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Monday, July 27th, 2009 |
Human race has undergone a tremendous transition in the past century with computers breaking every limit and making every dream a possibility. The flexibility of this micro processor driven machine has brought an enormous technological advancement in all the fields that we can imagine off. No wonder that it also has brought plenty of advancement to the automobile industry which stands a pioneer for technological advancement.
Starting from steam powered vehicles to the present hydrogen cell cars; sky is the limit for automobile manufacturers. However, automobile industry underwent some bad times between the years from 1960 to 1980, where all the car manufacturers used the same technology, almost the same designs. They just concentrated on making money from their new cars without investing anything in to research and development. This attitude of the manufacturers slowed down the technological advancements in the new cars and it even came to a halt at some point of time. Computers, with a globalized market turned the table for the new car companies and it revolutionized the automobile industry.
Now, new car companies have realized that by investing a considerable amount in the development of future technologies, they will be able to bring stability to their business model which automatically increases the profit of these new car manufacturers.
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 |
Many parents can’t wait to get their children their first remote controlled cars, and that’s what people often think of when you mention remote controlled cars. The truth is that there are large numbers of adults who like to build and race radio controlled cars as a hobby.
The differences in kids’ radio controlled cars and those of adults are fairly extreme. The power source is different, for one thing. Some AA batteries will provide a power source that is completely appropriate for a kid’s RC car.
However, the cars built by hobbyists have engines that are complete working replicas of the engines of real cars. Although some do use large battery packs, they are much different that AA batteries. Radio controlled cars also use gasoline or nitro-methane.
The quality of parts you use for your radio controlled cars will have a great bearing on whether you can win any races or not. If you are looking for a speedy remote control car that can compete with the cars of other hobbyists, you will need to buy top of the line parts.
You may have to put out some money to get the very best, but that is probably what you will want. If you can find the right components and put them together right, you can use these parts to put together a car that can beat other cars in races.
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 |
Smart cars are fast becoming more popular worldwide over the last 12 months. Originally considered a novelty, the smart car is on the rise as a modern fuel efficient and cheap motoring alternative.
Cheap smart cars are now an excellent way to avoid the high cost of motoring.
You may already be familiar with smart cars. A tiny four wheeled vehicle no more than about half the length of a normal car. The smart car has a distinctive shape and look and you may well have seen them in the street.
If not you’ll recognize a smart car when you do see it. The most distinctive feature of the car, apart from the fact that the smart car is extremely short, is the steep windshield sloping down to the front of the car, with the front bumper, if you could call it that, right in front of the front wheels.
The original intention of the smart car was to be of use as a vehicle that avoided the parking headaches of larger cars by reason of the fact that it was so short it could park in parking spots so small that not much other than a motorcycle could park there. Not only that but it was also so small that it could park nose or tail in to the kerb without the other end of the car poking out into the traffic and causing a traffic hazard.
It was intended that two smart cars could park in a space which would normally be taken by one regular car, or even 3 smart cars could park in the space occupied by a large vehicle.
The smart car was the result of a joint venture between Daimler Benz the car manufacturer and Swatch the Swiss watch manufacturer. The smart cars were manufactured in a purpose built factory in France which as established in 1994 and so have been around for some time. It is said that almost 1 million smart cars have been sold in over 25 countries.
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