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twilightpony4 · 7 years

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Ola Americano... Turtle?: 15. Stop Calling Him That

“Oh, you’re here.” April looked up to see Casey walking into the kitchen of the reptile’s home. In her hands, she sprinkled colorful M&M candies over freshly popped, oversized bowls of popcorn. She was ready for a night in with her cotton-combo pajamas as she gathered more M&Ms into her hand. Earlier, she called him to come down and spend a Friday night with her alongside Splinter and Angel. He did not know what they had in mind to pass the time, but seeing what she was doing and how she was dressed, it was easy to figure that it was going to be a movie night. However, he felt out of place coming in in his work clothes. Only a grey t-shirt and denim for the night. “Yep, yep, yep.” His response was short and quick as he leaned against the counter. His hand picked up a single popped kernel from the bowl and threw it into his mouth. April smiled as she rolled the candy bag up. “Splinter and Angel are in there watching Get Out.” She informed as she stashed it back away in their makeshift cabinets.

“The rat’s here?” The relaxation in his posture disappeared when he jumped off the counter to look past the doorway. “It is his home.” The woman cocked an eyebrow. “And can you stop calling him ‘the rat’? He has a name.” Ignoring her, the man kept a lookout for the mutant in question. “Why don’t you like Splinter?” “Isn’t it obvious?” Casey turned. “He’s a rat!” April shushed at him, hunching both of them over. “Keep your voice down!” She sneered while whispering harshly at him. How rude of him to say such a thing. In his own home! “Right,” His eyes widened, then looked back in their original direction. From where he was, he could not see the two, but the reflected blue light and sound gave him an idea how far away they were from him. “he can probably hear me with those Mickey Mouse ears.” “Really?” The woman folded her arms in the most unamused fashion. Did he really want to get a laugh out of her like that? Probably not. How he said it, he sounded genuinely concerned. “Fine.” He breathed. April put the bowl down back on the counter. “I’m gonna tell you something I’m not too proud of.” Leaning her hip on the counter, she crossed her arms in preparation to what he had to say. It was a moment until he sighed again. “Don’t laugh or I’m leaving.” He warned, looking up from his feet. “Promise.” She stuck out her pinkie finger for him to hold onto. Casey eyed it with a judgmental demeanor. “Really?” He returned it with as much attitude as April had done earlier. The woman shrugged. “It works with the boys. I don’t break these.” Her words were a matter-of-fact. She brought her finger closer to him to link up, but he put his hand up to stop her. “I’ll take your word for it.” The woman only shrugged and put her hand down. If he didn’t want it, he didn’t want it. “I’m-.” he stopped himself before he could get it out. He began to speak too soon for he was not yet ready to say. April was patient with him as he fixed up how he wanted to express his concerns. “I’m afraid of rats.” It came out small, which was very unlike the proud demeanor of the usual Casey. He gave her a second to laugh it out before he could try to reason with her to see this was not a laughing manner. But, she never did. Surprised, he looked her in the eye. Her blue ones were as stone as they were earlier. There was no smile nor was there a frown. Just a blank slate staring back at them. “You’re not laughing.” “I did promise, right?” She replied casually. The man put his hands in his front pockets and fidgeted with them. “Would you have laughed anyways?” “No.” Her nonchalant answer confused him even more. “Aren’t you gonna say” He cleared his throat and took a couple steps forward. “‘Don’t you know where you live? How do you function everyday?’?” Casey’s voice went deep as he made up a mocking persona. April pursed her lips and shook her head. Jones relaxed and looked on with bewilderment. “Why?” She shrugged. “Raph’s afraid of roaches.” April took a small handful of the still-warm popcorn kernels on top of the bowl. Before she downed them, she stopped herself. “Don’t tell him I said that.” “No promises.” The man smiled for the first time since coming down there. She knew he just gave him some gold for next time’s spat with him. Who would’ve guessed that anyways. He also wouldn’t know how April came across that information, but that was a story for another time. “And then when he attacked me-” He quieted back down for the memories began to roll through his mind. That awful memory of seeing his fear that large and then appearing brave in front of those large children… just terrible. Then, he was out of his element, confused and lying on the ground seeing everyone staring back down at him: April looking on critically, the turtles laughing, and Splinter beaming down at him. He shuddered at the thought of it. “I’m not at all fond of him.”

April could see the pain in his face. Despite Casey being this hard cop, it was a little unsettling to see him so distraught about someone she truly cared about. Whether or not Splinter took him down, what hurt him was that Splinter physically was a large fear of him and that the image he was supposed to uphold was compromised. One thing April hated the most was being stopped, so when Casey felt that his own masculinity was being stopped by old gender norms to be brave, she knew she had to amend his pain. “Master Splinter was my pet rat before they mutated.” Casey hadn’t raised his head, but he was listening. April continued. “He raised those four boys by himself, took Angel and I into their family and acts like the wise grandpa in kung fu movies. He really is a beautiful human being. With a little fuzz is all.” “I’d wanna try but I don’t think i’m up for it.” “You aren’t being forced to like him.” She picked up the popcorn bowls carefully to not drop them. Casey helped out by grabbing the last bowl after she successfully balanced three others in her arms. “Although, it’s going to be awkward that you keep coming into his home with thoughts like that.” Point taken. “The least I want it to be is tolerable.” He explained, which was a noble thought to have. The man did not need to be forced to like the rat. Only a good relationship was in order for him to work with his sources to put people away.

“SH*T!” They heard Angel scream in the other room. They jumped themselves, but did not spill any precious kernels. April led the way to see what was up. “‘Scuse me, Splinter.” They heard her apologize before they entered the living room. There they were, Angel and Splinter side by side in the dark. Light from the biggest TV illuminated their outlines as it showed two people driving a car. “What happened?! Anything good?” April jogged in. From behind the couch, she lowered each of their bowls down into their hands. “They hit a deer.” Splinter exclaimed as he took his into his hands. “Naw, uh uuh! That thing came flying in, it wasn’t runnin’!” April could only put it in her lap for the girl was too stunned to take it. Then, she began to rock back and forth with crossed legs, shaking her head. “Nope, I don’t like it.” Her mantra became of that sentence as the interracial couple got out of the car to check on the animal. It was now dead in the woods, surrounded by brush and golden leaves. “See, and he goes to check on it when he know he in a horror film.” “It’s not real.” Casey urged her as he took a seat on a nearby bean bag chair. “Naw uh, nope, historically incorrect.” Angel repeated, ignoring him due to the cloud of suspense and disbelief. “You’re really scared of that?” He extended a hand towards the TV that was depicting a bright, clear day for a film that was supposed to be a horror/thriller. Suddenly, Angel began to feel around her. Putting her popcorn bowl on the ground, she began to frantically pat around her. Lifting up blankets and pillows set on the couch, she tore up the comfy spot. Splinter moved his body to the side to help her find whatever she was looking for. “I can't find it!” She exclaimed desperately. “Find what?!” Casey asked in a similar fashion. Suddenly, she stopped all movements. Her face was stone cold on him matched with a monotone voice. “Where I asked for your opinion.” April had to cover her mouth with her hand to hide her smile. Oh, snap! Allowing him to bask in her words, she re-picked up her popcorn bowl and settled down.

The wise rat put a gentle hand on the Chicana’s knee. With a blown up face of kernels, she looked at him. “Be nice, child.” He asked of her. She smiled sheepishly, but with a puffed up face, Splinter smiled back warmly. “Look, the police have come.” He pointed out. “Oh yeah.” She spoke between chews. The officer had a type of odd swagger as he approached their vehicle.“Watch ‘em ask for his ID or somethin’ ‘cause of the boy’s color.” No sooner than she mentioned it, her prediction came true. “See?!” April patted her shoulder.

“You act much like my children.” Splinter spoke as the stereotyping began. “Gone or not, I still get their spirits through you.” “How so?” April asked as she went to take a seat on the floor in front of them. Her back pressed against the couch with the exception of a fallen pillow that she used as support. “Well, Leonardo-” He teased as he handed a blanket for her to wrap herself around in. Ironically, it was the leader’s bed blanket that he handed her. “You try to keep out but have a say as Michelangelo over here” He put his hand back on Angel’s knee and shook it playfully. “calls out Raphael.” Then, he nodded to Casey. The man was slightly shaken that he was mentioned, but was playing it off to the best of his abilities. “Been around him so much I be actin’ like ‘im.” Angel’s excuse was only a pure fact. One couldn’t argue that those two were meant to be the friends they are today. Splinter nodded gracefully.

“I don’t me to interrupt our feature any more than I have-.” He was nodding towards the movie that was continuing without them. Angel nudged him with her elbow. “Check this out.” In no time, the remote was already in her hand. She lifted her arm up and pressed pause. “Go on.” she encouraged. The elder rat smiled warmly at her appreciation. “I really do appreciate you all coming to see me.” “We like showing up.” The Chicana nudged in closer to wrap an arm around his shoulders to embrace him. “Just ‘cause I usually come by for your sons and daughters, you just as cool as them.” “All their lives, they’ve constantly been home,” He reminisced briefly. The ghosts of his children growing up played before him. Although this was not the house they grew up in, he could see the toddlers run, children with capes and coloring, and then pre-puberty (which was a weird time for everybody). It warmed his heart greatly to remember how far he and his children had come so far. “but now that they are travelling and saving the world for extended time periods, it does my heart well to spend time with others. Without you, I would be by myself.” He paused for a cleansing breath. The two girls beamed, enjoying themselves fully as they heard his story. Although distant, the message was getting to Casey who attentively listened. “How at times I have prayed that the home be quiet, but once it’s over a week, I cannot stand it.” “I could imagine how hard it could be.” April chimed in. She then hugged his small feet that barely dangled off the edge of the couch. “We love you, Splinter.” Angel pulled him in closer. “Yeah, grandpa.” She giggled. Splinter could not help himself to smile as the two girls embraced him. How lucky was he anyways? He and Casey were thinking the same thing. From humble beginnings, he raised four extraordinary boys with hearts of gold from what little he knew from parenting by watching April’s own father. His contribution alone warded the Shredder off, kept the New York streets safer, and acts as a totem of wisdom to eight young individuals who love him back all the same. After a few minutes of silence, Casey had to admit that it was very awkward. Upon clearing his throat, the attention was diverted to him. Because of it, he shifted uneasily and brought his gaze directly to the TV. “Wanna hit ‘play’?” He asked shyly. His suggestion jogged the girl’s memory that they were indeed in the middle of watching a horror during ‘happy hour’. Angel unwrapped herself from Splinter and hit the ‘play’ button. The officer continued the interrogation with the lead male as his girlfriend tried her best to defend him. “I feel like she gonna turn on him.” Angel pointed at the screen as she put another buttery, chocolate handful in her mouth.“Just sayin’.”

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jesusvasser · 7 years

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Ten Things You Need to Know About the Mercedes-AMG Project One

FRANKFURT, Germany – Mercedes-AMG is celebrating three consecutive years of Formula 1 Manufacturers World Championships (and corresponding drivers’ championships for Lewis Hamilton, twice, and Nico Rosberg) with a car aimed at the heart of Bugatti, a marque that hasn’t competed in Grand Prix since the 1930s. By the time the Mercedes-AMG Project One is delivered to such lucky customers as Hamilton, who is likely to get a big break on the $2.53-million price, the Mercedes-AMG team may have its fourth consecutive Manufacturers Championship.

While Volkswagen Group’s Bugatti Chiron gets its 1,479 horsepower from a relatively conventional quad-turbocharged W-16, the Project One’s 1,000-plus horsepower comes directly from the racetrack, apparently making it a, well, road-legal F1 car to Bugatti’s road-legal NHRA top fuel dragster.

Mercedes-AMG says the Project One is the first road car with an unbridled F1 engine under its hood. That engine is a 1.6-liter turbocharged V-6 with an electric turbo and another electric motor connected to the crankshaft. Not to F1 spec, two extra electric motors that power the front wheels. It has all-wheel-drive with torque-vectoring, and puts its power through an eight-speed automatic transmission with paddle shifters for its only forward-gear controls.

By now you’re asking yourself, “self, should I buy one?” Here’s what you need to know before you decide to write a six-figure deposit check.

1. With “just” 1,000 horsepower, the Mercedes-AMG Project One will not be the quickest, most-powerful hypercar extant.

You can’t count the Project One as having 625 horsepower per liter because some of those horsies come from the four-motor hybrid system. But with a mid-engine F1 powerplant under the rear hood, you have to realize it’s not all about straight-line performance. AMG says top speed is 217 mph, which sounds suspiciously close to the top speeds Lewis Hamilton hits on the fastest circuits in the series.

“The way you win a race is to finish a lap in the quickest form,” Ola Kaellenius, Mercedes-Benz cars’ research & development chief says. “There are quicker cars than an F1 car in a straight line, but there are no quicker cars around a track.”

2. It may have an F1 powertrain, but its chassis is street-wise.

The mostly carbon-fiber body isn’t like an open-wheel, open-top F1 car, and the suspension is different, too, though Mercedes-AMG sourced a lot of the same suppliers, including Multimatic for its “roll and heave” pushrods, which stand in for anti-roll bars by countering each other under lateral force.

3. Project One has its own kind of DRS.

For full downforce in the corners, Project One lowers its suspension and two-piece rear wing flips up to the level of that crazy F1-style sharkfin wing. Also, those three flaps on top of each front fender rise up.

4. Unlike the race engine, the Project One’s W08 engine is built for more than a few races—or even a season.

Colin Chapman once described the perfect race engine for his Formula 1 Lotus cars as one that would blow itself up as soon as his car took the checkered flag. Modern F1 engines are much more reliable, but as built for the track, even the W08’s hybrid V-6 wouldn’t last very long in a street customer’s hands. While certain components of the Project One hybrid V-6 are built to be more robust, they’re not necessarily heavier.

First, remove the batteries, as the Mercedes-AMG Project One has four packs to power its four motors, while the Mercedes-AMG W08 has just one. Once you take disparate battery needs out of the equation, Project One’s engine weighs about the same as W08’s, says Rene’ Wollmann, project engineer, though he declines to reveal what that number is.

Wollmann also declines to reveal how much the entire Project One weighs. There’s time for some final tweaking.

“We have to save something for next year,” and its press conference, he says. But Wollmann assures us that when the car’s weight is revealed, we’ll be pleasantly surprised.

5. Multiple drive modes.

Like other Mercedes-AMG models (and indeed, most Benzes), Project One will offer four drive modes, plus an EV mode—you’ll be able to reserve about 15.5-miles of pure-electric driving for the city center. As for other drive modes, Wollmann says the nomenclature is still under discussion. There will be a “kind of” qualifying mode, he says, that will take advantage of the battery reserve for full-power to supplement the turbo V-6, and there will be a race mode with hybrid assistance.

6. Carbon ceramic brakes are standard, of course.

Carbon ceramics provide superior stopping distances while thriving on heat. They have no advantage or disadvantage in aiding the brake regeneration system.

7. About that air intake.

AMG engineers are still tweaking the shape of the air intake on the Project One’s top to maximize its effect on the engine.

8. Design emphasizes function over form.

The Mercedes-AMG Project One will not be the prettiest car on the road by any means, though the same could be said for most modern racing cars. Project One has a purposeful look, and if its lower front fascia reminds you a bit of the McLaren F1 road car’s, well, then that’s probably because the fascia shape works for purposes of speed. Wollmann especially likes the carbon fiber that designers left unpainted, such as the front hood louvers, the lower fascias and the wheel openings.

“We started with the powertrain first,” Wollmann says, “and then we asked [design chief] Gorden Wagener to do aerodynamics that we’d like to see.”

9. It’s no S-Class inside.

The two seats are integrated into the tub shell and allow for just five degrees of seatback adjustment with no fore-aft. Instead, the steering wheel and the pedals move, “just like a Formula 1 car,” Wollmann says. The F1-style steering wheel also made it possible to place the instrumentation above the wheel, so the driver doesn’t have to look down, away from the road, to see speed or revs, for instance.

AMG considered a removable steering wheel, Wollmann says, but one would not have worked with the required driver’s airbag. There’s also an airbag for the passenger, plus plans for two to four more.

The car also has catalytic converters and will meet all safety and emissions standards, including for the U.S. Asked whether he’s driven the car yet, CEO Dieter Zetsche said he hasn’t because interior noise levels from the engine need to be reduced from their current state of 125 decibels, another regulatory no-no.

10. They’re not exactly sold out, but would you like to get on the waiting list?

Invites went out to certain loyal Mercedes buyers, some of whom were at the Project One’s unveiling at the 2017 Frankfurt auto show. They have plunked down six-figure deposits, and we hear the number of interested potential buyers was about four times the 275 examples Mercedes-AMG intends to build in 2019 and 2020.

BONUS FACT: Project One will post a profit.

So says Ola Kaellanius, even though F1 engines can easily cost seven figures and even though certain other manufacturers might be willing to take a hit just to celebrate three world championships and to put this sort of car in its showrooms. We’ll never learn what its profit margin is, of course, but consider this: at 2.275-million euro, or about $2.53 million each, we figure gross revenues from this car will be roughly equal to that of 12,000 nicely equipped Mercedes-Benz E-Classes.

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eddiejpoplar · 7 years

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Ten Things You Need to Know About the Mercedes-AMG Project One

By now you’re asking yourself, “self, should I buy one?” Here’s what you need to know before you decide to write a six-figure deposit check.

1. With “just” 1,000 horsepower, the Mercedes-AMG Project One will not be the quickest, most-powerful hypercar extant.

2. It may have an F1 powertrain, but its chassis is street-wise.

3. Project One has its own kind of DRS.

4. Unlike the race engine, the Project One’s W08 engine is built for more than a few races—or even a season.

Wollmann also declines to reveal how much the entire Project One weighs. There’s time for some final tweaking.

“We have to save something for next year,” and its press conference, he says. But Wollmann assures us that when the car’s weight is revealed, we’ll be pleasantly surprised.

5. Multiple drive modes.

6. Carbon ceramic brakes are standard, of course.

Carbon ceramics provide superior stopping distances while thriving on heat. They have no advantage or disadvantage in aiding the brake regeneration system.

7. About that air intake.

AMG engineers are still tweaking the shape of the air intake on the Project One’s top to maximize its effect on the engine.

8. Design emphasizes function over form.

“We started with the powertrain first,” Wollmann says, “and then we asked [design chief] Gorden Wagener to do aerodynamics that we’d like to see.”

9. It’s no S-Class inside.

10. They’re not exactly sold out, but would you like to get on the waiting list?

BONUS FACT: Project One will post a profit.

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jonathanbelloblog · 7 years

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Ten Things You Need to Know About the Mercedes-AMG Project One

By now you’re asking yourself, “self, should I buy one?” Here’s what you need to know before you decide to write a six-figure deposit check.

1. With “just” 1,000 horsepower, the Mercedes-AMG Project One will not be the quickest, most-powerful hypercar extant.

2. It may have an F1 powertrain, but its chassis is street-wise.

3. Project One has its own kind of DRS.

4. Unlike the race engine, the Project One’s W08 engine is built for more than a few races—or even a season.

Wollmann also declines to reveal how much the entire Project One weighs. There’s time for some final tweaking.

“We have to save something for next year,” and its press conference, he says. But Wollmann assures us that when the car’s weight is revealed, we’ll be pleasantly surprised.

5. Multiple drive modes.

6. Carbon ceramic brakes are standard, of course.

Carbon ceramics provide superior stopping distances while thriving on heat. They have no advantage or disadvantage in aiding the brake regeneration system.

7. About that air intake.

AMG engineers are still tweaking the shape of the air intake on the Project One’s top to maximize its effect on the engine.

8. Design emphasizes function over form.

“We started with the powertrain first,” Wollmann says, “and then we asked [design chief] Gorden Wagener to do aerodynamics that we’d like to see.”

9. It’s no S-Class inside.

10. They’re not exactly sold out, but would you like to get on the waiting list?

BONUS FACT: Project One will post a profit.

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