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Now there is one more reason to love Porsche’s mid-engine supercar, the Cayman S—as if I needed more reasons; however, all the reasons in the world will not help me overcome the steep purchase price. In November 2007, the company will be introducing the Cayman S “Porsche Design Edition 1â€.
The car incorporates styling cues traditionally [...]
Some time ago I wrote a post about “open†navigation systems and lamented how most navigation systems were limited to a single source for maps and navigation data. In that post I yearned for a system that would seamlessly integrate with tools like Google Earth™ for the latest maps and navigation information. Well, it seems [...]
Aviation has always been a great interest of mine. As a child I spent countless hours putting together plastic models and pouring over the glossy illustrations of sleek jets and old prop planes that appeared in whatever books and magazines I could get my hands on. During college I got my private pilot ticket from [...]
One of the few things that was left undone during our 2005 European odyssey was to visit the Nürburgring. This legendary track in the Eifel Mountains of Germany, 70 kilometers outside of Cologne, was known as “The Green Hell†during the early days of the modern Formula 1 championship when “Ringmeisters†like Juan Manuel Fangio, [...]
