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It seems that the Disco Volante has chose to go for a more British than Italian taste at the recent Geneva Motor Show. Bespoke coach builder Touring has given the highly exclusive automotive artwork a even more unique coat of colours - Green and Gold. This example is produced specifically for a customer, and shown at the ongoing Geneva Motor Show. And for those who haven't come across the moniker, the Disco Volante is essentially the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione that has gone under the knife of Touring - a Milan-based coach builder.

saw that suddenly so many BMW Touring on resale..........all less than a year...............some as new as 3 months old.........is there something with this car????........... [:/] http://www.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/listing...VEH=7&AVL=2

A homeage to the 1952 Alfa Romeo C52 Disco Volante is something that was bound to happen and it has. Touring Superleggera, the Milan based Carrozzeria has come up with a new Disco Volante that will be debuted at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show. This new 'Flying Saucer', which is what Disco Volante means in normal not very romantic sounding English is a front engined rear wheel drive sports coupe based on Alfa Romeo's limited run 8C Competizione coupe. It will be produced in limited numbers as if anyone wants one, he or she will have to sacrifice an already rare Alfa Romeo 8C coupe for it. Sometimes I really wonder whether it is actually worthwhile to sacrifice an already rare car to make another. I suppose it would be alright if the car became even more beautiful to look at. A good example would be the Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina. The car was based on the already visually stunning and rare Enzo Ferrari but it was turned into something even more gorgeous. The original Alfa Romeo Disco Volante was one of three Flying Saucer concept cars originally made by Touring in the 1950s. They were also known as the Alfa Romeo C52 and were based on the pretty normal Alfa Romeo 1900 but it had a tubular space frame chassis instead of the usual monocoque chassic. The engine was a slightly tuned Alfa Romeo 1900 engine (1997cc) that produced 158bhp. The car for its time was very streamlined and was one of the few that was actually windtunnel tested. This allowed the original Disco Volante a top speed of 220km/h. Pretty fast for the 1950s. It was pretty good looking for its time and some contend that it was the basis for the Jaguar E-type. So anyway, this new Alfa Romeo Disco Volante will be an acquired taste. It looks pretty awesome when viewed on its own and as a homage to the original but it does not have the overall cohesiveness of the donor car especially when viewed from the side. It falls slightly flat from certain views compared to the 8C which looks ridiculously beautiful in almost every angle. I suppose a ridiculously wealthy collector could just buy two used units, keep one standard and convert the other into the new Disco Volante. But do note that there are only 500 or so units of the 8C and I do believe that it is the most beautiful looking Alfa Romeo in recent times. So if I had the money would I chop up an original 8C for something a little more visually challenged? I wouldn't.

Many people know what a station wagon is. Basically, it is a sedan car with its roof extended towards the rear and the rear boot is usually replaced with a lifting tail door. The station wagon comes in two distinct design; a four door (the most common design that we get to see) and a two door which is also known as a shooting brake. Many automakers give unique names for their station wagon versions. For example, Volkswagen names their station wagons as Variants. Other than that, we have heard of other version names for station wagons such as estate, carryall, touring, sportwagon and etc. But the most common names used are the station wagon, estate and shooting brake. If you are wondering how these 3 names come about, then read on. Back in the early era of the automotive industry, the first station wagons people got to see were the wooden-bodied Ford Model Ts and at that time there were known as

Now if you're an avid motorist and love different sorts of motoring experiences then taking your car on a ferry ride is something you should do. On a recent trip to Penang I did just that. This is a motoring experience that allows you to drive on a large boat, step out of the car, take in that salty sea breeze with a slight tinge of diesel from the ferry's engine. You can do this as soon as the ferry is on the move and you get to admire the scenery around you from a slightly different perspective and then you drive off when you reach the other side. The Penang Ferry Service is the oldest operating ferry service in Malaysia. The ferry services first began operation in 1920, under the management of a Chinese company. The chap who owned the company must have been one of those who could afford those beautifully designed bungalows on Gurney Drive. But today it is jointly operated by the Penang Port Commission (PPC) and Penang Port Sdn Bhd. The ferry service connects Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal in Butterworth to Raja Tun Uda ferry terminal at Weld Quay in George Town on Penang Island. Now taking the also scenic Penang Bridge would actually save you 0.70sen as the toll charges for the bridge comes up to RM7.00 only. You pay the toll on the mainland side of Seberang Prai and you do not have to pay if you leave the island. This is the same with ferry service. It is only when you head towards Georgetown when you have to fork out RM7.70. Or course, what is 0.70sen when you get to experience something slightly different? On the ferry you get to take a short breather and just observe the people who took the ferry with you as well as exploring the ferry itself, looking at the structure of the ferry with its steel framework, bolts and bars that make up its construction. You get to look closely at another type of engineering other than looking at cars and other forms of motoring. You also get to see the waves breaking as the ferry travels on the water and admiring the surrounding. Taking the Penang bridge would be like taking the second link between Malaysia and Singapore, albeit slightly longer and with a suspension bridge elevated section in the middle of the Penang bridge. To say that it is faster than the ferry is subjective as it depends on the time of day and where you wish to go. The bridge enters the island at Gelugor whereas the ferry takes you right into Georgetown and the ferry services are pretty efficient as it takes on average slightly less than half an hour between the two points per trip during peak traffic times. The ferries at those times just embark and disembark passengers and cars doing many round trips per day with clockwork precision. At peak hours where the bridge is pretty choked with traffic it may take a good half an hour to reach Georgetown proper. The experience was good one as it has been years since I took the ferry in Penang and it only took slightly more than thirty minutes of waiting, driving on the ferry, the ferry trip itself and then driving off at Butterworth. This, on a lazy Sunday afternoon. It is of my opinion that the ferry ride in Penang is one motoring experience that any motoring enthusiast living in this region should experience for themselves. If you intend on driving to Penang and if you have not taken the ferry before you should do so. A Ferry ride is a motoring experience that a motorhead should experience.

I made a short trip with the family up north to Penang quite recently as we had a wedding to attend in Butterworth. The fun thing about Penang is that it is a nice mix of old and new. There are old buildings located almost everywhere in the island city of Georgetown and it has that slightly colonial feeling if you spend some time driving through its streets. The hotel where we stayed was a typical highrise building but right in front it was a Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food restaurant that was housed in a colonial style mansion that had been well preserved. I presumed that the mansion would have been built sometime in the 1930s or the 1940s and it still looks majestic, if you ignored that large Colonel Sanders KFC logo upfront. Even the buildings from the 1950s to the 1960s have a certain flair to it. Being another island city, there could be some similarities between Georgetown and Singapore city, but with less modern development like highways and wider roads of course. Everything is narrower and there are many small streets for an out of towner to explore, with a car, bike or by.... walking (the horror!). -Gurney Drive - a mansion on Gurney Drive For another example of old meets new one should go over the Gurney Drive or the roads around the area. We have bungalows, built by the Towkays of days gone by, situated right beside a highrise condominium or two. Somehow development has slowly transformed a quiet residential road into a bustling F&B outlet, hotel and condominium filled street. But I somehow have great respect to those individuals or families who are still holding out their family homes around this area instead of succumbing to the obscene amount of money that the sale of the land would bring them. -the night market at Batu Feringgi Of course, I was there on a weekend and the traffic on a Sunday morning was free from any sort of jams . This meant that I had time to soak in the overall experience even more. Oh yeah, the food was good and there are other things to do like frequent the night market located at Batu Feringgi. This is where you find all those tee-shirts, bags, shoes, DVDs and watches like in most large night markets in the region. Of course if you want original branded stuff, this isn't the place to go. This place is for everything else. Another good thing about Penang is the food. I don't have to tell you readers out there about Penang food as you can see, read or hear about Penang Nasi Kandar, Penang Char Koay Teow, Pasembor and a few other specific food. You could try the stalls at Gurney Drive from the evenings or the thousands of seafood restaurants that litter the island and those Nasi Kandar shops and stalls around the Chowrasta Bazaar market and Chulia Street. Amazing food, but it is still sold at a reasonable price. Unless you really pig out that is. Penang is a good seven to eight hours drive from the Causeway, or faster if you have the proper car and aren't bothered about those pesky speed traps. A trip from Johor right up to Penang is a fabulous experience. The North-South Highway is a little dull and tedious from Johor to Seremban, busy from Seremban to Kuala Lumpur. It gets better from Kuala Lumpur to Ipoh, where it passes the limestone hills which is nice to look at and when you pass Ipoh the highway becomes challenging. Uphill through the Menora Tunnel and down part of the Titiwangsa mountain range. This stretch is a fabulous drive with high speed sweeping corners coupled with a majestic view of the surrounding. Pass Taiping the highway gets bumpy due to the soft ground. This also makes a good test on your car's suspension and before you know it, you're in Penang. But good road trips are seldom short. Of course to some it may not be as long as a trip to Hatyai or Phuket in Thailand (especially to some bikers I happen to know). The thing is that while people say that it is the experience during the trip that is important in motoring, there is sometimes equal satisfaction if the destination you arrived at is all that it's worked up to be. And Penang is such a place.

Just as the new sixth-generation BMW 5 Series sedan goes on sale in Europe, a new station wagon variant has been unveiled. Like the previous generations of the 5 Series Touring, this one is essentially the same as the sedan, only with the roof extending straight back to enclose a substantially larger cargo area. All the fancy new technologies that we've already witnessed in the 5 Series Gran Turismo and sedan is carried over into the Touring. That includes the surround-view cameras, Variable Damper Control and 8-Speed Sport automatic gearbox etc. A selection of gas and diesel four- and six cylinder engines will be offered. The range-topping 535i is powered by the new inline 6 3.0L twin-scroll turbo with direct injection, generating 300hp. Single-turbo versions of the 2.0-liter inline-four and 3.0-liter inline-six diesels are also available with 184 hp and 245 hp respectively. As a Touring model, it is more utilitarian than a normal 5 Series saloon. Its storage space has grown by 60 liters to 560 liters with the seats up, or 1,670 liters with the seats folded down. If necessary, the seats can be fixed in a more-upright position, adding 30 liters of space in the rear. Like all modern BMWs, efficiency is not forgotten. The BMW 520d Touring is the first 5 Series to come with Auto Start-Stop, reducing the engine idle period when coming to a short stop.

I am one that use performance tyres for all my cars instead of touring ones even though the former is slightly noisier. Furthermore, performance tyres are more responsive and can feel the tyre grip all the way to the steering wheel. 2 months ago, I replaced all 4 Goodyear LS2000 Hybrid to Bridgestone Potenza RE-001 Adrenalin on one on my cars. I find that the new tyres are simply fun to drive due to it's responsiveness. I also feel that the car seems to move faster and I wonder whether this is psychological? May I have your views. Thank you.

stumble upon this while surfing to pass this boring monday http://www.sgcarmart.com/main/info-2ERxoAuA-1242.html question is why would one sell this this months beauty (or beast) which requires special indent? does any one know the price when it was brand new?

Touring car race at Nurburgring Germany!!!!

The JBL Touring Sound Challenge is 'ON' this Sunday December 10th All are invited to witness this first ever JBL Competition in Singapore! Location : 60 Marsiling Road Sim Kee Meng Bldg Time : Start around 9 am Goodie bags available to first 100 visitors

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The new BMW 5 Series Touring BMW has announced details of the new BMW 5 Series Touring models and a new high performance diesel engine for the 5 Series range. The third generation of BMW 5 Series Touring will debut at the Geneva Salon on 2 March. In the autumn, a brand new high performance diesel engine arrives in the new 535d, offering new high levels of power and torque from a BMW diesel. The new BMW 535d Saloon and Touring Featuring BMW

http://www.supercars.net/PicFetch?pic=2004_chrysler_300c_touring-1.jpg http://www.supercars.net/PicFetch?pic=2004_chrysler_300c_touring-2.jpg http://www.supercars.net/PicFetch?pic=2004_chrysler_300c_touring-3.jpg Chrysler Group will provide further evidence of its rapid-fire new product offensive in Europe and other international markets when it reveals the new Chrysler 300C Touring Concept at the 60th International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt on Tuesday, September 9. The new Chrysler 300C Touring concept is the wagon version of the Chrysler 300C sedan concept, which was revealed earlier this year at the New York International Auto Show. The Chrysler 300C sedan concept will make its European show debut alongside the new Touring version at the IAA. The Touring concept expands the Chrysler 300C model range and shares most of the design, powertrain, chassis, equipment, interior appointments and technical specifications of the sedan concept. Adding all-wheel drive, a high level of versatility and roomy comfort for driver and passengers - matched with the ride and handling of a European sports sedan - the new Touring will enable the Chrysler brand to compete in the European E segment where around 40 per cent of sales are wagon derivatives. A production version of the Chrysler 300C Touring concept will be available exclusively outside of North America late next year, further solidifying the Chrysler brand's premium position in the market. With an entirely new shape based on the company's all-new rear-drive architecture, the striking concept sedan - and now the wagon - continue the Chrysler brand's proud letter series tradition, but in a thoroughly modern way. These two Chrysler 300C concepts also mark the return of the HEMI engine to the Chrysler brand after more than 30 years. The legendary engine design that powered Chrysler's 'letter series' cars in the 1950s has been re-engineered and reborn as a modern, high-performance and durable powerplant known as the all-new 5.7-litre HEMI V-8. The HEMI fitted to the 300C vehicles is very fuel competitive in its class and produces more power and torque than any Chrysler brand passenger car engine since the 426 HEMI of the '60s and '70s..

Wow... I think they look " In line with the launch of Atenza 5MT model, "Touring Kit A-Spec," tuning items which further enhance Atenza's sporty performance, is available from September 17 at Mazda's official dealerships and shops dealing with MAZDASPEED goods throughout Japan. Please refer to the news release of MAZDASPEED at: http://www.poweraxel.com/mazdaspeed "