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Great French technology! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhXiGnFtC_Q...be_gdata_player

Just watch this - I hope we live to see this major breakthrough in our life time, MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU! WP

check this out man..the networth of all the cars inside easily hit USD25mil there's even an enzo, F40, Bentley and numerous AMGs, Porsches, F360s and F430s..

I love it when manufacturers make solid bread and butter cars. Honda Civic is the undisputed distant champion. Good engine, solid interior, excellent FC, perfect handling, MIJ, futuristic, huge cabin space, reliable engine. However, it is very common on SG roads... so maybe my love and admiration for it is lesser than this one car... this is one affordable car which made me turn my heads and stirred my heart EVERYTIME i see it on the road. I have even seen people walking beside this car and commenting that its a very elegant ride. people carrying grocery bags mind u. they tried pronouncing its name, "ALIEN", "AL-LION"... (i pronounce it as "ALL-LEON") . It's design is simply.... flawless... perfection is reached in this car. I tried to be critical... but i simply CAN'T! Toyota Allion is simply.... the best car Toyota ever made (ok pls don't flame me. i know i'm getting too emotional and there'r celicas/starlets etc...)

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Seriously....is bolting up a car with performance parts really news worthy or to feel proud about? Can anyone tell me which part is engineered or designed by local/ITE? Is the race driver even local, at least? Please don't flame me....I am just feeling blue this Monday and need to voice out my cynical mind! ITE students help build rally car that wins at APRC By Julia Ng, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 17 September 2007 0035 hrs ITE students help build rally car that wins at APRC SINGAPORE: A group of students from the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) helped build the car that has been winning at the Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC). Defending champion Cody Crocker drives the first assembled-in-Singapore Motor Image Subaru WRX STI. The final leg will only be held in China in November, but Cody has gathered enough points to clinch his second APRC title. Back in Singapore, at the Subaru Hub in Toa Payoh where the car was assembled, there is a great sense of achievement, especially for the ITE students who helped build the car Cody drives. "I'm proud! Because we're just apprentices here doing these cars. We're not professionals yet. But we work together with professionals from New Zealand and Japan. They taught us how to do this car," said Mathan Haridass, ITE automotive technology on-the-job trainee attached to Motor Image Enterprise's Subaru Academy. While other students on the ITE's industry-based training scheme only get to service the cars at their approved training centres, those apprentice at the Subaru Academy get to service and build sports cars. Since Motor Image started assembling its own Subaru WRX STI Group N rally cars late last year, the students have helped build six rally cars. Their supervisor said these student trainees are as good as any trained technician in the industry, and some even got to go to the APRC rallies in Johor and Indonesia, working alongside international automotive experts. The student trainees also experienced the race against time to restore the machines to tip-top condition when their rally car pulled in for a quick servicing stopover. Gregory Lim, head of Automotive Technology at ITE College West, said "The curriculum at ITE is very industry driven, so we work very closely with the representatives of the automotive industry to ensure that our curriculum is up-to-date, it's relevant and it meets the needs of the industry. We see emerging trends like F1 and motor sports. This will bring vibrancy to the industry." "What Motor Image is doing is indeed a role model. We would like very much the industry to do what Motor Image is doing now - going beyond what ITE has to offer. We offer a very comprehensive broad based training. But it's good for companies like Motor Image to then offer additional opportunities for their trainees to grow in areas of motor sports like what we're seeing here," he added. Glenn Tan, group chief executive of Motor Image Singapore agreed, "We were exploring the whole idea of using ITE students and I think the whole concept of getting them to have hands-on experience... They've contributed significantly to this project and with Singapore pushing on with motor sports, it's a good training ground for them so that when they graduate they'll be ready with specialised engineering skills." "What's most important is that in motor sport, as you've seen, speed and reliability of the car are very important. So the precision of the work done, getting it right the first time, and the speed at which they do it is very important. So all these will contribute to the kind of standard to show that Singapore technicians can do it!" - CNA/ac

Very well made interactive UK website for the Ford Focus ST. http://www.ford.co.uk/ie/foc_c307_experien...e/-/-/3/559560#

I'm looking to change the colour of my rims as the normal silver colour is getting boring. Many guys here recommend Yew Lip. I shld be going there to get mine done, as well as the spraying of my calipers. My question is: has anyone spray their rims to a different colour and is very satisifed? Any pictures to show? I'm thinking of metallic bronze and similar colour along that line... No white, as regular maintenance is needed. My ride is black, therefore wrx gold will not look nice. Anyone pls? comments required as well!!

1 month plus Altis. All Stock parts. Just 1000km serviced. Using Shell 98. Last calculation during fill up when 'Petrol tank' indicator light up. Only about 9+ km/litre Now, meter about half tank already, mileage only at 256km. Last pump was shell 98 at 8% discount. Dun tell me FC also discounted 8%, hahahaha

Source: DaimlerChrysler More Dynamic, Impressive and Attractive: Mercedes-Benz Makes New Emphases in the C-Class Stuttgart, Feb 09, 2004 - Four years after its launch, Mercedes-Benz is significantly upgrading the successful C-Class in terms of technology, equipment and design. The suspension, steering and six-speed manual transmission have a more sporty configuration, ensuring that the C-Class offers an even more agile driving experience. From spring 2004 a 141 kW/192 hp supercharged four-cylinder engine will join the engine range available for the Saloon and Estate models. In future the C 220 CDI will have an output of 110 kW/ 150 hp, which is 5 kW/7 hp more than before. With the new 270 kW/367 hp C 55 AMG Mercedes-Benz is offering an eight-cylinder unit for the first time in this model series. The interior of the new C-Class has been upgraded by a new cockpit design with sophisticated new controls, line-specific seats and THERMATIC automatic climate control as standard. The innovative, more scratch-resistant paintwork based on nano-technology is likewise standard. Bi-xenon headlamps with cornering light function, steering-wheel gearshift buttons for the automatic transmission and new audio/navigation systems round off the highly desirable, high-tech specification. Even at standstill the redesigned front end with its bumper, radiator grille and headlamps conveys the dynamic characteristics of this Mercedes model series, which is available as a Saloon, Estate and Sports Coup