Today we got a late start and stopped by McDonald's for some drive thru cuisine. McDonald's has been touting their new Iced Coffees, so I ordered a large Vanilla variety.
"What does a coffee beverage have to do with cars?" you ask.
Well in the spirit of car culture and the American fascination with fast food, eating and drinking while on a road trip or making a quick lunch break is a requirement for pavement-bound trekkers. Drive thrus are the meccas of these weary travellers in need of sustenance.
The Iced Coffee was decent but had a funny after-taste and the coffee had a bitter flavor as if it was leftover from the previous morning. Starbucks and their iced coffee offerings is a much better alternative, but drive thru Starbucks are not that prevalent depending on your locale. The holy grail of cold coffee offerings, at least served from the drive thru and widely available, has to be Burger King's Mocha BK Joe Iced Coffee. This premium beverage is like a bag of Lay's potato chips and has you seeking more of it after your first taste.
What's the secret ingredient in the Mocha BK Joe that makes it so great? The key ingredient is the vanilla shake mix which adds a creamy flavor reminiscent of Diedrich Coffee, a once flourishing alternative to Starbucks with stores in Orange County, San Diego, and Houston, Texas. Deidrich's blended coffee drink consisted of an ice cream base which added a complex note to the drink while also adding texture. Now go take a road trip and don't forget to make a pitstop for an iced coffee delight.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Saturday, April 5, 2008
GT-R: An exotic car for $70 grand?
The sports car world has, or soon will be, flipping its lid over this car:
Source: http://www.gtrnissan.com/download.en.us.html?img=nissan-gtr-image-gallery-exterior-1
Much like then Datsun did in 1971 with the classic 240Z, Nissan has done it again with the 2009 GT-R. At $70,000 this car eats Z06's for lunch and does circles around Porsche Turbos costing upwards of $125,000. In fact Road & Track tested these exact three cars, while the Corvette and the 911 lapped Buttonwillow at just over 2 minutes and 2 seconds, the Nissan accomplished the same lap almost 5 seconds quicker. A race course is truly the way to test the dynamics of a car, and by race track I don't mean the ovals NASCAR fans go crazy over. You see a road course type track with complex turns of various radii and some extended straightaways for high speed runs is what really separates the stallions from the herd. These types of courses allow a driver to fully test the handling limits of a car while also extracting the most out of the brakes when coming into a tight turn and what the go pedal does when blasting out of a turn or overcoming the wind on the straights.
Some other impressive numbers: the GT-R goes 0-60 in 3.4 seconds (only the superexotic Bugatti Veyron and Ferrari Enzo do it quicker), the Nissan can run through the slalom at 73.4 mph (faster than that aforementioned Enzo).
The GT-R is perhaps one of the most advanced cars in the world and proof of this is that fantastic lap time mentioned above while the car has the same horsepower figure as the Porsche 911 turbo yet weighs 250 pounds more than the German supercar. The Corvette has 25 more ponies than the other two, but just can't put the power to the pavement as the advanced all-wheel drive GT-R does. The GT-R is about to revolutionize the sportscar world.
Source: http://www.gtrnissan.com/download.en.us.html?img=nissan-gtr-image-gallery-exterior-1
Much like then Datsun did in 1971 with the classic 240Z, Nissan has done it again with the 2009 GT-R. At $70,000 this car eats Z06's for lunch and does circles around Porsche Turbos costing upwards of $125,000. In fact Road & Track tested these exact three cars, while the Corvette and the 911 lapped Buttonwillow at just over 2 minutes and 2 seconds, the Nissan accomplished the same lap almost 5 seconds quicker. A race course is truly the way to test the dynamics of a car, and by race track I don't mean the ovals NASCAR fans go crazy over. You see a road course type track with complex turns of various radii and some extended straightaways for high speed runs is what really separates the stallions from the herd. These types of courses allow a driver to fully test the handling limits of a car while also extracting the most out of the brakes when coming into a tight turn and what the go pedal does when blasting out of a turn or overcoming the wind on the straights.
Some other impressive numbers: the GT-R goes 0-60 in 3.4 seconds (only the superexotic Bugatti Veyron and Ferrari Enzo do it quicker), the Nissan can run through the slalom at 73.4 mph (faster than that aforementioned Enzo).
The GT-R is perhaps one of the most advanced cars in the world and proof of this is that fantastic lap time mentioned above while the car has the same horsepower figure as the Porsche 911 turbo yet weighs 250 pounds more than the German supercar. The Corvette has 25 more ponies than the other two, but just can't put the power to the pavement as the advanced all-wheel drive GT-R does. The GT-R is about to revolutionize the sportscar world.
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