Posts Tagged ‘fast’
Debt reduction tips
The first step in debt management is understanding the real value of your disposable assets as these could go some way to eliminate liabilities. 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. The cash you will receive will be the valuation less the total settlement figure on the finance. If there is not much time left to repay the loan the more you will have in equity. If you car was leased the chances are that non of this will apply to you. Lenders will give a settlement figure on your loan if you ask them. If you are behind in repayments selling the car and repaying the whole blalnce from the proceeds is preferable to repossession.
Selling a car for cash, particularly if it needs to be done quickly, often means taking less than the car is really worth. Franchised car dealers do not really want you used car unless you are buying a new one. Advertising your car for sale privately brings all kinds of hassle and success is far from guranteed.
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. Cars need to be under 100k and no more than seven years of age. The website contains a form into which you can add some basic information before receiving a phone call with the car valuation. The valuation is not agreement to sell and you can think it over before deciding. Accept the offer and you will be called to set a date and time for a final in spection and cash hand-over.
Speed Limiting Devices Hit the Market
Driving fast has been a problem that every country in the planet has faced since the first vehicle was created and manufactured. Almost 100 years on and we are still facing the same problems. 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 finally could have found something that will eliminate road accidents and deaths caused by speeding and this has come in the form of speed limiting 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 they actually work is the device works like a sat nav system and sends signals showing exactly where you are and what the current speed limit is. The technology then stops the car from going past the speed limit no matter how much you push the accelerator, it does not however interfere with the braking or stopping of the vehicle.
This will undoubtedly be a great deal to the world and it will literally stop every car from speeding on the road, there will be much less deaths and fines that people have forever been moaning about, and I am sure that people will try to remove the device from the car so we need to find a way to make sure that this does not happen and if the device does get removed then the car should fail to start.
But all in all its great information for the motoring sector, who have now found a way to clean up the roads.
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The End to Boy Racers
For years police have been using huge amounts energy to catch and punish people that drive their cars fast. For each time you get captured driving fast you get given a certain percentage of points on your licence, once these points have been reached you could potentially end up losing the licence completely.
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 effectivley happen is that the car will not be allowed to accelerate no matter how much you may put your foot down.
In the £400,000 trial, sophisticated under-bonnet satellite equipment will ensure that each car always "knows" precisely 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 prevent you from using the brakes on the car.
This is something that is actually great for police, as they can spend a huge amount of resources actually catching criminal instead of people speeding. I.E. the vehicle would fail to start if they were over the limit.
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Jaguar Speeds Hit an All Time High
In a hidden place somewhere in the USA, Jaguar indicated that they had hit breathtaking high speeds.
Jaguar have been away in the revolutionary Benneville Salt Flats in Utah, America and have been testing the new XFR prototype. This is now the fastest Jaguar to date after hitting speeds of 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 privileged to drive and own so many exciting cars but I've never driven 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.