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Future Cars: Audi Le Mans and Porsche Carrera GT

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The 60th IAA opens its doors to the public Sept. 13 through Sept. 21, 2003.

Audi introduces the Audi Le Mans concept car, a sports car aimed on taking on the Porsche 911.
The Le Mans features a 5.0 liter V10 biturbo power. A Aluminum Space Frame. FSI fuel injection and "Magnetic ride" shock absorbers. Power is put at 610 hp, accompanied by a 533 lb-ft of torque, coming from a longitudinally, mid-mounted twin-turbocharged 40-valve 5.0-litre V10 engine running Audi’s FSI direct injection technology. read more about the Audi Le Mans on AutoWeek

Porsche shows its very cool new Porsche Carrera GT. This car is actually available for $440,000 now. The Porsche Carrera GT has a Mid-mounted, 5.7 liters, V10 engine and rear-wheel drive. It is a 2-seater. Features 605 hp and goes from 0-62 mph in 3.9 sec. Top speed 205 mph.

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Posted on Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:50:54 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Photos Of Porsche Designed LaCie External Hard Drives

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LaCie and Porsche Design Announce New Line of Designer Drives.

LaCie’s new design will house a complete line of hard drives, ranging in capacity from 40GB to 250GB for PC or Mac via USB 2.0 or FireWire®.
LaCie’s CD-RW and DVD+/-RW drives will also be available in this unique design, featuring a mirrored door that opens.
The Porsche Drives will be ready to ship in September 2003 through LaCie’s authorized resellers and mail order partners.

We have recently reported about the PorscheWide-Screen Notebook. Soon you can have a full range of Porsche designed gadgets that fit to the 911 that you already have in your garage.

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Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:46:04 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

The Porsche Wide Screen Notebook

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The vpr Matrix® 200A5 15" Wide Screen Notebook is design by F.A. Porsche.

The 15.2” widescreen display si great for watching DVDs, DVD player is builtin in the lightweight magnesium case.
The exclusive vpr Matrix Sonopür ™ audio system uses 24/192 upsampling technology to provide high-end sound.

The system is powered by a 2GHz Intel® Mobile Pentium®4 Processor-M with SpeedStep technology.
For Connectivity the vpr Matrix® 200A5 features 2 USB 2.0, 2 IEEE 1394 (FireWire®) ports for high-speed peripherals, integrated 802.11b wireless networking capability and a 10/100 network port and PC card slot.

Features:
2.0GHz Intel ® Mobile Pentium ® 4 Processor-M
15.2" widescreen LCD display
40GB hard drive capacity
512MB DDR memory
DVD/CD-RW combo drive
32MB nVidia GeForce4 420 Go Graphics
Weighs only 6.4 lbs.

Price: $2399.99

Design Technica has a review of the Porsche Notebook

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