BMW now has 2 iPhone Apps

This story just in from Automotive Fleet magazine.

This shows how technology is taking great leaps and bounds.

The M Power app measures vehicle acceleration using your iPhone’s (or iPod Touch’s) built-in accelerometer. After securing the iPhone (via a windshield mount or just tossing it in a cup holder), the app will measure 0-60 mph times other user-customizable speeds in mph or kph. The app will also measure forward and lateral G-forces for users who want to take a spin on a skidpad. Users can also unlock different skins on BMW’s Web site to customize the look and feel of the app.

Although branded with the BMW M badge, the M Power app will work for any car you can fit an iPhone into. Unlike my favorite paid iPhone accelerometer-based speed computer, Dynolicious, BMW’s app doesn’t look like it will calculate your vehicle’s horsepower or torque. But at the low cost of “free,” the M Power app is a hard bargain to turn down.

Source: http://www.automotive-fleet.com/News/Story/2010/01/BMW-Launches-Free-M-Power-iPhone-Application.aspx?interstitial=1

 

Lamborghini couldn’t leave well enough alone after unleashing the insane Reventón. Always eager to squeeze just one more model from every car in its lineup, the boys in Sant’Agata chopped the top off the super-Lambo to create a mighty mean roadster.

The Italian automaker is pretty much the poster child for never leaving well enough alone. It always has been known for its excesses. Excessive styling, excessive horsepower, excessive prices. It defines the term.

And the latest definition of excess? The Lamborghini Reventón Roadster.

Let’s just get the numbers out of the way right now, shall we? That’s all anyone really cares about when talking about an Italian V-12 supercar. The 6.5 liter, 12-cylinder mill puts out 662 horsepower. The car does 0 to 62 mph in 3.4 seconds. It tops out at 205 mph. But the most important number is 20. As in that’s precisely how many Lamborghini will build.

Source: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/11/more-awesome-italian-excess-from-lamborghini/