Pi of Mann

The engine is the heart of every automobile — you can't drive a car without an engine to power everything. Sometimes engineers go wild with horsepower, while others borrow an engine from an unexpected source and give it a tune that unleashes its potential; however, not all use it for performance. Some end up using the same engine in an "ordinary" vehicle! Today, we're going to list famous engines that can be found in the most unexpected vehicles. Let's go! 1. Toyota 2GR-FE in a Lotus Evora Lotus Evora — with a V6 from Toyota Lotus and Toyota have been friends since the introduction of the Series 2 Elise and Exige; Toyota has been supplying engines to Lotus since the mid-2000s. The 2GR-FE V6 is the same engine found in the Camry (GSV40–50), RAV4 (GSA33/38), Previa (GSR50/55), and the Alphard (GGH20/25–30/35) — essentially a people-mover engine sitting in ...

World War II planes were the evolution of World War I planes; some are fast, some are powerful, some are nimble, from Red Baron to Black Devil, these machines are meant to tear through the skies and destroy as many birds as they can. This is where Aces are made. Today, we're going to list the most iconic planes in World War II, from the Allied to the Axis Powers. We'll be featuring the most produced variants of each iconic type. Let's dive right in! ✈ Germany A Bf-109 G-6/R3 — Long-range reconnaissance fighter variant 1. Messerschmitt Bf-109 G-6 The 1943 Bf-109 G-6 is a mass-produced masterpiece. Germany wanted a plane that could do it all: dogfighting, interception, and ground attack. The result? 24,000 G-series (Gustav) produced — more than any other Bf-109 variant. The plane featured a 1,475 HP Daimler-Benz DB 605A capable of doing ~640 km/h (398 mph) at ~6,300 m (20,700...

It's the mid-size SUV that every middle to rich family in South East Asia has one, it is notorious for being entitled on the street, a king on the road perhaps, and has made one of the best-selling mid-size SUVs ever! Today, we're going to talk about how the Toyota Fortuner became iconic on the streets of Southeast Asia and how it started. 1st Gen Fortuner vs. 2nd Gen Fortuner How Thailand Created the Mid-Size SUV Market First of all, let's talk about the OG that started it all, back in the 90s, most of the mid-size and full-size SUVs were imported and expensive. If you own a Ford Explorer, the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado, the full-size SUV, then congratulations! You made it! And it is considered a status symbol for the road meanwhile others are in their AUVs like the Toyota Tamaraw FX (Kijang), Isuzu Hi-Lander (Panther) and the Mitsubishi Adventure (Freeca), they're like SUVs but compact a...

Gasoline and diesel are always common ways to power a car, often expensive in other markets. They came from crude oil extracted deep into the earth, and we used fractional boiling to extract different hydrocarbons in their boiling points: Heavy oil, diesel, jet fuel, gasoline, and gas are extracted from the refinery. Some scientists and innovators found a way to bypass reliance on crude oil; some are common, some are weird, and some are dangerous. Today, we'll list weird ways to power a car from common to is-that-even-work? Let's dive in: 2026 Tesla Model 3 1. Electricity Electric cars have existed since the 19th century, with the electric carriage by the Scottish inventor Robert Anderson between 1832 and 1839. Rechargeable batteries weren't invented until 1859 by French physicist Gaston Plante, using Lead-Acid, and improvements were made in 1881 by another French scientist, Camille Alphonse ...

It's the phone that you've been betrayed by — a phone that looks new back in 2024 but hides a dark secret. This is everything you need to know about the Infinix Note 40 5G, written by someone who lived through 18 months of it. Infinix Note 40 5G — looks good on paper, disastrous in reality The Birthday Mistake You're a gamer, but you're broke. You saw an MLBB collab Note 40 5G on the shelf with a tempting 512GB storage, enough to fill up your high-end games like Genshin, WuWa, and more. You took the opportunity because it's your birthday, and brought it home. Weeks later, you realized it's a piece of garbage, and you've been scammed. That birthday boy was me! October 2024. ₱11,000 of birthday money. A phone that promised 5G, 512GB storage, AMOLED display, JBL speakers, and a Mobile Legends collab. It looked like everything a budget gamer in the Philippines could want. By Apr...

It's a smartphone brand you never heard of until it was suddenly everywhere — not in sleek concept stores or premium malls, but in divisorias, wet markets, thrift stores, and sari-sari stores across Africa and Southeast Asia. No Apple Store. No Samsung Experience Center. Just boxes stacked in markets, moving by the thousands to people who had never owned a smartphone before. This is the story of Transsion Holdings, the company behind Infinix, Tecno, and itel — and how they built a billion-dollar empire by going where nobody else wanted to go. Infinix — yugatech.com It Started With Africa In 2006, a man named George Zhu founded Tecno Telecom Limited in Hong Kong with one goal: create affordable mobile devices for markets that global tech giants had written off. He knew China was already a battlefield — Nokia, Motorola, and Samsung dominated, and dozens of Chinese domestic brands were fighting for scraps. So he looked elsewhere. Africa was the answer. An emerging mobil...