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The Sporting History Of BMW

BMW have had a fruitful motorsport history since it first appeared in 1938 in the long endurance event the Mille Miglia. The year was 1938 and BMW entered their 2.0 litre BMW 328 sports car into the famous Mile Miglia road racing event. The car did very well for a number of drivers that were participating in the event and the car managed the class win beating off their competitors.

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Water Gas Power is the Fuel of the Future

The planet is in “peril” as many experts agree due to the large amount of toxic emissions generated by thousands of cars running on fossil fuels as well as other factors. Automotive manufacturers are doing their part to combat the problem by developing engines that are fueled by water gas power. They already have test models on the road and are trying to improve their efficiency as well as promote them to the public. It is in our best interests to pay attention and explore the possibility of owning such a vehicle in the future to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide, nitrous gases, carbon monoxide, and hydrocarbons being released into the air we breathe on a daily basis. We could eliminate the large amounts of smog and acid rain resulting from dangerous emissions and make the planet healthier as a whole.

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Public Transport Versus Private Tranpsort – And The Winner Is…

With fuel prices rising, road tax on the increase and the astronomical cost of living continually emptying the nation’s transport funds – why aren’t people using public transport more? Convenience, cost and efficiency are just three of the reasons that so many people opt to stay in their cars, when they should be the reasons to jump on the train or bus.

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Cool Cold Air Intakes

Your engine needs to get as much oxygen as it can in order to perform to its maximum potential. One of the best ways to maximize the amount of oxygen entering your motor is to make sure that the air coming in through the intake is as cold as possible. Cold air is denser than hot or warm air, and this extra density translates into a lot more oxygen per cubic foot.

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How to Lower Your Import Car

One of the best visual and performance modifications that you can make to your import vehicle is to lower it.

Lowering your car gives it that slammed, aggressive stance, and also helps improve its handling. This is due to the lower center of gravity and reduced suspension travel. You’ve probably given quite a bit of thought to lowering your import, and you might be ready to start looking around for the parts you’ll need to get the job done. This kind of mod does make some fairly serious changes when it comes to both your car’s driving characteristics and the durability of certain automotive components. When you do decide to lower your car, it is important to do things properly and not cut corners no matter how tempting it might be to save a few dollars.

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Nitrous Oxide For Your Car

Your car’s engine is essentially a great big air pump. The more air that can be sucked into the motor and mixed with gasoline, then the more power it can make through combustion.

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Performance Brakes for Muscle Cars

You might have heard the old saying that before deciding to increase the horsepower of your vehicle, it is a good idea to bump up its stopping power. This is particularly true when it comes to muscle cars. Although muscle cars frequently come with gobs of V8 power, they are rarely champions at bringing all of that speed back down under control. You have to be even more wary of muscle cars from the 60s and 70s, which in some cases used drum brakes at all four corners.

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Why Should I Get a Turbocharger?

For quite some time, the only way that engine designers knew how to make power was by adding displacement. The bigger the engine, the more power it could make. While this type of design was acceptable in the 50s and 60s, as technology moved on and fuel became more expensive, it became clear that smaller motors could be made to develop healthy power too.

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Hybrid Cars – The Cars Of The Times!

Hybrid cars are a fusion of technologies. Unlike standard cars moving on a single propulsion system, hybrid cars are driven by the power of multiple propulsion systems. Most common among these hybrid vehicles are those cars that use gasoline and electrical energy as their source of power. Serious experimentations with ethanol or plant based oils are also being conducted.

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Routine Car Polishing Gives Your Car a Spruced-up, Fresh Look

The basic logic behind car polishing and waxing is to provide the exterior of the car, a protective covering. However, most of us will refuse to give in to this reasoning because for us car polishing is a means of giving our car a cool, tidied-up, glossy look. Cars definitely repay routine car care, scheduled cleaning, waxing and polishing in the form of continued comfortable hassle-free services.

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