Sunday, August 24, 2008

Top 10 vehicles with highest resale value

You can't call them "good investments" because they inevitably depreciate. But the models in our ranking of the top 10 vehicles with highest resale value do amount to sensible purchases for the way they minimize the dollar losses associated with owning and maintaining a vehicle.
1.Mini Cooper
2.Infiniti G37 Coupe
3.BMW 1 Series
4.Jeep Wrangler
5.Volkswagen's R32
6.Honda CR-V with all wheel drive
7.Scion xB
8.Honda Civic Hybrid
9.Nissan Rogue
10 Volkswagen New Beetle Convertible

Friday, August 15, 2008

Cars of the football hero's

It is really interesting to know who owns which car among the top soccer players.
They are rich,have different taste.This also shows their nature and temperment.
Here is a quick list of the cars :
1.David Beckham - Aston Martin DB7,Lamborghini Gallardo,Armor-plated BMW X-5,Rolls-Royce Phantom,Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet
2.Wayne Rooney - Bentley Continental GT
3.Cristiano Ronaldo - Audi R8
4.David James - Humdrum Chrysler
5.Thierry Henry - Aston Martin Vanquish
6.John Terry - Bentley Continental GT
7.Didier Drogba - Mercedes SL65
8.Rio Ferdinand - Bentley Arnage
9.Sol Campbell - BMW X5
What is your dream car ?

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Designing the future cars

The world over carmakers spend big bucks to establish their brands as leaders in the race toward greater fuel efficiency and reduced emissions. Yet many of the eco-friendly and high-tech innovations in our vehicles begin in the research and development departments of large auto suppliers—the companies that supply components and systems to automobile manufacturers.
One such company,you might know Continental Automotive Systems as a maker of tires, but you probably don't know its role in the development of next-generation hybrids, diesels, lithium batteries, stability control, and wireless connectivity technologies for automobiles.
Due to this companies efforts,we are going to see an explosion of improvements in efficiency in vehicles, including traditional technologies such as direct gasoline injection, turbochargers, double-clutch transmission technoligies and low-resistance tires.
Cars in 2030
In 2030, you'll have a lot more technologies like autonomously driven vehicle. This is a vehicle that drives itself. It's a Chevy Tahoe. It still had all the attributes of a full-size SUV, but it also had the capability of driving itself. This vehicle actually had its own eyes and ears and senses to be able to navigate an urban setting with other cars on the road and be able to do that in a very safe and efficient way.
It's a demonstration to bring all three emerging technologies together: safety, sustainability, and connectivity. You're going to see developments on sustainability go concurrent with a continued focus on safety, which has been the focus of the industry in the last decade or so. Technologies like electronic stability control.lane detection warning, blind-spot detection, and rear-end collision avoidance. You'll see these technologies in the next couple of years, just exploding in the industry. That will complement everything we are doing on the power train side and from a sustainability standpoint.
Just in the past few years, advances in camera technology, in the image-processing software that's available to know the difference between a line in the road and a Coca-Cola can sitting in front of the car. The radar system might pick it up as an obstacle, but the camera knows, with the fusion of the sensors together, that it's a Coca-Cola can. You certainly wouldn't want the full brake applied.These are the things that are advancing very quickly now, to be able to bring in more safety and sustainability into the car.
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