A Sleek mean machine....... Aston Martin DB9

Purely a dream come true. This mean machine was show cased at the 2007 Melbourne Motor Show. I was lucky enough to get to see one from my own eyes. I was only equipped with my trusted Nokia N73 to get a picture of this car. But I believe no camera can capture the true beauty of it rather than seen it from your own eyes.

Aston Martin DB9 is my all time favorite car. And it truly is a breath taker. I have visited there website and got this info of the car.

Specifications

Body

- Two door coupe or convertible (Volante) body style with 2+2 seating
- Extruded aluminium bonded body structure
- Aluminium and composite body panels
- Extruded aluminium door side impact protection beams
- High Intensity Discharge (HID) projector lamps (dipped beam)
- Halogen projector headlamps (main beam) with power wash
- LED rear lamps

Engine

- All alloy, quad overhead camshaft, 48-valve, 5935cc V12
- Compression ratio 10.3:1
- Visteon engine management controlling fuel injection, ignition, diagnostics and misfire detection system.
- Stainless steel by-pass valve exhaust system
- Maximum power 335 kW (450 bhp) at 6000 rpm
- Maximum torque 570 Nm (420 lb ft) at 5000 rpm
- Acceleration 0-60 mph in 4.9 seconds
- Maximum speed 186 mph (300 km/h)

Price (from) £109,750 (Coupe) / £118,750 (Volante)

Transmission

- Rear mid-mounted 'Touchtronic 2' six-speed gearbox with electronic shift-by-wire control system
- Rear mid-mounted six-speed manual gearbox
- Limited slip differential
- Final drive ratio 3.54:1 (manual) / 3.154:1 (Touchtronic 2)

Steering

- Rack and pinion, servotronic speed-sensitive power-assisted, 3.0 turns lock to lock.
Column tilt and reach adjustment

Suspension

- Front: Independent double aluminium wishbones incorporating anti-dive geometry, coil over aluminium monotube dampers and anti-roll bar
- Rear: Independent double aluminium wishbones incorporating longitudinal control arms, coil over aluminium monotube dampers and anti-roll bar.

Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit

I have installed Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit version in my computer few weeks ago. This is my finding for the moment of the Microsoft so called New operating system.

Graphics

Very good graphics features with the new windows Aero function it provide a nice overlook to the whole desktop. Once you put on the 3D window swapping mode it look fantastic. And also in there previews they have mention about a product called DreamScene which will allow users to put video as wallpapers and also animated wallpapers. Well it is sad to say that this part of the software is still under trial mode. They took 5 years to develop the operating system but up to now still have not published the final version of the DreamScene.

BARE IN MIND IF YOU NEED TO GET ALL THE GRAPHICS FEATURES TO WORK YOU NEED TO HAVE A GOOD GRAPHIC CARD. I HAVE A NVIDIA 6600 GT WITH 256MB OF RAM BUT IT STILL GIVE YOU SOME ERRORS.

Security

Well Microsoft is so hyped to say that the new operating system have a good security system. Well in away they have archived a very annoying security feature which keep on prompting every time you try to run a software. For example if you got firfox running in Vista then it will keep on asking for permission to run the software.

You have to always installed a Anti virus software. Because Vista dose not come with one. And if you have installed a 64bit version like me then you will only have few options to choose which software to run. My personal recommendation is Kaspersky Internet Security which use only little bit of your system memory.

User friendliness

Vista has improved fairly in this department. And for a first time user it is quite simple to function around windows vista to do simple task. Most of the programs are categorized into it own folders. And when you need to organized you own collection of photos, music files or any other sort of files it is quite easy using Windows Vista.

Recommended system configuration

Intel Pentium dual core processor
2Gb of memory
40Gb of Hard disk space
DVD rom drive
A very good VGA card ( example: atleast Nvidia 6600 GT or better)