2010-09-05

toyota, honda and ferrari

You might still remember about the global major news in which a few millions Toyota vehicles were recalled. It started off last year in November 2009 when the world's largest automobile maker by sales and production recalled some of its products after reports that several vehicles experienced unintended acceleration. By this time around, the number of vehicles recalled had might passed 9 millions worldwide.

At the same time, Honda, the second leading company in Japan after Toyota has also experiencing the same thing. More than half a million Honda vehicles in US were recalled because of ignition problems and airbags inflators which may expand with too much pressure.

This has given the two leading Japanese manufacturers a bad name. Consumers started to make reports, some even protest for their safety and there were others who had been victims in a number of accidents were filing for lawsuits. Sales has been declining. People also started making fun of it such as the Letterman's parody of Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda.

You might think since it was Japanese automobile, then the quality must be at the minimum level compared to European's or American's or even the top names like Lamborghini, Ferrari, Buggati. Well, think again.

You see, recently Ferrari has just launched its new addition the 458 Italia. And boy oh boy, to me it was the prettiest and the most futuristic Ferrari ever to go on sale.



This particular Ferrari is a replacement for the old F430 and it costs around £170,000 in UK, or $230,675 in the States. If any of us interested in getting one of this, you could buy one from Naza Italia in KL for RM2,000,000 ;p



Many car magazines commented it to be among one of the best and most technical super car Ferrari has produced to date. And now, this model is also known to be one of the largest super car recall ever.

Since its launch earlier this year, there are now 1,248 of 458 Italia on the road worldwide. Suddenly, 5 of them has been catching fire across the globe. Incidents have also been reported in California, Paris, China and Switzerland.

July 8, Paris - Black 458 catches fire with passerby putting blaze out with extinguisher:


July 14, Switzerland - Red 458's engine catches fire on a mountain pass:


August 18, California - Red 458 catches fire in California:


Ferrari said that and I'm going to quote "a flaw in the wheel arch on the rear of the £170,000 supercar is fitted with a special glue which is prone to melting. The fault brings the lining of the wheel-arch into contact with the hot exhaust pipe causing both the lining and the adhesive to heat up and ignite. As result of the fire the superheated aluminium body will subsequently melt"

In Malaysia, there has not been a sighting of this beautiful car burst into flame in our hot weather...well, not yet. Naza Italia said it had 14 names in its order books for the 570 bhp 4.5-litre V8 Prancing Horse. Therefore, it’s save to assume that they are all safely kept in the cool garages of Datuk and Tan Sri owners. If you know someone who has Ferrari 458 Italia and it has been destroyed as a direct result of the fault, tell them not to worry since Ferrari will take full responsibility and offered a free vehicle as soon as possible at no cost. LOL.

2010-09-04

rusted...

wow my last post was on the 1st of March...that was 6 months ago...hurmm...it seems I just could not update my blog on regular basis anymore...not even once a month...maybe I have just been too busy...I know that you might say that you're also busy with tons of workloads...but that's not all...now I have Alyssa...and being a father is really challenging...

if my life were compared to a video game, I would say it's probably like the Demon's Soul on PlayStation 3...no, no Alyssa is not a demon alrite...she is just too cute to be something of that evil...haha...Demon's Soul is particularly noted for its high difficulty level...it's just plain difficult...I used to not like children...then again, I think I have come to a point where being a father is actually a wonderful thing...

now every time I feel so frustrated with my pupils; or I just got into an argument; or something happen to my car; or I could not beat the boss in a video game after trying over and over again; or whenever McLaren got beaten by Ferrari, (and the list goes on), when I get back home and see Alyssa smiling at me...I feel like the world around me appears to be just fine...I don't know how to describe it precisely...somehow her smile is like an elixir that can cure almost anything to me...I really love her so much...

hmm...I think I should stop blogging now and play with Alyssa...and I will try my best so that I could blog more and regularly from this day onwards...

2010-03-01

March has arrived

OMG! OMG! March is finally here...there are so much things happening this month...

Video Games:

Final Fantasy XIII (09-03-2010)


Pokemon HeartGold SoulSilver (14-03-2010)


God of War III (16-03-2010)



Formula 1:

2010 season (14-03-2010) @ Bahrain

*McLaren MP4-25*

and not to forget, my first child is due to be born on the 16 of March...which falls on the same date as the release of God of War III...maybe if I get a boy, I will name him Kratos...hoho...lol ;p

in the meantime, I will wait patiently by finishing MGS4 which I just bought two weeks ago ^_^