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Not unexpected since the original proposal is not practicable financially in short. Stricter emissions standards for trucks and buses but not for cars and vans Several automakers, including Stellantis, Volkswagen, Skoda, and others, have been very critical regarding the strict upcoming Euro 7 emissions regulations on the Old Continent. Some executives even described them as “useless” but it seems that there is some light at the end of the tunnel for the critics of the new standards. Just moments ago as of writing this article, European Union ministers agreed on new and watered-down rules. After facing opposition from automakers and member countries, including France, Italy, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia, the ministers agreed not to implement significant changes to the existing Euro 6 standards for cars and vans. There will be stricter regulations for buses and heavy vehicles, though. However, the decision isn’t final yet. Spain, which holds the rotating EU presidency, presented the compromise text that gained the agreement of the Council of the European Union, composed of EU ministers. The final form of the law must be discussed and signed by the Council, the European Parliament, and the European Commission. "We believe that, with this proposal, we achieved broad support, a balance in the investment costs of the manufacturing brands and we improve the environmental benefits derived from this regulation," Spain's minister for industry, trade and tourism, Hector Gomez Hernandez, commented. “The member states’ position is an improvement on the European Commission’s Euro 7 proposal – which was entirely disproportionate, driving high costs for industry and customers, with limited environmental benefits,” the European Automobile Manufacturers Association director, Sigrid de Vries, added. “The Council’s aim to continue the effective Euro 6 tests is sensible. However, compared to what is in place today, Euro 7 is much broader for new cars, vans and, in particular, heavy-duty vehicles, requiring significant engineering and testing efforts.” As ironic as it may sound, the automakers in Europe have said that the initially proposed stricter emissions standards could lead to slower adoption of electric vehicles. The Euro 7 in its earlier form would distract the companies from investing in EVs, Renault CEO Luca de Meo said recently, while Skoda's head honcho Klaus Zellmer admitted that building small cars under the stricter emissions could be impossible.

UCL 17/18 starts with tonight (Wed early morning) 1st leg qualifying matches. Liverpool facing Hoffenheim away tonight. JK press conference : "Nothing has changed on one side or the other side," he said from a press conference in Germany on Monday. "He's not available for us at the moment. That's the main issue. He cannot play for Liverpool in this moment. Everyone can imagine this is a blow for us. "We have to prepare for this game without him like we have to prepare for it without Adam Lallana, or Daniel Sturridge. link: http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11669/10988680/jurgen-klopp-admits-philippe-coutinho-absence-is-a-blow-as-liverpool-prepare-for-hoffenheim

lets start the ball rolling with the UEFA Super Cup match between Real Madrid and Atl Madrid, 4-2 to Atl AET... thanks boss @spring for the heads up... Get a report of the Real Madrid vs. Atletico Madrid 2018 UEFA Super Cup football match. http://www.espn.co.uk/football/report?gameId=511060 via @ESPN App http://es.pn/app

UK Channel 4 documentary that has caused a stir...the truth about diesels and its consequences. http://youtu.be/7QUoP3EnELA

Just need to know the difference between so called PI (European) and Dealer made PS3s... The price difference between them is a whooping $40 (South East Tyres)... I believe that most PS3 users are on the PI version... The guy over the phone told me that the Thai made are manufactured factoring the local weather and all... Any comments about the difference between the 2?

Toyota MR2 Well, it's no longer a secret that the Bugatti Veyron is the world's fastest production car. With that being said, I can understand why there's a fair number of people in this world who desire to have one example of the supercar of their very own. Unfortunately, such a fast supercar bears a very high price tag and thus, not every single person in this world can afford to buy one. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that there's no solution to it, as in the case of this Toyota MR2. Bugatti Veyron plastic body kit Well, I can say that the owner of the car must really desire the Bugatti Veyron. He prepared everything to make his car completely look like the world's fastest production car ever built. The owner wraps his Toyota with a plastic body kit resembling the body of the Veyron. Mind you, the plastic body kit even comes with a fake rear engine compartment as well! Well, I think the owner is quite satisfied with his work. His original Toyota MR2 now looks just like the supercar he's always dreamed of, except for the somehow rather long wheelbase, perhaps. While the owner may have successfully transformed the exterior of his Toyota MR2 into that of the Bugatti Veyron, I wonder how he feels when people notice that the engine doesn't sound as awesome as that of the real W16 engine implanted on a Veyron. But then again, not everyone is aware of how a Bugatti Veyron really sounds, I guess. Toyota MR2 Spyder Although there's no mistake in pursuing one's dream, I would rather stick to the original MR2 or, maybe even better, the owner should have transformed the car into the Toyota MR2 Spyder instead as it will give him a better result, I believe.

Ever since the guilty verdict in the Pirate Bay case was made final last year, Peter Sunde has been fighting his looming incarceration. However, this hasn't stopped him from looking ahead. Today the former Pirate Bay spokesman announces his next big move. Born in Sweden but with Finnish roots, Peter Sunde will run as candidate for Finland's Pirate Party in the European Parliament elections next year. The Pirate Party movement currently has two Swedish Members of Parliament in Europe. Through the 2014 elections the Pirates hope to add many more, as local parties are participating in many countries. With Sunde the Finnish party has definitely reeled in an outspoken candidate. Source: http://www.shareconnector.com/pirate-bay-c...ean-parliament/ Video:

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sg...a_european.html Do you think she should confess to the poor chap??? Personally, I know a couple who have undergone the same issue, the girl slept with an Ang Moh colleague and the guy is blissfully unaware. They have been together for 10 years and will be getting married next year.

Hello all, This is for all other fans who watch other European Leagues as well. You can discuss La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Bundesliga also. Please feel free to show off your jersey collections too in this thread!

Asia's worrying European exposure 04:45 AM Jun 01, 2012 by Stephen S Roach Asian authorities were understandably smug in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008-09. Growth in the region slowed sharply, as might be expected of export-led economies confronted with the sharpest collapse in global trade since the 1930s. But, with the notable exception of Japan, which suffered its deepest recession of the modern era, Asia came through an extraordinarily tough period in excellent shape. That was then. For the second time in less than four years, Asia is being hit with a major external demand shock. This time it is from Europe, where a raging sovereign-debt crisis threatens to turn a mild recession into something far worse: A possible Greek exit from the euro, which could trigger contagion across the euro zone. This is a big deal for Asia. Financial and trade linkages make Asia highly vulnerable to Europe's malaise. Owing to the former, the risks to Asia from a European banking crisis cannot be taken lightly. Lacking well-developed capital markets as an alternative source of credit, bank-funding channels are especially vital in Asia. MORE EXPOSED THAN BEFORE Indeed, the Asian Development Bank estimates that European banks fund about 9 per cent of total domestic credit in developing Asia - three times the share of financing provided by banks based in the United States. The role of European banks is especially significant in Singapore and Hong Kong - the region's two major financial centres. That means that Asia is far more exposed to an offshore banking crisis today than it was in the aftermath of Lehman Brothers' collapse in 2008, which led to a near-meltdown of the US banking system. The transmission effects through trade linkages are just as worrying. Historically, the US was modern Asia's largest source of external demand. But that appears to have changed over the past decade. Seduced by China's spectacular growth, the region shifted from US- to China-centric export growth. That seemed like a good move. Combined shipments to the US and Europe fell to 24 per cent of developing Asia's total exports in 2010 - down sharply from 34 per cent in 1998-99. PAINTING THE WRONG PICTURE Meanwhile, over the same period, Asia's dependence on intra-regional exports - trade flows within the region - expanded sharply, from 36 per cent of total exports in 1998 to 44 per cent in 2010. These numbers seem to paint a comforting picture of an increasingly autonomous Asia that can better withstand the blows from the West's recurring crises. But research by the International Monetary Fund shows that, beneath the veneer, 60-65 per cent of all trade flows in the region can be classified as "intermediate goods" - components that are made in countries like South Korea and Taiwan, assembled in China, and ultimately shipped out as finished goods to the West. With Europe and the US still accounting for the largest shares of China's end-market exports, there can be no escaping the tight linkages of Asia's China-centric supply chain to the ups and downs of demand in the major developed economies. Moreover, there is an important and worrisome twist to those linkages: China itself has tilted increasingly towards Europe as its major source of external demand. In 2007, the European Union surpassed the US as China's largest export market. By 2010, the EU accounted for 20 per cent of total Chinese exports, while the US share was just 18 per cent. MAKING THE WRONG BET In other words, a China-centric Asian supply chain has made a big bet on the grand European experiment - a bet that now appears to be backfiring. Indeed, in China, a now-familiar pattern is playing out yet again - another slowdown in domestic growth stemming from a crisis in the advanced economies of the West. And, as goes China, so will go the rest of an increasingly integrated Asia. The good news is that, so far, the downside has been much better contained than was the case in late 2008 and early 2009. Back then, China's exports went from boom to bust in just seven months - from a 26-per-cent annual growth in July 2008 to a 27-per-cent decline in February 2009. This time, the annual export gain has slowed from 20 per cent in last year to 5 per cent in last month - a significant deceleration, to be sure, but one that stops well short of the previous outright collapse. That could change in the event of a disorderly euro break-up, but, barring that outcome, there is reason to be more sanguine this time around. ASIAN FIREWALL MISSING The bad news is that Asia seems to be learning little from repeated external demand shocks. In the end, internal demand is the only effective defence against external vulnerability. Yet the region has failed to construct that firewall. On the contrary, private consumption fell to a record-low 45 per cent of developing Asia's GDP in 2010 - down 10 percentage points from 2002. In these circumstances, immunity from external shocks - or "decoupling", as it is often called - seems fanciful. As with most things in Asia nowadays, China holds the key to supplying Asia's missing consumer demand. The recently enacted 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15) has all the right ingredients to produce the ultimate buffer between the dynamism of the East and the perils of a crisis-battered West. But, as the euro crisis causes China's economy to slow for the second time in three-and-a-half years, there can be little doubt that implementation of the plan's pro-consumption rebalancing is lagging. There are no oases of prosperity in a crisis-prone globalised world. That is equally true for Asia, the world's fastest-growing region. As Europe's crisis deepens, the twin channels of financial and trade linkages have placed Asia's economies in a vice. Rebalancing is the only way out for China and its partners in the Asian supply chain. Until that occurs, the vice now gripping Asia will only continue to tighten. PROJECT SYNDICATE Stephen S Roach URL http://www.todayonline.com/CommentaryandAn...ropean-exposure Copyright 2012 MediaCorp Pte Ltd | All Rights Reserved

Hi All, Want to ask the expert bros here, i also see this Euro 1, Euro 2, Euro 3 and now Euro 4. May i know what is the euro standards all about? Also i have done some read up on the web, but still cannot fully understand. My car is registered in 2008 so which Euro standard is my car catergory in? Any advise from the expert bros here?

Current European Tax Rates The tax figures below are real, factual, basis, ...... ? A wake up call huh ? United Kingdom Income Tax: 50% VAT: 17.5% TOTAL: 67.5% France Income Tax: 40% VAT: 19.6% TOTAL: 59.6% Greece Income Tax: 40% VAT: 25% TOTAL: 65% Spain Income Tax: 45% VAT: 16% TOTAL: 61% Portugal Income Tax: 42% VAT: 20% TOTAL: 62% Sweden Income Tax: 55% VAT: 25% TOTAL: 80% Norway Income Tax: 54.3% VAT: 25% TOTAL: 79.3% Netherlands Income Tax: 52% VAT: 19% TOTAL: 71% Denmark Income Tax: 58% VAT: 25% TOTAL: 83% Finland Income Tax: 53% VAT: 22% TOTAL: 75% If you've started to wonder what the real costs of socialism are going to be - once the full program in these United States hits your wallet, take a look at the table. As you digest these mind-boggling figures, keep in mind that in spite of these astronomical tax rates, these countries are still not financing their social welfare programs exclusively from tax revenues! They are deeply mired in public debt of gargantuan proportions. Greece has reached the point where its debt is so huge it is in imminent danger of defaulting. That is the reason the European economic community has intervened to bail them out. If you're following the financial news, you know Spain and Portugal are right behind Greece . The United States is now heading right down the same path. The VAT tax in the table is the national sales tax that Europeans pay. Stay tuned because that is exactly what you can expect to see the administration proposing after the fall elections. The initial percentage in the United States isn't going to be anywhere near the outrageous numbers you now see in Europe . Guess what. the current outrageous numbers in Europe didn't start out as outrageous either. They started out as minuscule - right around the 1% or 2% where they will start out in the United States . Magically, however, they ran up over the years to where they are now. Expect the same thing here. It is the very notion that with hard work and perseverance, anybody can get ahead economically here in the USA . Do you think that can ever happen with tax rates between 60% and 80%? Think again. With the government taking that percentage of your money, your life will be exactly like life in Europe ... You will never be able to buy a home. You will never buy a car. You will never send your children to college. Let's not shuffle the battle cry of the socialists under the rug either. It's always the same cry. Equalize income. Spread the wealth to the poor (whoever they are). Level the economic playing field. Accomplish that and everything will be rosy. It's time to take a really hard look at reality. Greece is a perfect example. Despite the socialism system that has ruled this country for decades, with a 65% tax rate, they are drowning in public debt, would have defaulted without hundreds of billions in bailout money from the EU, and still. . . 20% of their population lives in poverty. What has all that socialism money bought, besides ultimate power for the politicians running the show? Do you think these people are "free"? They're not. They are slaves to their economic "system."

Any bro here done European cities hopping? which airline did you use? I found this website, any other recommended websites you have used for planning your trip? http://www.flightmapping.com/

.....while we idolise them as high-end ang mor "talents". So pathetic lah, we are. Sigh, nevermind.... As high-end talents, they are always right, we are always wrong. That is why they are here to teach us that we are Asian As*holes. http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/...112-321479.html By Goh Shi Ting RazorTV Thursday, Jan 12, 2012 NUS Professor Dr Denisa Kera has apologised to her neighbours at Chip Bee Gardens for their loss of peace and privacy in the midst of a dispute between her and her next-door neighbour Mr Ivan Loh. Mr Loh has called in the police six times over the past nine months to complain about the noise levels at Dr Kera's house parties. However, Dr Kera insists she has not stepped out of line. "I'm just a researcher, a normal person in my late 30s. I don't think I make much more noise than any person in their late 30s," said Dr Kera who is from Prague and has been staying in Singapore since 2008. Even though Mr Loh observed that his neighbour has kept quiet since the first media reports were published last week, he is not letting the matter rest. "My course has moved slightly because Singapore needs to know what kind of lecturer we have," said the 41-year-old photographer who lives with his wife and a 1-year-old baby. "The moral standards of the person must be upheld, if not how do you teach our children of the future?" Mr Loh told RazorTV that he made sound recordings of the noise coming from his neighbour's, while he was in his living room. On one occasion, he said the police was called in but after they had left, the noise level from Dr Kera's house was still the same. What appalled Mr Loh further was that he could hear the words "Asian a-----es" in the conversations which took place subsequently. "What kind of foreigners are these people, coming to our country and saying things like that?" he said. Dr Kera, however, said that her friends were watching a foreign film that evening and were merely commenting on the plot; the remark had nothing to do with her neighours. "We were watching a Serbian movie with some very negative stereotypes about Serbs. It was a comedy, about a Singaporean delegation of businessmen visiting Serbia and being shocked to see what Serbians do," she explained. "I honestly don't understand why they [her neighbours] get the feeling it concerns them. "I find it strange that people stalk other people and take recordings of what goes on in someone's house. "I also want to apologise just to Singaporeans to have to witness this ridiculous dispute about expats and Singaporeans, which has nothing to do with one noise dispute. "If people start to use this dangerous argument any time they have a personal problem with someone, where will we end?" Dr Kera said that she had apologised to Mr Loh repeatedly for an incident last April, when she was out of town and a party was held at her house.

And yes , its another vettel win and he has established 77 pts lead over the next closest competitor . He has 17 career wins now , and at this rate , he'll likely to get more than 20 wins by the end of the season .

Hi all Bros & Sisters, i heard from my friend that most European Cars got turbo-charged engines, is it true? Is there anyway to create the " chiu chiu " sound like those Japanese Turbo-charged cars?

Either this branded car is really worth the premium price for it's sturdiness or the aluminium-like railings were too flimsy ... Then again these latest type of road-divider railings might not have been designed to withstand vehicular impact in the first place, unlike first generation mild steel types that were more strong. Notice the windscreen was still intact despite the scattered damaged railings lying all over... http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sg...4/accident.html An accident involving two cars along Balestier Road yesterday morning (Oct 8) resulted in extensive damage. STOMPer Hawkeye cautions all motorists to "drive with care". At about 5.30 AM, a Mercedes Benz ploughed through the centre divider in front of Shaw Plaza, knocking over a lamp post in the process, and ended up on the other side of the road. Another car then hit the stray lamp post, and landed on top of it. All three lanes outside Shaw Plaza were blocked off for one and half hours as a result. Hawkeye gives us a detailed description of the accident:

Can anyone advise is the mentioned oil suitable for high performace turbo-charged Japanese model since the oil quoted its for Euporean cars? https://www.amsoil.com/storefront/afl.aspx

last night I'm so happy can watch f1 'live' on tv- starhub sport channel preview. thanks starhub and bravo for rubennnnnn

Per subject line, I have a budget of $110K, what European car would you recommend? Prefer 4/5 doors auto, hatch or sedan is fine.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081202/tsp-...rd-47c0590.html As expected. Nothing surprising...... but he only excel at club level.

when the japan engine say 200bhp on the specs it means on crank 200bhp but when it translate to road contact it would be lower.. do anyone know what percentage difference but when european cars say 200bhp on spec it really means on the road 200bhp.. why the difference

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2008/01/2009-...rsion-2009.html I think the eyes still look great! What do you guys feel?

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The little Fiat 500 has been voted Europe