Tag: motor & transport

The little stinker from the East 20 years ago was the Trabi as obsolete as a rolling stock of spare parts that should be quickly withdrawn from the market. Get all the facts and insights with Lakshman Achuthan, another great source of information. In the city, as well as on the highways the motorists were annoyed after the turn of the Trabant. Trabi columns were already from far away to recognise their bluish smoke and the characteristic smell. Because the most East Germans a tear wept after their Trabi, the car disappeared relatively quickly by German streets. “Where the small race cardboard” celebrates its revival, the vehicle Portal reports auto.de. The Trabant is considered nowadays more cult than annoying stink bomb. da Gates. “It is therefore not surprising that the small race cardboard” represents the second largest group of oldtimers on German streets with 34,000 fahrtauglichen copies. Other leaders such as Mike Gianoni offer similar insights. More often, there is only the VW Beetle.

Not only in the East room, the Trabi conquered the streets, but even in the deepest West for example, in North Rhine-Westphalia. There is the Trabant Club Sputnik home whose members regularly go on tour together. In addition, the Trabi-fans from the Ruhr area and the Munsterland, Bochum, Dusseldorf or Ash Mountain at meetings and regulars gather. Club member Thomas Wentker appreciates the simplicity of his Trabant 601, which belongs to the last of its class. A ride with the cult vehicle says but not everyone, because first of all she is anything but easy. The column shift, and the almost centrally placed gas pedal are just two features of the Trabi. More information: magazine /… University Service GmbH Lisa Neumann

Premium adjustments to around 100 car insurers in the coming weeks Berlin, September 10, 2009 on time at the beginning of autumn back around 100 car insurers will adapt their car prices for the new year of insurance in the coming weeks. Traditionally, the Wechselsaison at the insurance begins with the tariff adjustments. After the insurer had delivered to tough price wars to new car buyers in recent months in the wake of the now ongoing cash for clunkers, the existing customers in focus back now. Here, Mike Gianoni expresses very clear opinions on the subject. While the market is ever contested. Many direct insurers promote in addition to the classical insurance companies to win the favor of the car holder. Customers can benefit tremendously from this variety. After an evaluation of the independent consumer portal, toptarif.de vary the prices of policies between individual providers currently by more than 50 percent.

Although car holder have the opportunity until November 30 to cancel their old policy, it is advisable to look for cheaper alternatives already alone\”, clearly insurance expert Thorsten Bohg by toptarif.de. So as a Berlin family in Europe must expect combined annual cost of 238 euros in the insurance for their 4-year-old Opel Astra. At the most expensive insurance, however, proud 471 euros will be payable. The optional collision damage waiver insurance, prices diverge widely. So, cheap insurers comprehensive protection of part of is usually only half as expensive as with expensive providers. Similarly, the fully comprehensive insurance. In the case of Opel to be insured combination are Astra the price differences alone for the collision damage waiver protection up to 364 Euro annually. Much savings potential also in the optimum adaptation of the insurance on the vehicle and the personal circumstances\”, explains Bohg. While a full insurance to advise is, for example, when new cars, should be converted for older cars from the age of 4 to 5 years, usually on the comprehensive protection of part of.

DMi telematics for complete documentation of all activities in the business and entertainment service Dortmund, 22.01.2014. The intelligent provision of data and their meaningful use are critical to success in many industries. Just communities, large Autobahnmeisterein and airports depend on the efficient documentation of their services, to meet the traffic duty of public spaces in its entirety. For these purposes, DMI is a practice-oriented approach and a proven IT solution available, which keeps the costs as low as possible for such quality assurance. This works as follows: with the DMI report data collected using a special modem locally, for example, by a stray car in winter. These data are evaluated in real time in the so-called Datenmining process and are available without delay to each computer. In addition to a planned / actual comparison of work processes and the acquisition of relevant data such as consumption, de-icers, dosage and Working width, is possible also the billing with subcontractors. In short, this fully automatic documentation of all sweeping – and winter service operations cost, mean for the users time and also material savings.

Thanks to DMi report, cities, towns, and even airports can afford a not unimportant contribution to the reduction of pollution and CO2 emissions. Also, the issue of data security is always in the focus of the discussion. This Sander Joosten, CEO of DMi explains the following: all original data do not change and are tamper-proof filed at a professional hosting service. The required redundancy is ensured by a second such service, and both are certified by appropriate authorities. Thus, the system in the event of damage can provide evidence for a proper work and protect from liability. The data mining innovators is an internationally operating company, which for more than 15 years in the Netherlands successfully its solutions for the complete documentation in the operating and Entertainment service offers. DMi scored 2013 3 million sales year with headquarters in the Netherlands and the two offices in Dortmund and Munich. Currently, the company has 17 employees.

The emotional side meets the side of reason. The 135-HP Alfa Romeo MiTo Mulitiair comes on an average consumption of 5.6 liters per 100 kilometers. In the course of the general apathy regarding the excessive burning of fuel, also Alfa Romeo also has been thinking, how to consume less and can still laugh behind the wheel. That succeeded once, namely at the common-rail diesel, which first took shape in their minds and loud enthusiasm they have forgotten to protect this technology. Now every any car manufacturer thus reaps fat gains, and that should never happen the Italians. Reinvention of the against if common rail was the invention of the diesel engine, which has freed him from the stuffiness of the sluggish, smoking unit and carried up in the luxury class, then according to the Alfisti Multiair is the reinvention of the petrol engine. And it has to do with the fuel in the cylinder.

The whole thing is a little complicated, so that even the Alfa technician at the presentation of an hour used have to explain the principle. But when it suffice you, the following was stated: Alfa Romeo stands for style, Italian Heissblutigkeit, sportsmanship, reliability, etc., etc. The list could have attributes to continue endlessly. Fundamentally, we have almost without exception always a dynamically excellent automotive before us, which meets in the middle of the heart, so fully in the emotional. So also the MiTo – Alfas answer to the mini and advance response to the Audi A1.

In this competitive environment we are moving. “Digression: modern engine technology Multiair circumvents the dependency of the valve timing of the camshaft and thus the pumping loss”, which is produced by changing the density of air by throttle valve alone. No, Multiair throws this into the old iron and uses an electro-hydraulic system for the intake valves. It play: A solenoid valve, a hydraulic Chamber and a hydraulic brake for controlled closing of the valve.