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Project Gotham Racing 4 – Feature – Auto Reviews – Car and Driver
October 27, 2011 | Author ratoxuha
Project Gotham Racing 4 is not a serious racing game. The background of the main menu is your most recently driven vehicle spinning endless donuts, be it a Lancia Delta Integrale Evo, a Ducati 999R, or a classic Maserati 250F. I’m more of a hooligan than most, but a 250F burning off donuts is blasphemous even for me. No, PGR4 is as much about racing as
The Transporter 2 is about basic defensive driving. It’s all about style, man.
Hybrid version of the Peugeot RCZ not ruled out
September 26, 2011 | Author ratoxuha
Peugeot has not ruled out putting a hybrid RCZ into production, the French firm’s top brass have revealed.
A hybrid version of the marque’s sports car was shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2009 but details on whether it would make production have been sketchy since.
But at the launch of the marque’s Ford Mondeo rivalling 508 this week, the manufacturer said a hybrid RCZ has still ‘not been ruled out’.
‘It’s not a case of if we can do it but more a case of is there demand for it,’ explained Peugeot technical communications chief Laurent Debure.
This year the manufacturer will launch a Hybrid4 version of the 3008. The drivetrain features a 163bhp 2.0-litre diesel engine mated to a 37bhp electric engine offering 200bhp and four wheel drive. Emissions are sub-100g/km and fuel economy in the high 70s mpg. It’s this set up that would be used in the RCZ.
‘The good thing about the Hybrid4 system is that it is modular so can fit in other models,’ explained a spokesman for the firm. ‘It fits in RCZ but it’s about demand and whether customers want it.’
The RCZ is made at the Magna plant in Gras, Austria – the same place as the Aston Martin Rapide is produced. It is currently making 17,000 RCZs a year, but has the capacity to increase this to 22,000 – easily enough to cater for a hybrid version.
Debure added: ‘When there is a petrol version that produces 200bhp it’s not known whether buyers would want a hybrid version producing the same.’
But offering the Hybrid4 set up in the sports car would make sense. Buyers are looking to cut fuel costs and are getting more environmentally conscious – but at the same time they still want vehicles they can enjoy driving. What’s more, the added advantage of the Hybrid4 set up is four-wheel drive which would be great for handling.
It appears the manufacturer will now be keeping a close eye on demand for the 3008 and 508 Hybrid4 models before giving the RCZ version the green light. We only hope they do.
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Home Based Business But What Niche?
September 20, 2011 | Author ratoxuha
:: In todays modern world what with the internet, there has never been so many opportunities for people to set up a home based business to make money and work from home. The internet is full of business opportunities some good and some not so good, so you need to do your research first before you begin journey into the world of the online home based business.
So what niche do you choose for you home based business? Well there are literally thousands and thousands to choose from. For those of you who are not sure what a niche is, it is basically the business that interests you, lets say you are interested in blogging, well that’s a niche on it’s own or a business that you can make money from. Another niche within the blogging niche is coaching people to set up a blog, that’s a niche sometimes called a sub niche, basically a niche can be anything.
When you look at the coaching niche that again has many sub niches built within. Let say you know how to set up a word-press blog, you also know how to install a opt-in box for the blog so people can collect there visitors name and email address, that’s a niche or a sub niche as some people call it. That could be the starting of your home based business.
Article writing is another niche, say you are good at writing, then you could sell your services to write articles for other people. OK your good at building word-press blogs and installing opt-in boxes, you could write articles about how this is all done even write articles about how you write articles, these are all niches or sub niches.
Another good niche is video, you know how to use a video camera even edit the film you have videoed, you could offer your services to make videos for people who don’t know how to make a video, you could even upload the videos for you clients, this is a good home based business opportunity to get into.
So you see there are literally thousands of niches to choose from. A good place to start with for your home based business is to sit back and think about your job that you do now whatever it may be, see if you can think of how you could sell your knowledge to people who want to know how it’s done. You will be surprised how many people will want to know about your knowledge, again this is another niche.
Lets say your day job is a car mechanic you could set up a website offering your knowledge and experience on fault finding, people would rather pay you a small fee so they could try to fix the problem themselves instead of taking it to the garage that charge a very high price to fix it. Thats another niche and a home based business.
Your home based business could be made up of many small or sub niches that could give you a very good income for the rest of your life. It’s not as hard as you may think it is to get set up, my advise would be to take your time and don’t rush, do some research on Google to find out if there is a need for your service. A good place to check out is Google trends.
Whatever you do never ever give up on your dream to have your own home based business, like I said before there is a niche out there for everyone.
Source: http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/Steve-Duval-7594/home-based-business-189097.php
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