Archive for July, 2005
July 31st, 2005 at 01:21pm
frances
Category : Auto News, Malaysia
Start from today (31st July 2005), petrol price will be up 10 sen from RM1.52 to RM1.62 per litre and diesel too will be up 20 sen from RM1.081 to RM1.281 per litre. This is the third time fuel prices increase in year 2005.
Seeing the trend of increasing fuel price, no wonder cars with smaller capacity are selling good. Not only they are affordable in terms of purchase price, but also economically sound when maintaining it and fill it’s “thirst” for fuel.
Wondering what if all cars on the road now are not using petrol but some other sources like solar energy, electric generated energy and etc.? Perhaps then we’ll not depend on fuel so much and feeding our beloved car with expensive energy. Wonder when hybrid car will be introduce and mass-produce in Malaysia… That way, we could have opt for this alternative to curb the oil rises problem.
Guess for the time being, we have to bear with the continuous increasing of fuel prices as goverment has stated they will not remove the subsidy neither they will bear the fuel price by increasing the subsidy.
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July 30th, 2005 at 12:52am
tiger
Category : Car Tech
Can you imagine that in future building more roads and highway is not an options to ease traffic jam anymore. Or can you imagine that you living in JB. Driving a car at 350mph and reach your office in KL in less than 20 minutes? Is it true like the Movie you watch before "The Fifth Element"? Moller M400 Skycar The Car that can fly. But not yet freedomly fly.Only After FAA Certification Date of the M400 Skycar occurs after December 31.
The M400 can comfortably seat four people, making a day trip to the south of JB to KL with your mates the equivalent of a three-hour blat down the motorway.With a Top Speed of 350mph almost 600km/h, M400 Skycar will sell for a price comparable to that of a four-passenger high performance helicopter or airplane, approximately $500,000. As the volume of production increases substantially, its price can approach that of a quality automobile ($60,000-$80,000).
Some Quote from the The International Moller.com The Skycar M400 Inventor..
Dr. Dennis Bushnell–Chief Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center
“The volantor (Skycar) will do for car-based society what the car did for horse-based society. It is the right solution at the right time.� He goes on to add, “It is not a question of if but when the market for Moller vehicles will be about $1 trillion a year.�
Bruce Holmes—Manager, General Aviation Office, NASA Langley Research Center
“Once we have the infrastructure then Moller’s Skycar has a place to grow into. Such a system is on the way. Various organizations including NASA, the FAA, the Department of Transportation, individual states and aviation industry groups are developing a small aircraft transportation system.â€?
Every Successful man make his dream come true!!
About Moller:
Moller International was founded in 1983 by Dr Paul Moller, a Canadian-born US engineer, to design, develop, manufacture and market personal vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (VTOL). His colleagues said it couldn’t be done, but like many geniuses, Dr Moller worked tirelessly towards his dream: a personal flying car that could take off from any back garden of street and be as easy to fly as a car is to drive, if not easier.
“Paul Moller has spent 40 years and $50 million building the L.A. commuter’s dream car.”
And his passion finally paid off. He invented his dream car and name is as Moller M400 Skycar.
And what is your dream, and what is your passion for life ??
For more information visit the following Link
Moller Internatioanl Official Site www.moller.com
21th Century Moller Sky Car
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July 29th, 2005 at 11:22pm
tiger
Category : Car Tech
Think you guy seen this before…
Is a Michelin airless, integrated tyre and wheel combination dubbed the TWEEL (i.e. Tyre/WhEEL) . The Tweel promises performance levels beyond those possible with conventional pneumatic technology.
This Tweel technology is already at a production level for low-speed low-weight vehicles, but very much at the concept level with respect to passenger car use. Tweel is available as an enhancement to the iBOT mobility device invented by Dean Kaman, creator of the Segway, as an alternative to a traditional wheelchair with the ability to climb stairs and navigate uneven terrain.
Michelin showed the first real-world application of the Tweel technology on two Dean Kaman vehicles, the iBOT and the Segway Centaur.
Bibendum, Michelin’s mascot, with the iBot (left) and Segway Centaur (right).
A Closer Look At Michelin Airless Tyre
The Airless Tyre Structure Explained
Airless Tyre Application. Currently Ibot and Segway’s Concept Centaur been equipped with Tweel.
For More Photo and Info You Can Visit the following Site:
http://www.fourtitude.com/gallery/gallery2.php?mode=album&album=/Technology/Michelin/Tweel
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July 29th, 2005 at 11:34am
coolmini
Category : Drive and Rides
Just receive an email forwarded by a friend.
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SPEED LIMIT - LDP
Please note that effective today the LDP highway speed limit will be monitored by the CCTV.
The speed limit is 90 kmh and if you go above that at 91 kmh, the camera will auto record and pass to police. The few identified areas where the CCTV is monitoring are as follows:
1) on the overhead pedestrian bridge in front of Kelana Jaya LRT station, monitoring the straight stretch
2) Somewhere near Western Digital (CCTV might be on Western Digital), monitoring the straight stretch in front of the Kelana Jaya Seafood
3) On IKEA, Monitoring straight stretch in front of IKEA and 1 Utama
4) On the double overhead bridge, monitoring the stretch between the Puchong toll and the Federal Highway turnoff.
5) In the tunnel near SS2 (please note that the speed limit is 60 kmh, not 90 kmh)
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If anyone know more about this, please comment, thanks.
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July 26th, 2005 at 12:26pm
tiger
Category : Auto News, Malaysia
Reading news from TheStar said Proton CEO Tan Sri Tengku Mahaleel service will not be renew after his contract ended on end Sept.
Hoping this is the correct move to push Proton towards a major change. After what we learn about the “hustle and bustle” news of AP issue, the almost national car “crisis”, what we as a consumer, would just want a quality national car of our very own. A national car which on par with world standard that we all proud to own it because it is good and not because it is “affordable”.
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July 26th, 2005 at 02:45am
tiger
Category : TheCar BlogMove
RSS (an acronym for “Rich Site Summary” and later coined “Really Simple Syndication”) is a way for web sites to summarize their content, such as news articles, to make it available in a different view. Often Blog site will have RSS Feed enable.
RSS feeds by themselves don’t do much. If you view one in most browsers, you’ll see the raw XML, which is roughly human-readable, but intended for computer programs. You can take a look at the RSS feed for the changes log of this page to get the idea. There a number of applications for RSS feeds; We Recommend Firefox Browsers :Because FireFox a great function call Live Booksmarks.
Live Bookmarks is a new technology in Firefox that lets you view RSS news and blog headlines in the bookmarks toolbar or bookmarks menu. With one glance, quickly see the latest headlines from your favorite sites. Go directly to the articles that interest you—saving you time.Coz you only need to read the headlines which you interested without going entering the url of the site in your browser.
A site is enabled for Live Bookmarks when you see this icon on the bottom right corner of the browser. Clicking on the icon and selecting an RSS feed will bring up the Add Bookmark dialog. Select ‘OK’ and you will see Live Bookmarks with the rest of your bookmarks. Many people find it especially convenient to save Live Bookmarks in their Bookmarks Toolbar folder.
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Hope this info is useful to you. We just want to save your time to read the thing you only interest.
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July 24th, 2005 at 03:18pm
tiger
Category : Auto News, Malaysia
At the early 80’s, we are proud of having our own national car. But nowsaday, the situation is rather different.
With almost 20 years of time and investing billions of ringgit in building up this national car, till today, we are still not being able to produce a 100% made in Malaysia car. Not even the core of the car which is the engine part.
But look at Hyundai, which started their auto industry at around the same time as we are, and now, they have enter the international auto market and compete with other big brand car manufacturers. And what about our beloved Proton? Still asking mama to feed him milk? (protection from goverment).
Come on, how old are you now? 20++ years old! It should be a mature adult at this age. Shouldn’t you be strong enough to be independent. Improve yourself! Be a national car that we proud to show it to the world.
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July 20th, 2005 at 10:56pm
tiger
Category : Auto News, Malaysia
There is this website www.panducermat.org.my build by JPJ to create public awareness towards the safety on the road. Not only that, they’ve even encourage the public to snap pictures of any traffic offender with your handphone or digi cam and send the pictures to their “Hall of Fame”. 
This is indeed a good move for the authority to do something to educate the public.
Apart from this, the question raise is that: how far can it achieve it’s purpose? With the photos being snap here and there, and send and post to the site section, and what’s next?! Been doubting at its effectiveness if this move does not follow with some real action.
The authority must take this seriously and willing to go out full force in order to curb those traffic offenders. Here, not only issuing proper summon or necessary penalties that are required, but also making sure those traffic offender pay their bill on time.
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July 1st, 2005 at 02:42am
tiger
Category : TheCar BlogMove
What is a “blog”? There might be some of you wondering about it.
Well, here is a link Introduction To Bloging which can give you detail introduction about blog.
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