes, I am studying in Gothenburg, Sweden, the home town of Volvo). Soon we had a discussion about whether Volvo is a dull car or not. Of course it is! Just take a look at the Volvo V70 station wagon to see what I mean. But then, in my search to see if there is a slight hope to find something more exciting I dumped into the Volvo you see on the picture above. It is a Volvo C30 modified and tuned by IPD. It doesn’t only look great. It performs great as well. The 2.5-liter turbo engine is boosted to 384 horsepower. And it of course has a Alpine DVD/CD/MP3 player with iPOD integration, satellite radio with live traffic and touch-screen navigation with voice control.

So who said Volvo is dull?

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