New Rinspeed sQuba Concept Car

The Rinspeed sQuba will be presented at the next Geneva Motor Show in March next year. The Rinspeed sQuba is able to drive on roads without the help of a driver. The Rinspeed sQuba also can go amphibious and dive to a depth of up to 10 meters. The Rinspeed sQuba will, most likely, remain a unique and one-off concept car.

Press Release
Rinspeed presents clean diving Concept Car “sQuba” - in its way for Her Majesty

The worlds first real diving car with zero emission power.
Is it just a clever computer animation or maybe more a fiction from a Hollywood movie? Or is it actually a real car sitting there? Many visitors to the upcoming Geneva Motor Show (March 6th thru 16th, 2008) will ask themselves just these questions when faced with the new Rinspeed creation “sQuba” - the worlds first real diving car. This astonishing concept vehicle from the renowned Swiss powerhouse for new designs and ideas looks almost like it just came out of a James Bond movie.
Its capabilities not only to drive on roads - and this also at a push of a button autonomously (thus without a driver, passenger or further assistance) - but also to agitate as an amphibious vehicle and to protrude to water depth of up to 10 meters (33 feet) go beyond the scope of many human virtues of imagination.

For Rinspeed boss Frank M. Rinderknecht the “sQuba” symbolizes the realization of a long-cherished dream and of movie fictions - of which perhaps the most noted out of the James Bond film hit “The spy who loved me”. “And exactly thirty years later this amazing - yet at the time animated - film sequence materializes and becomes reality, in today’s world”, says Rinderknecht.

Definitely part of the material world is the power of the concept car: An electric motor with powerful torque drives the rear wheels. The propulsion on the water is ensured by two propellers in the stern and two powerful jet drives in the bow propel the vehicle under water while diving. With zero emissions, zero pollution in the seven seas of this world. The light weight body with components made of futuristic Carbon Nano Tubes encloses in a streamlined manner the driver and passenger who are supplied with fresh breathing air by the self-contained on-board system.

A new and fascinating world is opening to the occupants of the “sQuba” which will remain most likely - as its predecessors - a unique and exclusive one-off vehicle. But: Attention guaranteed.

Strategies for Conscious Spending

Spending consciously is essential for successful free agency. A free agent who does not spend consciously will never be free.

Conscious spending is spending money in accordance with your values and principles. It is in essence choosing to spend rather than finding yourself saying with some degree of regularity “I just don’t know where the money went.” It is the word “choice” that brings consciousness to your spending.

Most people tell me that they have no choice but to pay their bills…I always ask, “are you choosing your bills?” What I mean is most people choose the bills they have. Here is an example…When I was dating the person who became my spouse I got a calling card, I got a cell phone, I had a regular credit card and my usual land line. My phone bill was over 500 dollars per month. Treating these services as necessities, here I was drowning in bills I chose to have. Just as I chose to have them I could choose not to have them. With all those ways to make calls throughout the day what was I really trying to communicate? I was simply trying to communicate to the person I was in love with that I was in love with them. Yes the phone was convenient but what other ways could I communicate that love? Cards, letters…phone calls at night when the rates were lowest. The moment I made that realization, I moved into consciousness around one area of my spending.

I then began looking at all of my bills and asked myself if I needed a particular service. If I could not answer “yes” right away I canceled that service. I then asked myself …do I have to pay the same amount for the same service from the same vendor or can I negotiate? I found that I could negotiate. I found that I could get a cheaper plan from my cell provider without a compromise in service. I cut my cable bill in half from the same provider without a change in my plan.

By looking at my bills and negotiating with vendors I found that I could free up capital that I didn’t even know I had to apply toward my higher purpose.

I then asked myself another question every time money was about to leave my hand: Do I have to have this now? If my honest answer was no, I did not buy the item. Instead I put the item on a list. If I still wanted it after a month, I bought it. This strategy virtually eliminated my impulse buying. If I determine that I have to have the item now, then I bless the money as it leaves my hand saying: “All money that leaves my hand returns to me multiplied.”

So we have 3 strategies so far:
1) Choose your bills
2) Negotiate with your vendors
3) Determine your immediate need for everything that you buy

Strategy number 4 is the one that few people ever do. It is the one my sister used when she and her family started out and it is the one that I laughed at as she did it. Here it is: record every penny that leaves your hand. Every penny. I have a note book. I categorize the expenditures at the end of 30 days.

Do it for 30 days and your life will never be the same. Do it and you will never spend unconsciously again. Do it and you won’t need the first three strategies.

Do this and you will always know what your values are. Do this and you will be in absolute integrity with yourself around money, always. This will happen because you will ask yourself as you spend an record your expenditures what is this expenditure really supporting? Is it supporting my business, my family, my freedom? Do this one step and you will always know why you spend.

Do it and the life of the successful free agent will be yours.

Mitsubishi Concept-ZT

Mitsubishi Concept-ZT presents an advanced level of driving pleasure, safety and environmental responsibility - Mitsubishi Motor’s vehicle realistic strategy wrapped in a package. Under the hood, a new fuel, 2.2 liters of clean diesel engine is coupled with the new Twin Clutch SST (Sport Shift Transmission). Mitsubishi Concept-ZT also advanced active safety and passive safety of the technology, such as its pop-up hood.

Mitsubishi Concept-ZT Characteristics
- By combining a high power, low fuel consumption, 2.2 liters of clean diesel engine and clutch Twin SST, and using large quantities of green plastic on the inside, a high level of the race and
Environmental performance is achieved.
- In addition to the technologically advanced active safety, Concept-ZT reached a high level of passive safety. Features include security before the accident; A track drift warning system; The technology driving assistance, including emerging around several observers and a support system for parking; Resistance to the ‘impact and safety technology, including a pop-up hood.
In addition, with the S - AWC before combining E - LSD (Electric Limited Slip Differential Control), ABS and ASC, which is based on Mitsubishi Motors 4WD electronic control system, the MITSUBISHI Concept-ZT is a premium sedan that has so The dramatic improvement in the conduct of the environment and security.

Mitsubishi Concept-ZT Design
The external shape of basic, simple and fluid with a low center of gravity, a sense of stability and sportsmanship mounting Mitsubishi Motors premier sedan This database is combined with a strong shoulder line, side panels and projecting wings. Sculptured lights,
Grill and aluminum wheels for quality and declare a state created out of “Japanese”, a sophisticated sensibility and sensitivity of adults.
In the interior, the objective was to a “hospitality”, which resonates with every sense of the occupants. Combinations of drawings contrasts with simple shapes with continuity gently embrace all passengers and precise drive parties express functional fusion of quality, comfort and driving pleasure. Meters and monitors are clearly materials, stacked futuristic, with the beauty of art industry.
New Minute quantities of reflective material add to the elegance of the body.
In combination with decorative parts, including wheels and grill, a radiant presence is implemented with a sense of quality and refinement, like jewelry layers of precious metals. Interior colors are a combination of black-grained wood, metal and leather, making maximum use of materials expressing boldness, complexity and grace.

Mitsubishi Concept-ZT Engine / S - AWC
The concept of motorization has been recently developed February 2 liter DOHC 4-cylinder, 16-valve with VD (Variable Diffuser) / TB (variable geometry) own engine turbo common rail direct injection (piezoelectric injectors), which provides a throughput up to 140 kW and the maximum torque of 400 Nm
The power unit is mated to the new Mitsubishi Twin Clutch SST, which provides higher power transmission efficiency in a powertrain that achieves smooth, flexible, easy to power and acceleration, either on the road or in urban areas , in conjunction with good fuel economy. The S - AWC system combines front-E LSD (Electric Limited Slip Differential Control), ABS and ASC with the electronic control system also used in 4WD Outlander and Delica D: 5. The driving force optimal controls, traction and braking to all four wheels, stable, and planned to drive on different road surfaces under a variety of conditions, the realization of a safe and enjoyable experience.

Mitsubishi Concept-ZT Body Structure
As in i MiEV SPORT, the structure of space combines aluminum and aluminum extrusion diecasting aluminum, not only the realization of a body of great strength and rigidity, but also to contribute to weight reduction and crashworthiness. In addition, for the outside panels of hoods, fenders, doors and trunk lids, shock resistant and recyclable resin is used, as seen on the front of the wing Delica D: 5.

Mitsubishi Concept-ZT Safety Technology / technology driving assistance
Before the crash Safety System
Using millimeter wave length radar, the system detects the cars below, as well as obstacles in the adjacent track. When it determines that the objects in the vicinity of the car are too narrow and there is a danger of a collision, it warns the driver to take action. If the system determines that the risk of collision is very high, he claims-belt restraint and active crash cushions to increase passenger restraint and initiates emergency braking to reduce the impact of a collision .

Drift Lane - Warning System
The system consists of a front camera sensor steering angle, speed sensor, sensor yaw rate and ECU. The first camera recognizes lane markings (white lines, etc.), and the system, based on information from the other sensors, calculates the possibility of a drift of the vehicle its way, warns the driver, and adds a couple of leadership in the direction such that the car remains in the corridor.

Pop-Up Hood
If the car has hit a pedestrian, the hood opening before the person’s head hit the hood, acting as a buffer and minimizing injuries to the head.

New Multi-Monitors All-Around
In addition to a nose and a rear-view camera view camera, the cameras very wide-angle lenses are placed at the left and right. Optical distorted images of four cameras are corrected, and the information is converted into a display of the situation around the car, seen from the home page so that clear confirmation by the driver. The nose camera is also part of the function of proximity detection for approaching objects.

Parking Support System
A distance sensor, which is integrated into the bumper, evaluates the available space for parking. If parking is available, the system will automatically maneuver wheels (director), while all the driver has to do is control the braking.

Mitsubishi Concept-ZT Specifications
- Length - 4950 [mm]
- The width 1820 [mm]
- Overall height-1440 [mm]
- Wheelbase 2815 [mm]
- Track (F / R) 1555 / 1555 [mm]
- Seating capacity-4
- Clean-Diesel
- Max. Exit 140kW
- Max. Couple of 400 Nm
- Transmission Twin clutch SST
- Tires 255/35R20