Ford Focus Electric Certified at 105 MPGe Combined

The EPA has bestowed upon the Ford Focus Electric a 105-MPGe combined economy rating, earning the car, in the words of Ford, the title of “most fuel-efficient five-passenger vehicle” sold in America. The Blue Oval, as champions are sometimes wont to do, has commenced trash-talking the Nissan Leaf. (More on MPGe here.)



Ford points out that the Focus’s combined figure beats that of Nissan’s EV by 6 MPGe, and that it also takes the highway-mileage crown by 7 MPGe, returning 99 MPGe. We’ll go ahead and add that the Ford also beats the Leaf in the city, 110 MPGe to 106. The Focus also received an official range rating of 76 miles on a single charge. The Leaf trails in that metric, too, with an EPA-approved range of 73 miles, although we averaged just 58 miles per charge during our long-term test of the Nissan. We’d expect Focus Electric range to similarly suffer in real-world conditions.

As for charge time, Ford says the Focus’s 23-kWh battery pack can be rejuvenated in about four hours on 240-volt juice, or three fewer than the seven hours required to charge the Leaf’s 24-kWh battery pack using the same hookup. The Focus Electric gets 123 hp and 181 lb-ft from its electric motor; the Leaf’s pumps out 107 hp and 207 lb-ft.

The Focus Electric will be available in California, New York, and New Jersey by this summer, and Ford will add 16 additional markets by the end of the year. One detail that Ford fails to mention is that, at $39,995 before tax credits, its hatchback EV starts $3000 dearer than the Leaf.

LeMons Southern Discomfort Day One : Saab 9-3 Leads, Silver Errors 190E 2.3-16 in Second

With the Midwest tornadoes putting the concept of “bad weather” into perspective, the Southern Discomfort LeMons racers took a rainy green flag at Carolina Motorsports Park with nary a complaint. The downpours, however, did encourage a healthy amount of spinnin,’ slidin,’ and drivin’ full speed into ta’dirt in your Monte Carlo. Of course, this event marked the first time the LeMons has run the longer, trickier, and much faster full-length CMP configuration. With the soggy weather and higher-speed layout, even the best-handling cars struggled to keep all the wheels pointing the right way. (Monte Carlos didn’t stand a chance.)

As is often the case, however, such conditions don’t seem to affect the frontrunners nearly as much as the lower ranks–by the time the checkered flag fell on Saturday’s session, the top spots were filled with familiar faces.



With once-proud Saab quickly slipping into oblivion, the race-leading 9-3 sedan of rbankracing.com is providing a pinpoint of light for the vegetative automaker. Or it’s possible that this Saab-centric team’s consistently excellent LeMons performances pushed the Swedish brand off the cliff more quickly. In any case, the 9-3′s turbocharged speed and clean-driving pilots will be difficult to beat on Sunday.



The Ziegel Scheißhaus Racing squad—competing this time under the Silver Errors banner—managed to score a genuine Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.3-16 for LeMons money. Before you cry foul, remember this: Any Gordon Gekko wannabe worth his Rolex Submariner would have dumped his 2.3-16 at the first signs of trouble—which likely happened for every example right around the same time as the fall of the Berlin Wall. A ragtag bunch of careless owners likely followed, culminating in a lien sale from a 17-year-old owner who got sent to juvie after going DTM down Maple Street. That’s just one possibility, of course, but one thing is clear: Not all 2.3-16s are classics. The ZSR LeMons entry certainly isn’t a museum piece, but it’s DTM impression is halfway decent: Second place overall is a good result regardless of pedigree.



Holding down the third spot is one of the most successful LeMons teams of all time, Hong Norrth. In fact, the team’s trusty Mazda MX3 has won the last five races it’s entered, so it’s way too early to count them out.



NSF Racing is rolling proof that LeMons is highly unpredictable. After this very blog predicted an early demise for the team’s factory-turbo Cordia, this example of a seldom-seen Mitsubishi soldiered (slowly) through day one with no terminal issues. Through the first half of the day, NSF held a lead over a handful of other teams with which they had friendly pre-race wagers. The cars in on the bet? The Cordia, a Ford LTD, a ’67 Galaxie, and the first-ever LeMons AMC Pacer.



But after spending the second half of day one battling a self-lowering redline, the Cordia crew finally had to break out the wrenches. The culprit—which we’ll charitably call “fuel contamination”—was eventually identified and remedied. The Cordia rejoined the track as the session was near its end, promptly setting NSF Racing’s (still glacially slow) fastest lap of the race.



With the Cordia taking a short vacation on pit road, the hulking Ford LTD of the LeMons-veteran Tunachuckers team surged ahead in the aforementioned unofficial race-within-a race. With the big Ford clicking off consistently quicker lap times than the Cordia, the Mitsubishi team will need an LTD problem on Sunday to retake the lead. Just by taking a quick glance at this rolling oil derrick, we’d say a problem is pretty likely.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X7 Review, Features, Specification

Sony Ericsson Xperia X7 ‘s operating system is windows 7. its a touch screen (480*800) mobile so you can easily operate your windows mobile.

Xperia X7 smart phone find us with a good entertainment. The huge 4.3 WVGA display help you to watch youtube video and other graphical image. It has a 8 mega pixels camera with 720p HD Video Recording and a HDTV port for watching video in HDTV. It has also a front face video calling camera for video calling.

Sony Ericssons sound quality is always the best. In this mobile you can enjoy Dolby Digital Plus Surround Sound with HDMI output. This phones big screen, 8.1 mp camera and a great sound system makes this phone unique.

Review of Nokia 701, Smartphone Price India, features & Specs

Nokia 701 smartphone made of a good processor and graphics, nice design, great sound quality, good battery life and a good camera with a Symbian Belle OS by Nokia. This phones price and features is good for its user review. This is the smallest smart phone by Nokia.

This phone design is so nice. Its design is very slim like other smartphone. Weight is light, only 131 grams. This smartphones display technology is LED and Gorilla Glass with captive touch screen. This display pixel density is ~210 ppi, that can able to deliver a bright display for you.


Nokia 701 features Symbian Belle OS. So you can able to install many application those supports this operating system. It’s the next symbian operating system by nokia.

This phone features a good 1 Ghz processor. That’s support 2d and 3d graphics. No extra GPU for this phone. Processor performance is good for its many apps and quick working ability. It’s built in8 GB storage Rocks. Extra 32 Gb memory card is expendable. A good 512 MB RAM and 1 GB ROM for its OS can deliver you a great performance.

This phone comes with a 8 mega pixel camera that is a good camera specs for a smartphone. The user review of this phones camera is good. It has a Led flash for low light picture condition. Geo-tagging and face detection option make to take your photo easily. Its Video camera performance is good. It can take HD video in 720p@30fps. Nokia 701s big camera sensor can give you great picture and video quality. This phone has a front camera for 3g video calling.

Nokia 701s sound quality is awesome. It ensure you perfect sound with its great headphone. It can deliver you a super/mega bass music. It has a active mega bass option to out a great bass sound quality. It has a good Bluetooth headphone that can deliver you a 99% noise free sound.

Its GPRS and EDGE class is 33. 3G speed is 14.4 Mbps (HSDPA); 5.76 Mbps (HSUPA), that can deliver you good internet speed and 3g calling. This phones internet speed is good to its user review.

Nokia 701s battery life is good. some user is report bad battery life to its user review. This battery last for two days. This phone has a battery of 1300 mAh. Its talk time is Up to 17 hour in 2G and 6 hour 45 min in 3G.

HTC Explorer Review, Features, Pros Cons

HTC Explorer Reviews, Features, Pros and Cons

This smartphone comes with a great internet speed, nice black design, good 3.15 MP camera, great SRS surround sound quality, a 600mhz CPU with a GPU, good memory and many more for a cheap priced smartphone. This is the most 2nd popular android phones in India. Samsung galaxy y get the 1st position. But in my views, Htc explorer is better.

In HTC explorer Site, they say about this phone “the simply smarter phone”. They say most advantages of this phone are, you can control your smartphone so easy at a fast speed, homescreen access important tasks, great web browsing similar to desktop pc, email design and quick replay, more useful widget for your favorite people, communication and various task in front home of this phone. You can access your mail, text messages, contacts, and camera via your home lock screen.


There is various color of this phone. Best looking popular colors are Active Navy, Metallic Navy, Active Black, Metallic Black. This phone is light weight and smart design. It’s only 108 grams. This phones display isn’t used the best display tech. but as a cheap smartphone, this phone use 3.2 inch TFT display touchscreen display that use 256k colors and ~180 ppi pixels density.

Htc Explorer Sound quality is great. It features a SRS surround sound enhancement technology. So you can feel the surround sound of its headphone. You will find the high quality surround sound from this smartphone. In my view, this is the best pros or advantage as a cheap phone. It has also a 3.5mm audio jack for listening audio in other external device. A Genuine HTC headset is free with this phone. Please be sure when you will purchase that, you have a free HTC headset with this phone. Otherwise the great sound quality of this phone is missed.

This smartphones internal memory is so low. But the ROM size is average. This phone features 90mb for your data and 512 MB Rom for operating system. You can use a big space microsd card: up to 32GB. For internal memory solution, you can install a apps named “app2sd” from android market. It transfers your some internal memory on to your memory card. If you don’t show your memory card on this phone, you need to install “x-plore” apps for viewing your memory card.

The Internet Speed of this phone is rocking. It features HSDPA speed is 14.4mbps, HSUPA-5.76mbps. wifi hotspot and bluetooth v3.0 is also available.

Camera Quality of this smartphone is average. The 3.15 mega pixel camera can be used for your daily use, but the cons of this camera’s are there is no Led flash, fixed zoom and less image editor features. You cannot take a good photo in a low light condition. This camera has Geo-tagging and face detection advantage. There is no front camera of this phone.

HTC explorer processor is a little bit slow. Because is use a 600 MHz Cortex A5 single core processor. But htc says about this phone, it works fast. This phone runs on android gingerbread operating system. So it need to a good CPU for better processing performance. I think, this phone can run average android apps and games with this single core processor and Adreno 200 GPU. As a cheap smartphone for it’s 3d capability games and graphics, this GPU work for this device great. Because this phones graphics quality is awesome and better than other smartphones at this price range. This phone’s Ram is 512 mb. That is enough for a gingerbread android os fast performance.

A GPS Support: You can Get A GPS support with this smartphone. It works like other android smartphones.

PC like Browsing: this phones internet speed and other features help you to give a pc like web browsing experience. The flash player is also included (free) with its browser.

HTC explorer battery life: this phone has a average battery capacity but its battery life is good. Though it has a average 1230mAh battery, but this phones hardware is designed for low power consumption. So battery life lasting good to its user reviews. You can talk Up to 7 hours 40 min in (2G) and Up to 7 hours 33 min (3G)

HTC explorer pros and cons:
Pros: This phones advantage is,
1. Its works fast, good ram memory with a good processor and GPU for best performance with gingerbread OS.
2. Good graphics and screen resolution as a cheap price,
3. Good battery life. (It’s hardware designed for low power consumption)
4. Nice design and color.
5. Great sound quality, SRS option as a cheap smartphone.

Cons: drawbacks of this phone:
1. The best cons/drawbacks of this phone is its internal memory. Because, most of android apps are installed into the phone memory but not at the memory card.
2. Camera has no LED flash and fixed zoom option.

Htc desire S is another best android phone. You can watch a youtube video about explorer compression with htc wildfire s. I think explorer is more much better.

Samsung Galaxy S2 Advantages and Disadvantages, Good or Bad,Review

Samsung galaxy S2 advantages and disadvantages: To Buy any phone, read the review and compare this phones price and specs review. Read the review of Samsung galaxy S2 pros and cons details below:


Samsung Galaxy S2 Advantages/ Pros:


1.Display and Design:  Its big display is amazing because of its graphics and Super Amled Plus display techonology. Super AMOLED Plus display provide you great display for gamming, playing 3d games, watching video, images. Slim and Light Weight design can make style and good to carry on and easily used by user.

2.Processing Speed:  Its 1.2ghz processor and a 1Gb DDR 2 Ram provide you best performance for gamming and apps.

3.Security:  Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, powerful encrypted hardware, apps and latest android ensure the best mobile data security.

4.Memory:  Micro sd Slot can easily change any micro sd card. Its internal memory is  Built in 16 GB (32768MB) and a Micro SD 32GB expandable. So you manage more data.

5.Front Camera:  The front camera of 2 mega pixel is enough.

6.Download Speed:  Samsung provide you best download speed as a smart phone: Samsung Galaxy s2 in 21mbps.

7.Amazing Browsing:  Its big display, android browser and great internet speed (21mbps) provide you best pc browsing experience in smatphone.

8. Battery Life:  Its battery life is good.

9. Camera Flash:  Front camera and a flash for rear camera.

At last i want to say about its advantage or pros, this smartphone can beat all smartphone of the market because of its great design, display, powerful hardware performance, android os, good battery life, fast internet speed and all specs of this phone is special.

Europe’s Top 10 Games

Europe’s Top 10 Games

1. Mario Party 9 (Wii)
2. Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure – Triple Character Pack – Drobot and Stump Smash and Flameslinger (Wii/PS3/Xbox 360/PC)
3. SSX (PS3)
4. SSX (Xbox 360)
5. Zumba Fitness (Wii)
6. Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure – Triple Character Pack – Hex, Zap and Dinorang (Wii/PS3/Xbox 360/PC)
7. Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure: Triple Character Pack – Double Trouble, Whirlwind and Drill Sergeant (Wii/PS3/Xbox 360/PC)
8. FIFA 12 (Xbox 360)
9. Just Dance 3 – Special Edition (Wii)
10. Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure – Character Pack – Eruptor (Wii/PS3/Xbox 360/PC)


The Mario Party games have always been popular in Europe, or anywhere for that matter, with Mario Party 8 selling 7.6 million copies worldwide making it rank as the #10 best-selling Wii game. Only released on Friday and already Mario Party 9 debuts on #1.