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In these times today, fashion also matters in almost everything. With regards to having wheels, rides, car, vehicles or how you may call them, fashion also plays a very vital role. Having a car especially of high model is one of the newest trends today. There are three names that stand out when we talk about cars with a class. They are the Chevy, the Ford and the Honda. All of these three has certain features that are exclusive to them if you have one of these cars and you want to make them look even better, I don’t see any more good idea than to add accessories to them.
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September 19th, 2009
In the future we will be forced to drive these small cars. Take a look at this!!!!!!! very small but very smart cars. See all the ‘great new choices’ We will have from ‘The SMART Car’:
The Smorvette!

The Smaudi A3 AWD!

The Smamborghini!

The Smorsche!

The Smerrari!

Do You Still Want a Smart Car? Not if you are smart!
Below is a photo of a wreck in Jefferson Parish, LA (near New Orleans) between two trucks and a Smart Car. Think I’ll pass on the Smart Car.

They Are Small But Terrible….

August 26th, 2009

That pictures are worth a thousand words is indeed especially true in the business world. Sales and marketing business people pay much attention to visuals and graphics as they are very much aware that visuals once planned and maximized are capable of doing wonders in their business. Graphics are an important way to communicate with diverse audiences in today’s business environment. In fact, you may even find yourself trying to communicate with people who have little or no interest in your ideas. Furthermore, in the numbers-oriented world of work, people rely heavily on images.
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August 7th, 2009
Get real protection and performance from the country’s only 100 percent fully synthetic motor oil. Bred from the race tracks and backed up by its research laboratories in Europe, MOTUL guarantees total protection for your engine with its H-TEC 100 Fully Synthetic Oil. As an industry pioneer in synthetic oils, Motul’s H-TEC 100 10W40 was developed to provide lubrication for modern day sophisticated engines, while assuring fuel savings and automotive efficiency.
H-TEC 100 has excellent anti oxidation properties preventing premature thickening and aging due to thermal stress. Its high performance anti-wear additive increases engine life duration and decreases wear by reducing engine internal frictions resulting in smooth and light acceleration. H-TEC’s anti-deposit and anti-black sludge power help maintains a clean engine, and also has properties for anti corrosion, anti-foam properties that protects both the oil and engine from unwanted elements the car accumulates from usage. H-TEC 100 is suitable for standard leaded or unleaded gasoline, LPG powered cars, and for city and/or high speed driving conditions.
MOTUL H-TEC 100 10W40 retails for P495 a liter. “We positioned this product in such range to introduce the performance of a real synthetic oil to all motorists, and for average consumers to appreciate and experience GT protection. This is the real deal, no gimmicks and Motul provides the best protection for your engine,” relates Carlos Gono of Autoplus Sportzentrium, the exclusive distributor of Motul oil and lubricants in the Philippines.
July 10th, 2009
If there is a car that sets the standards for automotive design, luxury and safety, no car can measure up to the standards of the Mercedes-Benz. And today, the world shall prepare for the unveiling of the latest class of this particular vehicle kind, it is the new Mercedes-Benz E-Class produced by the local importer and retailer of the said car, the CATS Motors.
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May 20th, 2009
For extreme driving aficionados, there’s nothing more important than their cars to be at the best driving condition. This will determine the performance they might give to us. And sometimes, because of unfortunate events, some of the vehicles used by extreme drivers sustain damage and thus will have the need to be repaired. At some worse cases, the damaged part has to be replaced, or worst, the entire car must be replaced. Due to the nature of their vehicle and driving, ordinary automobile repair shops can’t respond to these scenarios. It’s a good thing to have the support needed for these cases.
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April 23rd, 2009

The Queen is to set to ‘go green’ by having her two gas-guzzling state Bentleys converted to run on biofuels. This is part of a move by the British luxury car-maker to become more environmentally friendly - and a new biofuel-burning high-performance car is expected in the New Year.
The Volkswagen-owned, Crewe-based company is to produce a new range of engines which will offer a 40 per cent improvement in fuel economy by 2012, with all new vehicles able to run on the plant-derived fuel. But the ‘flex-fuel’ system, as it’s called, will also allow the vehicles to run on conventional petrol.
Bentley executives said the Royal Family had been extremely supportive of moves to go green and it would be relatively simple to replace the engines of the two state limousines that they presented to the Queen and continue to maintain.
January 3rd, 2009

Are you tired of sitting in traffic, doing glute squeezes and not getting the results you desire? Do you wish Fitness First provided for a better cardiovascular workout? Then the GYM Car is for you.
The GYM Concept Car is a project by Da Feng, a graduate student at Coventry University in the United Kingdom, and it incorporates, as the name suggests, a mobile gym into you driving experience.
Da Feng came up with the idea for a competition held by P4 Cad Cam, a creative design consultancy and model making company located in Warwickshire, England.
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December 15th, 2008

Tata Motors manufacturer of the world’s cheapest car “The Nano”, with the help from some 100 component manufacturers. Unleash to the production of the world’s cheapest car which make this car on sale and available for only P100,000.00 ($2500), The CEO of Tata Group, Mr. Ratan Tata was able to keep his promise and deliver a car and it was unveiled in India.
India’s Tata Motors introduced the “Nano”, bringing new mobility within the reach of tens of millions of people. Chairman Ratan Tata said “Let me assure you and our critics the car we have designed will meet all safety norms and all foreign environmental criteria”.
The TATA motors are also in the process of manufacturing a car that will run on compressed air.
The Nano has a snub nose and a sloping roof and it can fit five people. The basic version the costs $2,500 has no radio, no passenger-side mirror, no air conditioning unit and has only one windshield wiper.
December 11th, 2008

While they are still a possibility, solar-powered cars are a long way off. There are a number of practical problems with solar-powered cars. Most importantly, it’s difficult for the car’s solar array to gather enough power to move the car. That’s why most solar race cars only carry one person — the extra weight of a passenger would tax the car’s power.
The way solar cars gather and store power is also a big issue. Solar power makes sense for buildings, the space station and even satellites because those structures are regularly exposed to the sun. These applications also have the ability to use batteries to store the energy the sun generates. A large battery pack — with enough storage to power the car from sunset to sunrise — would make an electric car far too heavy, so a solar-powered car must be in the sun at nearly all times to be effective. That means solar-powered cars aren’t very practical if you’re in a tunnel, a covered parking garage or even if it’s cloudy. Building rooftops, the space station and satellites also have the space for much bigger, more powerful solar arrays that allow them to gather more energy. For a car to harness the equivalent amount of energy, the vehicle proportions would have to be huge.
Beyond that, there’s the high cost of the solar panels. The type of solar panels used on solar-powered cars is very expensive. In fact, a competitive solar-powered race car can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars — and as we’ve already mentioned, currently, there’s not a very good way to make the car useable when the sun isn’t out.
With that said, all of the hard work that’s gone into solar-powered cars hasn’t been a waste. The information that engineers have learned from building solar-powered cars has guided their work in other areas. This includes aiding in the development of smaller, more efficient solar arrays, as well as the development of solar panels that can be attached to gasoline-powered cars to increase their efficiency and decrease their fuel consumption. While solar-powered cars really aren’t a possibility in the near future, there’s no reason to completely write off the idea. With continued research, they may eventually become a more practical solution.
source: http://www.howstuffworks.com
December 3rd, 2008