SUZUKI GRAND VITARA

All Grand Vitara models come standard with a light, aluminum-alloy 2.7 liter V6 engine, with 24-valve, Dual Overhead Cam (DOHC) that develops 185 horsepower and 184 lbs-ft of torque, providing up to 3000 lbs. of towing capacity. Other compact SUVs come standard with lesser 4-cylinder engines.

The Direct Ignition System increases engine efficiency and performance while reducing maintenance costs by eliminating the need for the distributor cap and high-tension ignition wires.


The Variable Intake System (VIS) maximizes engine output throughout the RPM range by opening and closing a control valve in the air intake manifold according to the engine speed, or simply, more power.
Built-in ladder frame


By using an all-new unibody with built-in ladder frame chassis, weight reduction and better road handling is achieved while retaining high torsional rigidity and off-road performance. Unlike other compact SUVs, the introduction of built-in ladder frames makes it possible to balance traditional Suzuki's high off-road performance and high quality on-road performance.


A two-stage, high-performance timing chain is used on Grand Vitara's engine instead of a timing belt. The timing chain requires zero maintenance, saving owners hundreds of dollars in periodic maintenance.

Ventilated front disc brakes have superior cooling properties, important for better stopping power.

An Anti-lock Brake System (ABS) keeps the brakes from locking in panic-stop situations, allowing the driver to maintain control while steering around obstacles. The Electronic Brake-force Distribution (EBD) uses electronic controls to distribute less pressure to the rear brakes during panic-braking to prevent rear wheel lock-up.


The speed-sensitive power steering provides good road feel during high-speed driving, and steering ease during low-speed maneuvering.


These specially tuned liquid-filled engine mounts help reduce vibration and noise inside the Grand Vitara's cabin. This high tech design helps isolate the passenger compartment to ensure an exceptionally smooth and quiet ride.


Grand Vitara Base and Premium models come standard with the sportier 5-speed manual transmission, along with an available 5-speed automatic transmission.

Aluminum alloy wheels are not only a stylish addition to the Grand Vitara's rugged persona, but the lighter weight conserves fuel over time and improves ride characteristics. 17-in alloy wheels are larger for more rugged looks and better handling.

5-speed electronically-controlled automatic transmission
Standard on XSport and Luxury models, the 5-speed automatic transmission is optional for the Base and Premium models.

MAZDA MX-5 is so Fabulous

IF you're looking for a sports car that is not too expensive but still possess that spunk and sporty image, Mazda MX-5 is for you.

This iconic Roadster boast of a retractable hard-top which powers from closed to open in a record 12 seconds without sacrificing any trunk space.Just one of the countless reason why Mazda MX-5 is fast becoming the world's best selling sports car.

Check out this video for more.

The New Beetle S from Volkswagen is a must have..

The new Beetle S of Volkswagen is a must have for the Beetle collector or people who simply love the elegance of a Volkswagen car.

Almost all of its features are way too good to handle, and you can easily fall in love with this Beetle S.

Just look at the photo, isnt she nice ? I am sure if you drive one of these in the roads, people will envy you.

About the Suspension : It has an Independent MacPherson Strut Front Suspension With Coil Springs and Gas Charged Shock Absorbers. It also has a Semi-Independent Torsion Beam Rear Suspension With Coil Springs and Gas Charged Shock Absorbers and an 18-mm Rear Stabilizer Bar.

For its Braking & Traction : Its fully loaded with some electronic features like Electronic Stabilization Program Vehicle Stability Control System and Electronic Brake Assistance. Also has Locking Differential, 4-Wheel Anti-Lock Brakes, Front Power 280-mm X 22-mm Vented Disc and Rear Power 232-mm X 9-mm Solid Disc Brakes, Traction Control and Electronic Brake Force Distribution.

Talking about its Safety Features : This Beetle S is packed with everything you can imagine.Passenger Airbag Cutoff Sensor Activated By Seatbelt Engagement. Automatic Locking Retractors. Front Seatbelt Height Adjusters. Front Pretensioners With Force Limiters. Front Side Airbags With Head Protection. Emergency Fuel Shutoff Device. Driver Airbag With Dual Stage Deployment. Passenger Airbag With Dual Stage Deployment. Front Crumple Zone. Side Guard Door Beams and Front and Rear Outboard 3-Point Seatbelts.

Finally one thing I loved the most about the Beetle S was its Remote Control Features such as Keyless Entry Operated Via Key Fob, Multi-Function Remote Operates Door Lock/Unlock, Trunk and Panic Alarm, Panic Alarm, Remote Fuel Door Release Located Inside Vehicle and Remote Trunk Release Located Inside Vehicle.

Go check it out for yourself.

FORD MUSTANG 2008 SPECS

You might wanna read this, before you head to the auto shop. Ford Mustang 2008 specifications

# 300-hp 4.6L OHC 3V V8 and Tremec 5-speed manual transmission (5-speed automatic optional)

# Anti-Lock Braking System with Traction Control

# Side-impact airbags

# Auxiliary audio input jack

# Fog lamps

# 17" premium painted cast aluminum wheels

# 18" Polished Aluminum optional

# DVD Navigation optional

# HID Headlamps optional

+Fuel Economy:

15 city/23 highway with manual**

15 city/22 highway with automatic

* Side door intrusion beams

* 3-point lap shoulder safety belts

* Belt-Minder®

* LATCH (Lower Anchors and Tether for CHildren)

* Personal Safety System® for driver and front passenger

* Front seat side air bags

* Power 4-wheel disc brakes (Brembo front rotors and calipers on GT500)

* Remote keyless entry system

* SecuriLock™ Passive Anti-Theft System (PATS)

* Sequential multi-port electronic fuel injection

* Engine Electronics — powertrain control module

* Rear wheel drive

* Front suspension type — MacPherson struts with reverse “L” lower control arms, stabilizer bar

* Power rack-and-pinion steering

* Forward-leaning egg-crate grille

* Complex reflector halogen headlamps with integral parking/turn signal lamps

* Solar tinted glass

* 50/50 split-fold rear seat backs (coupe only)

* Air Conditioning (manual)

* Auxiliary audio input jack

* Speed control

* Tilt steering wheel

* Interval windshield wipers

* Center console with full armrest and storage

* Battery saver feature

* Driver's footrest

* Rear window defroster

* Day/night mirror

* Power side mirrors

* Cupholders (2)

* Front door map pockets

* Power door locks

* Power windows

* 12-volt powerpoints (2)

* Front floor mats with driver retention hook

Audi A6

The Audi A6 is a study in excellent design. It has the look of a four-door coupe, with clean, flowing lines. The overall look is upscale, masculine. A giant trapezoidal grille dominates the front of the car. Some like it, some don't. The car's completely modern shape has a slippery drag coefficient of 0.28. Aluminum was used for key body panels to save weight, though not to the extent of the expensive all-aluminum A8. The 2006 Avant is an especially sleek looking wagon, distinguished by a coupe-like roofline.

The arching shoulder line and relatively narrow glass create a dynamic profile that terminates in a gently sloped tail marked by distinctive two-piece LED taillights. Overall the design language says European elegance. Much of the beauty of the A6 is in the details: Body panels fit closely together around the doors, hood and trunk lid, as well as along places such as the bottom edge of the tail lamp. It's a result of close tolerances.

You won't even find a rubber strip at the top of windshield, nor strips on the sides of the roof. Door jams, the trunk flange and other areas normally hidden are Class A surfaces, smooth and painted as on the exterior body panels. Not everyone will notice this level of detail, but most will sense a general look of quality.

The new S6 is distinguished from its less-powerful stablemates by special exterior and interior elements. Audi's striking trapezoidal grille gets double vertical aluminum-look strips and an S6 badge, an air inlet beneath the grille to feed the big V10, and a spoiler lip to provide additional downforce. The front bumper's unique look comes from the strip of separate LED daytime running lights, and the front foglamps are incorporated into the main headlights, which feature gray-tinted covers. The rear tailights also feature distinctive LED brake lights.

An integrated spoiler juts from the trunk lid, bright aluminum trim around the side windows and top of door handles, body-color door handles, brushed aluminum rearview mirror housings, body-color outside lower door flares, black brake calipers, dual exhaust oval polished quad tailpipes and a chrome strip on the trunk lid are additional ways to identify the S6. The lever-style outside door handles are stylish, but aren't as easy to operate as the grab handles that don't require flipping your hand over. Overall, the A6 sets a benchmark in quality of materials and build quality.

Vios from Toyota

It was pretty easy to drive and maneuver in small roads and parking lots. Gas consumption is reasonable, 12-14 kms to a gallon. Plus the new Vios does really look like its bigger brother, the Altis but much economical to maintain. I've got the newer version right after it was launch that is why I'm really proud of having it. I'm pretty sure that this car would be with me for a long time.

Though this car is generally ok as what it was intended to be, an economy sedan, people who are used to high-end shouldn't expect BMW or Mercedes quality in such a car. The Vios serves its purpose well. There maybe a few bugs such as grating transmission, the big blind spots in the A pillars, the bumpy ride and the overeacting rev limiter but it is economical getting me a max of 18 km/liter of gas and is fast and nimble on the road. I would consider buying another one or maybe its mechanical twin, the 2007 Yaris sedan

Most of the problems of the Vios seem to be the electrical components which were supplied locally in Thailand.... Go figure....

Viper's Edge

The Dodge Viper ranks among the fiercest, most raw, visceral machines sold in showrooms anywhere. Only a few cars come as close as the Viper to a street-legal race car: Ferrari F430 Scuderia, Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera, Porsche 911 GT3RS, Chevrolet Corvette ZO6, Honda S2000CR. Only two of these cost less, and none come within 95 hp of the Viper.

For most automotive tasks the Viper is overkill, like using a six-pound sledgehammer to swat a fly. Ridiculously fast and able to slosh your eyeballs about in their orbit rounding a bend or under heavy braking, it didn't really need any more power. But with archrival Corvette Z06 at 505 hp, that's just what Dodge did for 2008. They made the engine just 0.1 liter bigger but added 95 horses to make a nice round 600. The fly would still be dead, but now you have a bigger hammer.

Along with the increased power, the gearbox has been strengthened, the shifter revised, the clutch tweaked for more grip on less effort, and the hood has been reshaped. Almost irrelevant are addenda like a navigation radio.

Options include a navigation system with radio ($1790); instrument bezel trim upgrade ($695); two-tone upholstery ($495); special wheels ($700); cover and mats ($450); and some metallic paint hues ($600).

Safety features include frontal airbags and antilock brakes.

MAZDA 3 - a premium automobile

The Mazda3 changed the way people thought about compact cars when it was launched as a 2004 model. This is a premium automobile, exciting to drive, styled adventurously, and fully equipped with luxury features. There's nothing austere, basic or cheap about it.

Last year, Mazda has upgraded the appearance of its s-model sedan and s-model five-door hatchback with a body-color grille, a redesigned front bumper with square foglights, and a new look for both the 16- and 17-inch, cast-aluminum wheels. Detail changes also improve interior appearance, and leather is now optional for all s-models, both sedan and five-door hatchback. An auxiliary audio input with 12-volt power outlet is now standard for all models, making them iPod-friendly.

Upgrades for last year also include some changes to improve the driving personality of the Mazda3. Reinforcements to the body shell improve overall chassis rigidity. The front dampers of the MacPherson strut suspension have been retuned to quicken steering response and reduce understeer, while the dampers of the multi-link rear suspension also have been retuned to match. Anti-lock brakes with electronic brake force distribution and brake assist are standard equipment for all s-models and optional for the i-model sedan. Traction control and stability control are now available for both the s-model sedan and five-door. All models are front-wheel drive.

The Mazdaspeed3 is a true high-performance car featuring a 263-hp, turbocharged, 2.3-liter four-cylinder engine, the Mazdaspeed3 joins a group of extreme sports sedans that includes the Honda Civic Type S, Mitsubishi Evo MK IX, and Subaru Impreza WRX.
The Mazda3 is built in Japan, yet beneath the skin you'll find evidence of engineering from around the world. Volvo developed the body. Ford contributed the suspension design and sophisticated electronics. And Mazda engineered the four-cylinder engines and then tuned the complete car at its test track in Japan.

As a result, the Mazda3 has the personality of a true world car. It's space-efficient and exciting to drive like a European car. It's practical and economical like a Japanese car. And it's available with a surprising list of comfort and luxury features just like an American car.

The sedan and hatchback versions look quite different. The sedan has the traditional appearance of a four-door, five-passenger car. The five-door hatchback is like the high-fashion station wagons from European manufacturers, offering the practicality of the five-door configuration with an emphasis on a premium driving experience, which means plenty of luxury features plus plenty of driving enjoyment

Looking for a BMW Car ?

If you're looking for a BMW, you might take this notes for consideration.

For only the second time in four generations of the performance-oriented M3 - and for the first time in 13 years - BMW is to offer a four-door version. With the added practicality of this body style, BMW hopes the car will appeal to a new range of buyers.

Under the hood will be the same 4.0-liter V-8 engine as in the coupe, developing 420 hp at 8300 rpm. It's a light-alloy block manufactured alongside BMW's Formula One engines and weighs 445 pounds, 33 pounds less than the six-cylinder engine in the previous-generation M3.

The engine redlines at 8400 rpm, but to highlight the real-world driving flexibility of the engine, 85 percent of the torque is available over an engine range of 6500 rpm. Power is transferred to the road by BMW M's six-speed manual gearbox and variable differential. This conveys up to 100 percent of available power to the wheel with most grip.

The newcomer will hit 62 mph in 4.9 seconds - only 0.1 seconds slower than the coupe - before going onto a limited top speed of 155 mph. It's also equipped with BMW's latest 'EfficientDynamics' technology, including Brake Energy Regeneration. However, the carbon-fiber roof panel from the coupe is being ditched. BMW's official fuel consumption figure for the sedan is 22.8 mpg on the combined European cycle.

Like the coupe, the sedan features 18-inch Dark Graphite double-spoke alloy wheels as standard, with a forged-and-polished 19-inch wheel available as an option. Another BMW M trait, the side gill in the front wing, has been elongated for the saloon, mirroring the design from the M5. And at the rear twin double exhaust pipes protrude from beneath the valance.

It's price may be high enough, but I'm betting that for every penny you spent on this baby is worth it.

Got a flat tire ?

A flat tire can create an immediate emergency situation, But there's another failure that must be addressed right away, a more insidious and subtle tire epidemic that's compromising both our tires and other areas of driving: underinflation.

It's true, a large percentage of the vehicles on the road are operated with underinflated tires, and this can cause all kinds of problems. For one thing, it takes more energy to roll a tire with less air pressure, so the engine needs to consume more fuel.

According to the American Automobile Association, underinflated tires can cut fuel economy by as much as 2 percent per pound of pressure below the recommended level. Underinflated tires also cause more heat to build up in the sidewalls. Heat is one of the primary enemies of tires, and excessive heat can cause the tire to fail prematurely or substantially shorten its service life, meaning you could be shelling out for new tires sooner than otherwise.

Additionally, tires with low air pressure are more sluggish in their response to steering input and suspension dynamics, compromising your vehicle's handling, which could become a safety issue.

So before you head out to the road, check your tire first.