Shocks & Struts for Sale
- Kyb kg9310 front mono-tube gas pressurized(US $135.12)
- Kyb kg5562 rear mono-tube gas pressurized(US $60.34)
- Kyb sm5070 rear strut upper mounting kit(US $22.44)
- Kyb kg54304 front mono-tube gas pressurized(US $60.40)
- Kyb kg5417 rear mono-tube gas pressurized(US $54.88)
- Mevotech mp902936 front strut upper mounting kit(US $27.11)
Man-made Modern Luxury Materials in Cars
Mon, 29 Sep 2008Luxury, within the context of a car interior, has been closely related to the use of wood and leather for over a century. These natural materials have a familiar organic, tactile quality that are intrinsically desirable attributes for most people and, in today's mass manufactured plastic world, they also assume a luxury or premium quality. Throughout the last century, metal, leather and wood have also been progressively supplanted by bakelite, vinyl and then polymer-based plastic materials in car interiors as well.
Range Rover Hybrid completes Silk Trail Expedition to India (video)
Tue, 15 Oct 2013Range Rover Hybrid completes Silk Trail Expedition to India Land Rover has been busy for the last 53 days taking a trio of Range Rover Hybrids down the Silk Trail from Land Rover’s home in the Midlands to Tata’s home in India. In the process, the three Range Rover Hybrids, and their Land Rover support vehicles, have covered 10,472 miles in 53 days covering every terrain imaginable – and averaged 36mpg in the process. The whole point of the outing was to give the hybrid Range Rover a proper workout ahead of its customer launch, and the trek to India certainly provided that with everything from sea level to 5500 metres and temperatures from -10 to 43C along the way, not to mention the vast array of terrain from tarmac to non-existent byways.
Engine of the Year Winners: Ford 1.0 litre EcoBoost is top dog
Thu, 06 Jun 2013Ford’s 1.0 Litre EcoBoost wins Engine of the Year 2013 If anything is going to overturn the received wisdom that all small cars should come with a diesel engine, it’s Ford’s 1.0 litre EcoBoost engine. Torquey, lively and frugal, the 1.0 litre EcoBoost engine is a little marvel, a fact recognised for the second year running by the judging panel for the Engine of the Year Awards, which has given the 1.0 litre EcoBoost the highest ever marks in the award’s fifteen year history. A total of 87 car journalists from 35 countries were hugely impressed with the power, torque and small size of the Ford engine, with one journalist, Peter Lyon, commenting: “Who’d have believed it?