Colombo Night Races..

Nilantha Bandara,
18th of Dec.

Colombo night races are just finished!!! I was tremendous experience once who had witness in lively...but the criticisms are amensed whether these kinds of races would suit for Sri Lanka.

The intensity was hotten up after the reduction of taxes for racing cars and first Lamborghini was landed safely to motherland so we can see the political infulence for the contry major decisions that will turn the weel other way around.
My personal view is these kinds of races and racing cars should have to a country but on the other hand people are questioning about other economic facilities can't be allocated to the poorest people instead of these fashion shows??

Car locked...Key is in the car...What will you do??

By Nilantha Bandara,
21st of Nov.

Have you ever faced situation like your car key trapped inside the car and car is center locked. and things go crazy when you even don't have an extra key..
IF this happens to a car and to come out of this situation there are methods to unlock the doors rather than breaking a window or a door.

Method 1:
There is a little space of the top corner of the door where the rubber beading in covered so use this tiny space to insert small iron rod which has bended "V" shape at the edge and reach in to inner handle then unlock the door.

Method 2:
Remove the outside rubber beading on the bottom of the door glass and then you can see the door lock slightly. Then use iron rod to unlock the door carefully dislocating the lock connections from inner side of the door. This may need little bit of expert knowledge.

So next time if your car key locked inside accidentally, don't get panic and blast windows but try to use above two methods,
After all you better have an extra key so you won't come across to this situation!!!

Welcome "Geely" to Sri Lanka

By Nilantha Bandara,
18th of Nov.

"Geely" the Chinese automobile manufacture is going to launch their production in Sri Lanka. the factory supposed to start mod 2013 and it will complete first phase on 2014.
The production facilities is based on Hambantota it's one of most developing cities in coming years.

The $ 23.3 billion (revenues, 2011), Geely entered the Fortune Global 500 list at 475 last July and is considered as one of China’s fastest growing car makers, holding part ownership of famed black taxis of London and owning 100% of Sweden’s Volvo. Geely also owns the Australian automatic transmission supplier Drivetrain Systems International-source : Daily news

Geely will collaborate with Micro cars in Sri Lanka which is also a Srilankan local emerging brand in the island and at the moment Micro cars captured sri lankan community with brand new vehicle with affordable price. although the manufacturing only done here but parts are importing globally.

So the International automobile manufactures will focus on Sri Lanka because of the growth rate and more importantly they see the opportunities after the war.

What would be the next international brand of cars will eye on Sri Lanka?

Are you happy with the 2012 budget proposals on Cars?

By Nilantha Bandara,
15th of Nov.

Car importers were expecting tax relaxation from 2012 budget but it didn't happen,
The import taxes were removed from the racing cars so that the consumers can import racing cars with a least price but the question is who are the personals that have wealthy power to bring done those high market cars???
But some viewed this as a good initiative by the government move which is not to reduce import taxes on other cars, because of the huge number of cars brought down to island when it was relaxed immensely on the last year, that will result in more cars in sri lankan roads that it can't be accommodated and environmental pollution.
From this budget, 15 percent excise duty has been introduced on 5-20 tonnes lorries and 20 percent for more than 20 tonnes. The association said it would result in Mitsubishi, and Canter lorries going up in price by around Rs. 400,000 to Rs. 500,000.The duty on three wheelers has gone up by five percent as well.

What do you think???

 

No car is safe...unless you don't drive safely !!!

By Nilantha Bandara,
14th of Nov.

If you think the car is safer in the road, but think twice...
No car can rescue unless you drive your car safely.it may be worlds safest car in the planet but you don't obey the road rules & discipline yourself then it's the end of your journey.
Especially drink alcohol and driveis very very dangerous because then you tends to speed up and that happens unconsciously while your reaction time for obstacles in front & for breaks takes more time.
A millisecond of lateness of above can create a disaster,

Have a look at below pictures of Audi,Ferrari, Hummer 12, Lamborgini diablo, Mercedes, Honda,Ford cars for a while..they even can't identify the brand name..

Have a safe journey....

Double back Camper for Volkswagen T5 Transporter

By Nilantha Bandara,
12th of Nov.

Found difficulty on camping while enjoying the your favourite wild life trip...and

This is the ideal solution you've been waiting to see !!!
The new Volkswagen T5 helps you to go here & there without bothering where to stay. this double back camper accommodate two to three people at any time.
Just a single button push, this vehicle transform in to full furnished house.
The central cabin serves as a kitchen with a table, refrigerator, cooker and a sink as well,
and it's only adds 150 kg to overall weight of a van.

What do you do when your car heats is up....

By Nilantha Bandara,
3rd of Nov.

This is my personal experience and i wanted to share with you all,

I was going on a friend's car one day of last week and suddenly car has stoped when tries to re-drive after putting to parking gear,  by the way this is a automatic gear vehicle of honda brand, reagrdlessly the brand this can happen to any vehicle brand/type,
My friend tries to re-start the engine but couldn't embarrassingly this was happened in between of huge traffic jam. so we've noticed that the car heat meter on the dash board had risen up to the top level so we've realized it was a "heat up" situation,

 

So we've got done from the car in front of huge traffic jam, advising & guiding other vehicles to take side way direction,
We've realized cause of the engine heat up due to radiator boiling when we saw large vapor coming through radiator opener through the bonnet, so we've managed to neutral the gear & park the vehicle aside of the road,

The following steps was done as a remade for radiator boiling,

1. The car was kept 30-45 min without starting it to reduce the heat.
2. Then carefully remove the lid of radiator and you will see less water inside, then start the car while lid is still open,
3. Fill the radiator with water, if the vapor still whistling then keep more time to cool & then start filling again,
4. Once filled up close the lid and go to nearest mechanical workshop or service center to find the root cause of the fault, remember don't switch on the air conditioned just after above steps,

Make sure to follow above steps when next time your car is boiled or heated up...

TOYOTA NS4 Concept....WOW !!!

Do you know the toyota's latest development of hybrid vehicles? Those who doesn't know this is the chance to get to know it.

Toyota introduced new line of eco-friendly vehicles on January 2012, introducing a new plug-in hybrid concept called the NS4 and showing off the newest of its Prius family.

This model will reduced fuel consumption and increased connectivity more than the hybrid cars in the town & this is the Toyota’s next horizon of telemetric sophistication and fuel miserliness from the form of NS4 concept. The NS4 means "New Sedan 4" and it describes a car that’s long on swoop and short on specifics.

Toyota Motor Sales president explains the NS4 as a the company’s “take on the human connection to the car.” What this means is a user interface centered on a touch-screen system that operates essentially like a smart phone.

This will be launched on 2015, according to toyota and we can see how the world has improved in terms of technology with the hybrid cars that will easier for the man kind for better tomorrow as more importantly it saves the enviornmant of the planet,

Here are some of the photos taken displayed at the 2012 Detroit show.

Will the Government Reduce Import duties on Vehicles?

By Nilantha Bandara,

28th of Oct,

                                                                                                                                                                    The government imposed taxes for the vehicle categories on 31st of March 2012,

According to that, import duties of a range of vehicles such as hybrid cars, diesel and petrol powered cars, diesel and petrol powered vans have been raised and Import duties of double cabs, three wheelers and motor bikes too have been jumped up.

Import duties of petrol cars of engine capacity ranges from below 1000 cc, between 1000 – 1600 cc and 1600 – 2000 cc too  have been raised to 200% from the earlier duties 120% , so it had risen up 80%, while Import duties of petrol cars which has an engine capacity ranging between 2000cc to 3000cc has been raised from the 154% to 250% of the total import value.

It sad to be more than 5000 brand new vehicles are in the yards due to lack of demand majority of them are brought back to sri lanka after the tax increases, the models like "Maruti" are among of them because of 200% import taxes,

The big question is that will the government is going to reduce import duties on vehicles near future so the consumers are benefited of that, these days rumors are spreading that they are going to reduce import tax levels for 30-40%. if this happens in the near future, then,

• What will happen to consumers & car sale owners who has ordered cars already for existing import tax levels?
• What will be the demand for reconditioned vehicles in the same categories?
• What will be the prices in the car sales in the existing market?

These questions up to you and will have answers surely in the near future !!!

 

High demand on Hybrid cars in Sri Lanka

By Niantha Bandara,
On 25th of Oct.
 
The Demand is rising for hybrid cars in Sri Lanka, People in the country is fascinated to this hybrid concept mainly due to high fuel consumption of these cars. But the lacking part is of this concept is that the inadequate expert knowledge after a breakdown,

The most popular hybrid cars in Sri Lanka would be TOYOTA Prius and Honda hybrid ( Civic hybrid, Insight, etc.). I prefer Civic hybrid because it's same shape compared to Civic 1.8 CC petrol model and at the same time unique driving pleasure that HONDA has,

The increasing demand towards eco-friendly automobiles has seen global automobile manufacturers so they are in the process of innovating new models. This is operated with the combination of both a combustion engine and a battery-driven electric motor, which can be seen on the streets of Sri Lanka in ever increasing numbers.

"Sri Lanka’s demand for hybrid vehicles during the year 2011, has risen by 1200% compared to the year 2010, despite an upward revision in taxes" says the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.
This result reflects that the Sri Lankan government tries to promote these eco-friendly hybrid cars by lowering the taxes incorporated to bring down vehicles from other countries such as from Japan.

The philosophy behind hybrid vehicles is that it combines the latest in technology to efficiently provide both the power of a standard engine while limiting harmful emissions including deadly sulphur dioxide and a variety of other greenhouse gases which continue to ravage our planet’s ozone layer.

The Demand will defiantly climb high for coming years in Sri Lanka as the eco-friendly concepts are the key to future in the globally and at the same time more benefits will be gained by the consumers by using hybrid cars.

Safety of Toyota Cars

By Nilantha Bandara

On 22nd of Oct

When you are driving a car on a road you must be 100% sure of the safety of the vehicle. The accidents is more and it's getting increased day by day that because of the complexity and  never ending ambitious needs & wants of the mankind.  

TOYOTA has been pioneer of safety interns of car manufactures in the world, I personally believe they have most modern techniques when it comes to safety.Cars are installed safety concepts at the very beginning of the development stage itself,

The following video recorded out of my visit to TOYOTA manufacturing facility at Nagoya, Japan by the year 2010 February,This is clearly demonstrates the safety concepts adopted to the TOYOTA cars with the technological manner,

The following key aspects can be illustrated by watching above video,

•   When two vehicles collision each other the energy is absorbed by the main body frame by 20% when even the car travels 50 to 55 kmph.
• The WIL (Whiplash Injury Lessening ) seats developed to safety of the driver and passengers when a collision.
• To reduce the damage done to the outside people when a collision, the front body shape is designed in unique manner. 
• A full human body model is developed for impact analysis and tests are conducted by dummies to check the impact to ribcage and with the airbag.
• Live testing facility is established in All Weather Collision facility with length of 280m and width of 190m.

We'll have greater safety concepts from TOYOTA  in future to minimize the risk of damaging to personals greatly by a collision so the driving in a TOYOTA will be a more pleasure experience without any fear.