new Proton Exora will fit neatly into Joe Average’s idea of a family carMOST of us would have by now caught a glimpse of the Proton Exora. I saw one recently, and it looked very good indeed, especially as the owner had ‘inched up’ with 17-inch wheels and super-low profile tyres. The transformation is immediate and impressive.
However, size is not an issue here. The main concerns are fuel economy and power delivery.
I was fortunate enough to get an Exora for four days, enough for me to do a fuel consumption test and also to evaluate it from a user point of view.
The first thing I did was to take my extended family, consisting of seven adults and two pre-teens – one 12 and the other 10 years old – out for dinner. The Exora had no problem hauling all of us the short distance of 5km from our home to the diner; that is, if you are in no hurry.
The Exora has enough get-up-and-go, even under light throttle, picking up speed gradually. It cruises along fine at anything between 80 to 100kph, and does it quietly and effortlessly.
If you are impatient, the electronic throttle will respond very readily (perhaps a little too readily) by dropping down a gear, or even two, the moment you put your foot down on the accelerator pedal.
As long as you keep the accelerator flat on the floor, the auto transmission controller will not allow the gearbox to change up until you hit 6,500rpm.
Similarly, when you are in third gear, the Exora’s electronics will not allow a change to fourth and top gear until you hit the maximum revolutions, which means that if you keep pedal to metal, you can hit up to 145kph before it shifts to top gear.
However, if you lift off on the accelerator, the transmission control unit (TCU), sensing that you no longer need the additional power, will allow the gearbox to shift up to the next highest gear.
I find the acceleration pull acceptable – not the fastest kid off the block, but fast enough for the Joe Average who never drives fast anyway, be it in a BMW or a Kancil – as long as you remember to floor it.
The resultant engine roar is somewhat higher than usual, but that is better than it being gutless.
A light foot on the throttle will allow the Exora to ‘ease’ upwards in speed, until approximately 100kph, after which you might have to apply a little more pressure on the foot pedal to make it go up in speed.
For the driver who just wants to get from A to B, and doesn’t normally drive fast, the Exora would be fine.
Top speed is in the region of 160kph, but only if you are going downhill. Once you hit top speed, any slight incline will make the needle start to fall backwards, and if the slope continues, the TCU may even make the gearbox downshift a gear or two.
A shift lock in top gear at around 110 upwards might be a help to prevent undesired downshifts. Under the current settings, the shift lock only occurs at speeds over 145kph.
Fuel economy is reasonable, and considering the Exora’s bulk and weight, I would volunteer that it is actually remarkable, our test car returning 21.53 miles per gallon, or 13 litres per 100km, over a test distance that covered 350km of mixed driving at high speeds, with five people and luggage on board.
A light-footed driver could expect something in the region of 10 to 11 litres per 100km.
I believe that the Exora is all right as it is; perhaps a small change in the final drive ratio might be useful in improving the get-up-and-go, and help in reducing the frequent downshifts; the same result could come from a lower profile tyre.
There’s talk about a small turbo-charger running low boost to be fitted later on. That will be interesting indeed!
SOURCE: THE SUN ONLINE
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Monday, October 20, 2008
TEST DRIVE A PEUGEOT
Test drive a Peugeot this weekend
Posted by: Andy Mervin George
If watching the idiot box is not entertaining to you this weekend, perhaps the Blue Box will.
The campaign is meant for potential Peugeot owners to be up close and personal with the new Peugeot 407 sedan, where test drives of the car are available.
A mystery gift and refreshments await those who visit Peugeot Blue Box Glenmarie and Peugeot Bangsar this weekend. For more information on the event, contact Peugeot Careline at 1-800-88-6292.
SOURCE: http://star-motoring.com
Monday, July 7, 2008
PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS
Tips For Writing Article to Promote Your Business
By Thanakit K.
Promoting any business through writing articles has become a really powerful and an effective tool, there are many website actually each of the successful websites are planning article writing to promote their business online.
There are certain tips that should be kept in mind once you have decided to write an article to promote your business. These tips are:
1) Don't advertise through them: the articles that you write to generate links and traffic should not be written in a way that they seem to give an impression of being advertisement. People search for articles not advertisements, make them interesting but not marketing or advertisements so that they give information and don't simply market your product.
2) SEO writing is one way that can attract a lot of traffic on your website, this type of writing is simply identifying a keyword that is searched by lot of people and if it relates your theme, or the theme of your business then write an article by the optimum use of such keyword and make the best use of it. This will automatically place your site on a good rank in the search engines thus giving you more hits and generate a good traffic.
3) Readers should get interested in your articles more and more, they are mostly bothered about themselves so giving them the best information and best idea for what they are searching is very important so be sure to give them these required things and guarantee a good response.
4) Articles writing should also be done on a regular basis (Easy to read and Easy to understand). Make your article interesting (It's very important), there are many ways to do it, you can tell a story, and even quotes from famous people that would enhance your article quality and you would be able to utilize the best of the space available.
5) Device a strong theme for your article and stick you it, readers would be more interested in your articles if you use a strong theme. A strong theme attracts attention and this would give you the desired traffic and good customer response too.
6) Set the tone of your article right and also be friendly with the reader it creates lot of customer attention and even awareness. The tone is what set the pulse of an article and would give you the best feed from people and customer response.
7) The best articles are the ones that provide the reader with the best possible advice and give him or her hints as to where he can go for help.
8) If you cannot give proper advice then stick to telling a story, at times it helps in improving the quality and customer response.
9) Whenever you give any advice try to keep it short and simple.
Article writing is a methodical task and proper methods will lead you to success proper ways needs to be followed so that you get the best out of every possible article attract the customer and get good links and visitors for your site.
ARTICLES SOURCE: http://www.goarticles.com
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