Q-cars are nothing new. While they’re more popular than ever in the 21st century, the trend started several decades ago – and the Sunbeam Tiger is proof. Take one Sunbeam Alpine Series IV, a car styled as innocuously as a convertible MGB, then shoehorn a 4.2-litre V8 into the nose of it. Change the steering box for a rack to improve precision, add a tougher Salisbury rear axle along with a Panhard rod to the rear suspension to help keep the thing on the tarmac – and voilà, a cut-price Cobra…
typically guys are aware of the rules of moral behavior, they just seem to have trouble following them, when there are certain extenuating circumstances. For example: " Zippy, a guy dog who has been told numerous times that he is not suppose to get into the kitchen garbage or poop on the floor, but he has never understood why, so he thinks that it should not apply to him when someone just threw away a seven week old kung Pao Chicken and is home alone." Thinking since nobody is home they…
The Honda Ridgeline is Honda’s new pickup truck on the market. It uses Hondas unibody large vehicle platform, shared with the Acura MDX and Honda Odyssey. It is powered by an all aluminum 255 hp 3.5 L V6 coupled to a 5-speed automatic transmission with all wheel drive capable of towing 5000 lbs. The Ridgeline will be the first pickup truck with a fully-independent suspension. Some of the more innovative features of the Ridgeline are its tailgate, which can fold down or hinge to the side, and an…
The Jeep Wrangler is a traditional body-on-frame four-wheel drive SUV, a model that traces its roots to a government purpose (GP or Jeep) vehicle used during World War II. This iconic model is prized for its off-road capabilities and unique features, including a fold-down windshield and removable doors. Long a two-door model, a four-door Wrangler Unlimited version was introduced in 2007. 2007 to Present: Jeep Wrangler Overview The third-generation Jeep Wrangler was introduced in 2007. As…
Jeep Wrangler Sport vs. Jeep Grand Cherokee “Born in the heat of battle, the Go-Anywhere, Do-Anything Jeep.” The first Jeep slogan that came out when Jeeps were first introduced to consumer ownership. This slogan describes the versatility of Jeeps and how they are the type of vehicle that will do anything you want it to and will go anywhere you want it to (Jeep). Jeeps have been around for over 50 years. They are the car that adventurers typically drive if they want to have fun. There are quite…
The Dodge Challenger is a modern muscle car that can be used for everything. The Dodge Challenger is a Brampton, Ontario, Canada and Detroit, Michigan based muscle car built by the auto manufacture Dodge which is part of auto manufacturing group Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. The Dodge Challenger’s competitors used to be Chevy Camaro and Ford Mustang but they are now pony cars which are american sports cars. This report will first cover the full history of the Dodge Challenger’s starting from the…
Zaha Hadid Architectures Zaha Mohammad Hadid was an Iraqi-British architect, born on 31 October 1950, in Baghdad, Iraq to an upper-class Iraqi family. Hadid studied mathematics at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon before moving to London in 1972 to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. Hadid has about 950 projects in 44 different countries according to Zaha Hadid Architects website. Hadid also worked with the interior architecture, product, and fashion design.…
Ex machina is a film set in the isolated mountain home of the CEO of a massive internet search engine “bluebook” ,a young programmer named Caleb is brought in to test if the newly made A.I Ava would work in human society by using the turing test . Before everything there is the main conflict which should be man versus machine but that is not always the case ,when Caleb meets Nathan for the first time there conversation acts more like a psycho-analysis test then a normal conversation . It…
To represent the constraints on the host level (and implicitly on the level of feature packs), and uses a dependency matrix. Figure represents an example of a dependency matrix that shows the dependencies between the different hosts, as well as restrictions on these dependencies. The first column and the first row represent a file (database). Each cell contains a set of pairs (C, H), where C indicates the constraint and H indicates the type of dependency. A value of 2 means a strong dependency…
Intro: Newtons Method: Haley F. / Andrew H. Newton’s Method, also known as Newton-Raphson method, is a method used for finding the zeros, roots or in more simple terms where any given function exactly crosses the x access. In calculus we may be presented with problems given that we cannot find a definite answer to, but we can use Newton’s Method to calculate a group of answers that get closer and closer to the actual solution. Newton’s Method has given the world of calculus a method of…