Marianne Vos World champion cyclocross

Marianne Vos has done it again and is World champion cyclocross in st Wendel Germany.  It wasn't until the last lap that she jumped away from Compton (USA) and Nash (Czech rep) and arrived solo. Its the fourth World championship for her in this discipline but the 24 year old Dutch is a multi talent since she is also active on the road and track.

Porsche, affordable?

Porsche CEO Matthias Muller has given hints about what's in Porsches pipeline for the future. They want to expand and grow and bring more versions on the market. Some based on current models like a Cayman Targa or a Panamera Coupe or convertible but it could well be a model under the current Boxster or Cayman. Im sure loads of Porsche purists will not be happy with this but for average Joe like me it could mean that a Porsche will become affordable like the (not so nice....) 944 in the past.  The new model will most probably share the platform with Volkswagen and might use parts of the Golf or Audi A3. 


Below's picture gives an impression of how the baby Porsche might look like and I like what I see. 
Mr Porsche, I will behave this year, can I have one????? please.

Brussels car show

Today I went to the Brussels Car show also known as the autosalon. A regular car show like most big cities have these days. Every car brand presents their whole fleet use the same stand as the show before and the show before, and the show before.......

This one though had a secured area with only dream cars as they called them and had an extra 7 euro entrance fee on top of the regular 11 euro ticket. This meant that it was alot less busy so more room to walk around the cars and to take some nice pictures. The cars I liked the most are below. Which one is your favorite?

 Ferrari California

Porsche GTS

 Porsche Speedster

Wiesmann

Over 350 km/h in a RUF Porsche 996 GT2

RUF is one of the big Porsche tuners and has shown again that they know how to make fast Porsches even faster. This video is proof and shows their 730 hp 996 doing over 350 km/h in Germany. God, do we love the autobahn without a speed limit? :-D

Lance Armstrong under investigation..... again.

Today Sports Illustrated magazine announced that they have additional proof about the alleged doping abuse of Lance Armstrong. Now in fact this is  nothing new coz we have heard these claims for the last 10 years I think. What makes it's rather sad though is that they announced this now coz Armstrong rides the tour down under at the moment wanting to use this race as his last and sort of farewell appearance.

Armstrong , by far has been the most tested cyclist or even athlete in the world and they never found any trace of doping. Im a fan of Lance and being a cyclist myself (Ok, an weekend warrior....) I know how difficult it is to keep motivated and to maintain at the top, let alone win 7 straight tour de France's. Hopefully they leave him alone after his retirement this month so he can focus on his cancer foundation coz it would be perfect if all these Lance hunters open their eyes and start to put as much efforts in his foundation as in harassing him.

Audi RS3 hmmmmmm!

I used to have an Audi A3 a couple years back as a company car and I must say that this was the best car I ever had (not that I owned it but I was allowed to drive it and park in front of my house for 3 years....). I drove almost 180000km with it, and never had an issue. No weird lights on the dashboard, no cracking sounds, or other weird noises. I had to return it to the lease company coz I had another job but if I could I would take another A3 any day!

The new A3 will probably be introduced in 2012 but just before the end of life Audi announced the RS3. For those who don't know, RS with Audi does not stand for Ridiculously Slow or Rather Sad but for the fastest version of a particular model. In this case the RS3 has 340hp and 450nm, has the same 2.5 liter 5 cylinder turbo engine as the TT-RS and does 0-100 km/h in 4.6 seconds. It's for sale in Holland in April 2011 starting at 'only'  68.900 euro.

What  a pity my current employer doesn't think 340hp is necessary......

Iphone 5 to hit stores in summer.

Unconfirmed but the all new Iphone 5 will hot stores in summer this year. The all new Iphone 5 will be completely redesigned and will have an all new A9 processor. No spy shots yet but its only a matter of time. Im curious to see what the ''completely redesigned'' means. ;-).

We do have some shots of the Ipad 2 which will have a better screen, abit like the Retina display of the Iphone 4 and have 2 cameras.

Below pic shows an Ipad 2 dummy shown at the CES.