Monthly Archives: February 2010
Houston The Ford F150 SVT Raptor has Landed
I Picked up The Ford F150 Raptor from Russell and Smith Ford in Houston,but had no idea what i was in store for.The Raptor was wainting for me when i got there,it was assign a Dealer plate and i was handed the Keys. THIS TRUCK IS BAD TO THE BONE 5.4L of off road perfomance. Got on the freeway and the Truck pretty much stopped Traffic.
Ford F150 SVT Raptor
Let me give you a a little background on this Ford Raptor.
Ford Builds A Desert Racer
While every past super truck was designed for driving on paved roads and tracks, the SVT Raptor promises to literally fly across the surface of the desert. What would motivate Ford Motor Company to introduce such a different kind of super truck?
The answer is threefold. The first is that high-performance trucks attract attention to the entire line of F-Series trucks. Ford’s marketing people like this. A second reason is that Ford employs engineers who genuinely love performance. Those engineers aren’t shy about offering up ideas on what’s they’d like to see in Ford showrooms. The third is that hi-po street trucks have been done before. Ford didn’t want to simply microwave warm up an old idea.
Taken all together, these points formed a rationale that helped point Ford toward a new kind of high-performance truck.
Ford’s collection of speed-crazed engineers goes by the name of SVT (Special Vehicle Team). This group was responsible for past Lighting pickup trucks, as well as the Ford GT supercar, and the recently released Shelby GT500 Mustang.
The face of SVT is their chief engineer, Jamal Hameedi. He said, “We saw where the truck market was going, and doing another high-performance street truck wasn’t the best idea. We needed to do something original, and we wanted something that a different owner segment of the trucking world would appreciate.” SVT decided to focus on the fans and participants of desert racing.
Racing trucks, dune buggies, and ATVs through the desert is a popular activity in the Southwest. Off-road races are common in California and Nevada, as well as on Mexico’s Baja peninsula. Plus, these states have hundreds of thousands of acres of public land that are open to off-road recreational vehicles. Like a racetrack is for a Shelby GT500, these areas provide a safe place let vehicles like the Raptor stretch their legs.
Shelby Ford Mustang The Legend
Carroll Shelby’s Ford Mustang
A Shelby Mustang is a high performance variant of the Ford Mustang
A Shelby Mustang is a high performance variant of the Ford Mustang, built by Ford from 1968 through 1970. The 1965, 1966 and 1967 Shelby’s were a series of Ford Mustangs which were specially modified by Carroll Shelby’s company and sold under the name Shelby GT. 1965 Shelby GT 350 From 1968 the model became the Shelby Cobra GT.
The program was factory-sponsored by Ford to compete with the Corvette, also factory-sponsored by Chevrolet, neither of which could be built for the sales price charged. In 2007, following the introduction of the Fifth-generation Ford Mustang the Shelby nameplate was revived for new high performance versions of the Mustang.
1967 Shelby Ford Mustang GT500
Carroll Shelby started modified Ford Mustangs in 1967
The 1967 Shelby Mustangs distinguished themselves from their more plain Ford cousins with elaborate use of fiberglass. A larger fiberglass nose was fitted, together with fiberglass hood, fenders and trunk lid. The hood featured an intimidating dual air intake scoop and the cut-off rear end showed an angular spoiler which blended into the rear fenders. The plastic rear roof windows gave way to impressive air-extraction scoops. A protruding lower front spoiler was
High-tech wallet aims to fight ID theft
A California man is making news with an invention that he says could help cut down on identity theft and credit card fraud.
According to a report on San Diego’s KGTV, Steve Cabouli has created the “iWallet,” an otherwise conventional wallet that can only be opened when its owner runs a fingerprint over a scanning device.
The television station notes that Cabouli, who was once himself a victim of identity theft, also featured technology that allows an alarm on one’s cell phone to go off, while future versions of the invention may feature a GPS-based device allowing a stolen wallet to be tracked. The station also added that about 10,000 of these wallets have been sold so far.
Technology does have a difficult time keeping up with identity thieves given the increasingly sophisticated methods they use in order to obtain consumers’ financial data. Hacking and spyware are increasingly common, although finance experts also warn that old-fashioned methods like stealing old credit bills from dumpsters and trash remain problematic as well.
When it comes to fighting fraud and identity theft, another important tactic is to regularly check one’s credit report to catch suspicious account activity.