A person with valuable informations told The Associated Press today that Breett Favre will not return for a second season to Vikings. The 40-year-old star quarterback’s injured left ankle is not responding as well to surgery and rehabilitation as he had hoped, but no official announcements were made about the situation. Brad Childress, coach of [...]
Porsche announced that it will build the 918 hybrid supercar based upon “overwhelming response from the public and customers”. The hybrid car will cost about $600,000, but Porsche promises customers that the new car will have exceptional performance along with stellar fuel economy and emissions. Porsche says the 918 will do: 500-horsepower, 78-mpg, 9,200-rpm 3.4-liter [...]
Ford is rolling out the new Explorer today, which doesn’t just look different from the SUV that was a Ford mainstay for 20 years, it is completely different. The 7-passenger SUV will provide more room and better fuel economy than previous Explorers. Jim Farley, Ford’s head of marketing, says his most important job will be [...]
Electric cars will roll out later this year, maybe they are the future of cars, but some in Congress are thinking much more aggressively, for example the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this week passed a bill that would give $3.9 billion to cities to build electric car infrastructure. The goal is to electrify [...]
Free-agent forward Matt Barnes decided to sign a two-year contract with the Lakers and declined the more lucrative offer from Cleveland. Theo Ratliff, the veteran shot-blocking center also agreed to a one-year, $1.35-million deal with the Lakers today. Lakers could pay Barnes next season $1.77 million, about half of what Cleveland was offering, and Barnes [...]
NHL star Ilya Kovalchuk decided to sign a contract with the New York Devils. According to the contract, Kovalchuk is going to play at the Devils for 17 years, and he’s going to earn $102 million in exchange for that. Here is a list of the 27-year-old high-scoring left winger’s earnings for the following years: [...]
Would you like to travel in a spaceship? It’s not a dream anymore, thanks to Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic company. Branson’s SpaceShip Two (aka. the VSS Enterprise) spacecraft flew over the Mojave desert in California. The flight took over 6 hours and it was conducted to test the systems of SpaceShip Two. During the flight [...]
Subaru’s latest innovative idea is a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot in the 2011 Subaru Outback. If you want to surf websites, answer emails or play multiplayer games online while you’re sitting in your car, this is a great service for you, because the Outback’s Wi-Fi hotspot offers Internet access for over 10 users. Don’t worry if [...]
BMW unveiled their 2011 X3, which will be produced in BMW’s South Carolina Plant. The new BMW X3 is bigger than its predecessor, it’s 3.4 inches longer and 1.1 inches wider, but surprisingly it carries 50 pounds less than the models of the first generation. Thanks to the increased size, the 2011 model has more [...]
Chevrolet revealed the details of their new police car, the Chevrolet Caprice PPV, which will debut in early 2011. Two versions will be available for law enforcement agencies, the Caprice 9C1, a regular police patrol car and the Caprice 9C3 which is a “detective” version. Both versions will be available with a V6 engine, and [...]
