Barely weeks after Audi first showed the Q5 officially, the German marque has revealed an S Line version of the Q5.
The car attracts a sportier demeanor through a number of exterior changes. Some of these are 19-inch wheels which if you didn’t know, would certainly put you off the idea of going off-road in the swashbuckling Audi SUV.
An optional 20-inch alloy is available, put around 255mm of black rubber. A groovy grille with a matching mesh pattern of air vents around the fog lights accentuates the aggression of S Line.
Interior features layons of brushed aluminium with the three-spoke steering wheel featuring multi-function capability and wrapped in perforated leather.
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Driving pleasure has been written large at AC Schnitzer for 20 years. And happily, nothing will change for the 62nd IAA. But this goal can be reached in a totally alternative way, as the superb AC Schnitzer GP3.10 GAS POWERED shows.
This high-performance coupé has LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas) drive, where power and efficiency, economy and ecology, meet in an exciting study.
As if the extravagant exterior of the project vehicle, based on the current 3-series coupé, were not enough, under the bonnet growls the V10 engine of the current M5/M6 which AC Schnitzer is presenting at the show for the first time in bivalent design: The vehicle has a fully sequential LPG system with two parallel 5-cylinder vaporizers.
There’s no loss of power or dynamics. The engine, tuned with a remapped control unit and modified exhaust tract with sports catalyst and exhaust manifold, develops 552 HP/406 kW and produces up to 540 Nm at the crankshaft. In itself, that’s 45 horses more than the M5/M6. But why power this with LPG?
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Mistubishi’s Evolution X, known to us mere mortals as the Evo X or simply goddess, is getting even feistier.
The Evo X MR (Mitsubishi Racing) edition is set to hit the streets of Japan later in 2008, but not after going through the normal channels of spec upgrade.
Evo X’s engine has been looked at and found to be underperforming, even at its current highly-strung levels.
Therefore engineers have reworked things to their better liking to squeeze off 20 more bhp out of it than what you have in the standard car, adding up to 305 bhp in total. Driven by an uprated version of the brand’s SST double-clutch transmission, the Evo X MR remains less powerful than the FQ-330 and FQ-360 UK spec cars, but is the most powerful SST-driven Evo X in the range.
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First time, actress Rojina, who has never played a dancer before, plays a Reda Folk Dancer in Qamar Arbaatashar (Full Moon), written and directed by Essam Al Shamaa, to be shown next Ramadan.
“I play Sama, a folk dancer,” says Rojina. “She’s totally an inner city sort of girl. Her talk and moves are all special. She belongs to modest origins. Her dad is a bus driver; her mom is a singer.
She spends her time rehearsing in hope of having her talent discovered by a composer. However, she gives up and decides on a folk dance career, influenced by a friend who is murdered. Then story unfolds as to whom has killed her.”
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Celebrated Egyptian hero Ahmed Al Hawan (a.k.a. Gomaa Al Shawan), whose life story is discussed in Adel Emam’s Demoa Fe Eoun Waqeha (Tears in Shameless Eyes), surprised all as he announced in a National democratic Party (NDP) conference in Suez Governorate an 8-month marriage to late Egyptian diva Soad Hosny. Al Hawan never referred to that during Cinderella’s (as Hosny was well known among fans) life.
Al Hawan responded, upon contact, in few words and said his announcement is not in fact new, since he has already referred to marriage four years ago. Al Hawan and Hosny was wed an urfi marriage in 1970, said Al Hawan.
“She’s no longer alive. I think all we can do is ask God’s forgiveness for her,” emphasized Al Hawan.
Janjah, Hosny’s sister, denied marriage. “She [Hosny] did not marry Mr. Al Shawan. With all due respect to Mr. Al Hawan’s history, I think he should not have announced that. Though in 1970 I was all too young, I was well aware of whom Hosny got married to.”
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johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law have donated their earnings from new movie ‘The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus’ to Heath Ledger’s daughter Matilda.
The actors – who replaced Heath following his death from an accidental prescription drugs overdose in January – wanted to give their money to Heath’s two-year-old child with actress Michelle Williams to ensure she has a secure future.
The movie’s director Terry Gilliam said: “The three actors were totally heroic coming in. This doesn’t happen very often – where there’s a tragedy like this, and very famous, very successful actors suddenly say, ‘OK, we’ll do whatever it takes to help.’
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Patrick Swayze remains optimistic he can beat pancreatic cancer.
The ‘Dirty Dancing’ actor, who was rumored to be dying after he was diagnosed with the disease earlier this year, is doing all he can to remain in good physical condition.
He said: “I’m feeling good and doing everything that I need to do to stay healthy!”
The 56-year-old star, who recently began filming TV show ‘The Beast’ in Chicago, is currently taking a break from his treatment.
He added to In Touch Weekly magazine: “I don’t have to return to California until next month for my next round of treatments. Right now, I’m taking the medication as I am scheduled to take it.”
Patrick, who is set to continue work on the TV series until November, has been spending his free time away from the set with his wife Lisa.
He said: “We have been walking our dogs and enjoying some of the restaurants. Also, we stay in the hotel so I can rest for filming.”
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(Reuters) – Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) might have to borrow money from the Treasury Department to see it through an expected wave of bank failures, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The borrowing could be needed to cover short-term cash-flow pressures caused by reimbursing depositors immediately after the failure of a bank, the paper said.
The borrowed money would be repaid once the assets of that failed bank are sold.
“I would not rule out the possibility that at some point we may need to tap into (short-term) lines of credit with the Treasury for working capital, not to cover our losses,” Chairman Sheila Bair said in an interview with the paper.
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A 15-pound cocker spaniel-poodle mix named Pawlee scared off a mother bear and her two cubs Sunday morning after they strayed into his owners’ back yard.
Whether his bark was worse than his bite, Pawlee’s tactic worked just fine. These three bears got the hint and took off.
“We had just let him out for the morning and he ran into the yard and started barking his head off,” owner Fran Osiason said.
Osiason said her 9-year-old son, Jacob, went outside to see what the commotion was about and came running back in to report there were bears in the yard.
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DENVER – Remarks of New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, for her address to the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night in Denver:
I am honored to be here tonight. A proud mother. A proud Democrat. A proud American. And a proud supporter of Barack Obama.
My friends, it is time to take back the country we love.
Whether you voted for me, or voted for Barack, the time is now to unite as a single party with a single purpose. We are on the same team, and none of us can sit on the sidelines.
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