A BWM divulgou hoje um vídeo mostra parte das linhas da próxima geração do Série 5. O sedã de luxo da marca terá o objetivo de bater de frente com o renovado Mercedes-Benz Classe E, que estreiou recentemente.
De acordo com a BMW o carro será mostrado em definitivo já no próximo dia 23. Antes, do que era especulado pela imprensa especializada. Vale lembrar que a atual geração do Série 5 está no mercado desde 2003.
Este post não vai falar sobre a saída da BMW da Fórmula Um. Vamos falar de outros carros, de outras categorias. Vamos falar de lançamentos, carros antigos e de como a BMW usou o esporte como meio de consolidar sua marca pelo mundo.
A idéia deste post surgiu justamente porque nessa semana a montadora alemã apresentou conceito BMW M3 GTS, modelo que será feito especialmente para o seu feliz dono levá-lo ao limite em algum circuito nos chamados track-days, idéia muito difundida nos EUA e na Europa. A previsão é de que o modelo estará disponível para à venda a partir do segundo trimestre de 2010.
GTS: versão nervosa do M3 de rua
Assim que você coloca os olhos no olha para as fotos do carro, logo você percebe que o carro tem vocação para as pistas. O carro recebeu um novo defletor dianteiro e um aerofólio traseiro – ambos ajustáveis – e iguais aos utilizados pelas BMW em seus carros que competem no WTCC. Recebeu rodas de 19 pol forjadas em alumínio e eliminou os detalhes cromados da carroceria.
Olhando para o seu interior, você poderá conferir os bancos esportivos tipo concha em fibra de carbono, cinto de seis pontos e extintor de incêndio. Além disso, ao invés de você encontrar o banco traseiro para passageiros, você encontrará a estrutura de reforço da carroceria, necessária para a participação de competições.
Interior simples, mas no padrão BMW
Como a intenção era produzir um carro de corrida, a BMW fez o que podia para aliviar o peso do carro. Se quiser conforto que compre outro BMW série 3, deve ter pensado os engenheiros da Motorsports, braço que prepara os carros mais ariscos da marca e que emprestam a letra M para o nome deles.
Além dos bancos e do teto (padrão da séria M) de fibra de carbono, o isolamento acústico e o forro das portas são de material mais simples, mas forrados por couro Alcântara, assim como o volante. Não satisfeita pelo depeno, arrancou o sistema de audio e eliminou o ar condicionado automático. E o escapamento foi modificado, sendo fabricado em titânio. Dessa forma, o peso do carro abaixou para 1500kg.
Como não poderia deixar de acontecer, o carro também sofreu modificações mecânicas. O motor V8 que antes era de 4.0, passou para 4.4 litros, fornecendo 450cv, trinta cavalos à mais que a versão de rua. O câmbio é automatizado de dupla embreagem de sete marchas é padrão no GTS, assim como os amortecedores ajustáveis.
Para parar o foguete, a Motorsport equipou o bicho com um sistema de freios de alto desempenho com pinças de seis pistões na frente e quatro atrás. E para o seu dono desfrutar disso e mostrar que é bom de braço, o sistema de controle de tração do carro é bem menos tolerante, deixando o carro mais arisco.
Mais detalhes do carro neste video aqui.
Para não ficar muito grande o post, falarei em outra ocasião sobre o BMW M5 CSL antigo e o de 2009, criado para celebrar os 25 anos do M5 CSL.
Abraços
Thirteen things I hate… Today…
13. BMW drivers – Think they own the world because they drive a BMW. I was always told that Mercedes drivers represent old money and BMW driver’s new money. So I am coming to the conclusion that new money means having to show people you have money and that equates to buying / leasing a beemer and driving like you don’t give a shit about anyone else on the road. I must honk 2 of them a day for not signaling or cutting people off. Assholes.
12. My office keyboard. Stupid thing got wet (something to do with me spilling water on it) and now when I type capital letters the Ucking thing drops the first letter and capitalizes the next one…
11. Swine flu / H1N1 / influenza panic… Good g-d, people are going to make themselves sick worrying about the damn vaccination.
10. The NY Yankees. They won the world series last night and, well, see my post on them on my sports blog; www.daddyknowssports.wordpress.com.
9. Our former nanny. Left us a couple weeks ago and has been texting me asking for more money – extra money that she thinks she is entitled to, but confusing with vacation pay which she received way more than she was entitled to. She thinks she was given extra pay our of the kindness of our hearts, I told her it was but there aint no more. Now she’s bitching about calling the labour department. I called first and we’re good. She’s a noob.
8. My Achilles. I finally stretched a lot and went for a run to test it out. Ran for 10 minutes and there was no pain, but it felt really weak, like any sudden movement would cause it to hurt. I hate that. I need to run to stay healthy.
7. My weight. I blame it on Halloween that I am forced to eat those fucking little chocolate bars like they are going out of style. Because they are small does not allow me to eat 10 of them at once, right? OR does it…
6. Fair-weather friends. Either you’re my friend and you want to hang out, or we’re not and that’s fine, but don’t string me along by being phony and they never come out. I can’t waste time on this whole being social thing… After planning a few outings, if it’s not reciprocated, I’m done with you.
5. Jedi vs. Sith on Facebook. I’m fucking addicted! Grrrr. As of last night I was 78th in the world. 14 million players have this application. I have 4100 points (3 points for a win, lose 1 for a loss) and the leader has 40,000.
4. Hulk Hogan signing with TNA wrestling. It’s a shitty promotion that might have potential if they cut the gimmicks and produced a decent show. Crappy writing and even crappier plots make me wonder why this show exists. Besides the fact that I hate the name “TNA” since it is too close to “Tits ‘n’ Ass” but Total Non-stop Action is not the name for a successful wrestling organization. And Hogan… 56 years old. Seriously.
3. My choice of area for trick-or-treating this year. Sucks ass. I expected the $2 million dollar home owners to kick out some kick-ass treats for the kids. But one candy-bar per houses?!? Cheapskates! How disappointing. Not making that mistake again!
2. Guns and Roses. I’m still pissed at them for their simply horrible release this year. I kind of wish they had released a bunch of stuff throughout the past decade so the shit they put on this album might have come out in other releases. There is no good hard rock nowadays and as I listen to a few of their songs on my iPod It makes me even more pissed off. They used to be great. Same for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver. Where is the new Saliva, Disturbed and Rob Zombie?
1. Iran. Saw this news story and it pisses me off, considering Iran claims to be doing nothing wrong. Ever.
The seizure of a massive shipment of Iranian arms bound for terrorist organization Hizbollah, proves the arms flow to Syria and south Lebanon from Iran. The attempt to smuggle arms to Syria and Hizbullah was an Iranian violation of a UN Security Council resolution. Typically, Iran continues to smuggle arms to terrorists under the guise of legitimate international commerce, turning the Mediterranean Sea into a platform for illegal action.
The weapons seizure “unequivocally and without a doubt” proves the Iran-Syria-south Lebanon weapons-trafficking route.
The ship was released overnight Wednesday after 36 weapons-filled containers were unloaded, and the 12 crew members boarded the vessel and made their way back on their planned route.
Hundreds of tons of weaponry, the largest arms seizure in Israel’s history, were intercepted in the daring raid by Israeli naval commandos aboard the cargo ship sailing 100 nautical miles west of Israel.
The arms shipment was 10 times the size of the cache found on the Palestinian arms ship Karine A in 2002, defense officials said.
The different types of arms offloaded from the ship were familiar to Israel as those Hizbullah already possesses in its arsenal, Israel Radio quoted defense officials as saying.
Military sources assessed Teheran would be forced to change its smuggling routes following the Israel Navy’s successful operation.
The cache was hidden inside shipping containers belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) which departed from the Bandar Abbas Port in Iran some 10 days ago, were unloaded in the Egyptian port of Damietta and then loaded onto the Francop, a German vessel flying an Antiguan flag.
On Wednesday, Israeli PM, Netanyahu addressed the international community concerning Iran’s material support for terrorist organizations by saying, “Iran is sending these weapons to terror organizations to harm Israeli cities and kill its citizens. The time has come for the international community to exert real pressure on Iran to stop this criminal activity and to support Israel when it defends itself against these terrorists and their patrons.”
This is going to be a tough task considering the axis of evil lined up to denounce Israel left, right and centre every time something happens in the middle east.
Ela só chega em 2012, mas já está em desenvolvimento. Trata-se da próxima geração do sedã Série 3, que começa a ser vendida na Europa em três anos. O modelo foi flagrado em fase de testes, para não atrasar o cronograma da marca bávara. O modelo terá ainda derivações perua, cupê e conversível.
Pouco se pode notar das linhas do novo modelo com as imagens, mas é possível perceber que seu porte não muda muito em relação ao sedã atual. Afinal, se o Série 3 crescer demais, acabará “batendo” no Série 5. A nova geração, no entanto, deverá se destacar pela maior eficiência energética, graças a motores modernos e carroceria mais leve. Poderemos ver, inclusive, propulsores de três cilindros, 1,35 litro e turbocompressor gerando entre 160 e 240 cv.
Eis a tecnologia alemã.
GALERIA
Ich schaue die Formel L(angeweile) schon lange nicht mehr an. Seitdem die Autos auf der Strecke offenbar Überholverbot haben und Spannung generell verboten zu sein scheint, blieb mir diesbezüglich eigentlich keine andere Wahl. Ich kann mir einfach keinen ausgiebigen Nachmittagsschlaf am Sonntag gönnen und was anderes bleibt mir nicht übrig als einzuschlafen.
Auf diesem Wege bleiben mir auch die angeblichen “Höhepunkte” vor, nach und ich glaube sogar während des Rennens erspart. Außerdem setzt dieses Fremdschämen nicht mehr ein, wenn ich Kommentatoren lauschen muss, die verzweifelt versuchen das Einschlafprogramm als spannendes Sports-Entertainment zu verkaufen.
Nun habe ich heute gelesen, dass Toyota aus der Formel 1 aussteigt. BMW und Honda sind in der Vergangenheit ausgestiegen, bzw. haben es bereits bekannt gegeben.
Was bleibt eigentlich noch der schillernden Formel 1? Wenn es so weitergeht, dann werden wir häufiger solche Rennen sehen, wie damals in Indianapolis, wo der F1-Dino “Ferrari” gegen 4 chancenlose Autos seine Runden zog und ansonsten eher gähnende Leere auf der Rennstrecke herrschte.
Ob Ferrari bald 10 weitere Autos baut und die Weltmeisterschaft alleine ausfährt? Und was wird dann mit den Konstrukteurs-Titel? Fragen über Fragen…
Bleibt die Hoffnung, dass RTL auch die letzte Kurve bekommt und stattdessen das Geld lieber in Sachen Fussball investiert. Vielleicht gibt es ja die Möglichkeit, dass wir noch das ein oder andere Spiel live im Free-TV zu sehen bekommen.
Mal was Positives zwischendruch…
Gefunden bei fr-online.de:
BMW
Das Ende der KurzarbeitMünchen. Der Autobauer BMW wird in den kommenden Wochen die Kurzarbeit an allen deutschen Standorten beenden.
Im Berliner Motorrad-Werk und in der Komponenten-Fabrik Landshut gilt derzeit noch für einige hundert Beschäftigte Kurzarbeit, sie würden bis Jahresende wieder vollbeschäftigt, sagte Produktionsvorstand Frank-Peter Arndt der Branchen- und Wirtschaftszeitung “Automobilwoche”.
Zugleich seien an zwei Standorten des Unternehmens bereits wieder Zeitarbeiter eingestellt worden: In Leipzig beschäftige BMW rund 300 Leiharbeiter, in Regensburg etwa 50.
Das Unternehmen hatte wegen der Absatzflaute im ersten Halbjahr insgesamt bis zu 25 000 Mitarbeiter in Kurzarbeit geschickt, im Juli war diese Zahl zunächst auf 12 200 Beschäftigte reduziert worden. Im September war die Kurzarbeit dann in den Auto-Werken beendet worden. BMW will an diesem Dienstag die Zahlen für das dritte Quartal vorlegen.
Arbeitgeber wollen Verlängerung der Kurzarbeit
Wegen der anhaltenden Wirtschaftskrise fordern Arbeitgeber und Gewerkschaften eine Verlängerung der Kurzarbeit-Sonderregelung über das Jahresende hinaus.
IG-Metall-Chef Berthold Huber sagte dem “Tagesspiegel” (Montag), die Regelung solle über 2010 hinaus gelten, weil in Branchen wie dem Maschinenbau und der Automobilindustrie “frühestens 2011, wahrscheinlich erst 2012″ das Produktionsniveau von 2007 wieder erreicht werde.
Auch die Bundesvereinigung Deutscher Arbeitgeberverbände (BDA) setzte sich dafür ein, das erfolgreiche Instrument im nächsten Jahr weiter anwenden zu können. “Ich bin zuversichtlich, dass dies im Konsens zwischen allen Beteiligten möglich sein wird”, sagte BDA- Hauptgeschäftsführer Reinhard Göhner der Zeitung “Die Welt” (Samstag).
Ein Sprecher des Bundesarbeitsministeriums sagte der dpa am Samstag, es sei noch keine Entscheidung über eine Verlängerung der Regelung gefallen. Die Rechtsverordnung könne sehr kurzfristig für einen beliebigen Zeitraum ausgedehnt werden, da dafür kein langwieriges Gesetzgebungsverfahren notwendig sei. Nach jüngsten Zahlen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) haben im August und September rund 1,1 Millionen Beschäftigte Kurzarbeitergeld bezogen.
Die Kurzarbeit war nach dem Ausbruch der Wirtschaftskrise im Herbst 2008 in mehreren Schritten verlängert und attraktiver gemacht worden. Die BA zahlt den Kurzarbeitern bis zu 67 Prozent des Lohnes, der wegen der Arbeitszeitverkürzung wegfällt. Unternehmen bekommen in den ersten sechs Monaten die Hälfte der für sie fälligen Sozialversicherungsbeiträge von der BA erstattet, danach sogar ganz. Bis zum 31. Dezember kann die Kurzarbeit noch für 24 Monate zu den günstigeren Bedingungen genehmigt werden.
Der Präsident des Deutschen Industrie- und Handelskammertages (DIHK), Hans Heinrich Driftmann, sagte im Deutschlandradio Kultur, die Unternehmen gingen “bis an die Grenze des Möglichen”, um ihre Mitarbeiter zu halten. Die Wirtschaft komme aber nur aus der Krise heraus, wenn es gelinge, mehr Menschen “in Lohn und Brot zu bringen, um die Sozialsysteme nicht unnötig zu strapazieren”.
Linken-Fraktionsvize Klaus Ernst forderte “ein großes Rettungspaket für die Krisen-Arbeitslosen”. Dazu gehörten eine befristete Verlängerung des Arbeitslosengelds I auf einheitlich 24 Monate und ein besserer Kündigungsschutz, der Massenentlassungen in profitablen Unternehmen verhindere. “Außerdem müssen Kurzarbeiter, die mit ihren Familien in Hartz IV fallen, besser behandelt werden.”
(dpa)
