It’s the Audi TT Off-Road Concept, not the Audi Q4!

April 19, 2014 By Cars UK

Audi has revealed an off-road concept version of the TT ahead of its debut at the Beijing Motor Show, which was originally thought likely to be a Q4.

It’s the Audi TT Off-Road Concept

When Audi previewed a coupe SUV heading for a debut at the Beijing Motor Show recently, we were convinced it would be a concept version of a coupe SUV – the Audi Q2. But we were wrong.

In fact, the coupe SUV heading for Beijing is the Audi TT Off-Road Concept, a concept that does exactly what it says on the tin – it looks just like a four-door TT on stilts.

Assuming the TT Off-Road is more than juts a concept – and points towards a production model – it will go up against cars like the Range Rover evoque, BMW X4 and new Porsche Macan. Serious competition in terms of both design and performance.

Audi has fitted the TT Off-=Road with a plug-in hybrid powertrain with a 2.0 litre TFSI with 288bhp mated to a 40kW electric motor with 162lb/ft of torque at the front and another electric motor with 85kW and 199lb/ft of torque at the back.

That all adds up to potential power of 402bhp and 480lb/ft of torque which, say Audi, will mean official economy of 148.7mpg, a 0-62mph not much over 5 seconds and the ability to drive as an EV for up to 30 miles.

It’s a clever – if complicated – hybrid system that even comes with wireless charging and does offer a ‘best of all worlds’ mix of performance and economy, even effectively being a ‘quattro’ 4WD  thanks to its electric motors.

Under the skin is the MQB platform and the TT Off-Road isn’t much bigger than the new TT.

But it does have a cabin with four seats – even though it all looks very much like the new TT too – and there’s even Audi’s new virtual cockpit present with its 12.3″ TFT screen and a pair of smart displays in the back for passengers’ entertainment.

It might cause confusion in Audi’s showrooms to have a TT that’s a coupe SUV rather than a coupe version of the Q range as an even-numbered coupe offering.

But Audi aren’t going to miss a niche if they can possibly help it, so don’t bank against the Tt Off-Road making production in the next couple of years.

Read more: http://www.carsuk.net/audi-tt-road-concept-audi-q4/#ixzz2zWDGoxZy

Σαλόνι Αυτοκινήτου του Πεκίνου - Το Audi TT και Q3 έχουν μόλις είχε ένα μωρό και να πηγαίνει από το όνομα του TT έννοια offroad. Όπως το θέτει Audi, η νέα μελέτη σχεδιασμού "συνδυάζει το σπορ κουπέ με την χρησιμότητα ενός compact SUV."

Παρά το γεγονός ότι η έννοια εκτός δρόμου TT έχει ακόμη να δοθεί το πράσινο φως για την παραγωγή, μέλος του διοικητικού συμβουλίου της Audi Καθ. Δρ Ulrich Hackenberg υπαινίσσεται ότι μπορεί κάλλιστα να είναι στα χαρτιά: «Η έννοια offroad Audi TT προσφέρει μια γεύση από το πώς θα μπορούσαμε να φανταστούμε ένα νέο μοντέλο για το μέλλον της οικογένειας ΤΤ. "

Μέτρηση 4,39 μέτρα σε μήκος και 1,85 μέτρα πλάτος, η νέα έννοια είναι παρόμοια σε μέγεθος με την τρέχουσα Q3 της Audi, αν και είναι ένα πλήρες 8 εκατοστά κάτω από το έδαφος και μπορεί να υπερηφανεύεται για μια πολύ πιο σπορ συμπεριφορά του σχεδιασμού που είναι ήδη σε μεγάλο βαθμό από το κουπέ TT .

Ποιος σκεφτεί ποτέ ότι η Audi θα μπορούσε να φανταστεί ακόμη και ένα ΤΤ με περισσότερες από τέσσερις πόρτες, πόσο μάλλον μια έκδοση crossover;

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Ωστόσο, υπάρχει πολύ περισσότερο σε αυτό από ό, τι η έννοια ακριβώς το στυλ. Για τους αρχάριους, αναδεικνύει δύο τεχνολογίες υποστήριξης του οδηγού που είναι σχεδόν έτοιμο για παραγωγή.

Ο βοηθός διασταυρώσεων, όπως υποδηλώνει το όνομά του, βοηθά τον οδηγό να αποφύγει συγκρούσεις πλευρικής πρόσκρουσης στις διασταυρώσεις και στις συγχωνεύσεις λωρίδα με τη χρήση αισθητήρων ραντάρ και ευρυγώνια κάμερα βίντεο για να ανιχνεύσει τις ζώνες στο μπροστινό μέρος και τις πλευρές του αυτοκινήτου για τον κίνδυνο.

Η άλλη νέα καινοτομία πηγαίνει από το όνομα των «πληροφοριών σε απευθείας σύνδεση φωτεινού σηματοδότη» και χρησιμοποιεί τα δίκτυα κινητής τηλεφωνίας για να συνδεθείτε με συστήματα φωτεινής σηματοδότησης στην πόλη, μετά το οποίο ενημερώνει τον οδηγό ποια ταχύτητα να οδηγεί για να φτάσετε στο επόμενο φανάρι ενώ είναι πράσινο.

Ζωηρός Plug-in Hybrid

Σε ένα διαφορετικό απόχρωση του πράσινου, η έννοια offroad Audi TT τροφοδοτείται από ένα plug-in υβριδικό σύστημα μετάδοσης που τους συντρόφους κινητήρα turbo με 2-λίτρων με δύο ηλεκτροκινητήρες για την επίτευξη των συνολικών εκροών του συστήματος των 300kW και 650nm. Σύμφωνα με την Audi, το σύστημα μετάδοσης μπορεί να ελιγμών του offroad ΤΤ από 0-100km / h σε 5,2 δευτερόλεπτα. Μετά από μια πλήρη φόρτιση της μπαταρίας (η οποία μπορεί να γίνει ασύρματα) είναι επίσης σε θέση να καλύπτει 50 χιλιόμετρα μόνο με τον ηλεκτροκινητήρα.

Η έκδοση παραγωγής, ωστόσο, θα μπορούσε να προσφέρει σχεδόν βέβαιο ότι ένα πλήρες φάσμα των συμβατικών κινητήρων. Και όσο κι αν φαίνεται περίεργο στην ιδέα, ότι έχουμε την αίσθηση ότι ένα crossover ΤΤ θα ήταν αρκετά μεγάλη επιτυχία στα charts πωλήσεων. Αλλά αυτό μας κάνει να αναρωτιόμαστε τι είναι το επόμενο - ένα station wagon R8;

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Using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the "habitable zone" -- the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. The discovery of Kepler-186f confirms that planets the size of Earth exist in the habitable zone of stars other than our sun.

While planets have previously been found in the habitable zone, they are all at least 40 percent larger in size than Earth and understanding their makeup is challenging. Kepler-186f is more reminiscent of Earth.

"The discovery of Kepler-186f is a significant step toward finding worlds like our planet Earth," said Paul Hertz, NASA's Astrophysics Division director at the agency's headquarters in Washington. "Future NASA missions, like the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and the James Webb Space Telescope, will discover the nearest rocky exoplanets and determine their composition and atmospheric conditions, continuing humankind's quest to find truly Earth-like worlds."

Although the size of Kepler-186f is known, its mass and composition are not. Previous research, however, suggests that a planet the size of Kepler-186f is likely to be rocky.

"We know of just one planet where life exists -- Earth. When we search for life outside our solar system we focus on finding planets with characteristics that mimic that of Earth," said Elisa Quintana, research scientist at the SETI Institute at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., and lead author of the paper published today in the journal Science. "Finding a habitable zone planet comparable to Earth in size is a major step forward."

Kepler-186f resides in the Kepler-186 system, about 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. The system is also home to four companion planets, which orbit a star half the size and mass of our sun. The star is classified as an M dwarf, or red dwarf, a class of stars that makes up 70 percent of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

"M dwarfs are the most numerous stars," said Quintana. "The first signs of other life in the galaxy may well come from planets orbiting an M dwarf."

Kepler-186f orbits its star once every 130-days and receives one-third the energy from its star that Earth gets from the sun, placing it nearer the outer edge of the habitable zone. On the surface of Kepler-186f, the brightness of its star at high noon is only as bright as our sun appears to us about an hour before sunset.

"Being in the habitable zone does not mean we know this planet is habitable. The temperature on the planet is strongly dependent on what kind of atmosphere the planet has," said Thomas Barclay, research scientist at the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at Ames, and co-author of the paper. "Kepler-186f can be thought of as an Earth-cousin rather than an Earth-twin. It has many properties that resemble Earth."

The four companion planets, Kepler-186b, Kepler-186c, Kepler-186d, and Kepler-186e, whiz around their sun every four, seven, 13, and 22 days, respectively, making them too hot for life as we know it. These four inner planets all measure less than 1.5 times the size of Earth.

The next steps in the search for distant life include looking for true Earth-twins -- Earth-size planets orbiting within the habitable zone of a sun-like star -- and measuring the their chemical compositions. The Kepler Space Telescope, which simultaneously and continuously measured the brightness of more than 150,000 stars, is NASA's first mission capable of detecting Earth-size planets around stars like our sun.

Ames is responsible for Kepler's ground system development, mission operations, and science data analysis. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., managed Kepler mission development. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo., developed the Kepler flight system and supports mission operations with the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder. The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore archives, hosts and distributes Kepler science data. Kepler is NASA's 10th Discovery Mission and was funded by the agency's Science Mission Directorate.

The SETI Institute is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to scientific research, education and public outreach.  The mission of the SETI Institute is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe.

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A wounded lion almost had her leg ripped off when a male buffalo gored her. Emergency vets scrambled to the middle of the Masai Mara Nature Reserve in Kenya when they heard about Siena's life threatening injuries. Staff at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust -- a specialist elephant rehabilitation centre -- had to act quickly if they were to save the lioness on April 4. Dj Njoroge from the Kenyan Wildlife Trust was flown from Nairobi to the nature reserve where the injured lioness stood with her cubs. 

Iranian Man Spared Execution at Last Second By Victim's Mother

April 17, 2014

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The mother, right, of Abdolah Hosseinzadeh, who was murdered in 2007, removes the noose with the help of her husband from around the neck of Balal, who killed her son, during the execution ceremony in Nowshahr, April 15, 2014, sparing the life of her son's convicted murderer.

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A man’s life was spared at the last second in Iran after the mother of a man he murdered halted his public execution.

Balal, with a noose tight around his neck, was awaiting death by hanging for the 2007 murder of 18-year-old Abdollah Hosseinzadeh when the victim’s mother had a change of heart, according to The Guardian.

The woman reportedly slapped the blind-folded Balal in the face before her husband helped her remove the noose, in front of a shocked crowd in Nowshahr, Iran on Tuesday.

"I am a believer,” said the victim’s mother, Samereh Alinejad, according to Agence France-Presse. “I had a dream in which my son told me that he was at peace and in a good place … After that, all my relatives, even my mother, put pressure on me to pardon the killer."

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Balal, who killed Abdolah Hosseinzadeh in a street fight with a knife in 2007, reacts as he stands in the gallows during his execution ceremony in Nowshahr, Iran, April 15, 2014. Samereh Alinejad, the mother of Abdolah Hosseinzadeh spared the life of Balal, her son's convicted murderer, with an emotional slap in the face as he awaited execution prior to removing the noose around his neck.

Balal is accused of stabbing her son to death in a street fight.

Dramatic photos taken by Arash Khamooshi of the Isna news agency show the woman approaching Balal and later crying with his mother.

Alinejad and her husband were originally supposed to kick the chair on which Balal stood, The Guardian reported.

There were at least 369 executions in Iran last year and possibly hundreds more that weren’t reported, according to Amnesty International’s 2013 report on death sentences and executions.

That’s an 18 percent increase from 2012, according to the group.

Iran has the highest number of executions of any country in the world, excluding China, which won’t release that data, according to Amnesty International.