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Hair, 22 December 2009 - The time-limited even recognize speed limits. We are in the BMW 740i on the road, the 326-hp entry-level petrol engine under the 7ern. Traffic sign recognition, head-up display, distance cruise control, lane departure warning, and Blind Spot Assistant: Our 740i is packed to the rafters with high-tech. Present In the great barbecue and the overall blockmäßige appearance of the upper-range BMWs, we have become accustomed to long ago. The 740i is no exception, differs only by his signature model from the other 7ern. Place in all directions Inside, the 740i just as a luxury-class car just has to be: Lots of room in the rear also and above all to the sides - after all, man is in his lateral sense of space even more sensitive than the front or back. Fun of the so-called gentleman's button in the driver's door: Push this one can, over the control buttons of the driver's seat of the passenger seat adjust. The material processing is of course perfectly. With the new 7ern the gear lever sits in the center console, just above the well-to-use knob of the iDrive system. About the latter, we can also use the head-up display on or off, but we do not know why we should turn this comfortable display. Finally, the head-up display reflected not only the current velocity in the windshield, but also displays the navigation system and the speed limit exactly. Sign Recognition A small camera for our 7 Series keeps constantly looking out for traffic signs. They discovered a speed limit, it will be the driver via head-up display. In our test, for the most part this worked just fine. As mentioned above, are even recognized time constraints: is 120 km / h on the highway only 22:00 to 6:00 clock, then appears outside of this period is no speed limit. However, the system detects, in one case even a small "60", which has a truck driver stuck to the rear of his trailer.

Hair, 23 December 2009 - None at all nice mess overtaken motorists currently looking at the gasoline prices: The price of a liter of super has consistently eingepegelt at 1.30 euros. An alternative for drivers of large SUVs and is liquefied petrol models, also known as LPG. Here, the price per liter dwells on only 60 cents. Jeep also sees the benefits of cheap fuel, and offers the Patriot as a so-called Eco + model. We have tested the gas-Jeep. Extra-tank on board Outwardly, nothing indicates the LPG version, the Patriot is the usual angular. We like this form because it stands out from the usual SUV design conspicuously. In the case of our test car also still in the square style of the dashboard is required, now there are more rounded elements are used. Improvement is the appearance of the materials used, will vote for the processing. Only on closer inspection, we see at the left end of the instrument panel retrofitted the button to switch to LPG. Five light bars indicate how much LPG in the tank. Speaking of Tank: The Patriot Eco + is an additional 72-liter reservoir built for the gas. Unchanged in 51-liter fuel tank remains as a result of the double gear boot capacity decreases from 320 to 276 liters. Tough guy Under the hood carries a 2.4-liter gasoline engine, its service, which provides 170 hp. Highlights of the aggregate can not be addressed: In general, it is rather surly to the point, at highway driving speed of progress is still tough. Reason is the length of the bony translated into fifth gear manual transmission, which seems to swallow the many horsepower. To move forward fairly lively, we need speed, because only at 4,500 rpm the maximum torque of 220 Newton meters available.

Costa Mesa (California), 4 January 2010 - A hybrid supercar introduced by the world speed record holder Russ Wicks company founded Kepler engine. Strong four-wheel drive hybrid The Motion has a four-wheel drive system and a hybrid powertrain, called Dual Technology (DPT), which provides a total of 811 hp. A modified gasoline engine drives the rear wheels of Ford: The twin-turbo V6 with 3.5-liter engine delivers to 558 hp. For the front axle 253 hp strong electric motor is responsible. Serve as an energy lithium-ion batteries, whose capacity is not specified. With this drive for the motion reaches the 100-km/h-Marke in about 2.5 seconds and reaches a top speed of over 320 km / h.