Mercedes F1 2010 Car and Michael Schumacher

Early this morning, Mercedes GP unveiled their new F1 car for the 2010 season. The relatively small launch in Valencia, by none other than Michael Schumacher and this seasons team-mate Nico Rosberg marked the start of official testing at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo this morning.

The 2010 car is a far cry from the 2009 Brawn car, with a longer body (to accommodate more fuel), a new nose cone (similar to the … Continue Reading

Rumours were confirmed today that Nokia has opened up it’s Ovi-Maps to it’s users for free. Ovi-Maps includes voice direction, traffic information, speed camera and limit warnings (the last few only available in certain countries). And if you are on foot you can also expect guided shortcuts through parks etc. in certain cities.

Bearing in mind it is only available on a few select Nokia devices, you may be thinking ‘this is nothing compared to Google’. Well you will be pleased to know it works offline too, which should help on data charges, battery life etc.

Devices Ovi-Maps is currently available on includes; N97 Mini, 5800 XpressMusic, 5800 navigation edition, E52, E55, E72, 5230, 6710 navigator, 6730 classic and X6. With the N97 coming next week (we hope!)

Using Ovi-Maps? Please let us know what you think in our comments section below.

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Lotus Exige Scura

With the apparent worldwide economic crisis car shows have taken quite a hot. At this weeks Tokyo Motor Show, Lotus are on of only a handful international exhibitors. And to promote the occasion they have just released the Lotus Exige Scura.

Take a normal Exige, remove unwanted parts, use lighter materials, change the styling, up-grade the engine and out pops the Scura, Italian for ‘dark’. The seats, centre console and bodykit are all now carbon fibre, the engine … Continue Reading

Toyota FT-86

Is this the car to bring back the racy image Toyota has been missing the last few years? Well we think it might just be. The FT-86 has just been officially unveiled at this weeks Tokyo Motor Show.

Since partnering with Subaru, unsurprisingly many parts seem to be Subaru based. You can expect the 2L boxer engine, Legacy chassis and modified rear wheel drive. The boxer powerplant pushes out 200BHP, but the star is rumored to be the specially built six-speed manual … Continue Reading

McLaren Spider MP4-12C

Well you should already know by now that McLaren has announced it’s next generation supercar, the MP4-12C, well they have now gone one better by announcing a retractable hard-top version in the Spider.

Although details are scarce it looks like the convertible will show off a carbon fibre hood that folds up and away behind behind the seats. Expect the same 600bhp 3.8 twin-turbo V8, pushing this baby to 60mph in 3.5 seconds and on to around the 200mph … Continue Reading

Affordable Aston Martin Cygnet

To be fair, for most of us the only chance of us ever owning an Aston Martin could be this little puppy. The Toyota IQ, no sorry the Aston Martin Cygnet.

It seems the one of the UK’s most famed luxury car manufactures believes that the city commuters amongst you, would like an Aston that is a little more compact for driving into the city. Enter the Cygnet. Taken from a stock Toyota IQ, Aston … Continue Reading