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| BMW M6 Cabrio, test (part 2) (BMW)
Added: 07/02/09 3:55 PM (Eleven hours, seventeen minutes, sixteen seconds ago)
Photos(7) Rating(0) Viewed(2) | I finished the first part of BMW M6 Cabrio test on description of the starter button. When you do it the engine V10 is started making a really impressive sound, which is supported for a few minutes with a rhythm of quite high slow motion so that the engine is warming up.
To start we have two options, to move the gear shift lever towards the right to activate the automatic or manual/sequential way depending on the conditions of traffic. As at first I was going to move around a city, I decided to test automatic way of the SMG III seven-speed gearbox, which has five programs depending on the rapidity and intensity.
Transmission mode was the calmest, and the first thing that attracted my attention was that with this chosen mode, in the semaphores the car geared automatically to start. Let us not forget, it has a spectacular engine V10 of 507 horse powers under the front hood.
I tried to make the car behave as calm as possible and come down consumption to minimum. But frankly speaking, I think this is not the mode in which we should drive if we want to enjoy our trip.
Then I began playing with the button placed under the gear shift lever. This button allows modifying the ways of change. I put it in an intermediate position and the car lowered gear change automatically. Whenever it happens, an engine sudden acceleration makes four rear exhaust pipes emit a spectacular sound. It seems BMW M6 begins waking up.
Various options of BMW M6 Cabrio configuration can make us play all day with its buttons. Driving the car I noticed a button “Power” was placed to the left of the gear shift lever. If we deactivate it, V10 delivers 400 horses, but if we touch it the potency increases up to
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| Chevrolet Camaro Z/28: more rumors and dates. (Chevrolet)
Added: 07/02/09 1:04 PM (Fourteen hours, eight minutes, sixteen seconds ago)
Photos(1) Rating(0) Viewed(2) | General Motors is playing cat and mouse with Chevrolet Camaro Z/28. They say that they want to present it. We have already seen its mock-up. Moreover its design was anticipated in the shape of renewal.
The only thing we do not know is the date of its presentation. Well, several persons in charge of Chevrolet gave certain details on the model of the fifth generation. For example, they are going to present it after Convertible Chevrolet Camaro, which will come in 2011.
Other details given by them concerned design of its hood, similar to that one seen in Bumblebee in Transformers: revenge of the fallen, which will have a new front guard and a new rear. They said practically nothing about its engine. It will be A LS of high services. Frankly speaking, it is rather predictable.
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| Rumors about Opel Astra with technology of Opel Ampera. (Electric cars)
Added: 07/02/09 1:02 PM (Fourteen hours, ten minutes, sixteen seconds ago)
Photos(1) Rating(0) Viewed(2) | I think it will surprise nobody. Future of electric cars of General Motors is in technology Voltec, the same one that Opel Ampera and Chevrolet Volt take. According to the rumors they are going to make the six generation of Opel Astra completely electric by 2014.
In fact, two electric models of General Motors, Opel Ampera and Chevrolet Volt, will not have the second generation. They will stay without changes and their technology will be used in other cars of the group. It is logically and even necessary.
They have published this information in the magazine Bus, quoting like source someone from General Motors. We do not know if it is true. So we have to wait four or five years.
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