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Do you think that those car models that are acquired by PHVs actually helped to boost the sales of these models for private car buyers? i.e. - Honda Vezel / HRV - Mitsubishi Attrage - Toyota Prius - Toyota Prius C - Mazda 3 - KIA K3 - Toyota Vios Does their attributes like riding comfort, fuel consumption, availability of parts, etc, actually helped to boost the sales for the above mentioned models when they are recommended by PHV drivers and riders? Or does it actually turn off buyers, like too common on the roads, long waiting time at servicing centers, etc? Say if PHV doesn't exist here, do the above models even sell for private car market?

Hi Folks, Need some help from those car experts here. My car uses a keyless entry/push-start button system. It is factory fitted (JDM). In the last week or so, I started having issues opening doors. Intermittently I'll have to press the door button / keys a few times before the doors will unlock. Today for the first time, my car could not even start! The key could not be detected! Finally after letting the engine rest for a couple of mins, I managed to get it started again. I've changed my key batteries. Confirmed also not the car battery since I changed it only in Feb 2012. What other possibilities are there? Also if the engine can't detect my keys again, what else can I do to get it started so that I can drive it to the workshop? Appreciate your help. Cheers!

wah... didn't know JFK was so garang as a soldier. he led a 3 mile ocean swim with a ruptured spinal disc, pulling one injured soldier along......... He kept a coconut in his presidential office A Solomon Islander who helped save John F. Kennedy when a Japanese destroyer sank the future US president's patrol boat during World War II has died aged 93, his family said Monday. Eroni Kumana and his fellow islander Buiku Gasa were out in a canoe in 1943 when they came across the injured Kennedy, who was then a naval lieutenant, and members of his crew stranded on a coral atoll. The pair helped the Americans survive and Kennedy went on to become the 35th president of the United States, keeping a coconut from the ordeal as a paperweight on his White House desk. Kumana's son Esori said his father passed away surrounded by family members on Saturday aged 93 and was laid to rest on his home island of Ronongga on Monday. "It was very sad (but) he lived a full life and we are proud of him," he told AFP via telephone from the island, where villagers were preparing a feast in Kumana's honour. Kennedy's boat PT-109 was on a night-time patrol when a Japanese destroyer suddenly loomed out of the dark and sheared the wooden vessel in half, according to the Smithsonian magazine. Spilled fuel ignited in the water, causing both the Japanese and other US PT boats to assume the 13-man crew had all perished in the shark-infested waters. In fact, 11 of them were still alive and when dawn broke Kennedy led his crew on a five-kilometre (three-mile) swim from the boat's wreckage to a coral atoll. Kennedy, who had suffered a ruptured spinal disc, towed a badly burned crewman behind him during the marathon swim. Eventually Kumana and Gasa passed in their canoe. They helped collect food for the crew and Kennedy sent them off to get help with a message etched into the shell of a coconut, reading: "Nauru Isl commander/native knows posit/he can pilot/11 alive/need small boat/Kennedy". After being rescued, Kennedy retrieved the coconut and had it encased in plastic, using it as a paperweight throughout his post-war political career. It is still on display in the Kennedy Museum in Boston. Kumana and Gasa were invited to Kennedy's 1961 inauguration but were unable to make the trip to Washington. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Gasa died in November 2005

http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/...615-429894.html SINGAPORE - The 20-year-old polytechnic student, who wanted to be known only as Natalie, screamed as she was slashed on the chest, arms, abdomen and thigh during the frenzied assault. One of the wounds needed 11 stitches. Public-spirited heroes nab handphone thief who slashed young woman SINGAPORE - Three motorcyclists nabbed a man who attacked a 20-year-old woman with a fruit knife while trying to steal her handphone at Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6 on Thursday (June 13), at about 9.50pm. Stomp contributor A, who saw the incident, said the woman was slashed on her left arm, chest and left thigh, and was taken to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. According to A, the man is apparently a foreign worker, and was subsequently arrested by the Police. A elaborates: "This incident occurred yesterday (June 13) between 9pm to 10pm, at a traffic junction between Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6 and Ang Mo Kio Avenue 9. "Armed with a fruit knife, this man alighted from his motorbike and approached a young woman on the pretext of asking for directions. "The 20-year-old woman, not sensing anything amiss, took out her handphone and searched for directions on the phone. "The man suddenly snatched her phone but she managed to snatch it back from him. "During the struggle, he whipped out the knife and slashed her on her left arm, chest and left thigh. "Thankfully three public spirited motorcyclists saw the commotion and managed to prevent the culprit from escaping. "When the victim's relatives arrived, the woman was already bandaged and was about to leave for KTPH in an ambulance. "In a hurry, they only managed to thank one of the motorcyclists (a Mr Iqbal and his wife, a nurse) for their public spiritedness. "Their thanks also goes to the first gentleman who assisted in appending the culprit as well as the other couple who helped to direct the traffic during the commotion." to the bikers who step up to stop the fcuker and help the lady.

Did it on Friday night actually at one of the most unusual places...... in a shopping centre basement carpark.....lol...... [laugh] The whole process took over 3hrs. Started work at around 8pm and finish around 11.20pm..... Sorry I didn't take any pics... The main benefit is improved battery lifespan. Its known that engine bay heat does shorten the lifespan of a battery (just google around). Since engine bay temp is easily 60-70C, putting it in the trunk will reduce temp by well over 20-30C. Hence battery will last longer. Another benefit is perhaps improved weight distribution. No idea about this though. But I think Satria Neo is front heavy since engine and gearbox is in the front. Putting battery Behind will help to reduce ~15KG from the front and add another 15KG to the back. OVerall, there is a 30KG change in weight distribution. Quite alot if you ask me. Hence those Satria Neo owners may want to relocate their batt to the rear. Not a difficult task but time consuming. Need to take out seats. part of the carpet etc.....

Government policies to draw foreign talent into Singapore likely helped widen the income gap in Singapore, a study by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) found. "Rising tide of foreign workers almost certainly impacted wage growth at parts of the income distribution and thereby worsened inequality," said Manu Bhaskaran, adjunct senior research fellow at IPS who chaired a panel on "Economics: Business as usual, no longer?" for IPS

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Talk about perverse. Nevermind if they didn't help the girl. Now they must create trouble for the good samaritan.

Song bo 60.1%? Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said that fare increases cannot be helped, and that transport companies have to make reasonable profits to provide good service. Mr Lee touched on the ongoing debate over a proposed fare hike in public transport last night at a National Day celebration. "From time to time, fare increases cannot be helped", he tried to explain. On suggestions that the government is helping public transport operators to make more profits, he said, "there is no reason for us to do so." "But we have to allow the transport companies to break even and to make reasonable profits, so that they can provide this good service." He leaves the Public Transport Council to decide what consitutes a "reasonable profit". I guess transport companies have been making "unreasonable" profits in the past

Raped By Mike Celizic TODAYShow.com contributor updated 9:33 a.m. ET April 8, 2009 The young woman had been attacked in full view of a New York City subway clerk, then dragged down the steps onto a deserted platform where she was raped and raped again, the assailant not stopping even when a subway train pulled into the station. Now, after nearly four years of constant nightmares, bouts of depression and anxiety, the woman has been told by a judge that two transit workers who saw her being attacked had no obligation to do anything to help her other than to signal their superiors that police were needed at the station. In response, the woman, who asks to be identified only by her first name, Maria, is going public with her story in the hope that something will be done to save other women from enduring a similar nightmare .................................. read on I thought apathy happens only in Singapore. didn't know ang moh countries also like that.