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Peugeot 306 XSI 2.0 Clifford Cat 1 Alarm With 3 Key fobs one of which is the master key fob also a Toad Multipoint Immobiliser Full Ecosse Bodykit with Porsche style splitter and spoiler with brake light delocked, dehandled and debadged with TVR style poppers 3.5k ICE including DVD player and full boot build Momo steering wheel and limited edition 306 stainless steel gear knob blue neon’s under foot wells as well as a full under car neon kit which is multi function and colour £0000s spent and is a real head turner.

White Peugeot 306 body styling

PEUGEOT 306

White Peugeot 306 body styling

The White Peugeot 306 body styling rear light kit uses the latest technology DUEL LED lights.
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The Peugeot 306 Afterburner

PEUGEOT 306

The Peugeot 306 Afterburner

The Peugeot 306 Afterburner is produced in injection moulded plastic. The kit includes all bulbs and connectors needed to fit the kit

Peugeot 306 Afterburner LED rear lights conversion

PEUGEOT 306

Peugeot 306 Afterburner LED rear lights conversion

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BMW Z4 Review

BMW Z4 Roadster is an open double car and much more, replacing the roof Z3. Compared with its predecessor, Z4 slightly gained in all directions, but kept the general concept of this roof.

BMW Z4
BMW Z4

BMW Z4 received in the United States in October 2002 appeared in Europe in March 2003. Like his predecessor, the car is available in the United States at the factory in Spartanburg.

BMW Z4
BMW Z4

BMW Z4 easily combines the two. This is a classic roof at the same time emphasizes the Z4 sports of fast-bending bonnet, long wheelbase and low seat.

BMW Z4 Roadster
BMW Z4

Protuberant and curves and surfaces make splendid play of light and shadow. Strong lines are interspersed with gentle curves. Ideal flat steel surface and excellent skin significantly enrich every detail. It appears from BMW Z4 is thallium. Its form "saying" the door behind which the body like expanding.

BMW Z4 Coupe
BMW Z4

Notch on the door of the top limited clear from the brink of the lap, and the bottom - just as sharply defined "rib stiffness" high threshold.

BMW Z4
BMW Z4

Completing the picture slashes, boldly held upwards from the front wheels to the frame of the front windshield. Character lining sink BMW surrounded by radiant chrome and double Xenon headlamps (option), with integrated fog lamps, attached Z4 elegant and unflagging form. Here are just a heavy chuck looks strange, if not from the opera. The standard Z4 2.5i invited elegant curtain fabric with mechanical actuation.

BMW Z4 Interior

BMW Z4 Coupe
BMW Z4

The analogy with "Seven" is the Z4 interior. Nothing in common with the original "driving" the panel deployed console to the driver. This concept interior, which in the 1970s came to BMW genius Paul Marriage, in Munich cultivated for decades. All the necessary information you have in front of you with appliances. Rudder, a small, unemployed, with a leather collar and incredibly stylish iron spokes. Micro design in BMW Z4 at the height developed every detail, whether protective arc of chairs, hand handcuffed or door panels, "crossed" special "twisted" pens.

BMW Z4 Coupe
BMW Z4

Particularly good indoor sports version of "metal" finish. "Sports" seats for the driver and passenger are standard on the Z4. Black leather "Oregon" (it) will make your impressions of the trip even more attractive. In some versions Comfort warmth only a box of wood, substitute silver plastic panels with aluminum.

BMW Z4 Engine

BMW Z4

The advantage of the new body for the owner roof is a relatively large trunk (up to 260 litres) of convertible bay for the curtain, which is sufficient for carrying two large bags. The curtain of fabric is Z-manner and equipped with heated rear windows.

BMW Z4

Additional options include Hi-Fi audio amplifier with a low frequency technology Carver, as well as a special phone. The standard kit includes a new Z4 sports leather steering wheel type, system protection, and if the bus to get to their own coding, with piercing.

BMW Z4

High-octane mixture impeccable quality and the most modern technology is at the heart of the engine BMW Z4 which was made of a special lightweight alloy. Thanks to a unique combination of Double Vanes, to regulate valves best way, a special module intake air and 4-valve technology BMW achieved the highest torque and lightning reactions. The revitalization of the "Sport" option proposed as a system of dynamic traffic management Driving Dynamic Control to remove the engine to even higher levels. Models collected Z4 3.0i engine (170 kW / 231 hp / maximum speed of 250 km / h) and Z4 2.5i (141 kW / 192 hp / 235 km / h). The Z4 3.0i 6-step a mechanical gearbox and a five-for Z4 2.5i model, or a five-speed automatic transmission (as a set of additional equipment).

BMW Z4

Thanks to the wide track, low center of gravity, optimum weight distribution between the axles in a ratio of 50:50, and the precise steering control system (Electric Power Steering) BMW Z4 provides a good dynamic and manageability. In addition, high-endurance brakes and the dynamic stability control Dynamic Stability Control (DSC III), with the possibility of including traction control regime guarantee maximum safety in all situations.

BMW Z4

The Z4 for the first time in history, and car smuggle BMW usual hydraulic steering replaced by power assistance. This scheme was much simpler. Power assistance consumes power only when turning the steering wheel, his work is easy to administer, in accordance with the speed or the level of lateral acceleration. However, if the engineers behind BMW and ZF firm, which has traditionally supplied Bavarian steering mechanisms-decade experience of the booster rocket configuration, with electro motors all have to understand anew. Z4 version Sport extremely sensitive to the slightest turns driving. A click of "sport" to the left of the console tool box is changing not only features an electronic pedal, but the algorithm of electric power.

BMW Z4

The "sport" to drive better, but not much. Efforts to drive higher, but "transparency" anyway. Reactions spot, but not exact, correct trajectory in the high-speed turns is fast pulse movements. But in turns BMW Z4 no slower than Speedster. First, the power unit is fully justifies this definition: it is indeed power. Drive "at the grass roots" strong, and after 3000 rpm pushing the gas pedal is instantly reactive impulse to any transfer. Chassis here that neither talk, the great. Tyres evil grip clinging to the asphalt, geometry trimmings can easily follow the roof at the wheel. Gradually accustomed to the reaction machine, and how annoying that the need to stop turning left knee in the door handle.

BMW Z4

The stabilization DSC prevent slipping unobtrusively, but the authority and confidence. Against all canons auto sports at BMW Z4 can boldly press on the gas or brake in turn, the computer instantly removes excess power or recalculates the balance of braking force at each wheel. The single click of a button does not disable DSC stabilization system, as usual, a trigger-DTC Dynamic Traction Control. As told Bavarian, it is compensated for the lack of Z4 self-locking differential activation DTC admitted to some "controlled" unwanted steering wheel. However, with the development of skidding

BMW Z4

The Sport version is very hard suspension. Sound row "Six fills saloon-even open, with the folded roof. Whether the voice is a little louder engine could call it gimmicky ... Travel to "comfortable" version is more pleasant emotions. At 16-inch wheels instead 17-inch without buttons "sport". At turns driving Butler reacts calmer exhaust sound is not as aggressive, suspension noticeably softer "swallows" irregularities.

BMW Z4

The flaws in habits "sports" Butler is due in large part to the other wheels. For example, the longitudinal wave asphalt drive with a "sport" suspension starts from further tilt-so it is, when the wheels of a departure from the so-called modified shoulder running wheel. A "comfortable" at the same roof slope calmly rode directly, not in response to the alignment. A BMW Z4 3.0i Comfort hardly slower "sports" version.

BMW Z4

In fact, despite the fast sliding steering mechanism with a very low gear for (14.2), driven by Z4 from lock to lock commits more than three revolutions. In this way, the front wheels are turning at very high angle. Diameter turn, respectively, the roof is less than ten metres - the-maneuver!

Discovery’s HD Theater outlines the start of WRC coverage for 2010

Assuming for a moment that you won’t be watching any stages live, what could possibly be better than strapping into the living room recliner and watching World Rally Championship coverage here in the United States? How about watching that very same coverage in glorious high definition? You’re in luck, as Discovery’s HD Theater plans to air the entire 2010 season, the start of which is coming up fast.

The action will begin on Thursday, February 25th at 10 PM Eastern with the Rally Sweden event. Racing will continue on Friday and a follow-up episode will be aired the following Sunday night from 10-11 PM ET. The second race, the Corona Rally Mexico, will follow the same schedule from Thursday, March 18th through Sunday, March 21st.

Ken Block Monster World Rally Team Ford Fiesta

In case you’re wondering, Ken Block will indeed be taking part in the 2010 Rally Sweden behind the wheel of his brand new Ford Focus RS, giving American viewers a hometown hero to pull for. Air dates for the remainder of the 2010 WRC season will be announced later.

2010 Honda Accord Crosstour

Let’s face it—the latest trend of sleek-lined crossovers is here to stay, and we can look forward to more and more manufacturers creating new vehicles based on this larger design ethos. (See what you’ve done, BMW X6?) So Honda, known for game-changing products, was certain to remind us that the brand new Accord Crosstour had been in the works for many years. “We had been planning this one since before anyone even saw the X6,” we were assured by one executive. When we asked if the Crosstour was in any way developed alongside the recently released Acura ZDX, we were told that the two vehicles have nothing in common with one another. In fact, Honda pointed out that while the ZDX was designed and engineered in America, the Crosstour is, for the most part, the fruit of Japanese labor.

But is it unique? Aside from the styling, there isn’t a whole lot of newness to this car. As the vehicle’s name suggests, the Crosstour is based on the trusty Accord sedan, and instead of dropping the Accord name, Honda left it in place to build better familiarity within its consumer base. Truth be told, about 60 percent of the Crosstour is made up of standard Accord parts, and Honda won’t shy away from telling anyone and everyone that the Crosstour is an extension of the Accord lineup. The automaker wants consumers to view this vehicle as a more premium version of the Accord, but one that offers the space and functionality of a crossover. While this all makes a whole lot of sense in concept, the final product is a bit of an odd duck.

What Honda has created here is a vehicle that is relatively good to drive and has a lot of sedan-like road-going characteristics, but doesn’t make a whole lot of sense as a crossover. The Crosstour’s good-to-drive-ness does give it an edge over more un-involving vehicles like the Venza or Murano, though it’s a little hard to see how it might capture customers from those stalwarts, to say nothing of its own brothers. As a crossover, this vehicle has an odd fit into Honda’s product line. To wit, the CR-V is only four-tenths of an inch taller than the Crosstour and it rides on a much shorter wheelbase, and yet it boasts 21.6 more cubic feet of storage space behind the front seats. What’s more, the CR-V offers more headroom and legroom for front passengers, and more legroom in the second row. And price? A fully loaded CR-V with all-wheel drive is only about $1000 more than a base, front-drive Crosstour. Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to us.

That said, a majorly redeeming quality of the Crosstour is how good it is to drive. The only powertrain available is the Accord-sourced 3.5-liter V-6, which produces 271 horsepower and 254 pound-feet of torque, mated to a five-speed automatic transmission. Curiously, no four-cylinder engine is available, though engineers explained that putting a four-pot mill in the Crosstour only netted one extra mile per gallon, so they opted to only offer a V-6. Still, a four-cylinder version could have lowered the car’s starting MSRP. Front-wheel drive is standard and all-wheel drive is optional, but Honda only expects a small margin of all Crosstour sales to have power routed to all four wheels. (Don’t expect to see all-wheel drive making its way into the Accord sedan anytime soon, either.) Our front-drive test car felt peppy while being tossed along back roads, but was subject to a bit of body roll and understeer in the corners.

We mostly attribute this to the skinny eighteen-inch rubber that higher-level Crosstours are equipped with; the Toyota Venza and Ford Flex are much more competent through the bends, mostly due to their wider tracks and beefier tires. The Crosstour does, however, benefit from cornering shift control, which holds the selected gear through a turn to eliminate the transmission’s tendency to change gears. This allows for a much more linear acceleration feel upon exiting a turn without needing to downshift to a lower gear to achieve max power. It’s smooth, too—something that we can appreciate in a vehicle that isn’t meant to be a nimble sports car. Since most of the Crosstour’s underpinnings are Accord stock, we weren’t surprised to experience crisp turning and lots of driver feedback through the steering wheel. Larger brakes have been fitted at all four corners to account for the added weight of the crossover versus the sedan, and they are appreciated.

So while the Crosstour is relatively good to drive and may do the job of a crossover rather well, it just doesn’t make sense as a Honda. The automaker will now find this vehicle competing head-on against its CR-V, Pilot, and Accord, and because its only unique aspect—the styling—isn’t a huge success, we can’t see it exactly flying off of dealer lots. If consumers judge this book by its cover, the Crosstour won’t be terribly appealing. Too bad really, as it’s a CUV that would be a better-than-most choice for enthusiast drivers. We can only hope that the Crosstour’s strong road manners are enough to win over the consumer set.

Source:-thecarconnection.com

Honda Insight 2010

Honda’s new Insight borrows from many points, parts and places in the company’s past in the search for the highest possible real-world fuel economy. You won’t be saving the world for multiple generations of gorgeous creatures such as yourself, but you’ll feel good about trying. And since you already look good, feeling good becomes the #1 issue. Well, maybe doing good is up there, too.

Honda has one of the longest histories in Automobiledom of making conscious big product decisions in favor of better efficiency. Having started on two wheels, company founder Soichiro Honda pushed his engineers to perfect four-stroke bike engines when the world was mostly wedded to gas- and oil- consuming two-strokers. This set the tone for years.

In late 1999, Honda issued its first Insight. It was the first gas-electric hybrid actually sold in the U.S. market and the most fuel efficient car sold in the U.S. at the time. It only sat two people and looked akin to an elongated egg; both factors limited its appeal. After a brief hiatus, Honda has resurrected the Insight as a larger vehicle with styling that is more inline with its primary competitor, the Toyota Prius. We spent some time with the 2010 Honda Insight recently.

Despite the mileage hullabaloo about hybrids and all the intricate engineering details to make as light a car as possible, everything is moot if the car doesn’t perform as it should. If the singer can’t cut the track, but looks pretty good, even the most narcissist fan would boo the hag offstage. In this regard, the 2010 Insight plays the part well. In careful city-only driving, it returned 42.1 mpg. Dedicated highway driving saw 47.8 mpg and the overall combined during the whole test period netted 43.4. On official ratings of 40/43, that’s exceptional.

Brush up on your speechifying, too. As you acclimate to hypermiling in the Insight and learn to drive most efficiently, the center instrument display doles out awards based on your ability to extract the best mileage from the Insight. Leaves and wreaths denote your level of Efficiency Royalty. Maybe Honda’s next generation system will use Oscar statues.

If you’ve driven a Prius or other Toyota hybrid, the Honda’s operation feels a bit different. While we never witnessed it doing so, the system can propel the car on electricity alone. We did witness the engine stopping under braking once below a certain speed (roughly 5 mph) and when stationary. So, put simply, where the Toyota’s system can propel the car using electric power alone, the Insight’s 1.3-liter four-cylinder engine seems to always propel the car, though assisted by the electric motor when additional power is called for. You can opt for a high(er)-efficiency mode by pushing the ECON button on the dash, which dials back the response rate of the throttle, lowers the rev range in which the CVT operates, adjusts air conditioning and cruise control parameters and lengthens engine-stop duration at traffic lights during idle time.

Starting at a base price of $20,510 including destination, the Insight undercuts the newly-redesigned 2010 Prius by $2,240, the latter’s base price being $22,750, including destination. That’s a significant 10% in a sector that’s getting more competitive. Toyota’s 2010 Prius line-up was introduced with lower pricing than the predecessor model, which means one big thing. The hybrid/hyper-economy car segment has been heating up for some time and appears only to get hotter as we head through the summer and fall.