Nordschleife Autoblahg was started in March of 2010 from a small group of VW, Audi, and Porsche enthusiast friends. Throughout the day we would send related stories, rumors, and videos to each other on email. Anything related to VW, Audi, or Porsche since we are all big fans. These mails became very long and cluttered our inbox, so we came up with the idea to post all in one central location. From that the site was born! With all of us having access to post in one place it made for a much easier way to read each report and was more organized. Since the site was public, we noticed we were soon being followed by others all over the world and the need to create a more professional site was necessary including a FaceBook and Twitter page. We had a site "refresh" at our one year mark that enabled ease of access over all types of media. The site has been growing at a considerably quick rate and we are pleased to offer the latest info with our fellow VW, Audi, and Porsche fans. Fortunately, all of us work our day jobs out of a computer and the idea to have an office where we all can work and continue the Blagh together was developed. What can be better!
Mazda chose to go ahead with a wishbone or a multi-link suspension set up on all 4 wheels, hence giving the car superior grip and maximizing tire performance. The design of the first-generation MX-5 was highly inspired from the likes of the Lotus Elan. However, it has come a long way and now in its fourth generation looks stunning! The current generation Mazda MX-5 was launched in 2015, offered with 2 naturally aspirated direct injection petrol engines - 1.5 L & a 2.0 L producing 129 bhp & 158 bhp respectively. The car is offered both with a 6-speed manual as well as an automatic transmission. A manual transmission in today鈥檚 age? Yes, driving the MX-5 in manual is just the thing dreams are made off! In a time when automatics are on the rise in cars across all segments, Mazda has made an awesome choice going ahead with the manual. The MX-5 is a car an auto enthusiast would cherish. With quick responsiveness, amazing ride and handling, power when you need it, and the manual transmission of course! Well the MX-5 is not as quick as the likes of the Porsche 911, but with a 0-100 km/h time of 5.8 seconds, it gets the job done impressively. The MX-5 is a 2-door coupe car which can seat only 2 occupants. In its latest avatar, the Mazda MX-5 RF comes with a retractable roof. The MX-5 is one of the best and highest selling 2 door roadsters in history. It could well be classified as a more affordable alternative to the Porsche 911, with the MX-5 being priced at almost half! This truly is a legendary car, and one we certainly look forward to when Mazda enters India.
Nikola Tesla at age thirty-seven. An earlier test, lasting only one second, had confirmed that the equipment in the building, an enormous "tesla coil" and the tower seemed to work. Now would come the full test. Neither Tesla nor his assistant was exactly sure what would happen - giant sparks? When Tesla was ready, he shouted to his assistant, Czito, "Now! Close the switch!" Czito had been instructed to keep the machine running until Tesla told him to turn it off. Inside the building the massive switch was thrown and outside fireworks started to take place. A heavy current raced through the primary coil of the machine and lightning bolts started to explode from the mast. Tesla watched as giant electrical sparks 135-feet long jumped from the large copper ball. They generated a thunder that could be heard 15 miles away. Tesla was so enthralled with the display that he lost all track of time.
Suddenly the lightning stopped. His assistant shook his head. He hadn't turned off the current. The power company was no longer sending it. A quick call to the power station revealed the trouble. In the one minute it had been operating, Tesla's machine had overloaded the powerhouse generator, setting it on fire. The town of Colorado Springs was in a blackout and Tesla himself would have to take a team of trained workmen to the station to fix the dynamo. Even so, Tesla knew his new invention, his "resonate transformer," really worked. Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in a mountainous area of the Balkan Peninsula that was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His parents were Serbian. His father, an Orthodox priest, was a writer and poet. His mother had mechanical aptitude and invented many appliances to use around the household and farm, including an eggbeater. Tesla was such a brilliant mathematician in school that he performed integral calculus in his head, a skill that left his teachers thinking he must be cheating.
While still at school he decided he wanted to become an engineer. This was a career which conflicted with his father's desire for Tesla to follow him into the priesthood. In the end, Tesla won the battle and was enrolled in the Austrian Polytechnic School at Graz. While studying electrical and mechanical engineering Tesla was shown the newly-invented Gramme dynamo that could be used both as a electrical motor and a generator. He studied it and observed to his teacher that there should be some way of doing away with the inefficient sparking connector on the device. His professor was skeptical, but Tesla was right. Over the next few years Tesla would come up with the idea of alternating the current flow (known as AC) to solve this problem. In the end, this idea would underlie the design of every commercial electrical system throughout the world. Tesla was hired by firms in Germany and France to improve their direct current (DC) generation facilities, but neither was interested in his radical AC designs.