BMW to be the biggie amongst the 3 German rival

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German car maker BMW will be displaying the X1 in the upcoming Auto Expo in New Delhi. The car luxury car maker will also be displaying the Z4, BMW 3-Series and the BMW 5-Series.

BMW is currently India’s number one luxury car maker. It has launched the X4 in the Indian car market in October 2009. It has rolled out the 3-Series and the 5-Series sedans in the India.

The X1 is the most compact SUV from BMW. It will be pitted against the Land Rover Freelander 2. The BMW X1 will be available with a choice of three 2-litre turbo-diesel engines. The 1.8d can derive 143 bhp, the 2.0d 177 bhp and the 23d 240 bhp. A 6-speed manual transmission comes standard on the 18d and the 20d, while a 6-speed automatic gearbox comes standard in the 23d and as an option in the 20d. The BMW X1 is expected to hit showrooms in mid-2010.

The Z4 is yet to make a mark in India. But this convertible promises to make an impact among the speed lovers in the coming year. The Z4 is powered by a twin-turbocharged 3.0-litre engine with 306 bhp and a 7-speed semi-automatic gearbox.

The 3-Series is available in 4 variants, 320i petrol, 325i petrol, 320d diesel, and 320d Highline diesel in India. The 320i and 325i are powered by 2.0L inline 4-cyl and 2.5L inline 6-cyl petrol engines respectively. A 2.0L turbocharged diesel engine powers 320d and 320d Highline variants.

On the other hand, the BMW 5-Seriesis a midsize luxury sedan that incorporates attractive appearance and state-of-the-art technology along with luxurious interiors. It comes in five variants, 525i, 530i (petrol) and 520d, 530d and 530d Highline diesel. The 5-Series has 2.5L, and 3.0L 6-cylinder petrol engines that power the 525i, and the 530i respectively. The 520d is powered by a 2.0L Inline 4 diesel engine, whereas 530d and 530d Highline are mated with a 3.0L 6-cylinder diesel engine.

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Seat Cherub, Style King

By Renuka Rajadurai

The stylish new ad from Seat certainly caught my attention with its 1950’s inspired creative style.  The execution features a fat and ugly Cupid flying alongside the new Ibiza from Seat.

With the words ‘LOVE MACHINE’ tattooed across his chest old Cupid resembles nothing like the one you’d imagine, but bold and inspired he relfects the moving collage creative, something of a likeness to the opening credits of Mad Men.

As the tip of his arrows pierce the heats of those he and the Ibiza fly by, they instantly fall for the savvy new coupe.

Captivating in a visually stunning way to the last second when he fires an arrow through the screen and the audience too it struck by love…

View the ad here and let me know what you think:

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Thumper

How uncanny...the resemblance...

Until today, our beautiful car didn’t have a name. Not anymore.

Meet Thumper. Floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee. Fast, nimble and very white.

I’ve looked up VicRoads custom plates, hoping to give Thumper a rego deserving of his name. Alas, ‘THUMPR’ and ‘THMPER’ were both taken.

It’s okay Thumper, we’ll give you a beautiful rego you can call your own very soon. I just need to find you a rego that’s actually available!

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India’s donkey Cab

lately in most places of the UK, snow and ice has really made its bed and is lying in it for what seems too long. We’re used to a day or two of snow, usually in February, but this much snow and ice at Christmas, we’re just not used to. One day the snow was so bad that taxi’s stopped running and people were made to walk everywhere, it was a disaster. I heard about this amazing taxi in India which is part cab, part cow. What genius that it’s cheap to run and keeps you out of the wet, not like driving around in my Vauxhall Corsa in Essex. I have never seen or heard anything quite like this, and needless to say i thought it was an especially good idea for all of the bad weather we’ve been having.

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Florida Needs A New Word For RAIN!

I come from Washington State.  Western Washington, even.  And I thought I knew what real rain was.

Then I moved to Florida.

I realized I had no idea what rain really was.  All you Washingtonians…you think you know…but you have… No. Idea.

You can’t HANDLE the rain!!

So the other day, my co-worker Camille and I were going to a party a few blocks away from our office.  The people throwing the party were borrowing my work’s sound system, so we were in charge of bringing the speakers and reciever.  I told Camille I would run over to my apartment and get my car from the parking garage, and be back to pick her up in fifteen minutes, so come down with the speakers.

This is the route we were taking, by the way. Down Biscayne then then a couple blocks down Brickell.  It was two miles.  Literally. 2.2 miles according to Google Maps.

So anyway, I go downstairs in my skirt and blouse and heels, carrying my purse and computer.  It had been, if not sunny, then at least dry and reasonably warm that morning.  Imagine my surprise when I step outside and there was three inches of water on the ground!  At first, I was very optimistic.  I pestered the valet for a plastic bag to put over my computer (yes…I was a bad girl and didn’t bring my laptop to work in its case with me that day. I was in a hurry).  The valet had no bag.  I was torn.  I seriously live…like not even a thirty second walk.  Literally across the street.  But to get there, I had to go down a steep decline, and around a corner.  And this was tile.  And tile is very slipper when wet.  And I was wearing high heels. And there was three inches of water on the ground. (For those of you who think I’m exaggerating…just wait.).

So while I am pestering the valet (the one who likes to whistle at me every time I walk to work…drat. Now I have officially acknowledged his existance), two guys were standing near me and overheard me.  They must have taken pity on me, and offered to give me a ride to wherever I was going.

“Where are you going?” this guy asks.  “Right over there.”  I pointed at my building.  How embarrassing.  But Ididn’t care.  It was too rainy, and I didn’t want to walk.  So the guy and his friend (apparently they had been meeting with the realty place in the Grand looking for to buy a condo) drove me the thirty feet from the covered valet loop at the Grand to the covered valet look at my building. (Yes, I realize getting in a car with two strange men probably wasn’t a very good idea…but I could always throw the door open and swim away if I had to. Also, I was desperate.)

Once I got my car and picked up Camille, we set off to drive through downtown.  Silly, I thought that streets in Miami would have, oh I don’t know, drains, maybe.  Nope.

It took us two hours to go the two miles.  It was insane.  Just look at this!!  And this wasn’t on the beach or anything, either.  This was mid-town Miami.

We had to drop off a grant on the way to the party, so Camille (bless her heart) had to get out in this weather and run to the building!  People weren’t even remotely following the lanes in the road, probably because half of the road was too flooded to drive on.  So finally I just pulled over to the side of the road, kind of up on the sidewalk, and put my flashers on, while Camille strapped on her flip flops and rolled up her pants and made a mad dash for it.

We saw people just sitting in their cars, with the water up to the windows, trapped.  We saw people just wading through the water with the water up to their knees, or higher.  It was madness.

I was real worried about flooding my engine.

I don’t actually know what that means.

But it sounds like something that would happen in weather like this.  In a flood.

Camille and I just sat there in traffic with our mouths open, taking pictures out the window.  The car was rocking gently, kind of like we were on a boat.  I’m on a boat…. But it wasn’t fun.  I was starting to get super worried about my car.  What if the water got in the engine? Does that even matter to a car? I’m guessing it does, or else we would drive our cars underwater.

My car couldn’t have moved faster than two miles per hour, either.  Seriously.  I could have floored it and I still wouldn’t have moved.  Not that I tried this.  Maybe.

I’ve never seen rain the likes of this before.  Ever. In my whole life.  Especially in rain that had only collected after a couple of hours.

After we took these pictures, we ended up sitting in traffic until way past dark.  In one instance we sat in the middle of an intersection with cars jammed around us pointed in all directions, listening to a symphony of honking horns.  It was so relaxing.  Just kidding.

It actually exhausts me just looking at these pictures.  Thank god I had Camille there to talk to, and keep me from wearing out my horn.  I have honked my horn more in Miami than I have ever, ever honked it before in my life.  Whereas in Washington, honking a horn is more an alert, or a reprimand, or a warning, in Florida it’s more just like…something you do when you don’t have anything else to do.  Sitting in traffic? Honk your horn.  Just drivin’ down the road? Honk your horn.  Someone eight cars in front of you hasn’t floored it across the intersection the second the light turned green?  Honk your horn.  Having a frustrating phone conversation with your sister’s best friend’s brother’s cousin?  Honk your horn.  Don’t like the way someone at the next car over is looking at you? Oh, yup, you guess it…Honk your horn. When I first got here, it contributed to my stress and anxiety.  Why are you honking at me? I didn’t do anything! Now I just join in.  It’s quite liberating, actually.  Cathartic, even.

Just as a sidenote, what makes that noise of a horn on your car?  Where does that noise come from?  It’s the things you take for granted in life…I’m just saying.

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2010 Volvo that STOPS itself!

I’m not too sure how long this advert has been around for, but finally a car that actually stops itself! The new Volvo XC60 with City Safety… its genius and this truly is the future for car manufacturers. The Volvo XC60 was named the 2010 International Truck of the Year by the International Car of the Year jury earlier this month. It’s a shame my cousins Volvo V50 in Essex didn’t come with this functionality when she went into the rear of someone. This is a feature long over-due and I’m extremely pleased it’s here.

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HM08 in snow on scene in Hornby, originally uploaded by North West Air Ambulance.

Sunday 20th December – severe weather across Lancashire. In Hornby a 44 year old female was injured in a road traffic accident and was airlifted to hospital in lancaster – the lift took 23 minutes due to snow storms but would have been even more difficult by road.

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Why Banning In-Car Cellphone Use Will Not Stop Accidents

Also known as “the longest title ever”.

Actually, it will. However, it will not stop all accidents. The only accidents it will stop are the ones directly related to the phone. In other words, the ones caused by the object itself; the same sort of accidents that would be caused by drinking coffee, doing your laundry, or shaving a goat. But what the bans will not stop are the other, less regarded, and possibly more frequent, accidents. These are the ones being caused by the conversation, the psychological effects.

The next time you are on the phone, think about the way your brain is working. You are picturing the person you are speaking to. You are concentrating on the conversation. You may be straining to hear. Your mind is busy doing a lot of things. And that’s alright when you’re at home. But when you’re in the car, it creates a problem. Because when you’re in the car, there is so much more to think about. Lights, signs, speeds. You have to time certain events, other cars. You have to remember to turn on signals, and so on. It’s very complicated, but to a good driver, it comes naturally. However, when you’re on the phone with someone, suddenly it all becomes very difficult. Your brain is working over time. Ever try listening to two people at once? That’s what your brain is doing. Trying to focus on both aspects at the same time. And it can’t do that. It’s too much to think about. Not only are you fucosed on the call, but the person on the other end of the line doesn’t know what you’re doing, where you are. Ever notice how at a large, busy intersection, everyone in the car temporarily stops talking. Everyone is focused, knowing that the driver has to pay attention and think. But the person you are on the phone with can’t see any of this. And they’re just going to keep on talking, the whole time (most likely). And that’s when accidents will occur.

So you can see that banning cellphones will only prevent some accidents. The real danger is the psychological effects phoning has on people driving. The solution? Who knows. Maybe it’s just an issue that will go unresolved. In any case, that’s my two cents.

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12/18/09

这两个星期都是盼着大跌，结果总是事与愿违。市场跌的时候我的short不怎么跌，盘整的时候TEN猛涨。今天的TEN突破了17块5，我在16块空的1000股损失不少。这几个月往往TEN在16块左右回下跌，在14块左右涨回，这次空TEN就是想做一次往下的电梯。

其实有两次机会止损。16号破16块5时，因为是mental stop，当时没注意一下子突破了。今天下了一个17块的stop limit，没想到破17块后，涨得太快，17快的limit order竟然始终不能成交。

临近收盘时把DOW和CAR都cover了。

今天的另外一个trade是空CENX。上午14.7空了500股，中午在15块被stop out。下午临收盘前在15.25再次空了1000股。

Symbol Quantity L/S Setup Entry Time Entry Price Exit Reason Exit Time Exit Price Stop P&L DOW 500 S BRKD 12/9/09 27 More Than 1W 12/18/09 27.21 28 395 CAR 291 S BOXD 12/8/09 11.75 More Than 1W 12/18/09 12.75   -291 CENX 500 S MTMF 12/18/09 14.7 Stop Hit 12/18/09 15 15 -150 CENX 1000 S MTMF 12/18/09 15.25       15.75  

 

 

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Another dumb (smart) car...

Clare was once again out in her VW bug, with her camera and grabbed this for us…the “IQ” car. What is it with people that own smart cars…they seemingly believe that they are much smarter than everyone else, just because its called a “smart” car. You’re not smarter…you have made the road much more dangerous because no one can see you. And it’s not just those people in SUV’s that can’t see you…it’s everyone. Besides, if you were smart, you would put safety over a few extra miles per gallon…or if that really was your main focus…buy a hybrid or wait a few more months until the volt comes out. Either way, Unless you are going to the greens to tee off, there is no reason you should drive your golf cart on the interstate. So Clare, what did you think when you saw this? “I immediately thought…we’ll see how smart you feel when my VW bug runs over your ridiculous go-cart of a car. You know it’s bad when a car makes a beetle feel like a tractor-trailer.” Amen. photo by: Clare Miller

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Car fund

My car fund is going to be a major focus in 2010.  I currently have about $1,400.  Though it could be wiped out by a massive repair bill!  Sometimes I feel like it is a game — can my car last until my car fund is ready, or will some major problems crop up first?  I hope I win!

I take a very un-L.A. attitude towards cars:  I’m extremely disinterested in them, and I don’t know a lot about them, and I don’t care much about them.  This has allowed me to keep driving my college car (now 10 years old and approaching 100k miles) for years.  I’m convinced this has saved me s ton of money over the past few years.

Still, my car will be replaced eventually.  For an older car, it hasn’t need too many repairs:  $300 for brakes in the middle of the year, plus oil changes.  I spent $152 on registration, and that’s about it for the year.   It is due for a timing belt at $110k, and things could start breaking  any time.  I’m hoping it will stay healthy through 2010, and in 2011 we’ll consider a newer one.

I haven’t set a firm goal for my car fund, but I can tell you all my extra cash (post honeymoon, post wedding) will be going there.  I’m looking to spend about $15k on a used something or other, but that is very much TBD.

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Celebration Tuesday

Mondays will be Never Give Up.

Tuesdays will be Celebration Tuesday.

Today celebrate even the smallest success. Write down everything you did today. I know you can find one thing to be thankful for. Hmm. You’ve written your list and you don’t see anything to celebrate.  Here are a few ideas:

Did you do something many people can’t do? I’ll bet you did. Celebrate being able to do what others would give their eye teeth to be able to do.

Did you find getting up easier than the hardest day in your life to get up? For instance, the day you were having your Biology final exam and you had to take care of your baby brother so you didn’t get a chance to study and you were up all night. Celebrate and be thankful that you have your health and were able to help someone. Life is precious. Rejoice and celebrate your life.

Do you have more money in the bank today than you did on the day you didn’t have enough money to buy a box of popcorn at the movies? Celebrate and be thankful for the money you have now.

Were you able to drive a car to work? If not, did a friend take you to work? If not, did you take the bus? If not, do you have a job? Celebrate and be thankful for what you have.

Do you have shoes to wear? Celebrate.

Today you and I have a choice to decide to feel sorry for ourselves or to celebrate being who were are! I choose to celebrate!  

Balloons! Ice Water to drink. A fancy party hat made and sprinkled with glue and glitter on your head with the letters of your name printed in fancy format.  Hang a price tag like Minnie Pearl used to and write the word  Priceless on the price tag. Celebrate.

God made you to enjoy your life loving him and serving him and his people. You are loved and prayed for by me and others.

Have a great celebration Tuesday.

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Benefits of a Bluetooth Car Audio System

If you have ever been frustrated by the lack of connection between the electrics in your car or thought that things could be simpler somehow, then getting a Bluetooth car audio system might make you feel better. Bluetooth, as we all know from our phones and wireless headsets, allows short distance communication between electronic items. In terms of car stereos, this means that you can link your mp3 player, phone or even your lap top to your stereo, making things a lot simpler.

Car Audio systems often suffer from the problem that transferring music into them can be difficult or time consuming. Even the traditional CDs and the older cassettes take up a lot of space that could be used for other purposes and it’s often nicer to listen to what you want, when you want to, rather than be at the mercy of radio DJs.

iPods and mp3 players require adaptors and possibly complicated rewiring of certain parts in order to plug them in; it’s the same with USBs. This leads to trailing cables that can easily get in your way or tangled up in each other.

Bluetooth car stereos eliminate the issues of in car phone calls by transferring all your contacts onto the display and even, in some cases, reading out the names so you don’t even need to look away from the road. They automatically mute the music in order to put calls through without you having to touch your phone. The technology is simple to use and efficient.

If your mp3 player doesn’t have Bluetooth though, it’s not a huge problem. Most Bluetooth stereo systems will have a jack ready for connection with mp3 players and iPods. This means that you do not need complicated adaptors, just simple linking cables. Or, if you prefer, there are Bluetooth adaptors that can be plugged into devices to link them up.

The beauty of a Bluetooth stereo is that everything is centralised in the dashboard so you don’t need to mess around with five different things and you can switch easily from one to another through the car audio system.

If you think that a Bluetooth car audio system could make your life easier, then head over to www.caraudiowarehouse.co.uk and have a look at their range of car audio equipment and solutions.

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Reindeer Car

I saw a VW Beetle today with cute antlers and a red nose driving behind me. It would have made a perfect picture, where is a red light when you need one? Had I been in a hurry… Actually I was late for a party because I couldn’t peel myself away from the Saints game to get ready.

A little later I saw the same decoration on another car parked at a shopping mall.

Awwww.

I bet they have their Christmas tree up. And most of their shopping done.

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Moving - almost complete

We have Alaskan license plates on George, now. I feel all self-reliant for getting the self-tapping screws in the right place and managing to drive them in with a Gerber tool, since we didn’t have a front plate in PA. Woot! I’d still like to come up with a vanity plate word/phrase, so that I can get the prettier plates with the Big Dipper and caribou, but that’s for the future.

Our tickets are purchased for the flights to and from Boston (sans Ella’s $100, which they charge on the day of), so Dale and Ella will get here on the 23rd of January. We might go home and nap and then go hang out with people, assuming either of us is conscious enough to drive. He can start meeting folks right away! And someone brought up the idea of having a welcome dinner for him, which I think might be fun.

In other news, we’ve almost paid off the credit cards from all of this moving stuff–by the time Dale gets his last paycheck, we’ll be at zero on that. His rent was almost the same as my student loan payment will be, so I think our finances will balance, even if it takes him a while to find work. We’ll have to stay in the 1-bedroom (or move to a 2-br within the same too-noisy-for-the-birds building) and go without some of the furniture and kitchen things we might like to have, but it’ll all be OK.

Oh, and I have a couple of friends who aren’t going anywhere for Christmas, so I think the three of us will hang out on the day itself, after I’ve done my Skyping with Connecticut family and calling Virginia family. Plus, there’ll be a friendsy shindig on the 26th, as well, with either wassail or East India Company Official Punch (I might have that name wrong) and all sorts of leftover Christmas treats. Fun times!

So, lots of good stuff coming up. And now I’ve got to put in some time making things, so I can send them out as presents.

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I once got pulled over by a cop in a blizzard...

Just once. I was 17. And I’m still annoyed by it. A friend nearby needed someone to console her so I braved a snowstorm to drive the 5 minutes to her house. I could have just walked across the park, but no, I was 17.

The left turn out of our neighborhood required me to drive past 2 lanes of traffic and a turn lane, uphill, at night, in a blizzard, with cars coming east difficult to see ahead of time. A very cautious driver, I looked carefully both ways to make sure no one was coming in case I had trouble getting out onto the road. And I did. My car skidded and slipped uphill as I slowly pressed on the gas. Being a young driver, I was not very experienced with snow driving, but I managed.

Well, I guess during the time it took for my car to get to the lane, a vehicle had approached on the main road from behind. It was a cop and he pulled me over.

Cop: “Do you know what you just did?

Me: “Err, no…?” (I really had no clue)

Cop: “You cut me off. I guess I’ll just give you a warning this time, but be more careful next time.”

Me: “Yes sir.”

BAH! I don’t see how I could have prevented pulling out in front of him if I couldn’t see him to begin with because of the dumb road and the idiot blizzard. Cut him off… my ass. As soon as I pulled away, I was in shock and just started sobbing. Where were those tears a minutes ago?!

I suppose I deserved a warning for being stupid enough to go out driving that night.

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Foto: Quelle: TU Graz/Lunghammer - HYCAR1

Das erste Wasserstofffahrzeug fährt auf Österreichs Strassen und wurde am 04.11.2009 an der TU Graz präsentiert.

Die TU Graz hat am, Mittwoch, den 4.11.2009 mit dem HYCAR 1 ein Wasserstofffahrzeug präsentiert, welches in enger Kooperation mit der Forschungsgesellschaft für Verbrennungskraftmaschinen und Thermodynamik (FVT) und dem Hydrogen Center Austria (HyCentA) entwickelt wurde. Die Wissenschafter haben dabei einen Ottomotor für den CO2-freien Betrieb mit Wasserstoff umgerüstet.

Das multivalente Fahrzeug kann daher ausser mit Benzin auch mit Wasserstoff, Erdgas oder jeder beliebigen Mischung aus Wasserstoff und Erdgas im selben Gastanksystem betrieben werden.

Das HYCAR 1 wurde bereits vom TÜV begutachtet und mittels Einzelgenehmigungsbescheid für den allgemeinen Straßenverkehr zugelassen. Seine Reichweite liegt im reinen Wasserstoffbetrieb bei 150 Kilometern und die Motorleistung bei 69 KW.

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Phone: 864.908.0690

Email: info@transdomo.com

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Lousy Driver Trying To Park A Car

Just a few days ago I went to a shopping mall to get my hair cut and other stuffs done, I went into the basemen for parking. To my amaze, I saw a bunch of people surrounding a car.

So I din’t look at it much when I saw an empty spot for me to park. After properly parked my car, I notice the group of people was actually trying to help a car to get out from that parking lot.

It doesn’t seem too hard to do that, but that car (a Toyota Wish) was actually stuck-ed together with the car beside and nearly touching the pillar on the other side. I was thinking to myself, for a moment I thought it was the drivers misjudge on the entry. But I think that was because of the driver s lousy-ness that got him/her (I didn’t see who was driving) into that trouble.

I wanted to help initially but there were so many people there helping a helpless driver who couldn’t handle a dreadfully simple parking. So I walked away to complete my mission of the day. The last I hear while I was still walking around that they have manage to get the car out from the lot.

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