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River's Diary
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Right, what's the news today you spoiler-laden TARDIS journal?
A new naming scheme from Infiniti
Beginning in the 2014 model year, there's going to be a new naming scheme for Infiniti, Nissan's world market luxury brand. That means, the brand will use the letter
Q for all sedan and coupe models while the
QX name will be used for their SUV and crossover lineup. First model will be the replacement for the Infiniti G sedan, called the Q50, which serves as the next generation Nissan Skyline V37 sedan. The Infiniti M will be called Q70, G Coupe and Convertible will be called Q60, QX will be called QX80, FX to QX70, JX to QX60, and EX (Nissan Skyline Crossover) to QX50, respectively.
Scoop:
http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2012/12/infiniti-announces-new-naming-strategy.html
2014 BMW Z4 E89 facelift
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| 2014 BMW Z4 |
A minor change occurred for the BMW Z4 E89 and for this minor change comes with the three-dimensional design of the LED light rings on the headlamps, the BMW lettering on the LED accent lights on top, the new available 17- and 18-inch alloy wheels and a newly designed, tapered surround for the side indicators. Mineral Grey metallic, Glacier Silver metallic and Valencia Orange metallic are three new colors joining for the 2014 model year and that's not all, it even includes a cheaper version called the sDrive18i, which comes with the 2.0L turbo engine that generates 156PS of power and 240Nm of torque, mated to either a 6MT or an 8AT.
Scoop:
http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2012/12/2014-bmw-z4-roadster-ever-so-faintly.html
AWD Sport variant for the 2013 Dodge Charger
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| 2013 Dodge Charger AWD Sport |
With winter comes, Dodge is prepped up with an AWD Sport version of the 2013 Charger saloon. It is a limited edition model that comes with some styling tweaks, convenience, paddle shifters, and a new SPORT MODE for the transmission and the option of two engines, a 370hp Hemi V8 and a 300hp Pentastar V6.
WALD's even more serious 86 body kit
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| WALD Toyota 86 Sports Line |
A couple of months ago, Wald unveiled their first body kit for the Toyota 86 sports car with a front half spoiler, side skirts, a duck tail-like boot lid spoiler, and two-tone alloy wheels. For next year's Tokyo Auto Salon, WALD tries to make it even more serious with the Sports Line edition for the Toyota 86. With this, you can expect an SLR-like hood, rear fender extensions, a rear diffuser with quad tailpipes, a wide rear wing and deep-dish, five spoke alloy wheels housed in low-profile performance tires.
Top Gear Magazine December 2012 issue
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| Top Gear Magazine December 2012 issue |
2012, it's almost over, and BBC's Top Gear Magazine are in search for the best car of 2012. Not only that, seems that the Top Gear boys chose their best cars of the year that tickles their fancies. As some of them who has this magazine, they might recognize that the latest Ferrari, the F12berlinetta, became
BBC Top Gear Magazine's Supercar of the Year 2012.
Pagani Huayra is Richard Hammond's Car of the Year,
Toyota 86 is Jeremy Clarkson's Car of the Year, and
McLaren MP4-12C Spider is James May's Car of the Year.
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| Pagani Huayra and Richard Hammond |
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| Toyota 86 and Jeremy Clarkson |
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| McLaren MP4-12C and James May |
Another Prologue to The Snowmen!
Back in BBC Children in Need 2012 special, they did aired a prologue to this year's Doctor Who 2012 Christmas Special, the SNOWMEN. In the prologue to this special called
THE GREAT DETECTIVE, we witnessed some old allies returned and formed three-quarters of the Paternoster Gang. Yep, we're talking about our old pals from A Good Man Goes to War episode; Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint and Strax.
For this second prologue, called Vastra Investigates, well, you have to watch this and find out:
Doctor Who: The Snowmen premieres Christmas Day!
UK - 5:15pm on BBC One
US - 9/8 central on BBC America (U.S.)
Canada - 9E/6P on Space (Canada)
Australia - Boxing Day, Wednesday 26 December 2012 at 7.30pm on ABC1.
American Whovians get to see the new K9!
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| The new K9! |
Doctor Who fans love the robot dog named K9. Whether if its from the old Doctor Who years or as Sarah Jane's trusty sidekick, it's still one of the best Doctor Who character that I like to define it as either "The Doctor's Best Friend" or "Sarah Jane's Best Friend". A couple of years ago, in UK, they've aired a new K9 spin-off show featuring the all new K9 robot dog, complete with a new look, new hovering ability, and the same K9 loyalty from its predecessors. Here's how this show is about:
In the not too distant future, Earth was been ravaged by disasters and the government made cyborg technology that replaces human law enforcement with Cybernetic Civil Pacification Corps, which was ruled by the Department.
K9 was once a robot dog made by a professor who accepted a position at the Bi-Al Foundation from the 50th century. If you recall the old Doctor Who, the foundation summoned The Doctor and his then-partner, Leela, and then he's suffered by some intelligent virus, which the professor and K9 made an antidote to save him. Before The Doctor and Leela left, the professor offered K9 to them to aid in The Doctor's journeys. When The Doctor bid farewell to Leela because she has to stay in Gallifrey with commander Andred, K9 was offered to stay with Leela.
After that, The Doctor created an exact copy of K9. Dubbed Mk.2, it has the same features as K9 but comes with a stronger power source, improved tracking circuits, and for added defense, a blaster on K9's nose. K9 remained with The Doctor until the TARDIS was stolen by a time-sensitive Tharil named Blorc. K9, along with a Time Lady and The Doctor's then-partner, Romana, was imprisoned but freed by a Tharil named Lazlo. With the Tharils freed and The Doctor and the TARDIS catapulted back to normal space, K9 chose to be in E-space with Romana in order to save the Tharils from slavery.
The Doctor built K9 Mk.3 and this version was a present for his former partner, Sarah Jane Smith. The Mk3 version comes handy in the rounding up of a witches coven at Moreton-Harwood.
In Series 2 of the new Who, The (Tenth) Doctor, along with Rose and Mickey, come face-to-face with his former partner, Sarah Jane, in an episode called School Reunion. On that episode, in order to stop the Krillitanes, K9 sacrificed himself to save the students. When, The Doctor, Rose, and Mickey, bid farewell to Sarah Jane, he left a present for her, an improved version of K9, called Mk4, which aided Sarah Jane on her adventures from a Doctor Who spin-off (most of it may remember it right before the passing of the actress who played Sarah Jane, who is Elisabeth Sladen, last year) called The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Anyway, enough story telling for that, onto the new K9 spinoff. He arrives at Professor Gryffen's home. Gryffen was an expert who made an Alien Space-Time Manipulator, which travels K9 to distant worlds and he was been followed by alien enemies, the Jixen Warriors who attacked Gryffen, and some teenagers named Starkey and Jorjie. To save them, K9 self-destruct himself but miraculously reformed by some strange alien device planted on his mainframe. Thus, the new K9 was born. Such new features on the new K9 did come with a terrible consequence; he lost his memory. Yep, K9 completely forgot about himself so in this new spin-off, not only the new K9 pledged to save mankind from aliens and a cybernetic empire that rules with an iron fist but also trying to cope up with its past. Aiding the new K9 was Starkey, Jorjie, and Darius who was the teenager Gryffen often asks him for errands.
America's SyFy channel was very pleased to air K9 in the US telly and as a treat, Christmas Day –Tuesday, December 25 – from 10AM-11PM ET/PT.
Everybody say AFFIRMATIVE!
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