Saturday, November 19, 2011
Nissan Juke R
The new Nissan Juke R is not loved by many automobile journalist around the world but i love it maybe its my youthfulness that is getting the best of me or something all i know is that i love this ride.
The inside is racing orientated with two race seats, full race harness and a race-spec roll cage. Steering wheel, pedals ,7-inch touch screen display come straight from the GT-R and powered by a 3.8-litre twin-turbo engine pinched from the Nissan GT-R. That's 480bhp, and many, many torques. Nissan has kindly flared the arches, fitted not inconsiderable air ducting and venting capacity, twin exhausts, some GT-R-spec dials and two race seats.
There will be a left- and a right-hand drive model and that is all, just two examples will be made. It is by no means a production car, but a road legal concept car. Apparently it will be used to test customer response to some of the concept car’s features for use in future ‘sport’ versions of the Juke. Personally, I think this is a pointless exercise: everybody will want the huge engine, incredible noise, intimidating body panels and racing-orientated interior. And, of course, Nissan will say ‘no’.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
AUTO WORKSHOP IN NIGERIA
I worked in an auto workshop for a while and I loved it when I first started I was around one of the things I love most CARS but after a week and a half the fairy tales were over I could see the real pictures now the lies the scams the annoying customers and so on and it all came rushing back why I dropped the idea of owning my own auto workshop a long time ago.
An auto workshop doors are always opened because of customers who bring their vehicles in for diagnose or repairs and they get billed for the services they are rendered the printed bills are given to the customers for payment without any detailed report on what has been done on vehicle.
If I take my vehicle to an auto workshop for diagnose after the diagnose has been carried out I will be told some silly code i don’t understand and charged 10 to 15 thousand Naira for it without been given a proper report with the code broken down into details for me. It’s my car for God sake not yours so give me a proper report.
If I go to the hospital to get a full medical check up I get a full detailed report on it.
So why cant I get a full detailed report of all the repairs that is going to carried out or has been carried out already on my vehicle?
In fairness to some auto workshops in Nigeria they are very professional they give you full details on what repairs would be carried out on your vehicle sorry I can’t mention you names on this article that will be free publicity.
Those auto shops I talked about above are only 15% the rest 85% are out to cheat, steal, scam; some don’t even know what they are doing at all while some fall in the category of trial and error and you keep bringing vehicle back till they get it right.
The one that gets me all boiled up is the so called ALL DATA which the work shops owner and some mechanic flaunt around customers when they are in their workshop that’s total rubbish in my own opinion because all that get accomplish with that is the unsaid words like (Hey Mr. car owner you know the different between me and you is the ALL DATA get one and I won’t be needed anymore).
If I ever take my vehicle to an auto workshop and the owner tries to show he knows what is wrong with my vehicle with an ALL DATA am out of there taking my vehicle to someone who knows what he is doing.
National Automobile Technicians Association (NATA) should have a meeting with themselves and start giving the car owners in Nigeria a full detailed report on diagnoses and repairs carried out on cars brought to their various members workshop and I also urge all car owners in Nigeria to demand for it you have spent millions in buying your car I think that should give you the right to know what will be done and what has been done to your car in a full detail report.
Monday, November 14, 2011
2012 TOYOTA CAMRY DIFFERENT BODY SAME CAR
Am sure most of you if not all knows the adage “Don’t judge a book by its cover” the same can be said for 2012 Camry because it has a whole new body but the same old engine has before.
The new Camry has lost weight and it was achieved by 155-pound weight loss, lower-rolling-resistance tires, sleeker sheet metal, taller gearing, more-aggressive torque-converter lockup, and electric power steering which Toyota claims it will make it offer more fuel efficiency and value will the 2.5-liter four cylinder and the 3.5-liter V-6 remains unchanged.
This new Camry does not look muscular at all instead it looks smooth and it poses in a way that seems like its trying to scoop up the road but despite the weight loss the car’s length still remains the same also the width, height, and wheelbase remains unchanged. The interior package also remains roomy and comfortable.
VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, front-wheel-drive, 5-passenger, 4-door sedan
ENGINE TYPES: DOHC 16-valve 2.5-liter inline-4, 173 or 178 hp, 165 or 170 lb-ft; DOHC 16-valve 2.5-liter inline-4, 156 hp, 156 lb-ft + 2 AC electric motors (combined system, 200 hp); DOHC 24-valve 3.5-liter V-6, 268 hp, 248 lb-ft
TRANSMISSIONS: 6-speed automatic with manual shifting mode, continuously variable automatic
DIMENSIONS:
Wheelbase: 109.3 in Length: 189.2 in
Width: 71.7 in Height: 57.9 in
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