Posts Tagged ‘fast’
Cash in asssets to reduce debt burden
Valuing your disposable assets is a useful first step in managing personal debts because these could be sold to reduce he burden. Make a list and include:
- Property investments
- Stocks & Shares
- Antiquities & collectables
- Savings accounts
- Premium Bonds
- Leisure equipments – cameras, bikes, snowboards etc.
- Cars, motorbikes, boats
Car owners can unknowingly have large amounts of equity locked up in their vehicle, even if was bought with finance or hire purchase. What you will finally receive v. If the car was bought on finance a long time ago you may well have paid off most of the loan. If you acquired your car on a lease agreement the rules are entirely different. Find our how much you owe on your car by contacting the company for a balance. Repossession is the last resort of lenders who would prefer you sold your car to a dealer who will settle the balance including any missing payments.
Selling a car for cash, particularly if it needs to be done quickly, often means taking less than the car is really worth. Your local dealer will only want your old car if you buy a brand new one at full list price. So few people now read local newspapers than private classified advertising of used cars is often a waste of time.
Websites such as Sellmycar4cash buy used cars to use as stock for main dealers and offer to value and buy your car quickly without any fees or risk. Values can only be ontained on cars newer than 7 years and under 100 k mileage. Record all the deatils of your second hand car on the webpage form and a representative will call you back with a cash offer. Agreement of valuation would result in a call to make an appointment to meet, pay for and collect the car. If agreement is reached on the value of the car you are selling the next step is to arrange the meeting to view and pay.
Stop Your Speeding
Driving fast has been a problem that every country in the planet has faced since the first vehicle was created and manufactured. Almost a century on and we are still facing the same problem. So much has been done to stop cars from speeding; the government have put speed limit signs all over the place, as well as this speed cameras have grown to the masses as well as police following you all over the place.
Well we may have finally created something that will eliminate road deaths and that is the speeding devices. These clever little devices are currently in pilot mode, but if they are successful they will be deployed on a range of new cars as well as a range of older cars.
How it literally works is that the vehicle is fitted with a GPS system, which sends a signal of current speed limits. The clever device then stops the car from exceeding the speed limit, no matter how much the acceleration is pressed.
This will be something great for every country, it will lower driving fines and deaths that occur every day, but one thing that the government do have to look out for is to find a way to stop people from removing the devices.
But all in all its great news for the motoring world, who have now found a way to clean up the roads.
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Innovative Device to Stop Speeding
For years police have been using huge amounts energy to catch and punish people that drive their cars fast. Every time you get caught speeding you get given a certain amount of points on your licence, if you reach the limit you may end up losing your licence.
A vast amount of people are annoyed at the fact that there are so many speed cameras popping up, they believe it is because people want to profit from them.
Well a new device that is currently in trial in London could eliminate all of this as it will stop people from speeding even the slightest; basically the device in your car will track where you are like a sat navigation system, and it will be able to tell the speed limits around the current location. What will occur, is that the vehicle will not allow you to accelerate above the speed limit if there is one in place.
In the half a million trial, under bonnet technology will make the car know exactly where it is. This info will be automatically matched with an on-board digital map containing details of road speed limits.None of the technology will affect the way the vehicle works.
So this could be a very good opportunity for all police departments around the globe as they will be able to cut back on the time that they spend chasing people that break the speed limit and instead concentrate on full crime prevention, the same sort of thing could also be used to stop drink driving. I.E. the car would not start if they are over the limit.
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Jaguar Pushes Speed to its Boundaries
In tests in America Jaguars XFR prototype has hit the quickest speeds ever.
Jaguar have been away in the revolutionary Benneville Salt Flats in Utah, America and have been testing the new XFR prototype. It was declared that this was the fastest Jaguar ever hitting speeds of around 225.675 mph.
Using Jaguar’s new AJ-V8 Gen III engine this XFR smashed the previous record of 217.1 mph set by the XJ220 back in 1992. The XFR featured only small aerodynamic changes and some safety add ons that were essential for running in this desert. No internal engine components were changed and the gear box and ratio's were left the same as the normal engine. The only changes were with the engine’s computer and some air intake modifications.
Mike O’Driscoll, Managing Director, Jaguar Cars said
“The all-new supercharged 510bhp XFR – and XKR – add a thrilling new dimension to the Jaguar line-up. We have sharpened the R models, fine-tuning them to deliver a totally focused experience for driving enthusiasts, with the new AJ-V8 Gen III engines delivering refined power and performance and unmatched efficiency.”
The driver Paul Gentilozzi added,
“During my career, I’ve raced worldwide from the southern tip of New Zealand to Le Mans. Along the way, I have been excelled to drive and own so many lovely vehicles but I've never experienced one that was as exciting to drive fast as this Jaguar.”
The new XFR is the first to get the ‘R’ badge it can go from 0 – 60 mph in just 4.It is usually electronically limited to around 150mph on the road. This extra power is used between speeds 50 – 70 mph which will be achieved in only 1.9 seconds.
Jaguar are having something of a speed revival focusing on the performance of their vehicles. This year marks the 60th anniversary of Jaguar’s record breaking 132.6 mph run in the XK120 all the way in 1949.
Their ethos has been to build ‘Beautiful, fast cars.’ Recently they have been beautiful but now they are definitely fast. I will definatley look to buy a Jaguar now.