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The circuit opens its doors to the public for the first time today (12th November). For more information, head to the KF1 website at www.kf1karting.com. In the meantime, stay tuned for an upcoming feature where we tell you what it’s like to race on the new track!
Motorsports

KF1 Karting Circuit opens for business!

IN Motorsports, Karting, Go-kart, Singapore circuit, Track

Brand new track in Kranji a major boost to Singapore’s flagging motorsports scene.


Seated beside the driving experts, participants were encouraged to test Jaguar’s high performance cars to their limits, while learning about safe performance driving including handling, braking and acceleration techniques, in closed simulated driving courses.
Happenings

‘Jaguar Live Experience' Introduces The All-New F-Type To Singapore

IN Jaguar, Driving experience, F-Type

Jaguar is hitting the track again and taking its latest addition in the Jaguar family, the all-new F-TYPE, for a spin.


The Golf GTI Driving Experience was held from 17th to 21st July with Pirelli as the official tyre partner, allowing participants to test the GTI’s performance in a straight line as well as through the corners.
Happenings

Getting There Immediately - VW's New GTI Preview

IN Volkswagen, VW, GTI, Golf, Launch

Another Golf, another GTI. But first impressions matter, so the Mark 7 GTI’s launch let it shine in its natural environment – on the track.


Combine that brief with Tilke's characteristic safety features and tarmac run-off areas (less exciting for professional racing, much safer and friendlier for trackdays), and everyone's a winner. As a car enthusiast in Singapore caged by endless rules and taxes, this news comes at a perfect time to give us hope and take our minds off the recent ridiculous trends in our car industry. If you'll excuse me, I've now got to start saving for my own trackday monster...
Happenings

FASTrack Iskandar Appoints Hermann Tilke As Track Designer

IN FASTrack, Iskandar, Johor, Malaysia, Track, Racetrack, Motorsports, Trackday

Motorsports fans and petrolheads rejoice. After news of the Changi Motorsposrts Hub's demise left car enthusiasts disappointed, there now seems to be hope for the local motorsports fraternity.


To create a contrast to the exterior paint, stainless steel-look trim runs all around the SUV's lower body section. A prominent and long bonnet with integrated air inlets ensures the engine has ample room and remains cool. The stereotypical 4x4 has a long roof line coupled with a very short front overhang, as does the CrossBlue Concept.
Happenings

Eco-Offroading in VW’s new SUV Concept

IN Volkswagen Group Singapore, Volkswagen, VW, Cross Blue, SUV

Think hybrids are dull? Think again. Volkswagen's new Eco-SUV Concept not only looks aggressive, this 7-seater will pack 700 Nm and accelerate to 100 km/h 7.2 Seconds if it goes into production.


The BMW 320i Luxury is now available for booking, with a price tag of $218,800, with COE. Look out for our extensive review soon.
Happenings

Latest BMW 320i Joins Local Line Up

IN 320i, BMW, BMW 320i, BMW Asia, Performance Motors Limited, BMW Performance Academy, Pirelli

After the successful launch of the 328i and 335i, local buyers now have an entry-level 320i to consider; BMW's unique Performance Academy also shed a different light on this 'hot cake' model


I started off with the “wet circuit”, which turned out to be bone dry. Nevertheless, the course was designed with a fast lane switch, a couple of gates, a long sweeper and finally a slalom.
Happenings

The Audi A6 Media Event

IN Audi, A6, Media, Event, Changi

We burn some rubber in the seventh-generation A6 at Changi.


From the early stages during the off-season, the team’s Formula One car is developed entirely in Siemens' NX software, based on functional requirements and the ever changing Formula One regulations. The model proceeds to outline structure where the Red Bull Racing design team has approximately 150 workstations running NX, to develop geometric part models for the entire vehicle. The NX system gets even more crucial during the race season, as performance-enhancing modifications to the car have to be produced in as little as one week.
Happenings

Siemens PLM Software And Red Bull Racing

IN Siemens, PLM, NX, Teamcenter

While drivers battle on the race track, what gives race teams the overall upper hand?


In the real world, both feel equally sprightly on the road. Especially out on the expressway and Orchard Road traffic, where both doesn’t seem to have any issues keeping up with traffic or overtaking.
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Alfa Romeo MiTo Or Citroen DS3? We Revisit The 2006 FIFA World Cup Finals.

IN Alfa Romeo, MiTo, Citroen, DS3, Italy, France

It was 10 July 2006. A moment of madness from Zinedine Zidane sees him head butt Italian defender Marco Materazzi in extra time of the 2006 World Cup Final which cost France the title...


“With Saab IQon, there are no limits to the potential for innovation,” says Johan Formgren, Head of Saab Aftersales and commercial project leader for IQon. “We will be inviting the global Android developer community to use their imagination and ingenuity.” Saab’s collegiate development strategy - open innovation - is a ’first’ in the automotive industry and provides a faster, more efficient and more flexible alternative to the conventional, in-house development of vehicle infotainment services. “Today’s customers want to be as well connected inside the car as they are at all other times,” adds Formgren. ”IQon will give them the convenient, seamless connectivity they enjoy with smartphones, while adding new car-specific programs and services.
Happenings

Saab IQon - Open Innovation In Car Infotainment

IN Saab, IQon, Infotainment, I.C.E

Saab Automobile is changing the auto industry infotainment landscape by engaging external partners in ‘open innovation’ for the development of its new IQon infotainment concept.


Happenings

Stamford Tyres' Year End Sale

IN Stamford Tyres, Lok Yang, Loyang, Kung Chung

Stamford Tyres is currently holding their year end sale at their mega marts in Lok Yang (Jurong), Kung Chong (Leng Kee) and Loyang (Changi) from 16 to 19 December 2010 (9 am to 7 pm).


The 2.5-litre V6 unit is unchanged and pushes out a healthy 205bhp from its 24-valve Dual VVTi set-up. It is a quiet and smooth powerplant and dispatches the century sprint in a rather quick 8.4 seconds. Yet somehow, the car seems to lack the 'oomph' the figures suggest. It could be partly due to the overall (excellent) refinement that masks the speed.
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Same But Better! | Lexus IS 250

IN Lexus, IS 250, Face-lift, V6

This is the newly restyled Lexus IS 250. Not much has changed you say? Well, you couldn't be more right, and wrong.


Gung-ho amateurs and professionals alike had guidance from the
Happenings

Drifteritis Strikes Again! | Spark Motorsports Drift Clinic

IN Spark Motorsports, Drift, Clinic

Are you sick of going straight? Or, are you looking for healthier ways of reducing your rear tyre's service life?


Happenings

HSV 'I Just Want One' Driving Event

IN HSV, Harvest Automobiles, Muscle cars, GTS, Maloo, Drive, Event

We spent the day with a pair of Australian V8 muscle cars and even got a ride in a 600bhp T2 race car! Welcome to the world of Holden Special Vehicles (HSV).


Happenings

BRABUS Launches Singapore Showroom

IN BRABUS, Mercedes-Benz, B25, Singapore, Black, AutoVox, First Automobile Premium

BRABUS, one of the world's most elite and prestigious automotive tuner companies has opened their doors here on our sunny island, unleashing a range of bespoke luxury tarmac bruisers.


Happenings

Smoke On The Water! | Stamford Tyres D Experience Drift Clinic

IN Stamford Tyres, Drift, D Experience, Driving Events

Stamford Tyres in conjunction with D Experience, held an awesome drift clinic on Sunday, giving participants a chance to create both smoke in the dry and water spray after the rain!


The symbolic occasion was attended by the industry's representatives and media of well over 200 guests who were treated to a special race-day themed spectacle of drifting, providing a preview of what could be expected in the future when the Changi Motorsports Hub is completed.
Motorsports

Changi Motorsports Hub Construction Commences

IN SG Changi, Singapore Track, Motorsports

SG Changi, developers of Asia's premier motor sports hub presents its plans to the industry and media.


Next was the slalom course in the mid-engined Boxster S. Each driver was timed and the winner walked away with a prize at the end of the day.
Happenings

Porsche World Roadshow (PWRS)

IN Porsche, Driving experience, Defensive driving, Advance driving, Stuttgart

There is no better way to experience the excitement of a Porsche than to drive one. For the Porsche World Roadshow, one gets the chance to drive, not one, but a wide range of Porsches for a day.


And they certainly learnt a lot from the chief instructor Rick Bates of Australia, a former international rally champion who now runs Bates Advanced Driving in Canberra to provide all levels of driver training, including rallying and racing. His expertise was telling, particularly in showing how things were done as he accompanied the participants through all the exercises. Just as well that the venue suited the programme, with The Plaza at the Changi Exhibition Centre in Changi Coast Road providing the wide open space needed for such a safety event.
Happenings

Hyundai Advanced Driving Course

IN Hyundai, Komoco Motors, Advanced Driving

A total of 58 cars spun, slalomed and surged through the first Hyundai Advanced Driving Course that left the women participants gasping for more.


Hence, on 19 September 2010, the Singapore Environment Council (SEC) will be organising the Singapore Green One (Singapore G1), featuring races like the Soap Box Car Race, Eco Car Race, Buggy Race, Trishaw Race and other activities like walking, cycling and skating. SEC aims to raise awareness of the green technology available, that alternative energy options are commercially viable, and to encourage the use of cleaner and more cost-effective modes of transportation like public transport. At the same time, Singapore G1 promotes simple lifestyle changes like walking, cycling or skating.
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Race for Green with Singapore Environment Council

Green transportation issues continue to have major relevance in Singapore today, because of the need to position the city as an eminently livable location that is well connected to the world.



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