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The BMW X3 is the best selling luxury brand in North America and in the United States

2012 BMW X3

BMW is expanding its Biggest North American factory in Spartanburg, South Carolina, US. The company has announced it will invest minimum $990 million into the facility over the next three years to increase the production to 350,000 vehicles annually.

Currently, the Spartanburg assembly plant produces the BMW X3 (see the above photo), X5 and X6. BMW says the company expects to see an increase in CUV demand in the coming years.

BMW has already committed to strength its presence in the crossover market with the introduction of the upcoming X4 model.

The BMW X3 is the car, that helped the German car maker grow to become the best selling luxury brand, not just only in the United States, but in North America too.

BMW X3 was the best selling luxury car in US in first time in the company’s history last year.

The model saw more then double increase in global sales to a total of 117,944 units, and 27,793 of those found new owners in US.

Presently, 70 percent of the vehicles built in Spartanburg are exported to other markets around the world.

The facility built 276,065 vehicles, in 2011, which marks an increase of 73 percent over 2010. The plant originally opened in 1994, and BMW is currently celebrating the 2 millionth vehicle produced since in there.

Why the BMW X-3 is so popular?

The BMW X3 is the best compact 4×4 you can buy, and that’s why the BMW X3 is the SUV of 2011. It’s classy, practical and good to drive. The engines are very efficient, too, and standard kit pretty generous.

With 28 cubic feet of cargo space with the rear seats up (flip them forward for 63 cubic feet). It makes the latest X3 a very comfortable family car.

The base X3 comes with 240-hp engine. The xDrive35i comes with a turbocharged 306-hp engine.

Both X3s also get a shift able eight speed automatic transmission with dual clutch system. Read more about dual clutch system…

The 2012 X3 is smooth in city driving and can be sporty around corners. It “behaves” like a sport sedan. If you take it to the limit, the drivers aids like stability control, traction control, kicks in only after the sound of spinning tire and some burned rubber smell. This is really fun car to drive…

Original Mercedes Brake Pads

If you ever wondered about the source of so called original Mercedes brake pads.

Mercedes brake pads made by PAGID, their brand name in the center of the above photo.

The insulating shims are Made by LUCAS/TRW.

We use the same part, made by the same manufacturer. But our parts comes without the trade mark logo of Mercedes Star.

Our knowledge is power to you and the saving is power you too, because the savings is yours to keep.

Overheated BMW Engine

BMW owners, please note your car modern Alloy engines will not tolerate severe overheat. Due to the strength of Alloy, it will get tempered (destroyed) by overheating.

Aluminum is a light metal, with low melting point. Aluminum’s melting point is half of the cast Cast Iron’s meting point, which is beyond 1200 Celsius.

Older cast iron engines did tolerate overheating better.

In the event of overheating do yourself a favor and don’t try to drive your car home or to your favorite mechanic shop or you might need a new engine on arrival.

Our advice is, turn engine off and get a tow truck. As much as it is inconvenient, towing is still your best and less expensive alternative.

Mercedes SL with Custom Designed Alloy Wheels

At above is a Mercedes SL with Mandrus Millennium custom designed and made wheels. Check out our Mercedes custom designed performance wheels.

These performance wheels to be used with Mercedes tire pressure monitoring system(TPMS) as well.

What Happened With This BMW X5?

A failed cyclone valve created this disaster. If you own BMW X5, you should replace them with a new. The new made with upgraded component to prevent this.

We recommend to shorter your oil change intervals to maximum ten thousand kilometers with BMW approved premium, long life synthetic motor oil.

Some of this engines are know to have Hydraulic locked by motor oil, after cyclone valve drain failure.

Your catalyst converter and O/2 sensors are not meant to be soaked in raw motor oil, or have your car engine locked suddenly by the same.

This applies to most 3.0 BMW engines.

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Brake Dust Free Akebono Ceramic Brake Pads

Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd is the brake system supplier of the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes F1™ team.

Akebono has been supplying and jointly developing brake systems for the McLaren Mercedes F1™ team since 2007.

McLaren has officially announced its full-scale entry in the GT3 series in 2012. Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. is to develop and supply brake calipers and exclusively designed bespoke brake pads for the MP4-12C GT3, McLaren’s latest FIA GT series racing car.

Also Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. is the first manufacturer to produce a true ceramic brake pad for European vehicles that delivers the same European pedal feel and the same, if not better – stopping power as the original brake pads.

For extra, Akebono’s exclusive clean wheel formulations virtually brake dust free. With other words, Akebono brake pads will keep your designer or standard alloy wheels beautifully clean and shiny with excellent stopping power. Continue reading...

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Porsche Boxter Catalyst Replacement for Both Banks

Porsche Boxter on the hoist…

This is what it takes to replace the meltdown catalyst converter for Porsche Boxter.

It can happen if your Boxter had a steady misfire or you never replaced the oxygen censor in time.

We can make them in-house (you need two), this way considerably less expensive, alternative to the original Porsche component, and they do what they supposed to do.

You can see on the next photo how the catalyst converter looked like, when we checked it.

The above Porsche failed the emission test. I suspected a damaged catalyst. My guess was right on. This converter was in a really bad shape. Good thing the car was still in running condition.

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Next Generations BMW 3 series

The next generation BMW 3 Series arrives to Canada early 2012.

The BMW 3 Series has long been considered the leader in its class. The 2012 BMW 3 Series is the 6th generation 3 series from BMW.

As you can see on the above video, it comes in all new design and 3 distinct trim levels.

Sport Line

Modern Line

Luxury Line

The new 3 Series can also be dress up with a new M sport package. It includes bigger and lighter alloy wheels, M sport suspension, different interior design and leather steering wheel.

The 2012 BMW 328i will arrive to the show rooms with a TwinPower Turbo 2.0 litre, 4 cylinder engine. It produce 245 horsepower and 258 pound feet of torque.

The 2012 BMW 335i will be powered TwinPower Turbo 3.0 liter in-line 6 cylinder engine. It produce 306 horsepower and 295 pound feet of torque.

Any of the both engines is very impressive. Both produce more than 100 horse power for 1 liter of engine volume.

Transmission can be 6 speed manual or 8 speed automatic. The automatic in Sport mode can accelerate more quickly than the 6 speed manual transmission, while also produce slightly better fuel mileage.

One of the exciting new features to be installed in the 2012 BMW 3 Series is the Head Up Display Technology (HUD) . As the name suggests, HUD Technology will allow the driver to view dashboard display on the car’s windscreen itself!

HUD Technology available in the 2012 BMW 3 Series with an additional cost of $1,300. Because HUD technology, the driver will no longer need to take his/her eyes of the road while changing tracks, looking for directions using GPS, etc.

C63 AMG winter tire package

19 Inches Winter Tire – Advanti Alloy Racing Wheel – Package for Mercedes C63 AMG

C63 AMG with the 19″ Advanti Racing wheels. Only a limited numbers of wheels will fit the new C63 AMG due to the massive brake calipers.

The winter tires are Pirelli Sottozero N1 winter sport tires. Call us for more info: (1)905.795.0419

New Mercedes Benz coupe is very fast

The Mercedes Benz C250 Coupe blends great fuel economy with enough power to please speed-hungry drivers.

Mercedes-Benz has covered all the bases with the introduction of the all-new C-Class Coupe.

Three models share the same sleek AMG inspired lines but offer three distinct levels of performance and luxury. And after a long absence, the C250 sees the return of a four cylinder engine to the Mercedes-Benz lineup. But this is no ordinary 1.8-litre four-cylinder.

It features direct injection, dual balance shafts and a turbocharger that delivers 201 horsepower to the rear wheels and dashes to 100 km/h in 7.2 seconds while sipping just 6.4 L/100 km on the highway. It’s called having your strudel and eating it.

The C350 ups the ante with a 3.5-litre, 302 horsepower V6 while the over the top AMG C63 has somehow found space under the hood to squeeze in the 6.2-litre, 481 horsepower V8.

This will rocket you to 100 km/h in an eye watering 4.4 seconds and has a potential terminal speed of 280 km/h. Not around here, but in Germany on the autobahn….
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