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If you are looking for a good GPS system for your car then the AVIC X1BT GPS system from Pioneer will fit perfectly. With this model, you can navigate your car effortlessly while you enjoy the best entertainment. All of Pioneer’s experience and expertise have gone into the making of this unique satellite navigation GPS system that is surely going to be a hit with consumers.

Get ready to experience advanced routing and re-routing options like the built in RDS-TMC tuner, built-in 3D positioning sensor, built-in GPS receiver, Exclusive graphic accelerator, Optional Voice Guidance Channel and 32-bit RISC CPU. With the ability to recognize six languages and the ability to provide voice guidance in 10 languages, this navigation system also supports six navigational modes that include Street list model, Vehicle Dynamics mode and Rear View mode.

Users are finding the LCD colour touch-screen monitor that is also anti glare a delight to use. You can even match the background to your car’s interiors. You can set the display to different modes like Zoom, Cinema or Full, while the viewing angle, backlight and picture can be adjusted accordingly to suit your needs for providing picture perfect maps. Phone book transfer, Preset Number dial, List Display and Phone book Edit function are some of the other capabilities of the Bluetooth. With an in built CD/DVD/MP3 player, the Pioneer AVIC-X1BT model from Pioneer is guaranteed to provide the best in entertainment experience. The hands free allow you to operate the system without any distraction and you can drive on the roads safely.

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The world renowned chipmaker Nvidia has produced the new Audi Q5’s navigation graphics system. This system is named MMI or the Multimedia Interface by Audi. With the help of the new navigation system, users can view the maps of urban centers in 3D format. All the landmark buildings are highlighted with a new texture. This feature helps drivers recognize places easily. The topographical maps are also described in 3D format, which helps users understand the pattern of the terrain ahead.

The navigator comes with a 7 inch screen. This device gives traffic updates and enables the user to escape from heavy traffic. The Nvidia powered device not only comes with amazing graphics but also features some great techniques. Nvidia graphics chips are usually reserved for computers or laptops, like the Sony Vaio VGN-AW11M/H, and this represents one of the few times the world’s leading graphics chip maker, Nvidia, has worked on a sat nav. This system has adapted the hard drive-based navigation system. The 10GB space reserved for music is a good choice as listening to music while driving is a popular culture today. The 10 GB space allows users to save their favorite songs. Audi also offers the speech-to-text facility. With the help of this, you can make calls to anybody in your phonebook just by uttering their name. On doing this, the car will make the call to the person mentioned and provides hands-free calling.

To make matters much easier, the Audi car company has added another feature namely the inclusion of joystick to its console dial. The joystick can be used to surf around the map as you drive. It is very comfortable to access, as compared to the keys found in other navigators. Go for a drive in the Audi to know what luxury feels like.

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Planning to choose a new place as your holiday destination? Then you need a perfect guide who will take you safely around the place. An ideal option is to carry along with you the Snooper S360 satellite navigator. The Snooper S360 In-Car Satellite navigator features a height of 75mm and a width of 100mm. It has a thickness of 20mm with 3.5inch touch screen monitor. This device is a one-touch work and home route programmer. The touch screen comes with the day and night viewing modes facility. It uses rechargeable lithium- polymer battery and is also equipped with an in-built antenna. This in-built antenna is very sensitive to the GPS receiver.

The Snooper S360 In-Car Satellite navigator contains the street maps of UK and Ireland. These maps can be viewed in both 2D and 3D format. The Snooper S360 Strabo has a unique feature; it tells you the location of the place if you type the 7 digit postcode. These maps contain number of points of interest. These points of interest include nearest airports, petrol stations, hotels and other tourist spots. It provides traffic alerts every now and then and thus will help you escape from traffic jams.

In these cases, the Snooper navigator re-routes itself and will help you choose the next best alternative route. It also gives free speed camera updates. You can listen to your favourite songs by making use of the in-built MP3 player. This device has Bluetooth facility and enables you to receive calls hands free. It also comes with car power charger, a home charger, USB cable, an external GPS antenna and manual for guidance. So get a Snooper S360 In-Car Satellite navigator and enjoy the difference.

There are a number of satellite navigators available in the market and when it comes to choosing one customers are usually confused and in a dilemma. Here is a better option for you. One of the most wonderful sat nav is the Road Angel Navigator 9000. This is a high class satellite navigator with an advanced GPS system that makes it stand-out from other satellite navigators. It also provides maps of short routes, enables calculating the distance between two points and an approximate time needed to cover the distance. Apart from these features, this Sat Nav also provides users with updates on the weather, traffic, speed camera, etc. Tracking of vehicles is very easy as it uses the GSN/GPRS technology.

One of the most unique features of Road Angel Navigator 9000 is that, it enables users to operate the system using a PC. It gives instant messages and updates about the weather report and traffic situation of the places you are going to travel, which is very convenient for you to make necessary arrangements. It also doesn’t require a PC to upload and the updates will be received on-the-air. The Road Angel Navigator 9000 has a 4inch screen, which displays the maps in two dimensional and three dimensional formats. It also gives reports about the next turn and the name of the streets. In case of any traffic jam, the navigator reroutes itself to the next convenient route. It also plays MP3 songs, movies via SD cards so there is no chance of boredom. Get a Road Angel Navigator 9000 and have a safe journey.

The wonderful VDO Dayton PN6000 GPS System blends a satellite navigation system with mobile digital television. It is a navigation system that, while primarily focusing on the navigational aspects, pays equal importance to the multimedia aspect as well. The Dayton PN6000 functions as an MP3 player, a JPEG picture viewer, and a mobile television, apart from being a really great GPS system.

The GPS system interacts through a 5.6” touch screen interface, and provides pictograms and voice guided routes to locations that you choose. You can switch between manually and automatically zooming into the maps, which are loaded into the system through a 2GB SD memory card that comes as part of the package.

The GPS system is versatile and the menus can be set to up to twenty different languages, while voice guidance can be provided in up to seventeen of those languages. The VDO Dayton PN 6000 GPS’ capabilities include selecting the best routes based on traffic information, selecting the shortest route and routes to avoid tolls, ferries and the likes.

The VDO Dayton PN6000’s Digital Television feature is great all by itself. It provides a channel list for you to choose from and a pictogram subtitle support with teletext support as well. It also comes with a great electronic programme guide which can point out which shows are when. To power up the VDO Dayton PN6000, there is a polymer lithium battery of 4000mAh. On a full charge, this battery provides up to three hours of television time, and six hours of GPS navigation capabilities.

Overall, the VDO Dayton PN6000 is a great all in one system for your car.

Chrysler LLC has added two models to its portfolio of electric vehicles, the Jeep Wrangler and Patriot. This portfolio has been growing at a fast pace. In the Patriot, Chrysler has effectively combined the small petrol engine with the electric vehicle technology ENVI. This combination provides the vehicle with an overall range of 400 miles and an electric only range of 40 miles.

The range of forty miles comes with zero fuel consumption and zero emissions. According to Chrysler LLC’s Advance Vehicle Engineering vice president and ENVI president, Lou Rhodes, Jeep Patriot EV joins their already extended ENVI portfolio of vehicles driven on electricity. He said that these achievements of Chrysler Engineering was a standing proof of what is possible through the Chrysler developed technology.

Integration of electric technology into the most compact SUV of the industry goes on to highlight the social responsibility shown by Chrysler, said Rhodes. Prototype of the Wrangler EV reveals that it is a two wheel drive and a model that is range extended. Efforts are however on by Chrysler to develop electric motors in-wheel and a four wheel drive to showcase their electric-drive technological skills and capabilities. The overall range and drive of the Wrangler EV is similar to that of the Patriot EV. Previously, Jeeps, 4 x 4s, and SUVs were considered the antithesis of environmentally friendly vehicles, but this new development clearly changes that perception. Now electric Jeeps will clearly not be rally racing off road any time soon, or be found in games like Jeep Thrills, but the advancement is still a welcome one. Lou Rhodes says in a market where consumers are looking to explore completely the environmental potential, Jeep Wrangler ideally brings to them an electric drive that is clean and fuel efficient.

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Porsche, one of the foremost car manufacturer’s of the world, has confirmed reports that they are ready with a new model, the new Panamera grand tourer, which they have decided to showcase at this year’s Shanghai Auto Show to be held in April. Company sources also reveal that the original plan was to launch the model a month earlier at the Geneva Motor Show, but it had to be postponed because of unavoidable circumstances.

If things goes as planned the public can get a glimpse of the car on the 19 April when it goes on stage, a day before the Shanghai show gets underway. According to reports emanating from the company, the shift was made to accommodate the growing potential of China to consume these products, as well as its neighbours India and Russia who are fast turning out to be a fertile market for the car manufacturers. The cars that are slated to be revealed at the show, it has been expected, will include the normally aspirated V8 as well as the twin-turbocharged V8 variants.

The potential of the Chinese market is taking centre stage of late, what with major car maker Stuttgart selling a record 8,190 units in the last financial year. This is in direct contrast to what has been observed in established markets like Germany, where sales dropped by more than 5% over the same period, forcing the manufacturers to chalk out their future strategies as well as long term business policies.

Porsche CEO, Wendelin Wiedeking was quite forthright when speaking about the growth of new markets, while established markets take the tumble, as he stressed the need to make their presence felt in still nascent markets like China and the Middle East. Even Porsche accessories, such as cologne, perfume, and trainers like the Adidas Porsche Design S2 mens trainers, are being targeted at these emerging markets as well. The Porsche name carries with it a reputation for luxury and class that is recognised worldwide.

The company has already set a production limit of 20,000 cars per year to meet the demands of the discerning customer, with the provision to chop it down in case sales don’t live up to the anticipated levels.

As with every other product, the concept and technology of satellite navigation systems are also undergoing a major in recent times. These days it is not enough for a navigation system to typically guide you through different routes, but is also expected to perform many a diverse tasks, such as entertain you and allow you to use your mobile phone hands-free. The latest navigation system to get attention on the block, the Becker Traffic Assist Z200, stands tall in these aspects and pre-loaded with street-level mapping of as many as 40 European countries. The instruction is also available in 22 different languages.

The Becker Traffic Assist Z200 has been incorporated with the contemporary 4.3-inch TFT touch-screen LCD, and there is also the provision of a full 8-digit UK postcode search. The Becker Traffic Assist Z 200 uses both 2D and 3D maps view options, and the feature is further refined by the inclusion of a split-screen as well as turn-by-turn displays with the discretion to select them individually.

Meanwhile, the presence of the Bluetooth interface makes for safe hands-free calling. When on the road, the TMC (Traffic Message Channel) module keeps warning you on traffic snarls that you might encounter on the way. You are at good hands though with the Becker T Z200, as the ‘Lane Assistant’ feature, helps you to change the route before the calamity dawns.

The device in addition, is equipped with Reality View which consists of nearly 4,000 directional signs on European motorways that are presented in a true to life manner for enhanced convenience. Moreover, the display is easy on the eye, helped to a large extent by an impressive resolution.

PSA Peugeot Citroën and Robert Bosch GmbH have entered into an important strategic partnership to build and market diesel hybrid technology. Under the agreement, Bosch is now responsible to co-develop, industrialise and supply electric motors and power electronics for its partner’s four-wheel-drive diesel hybrid powertrain project.

This innovative and futuristic diesel hybrid technology was unveiled at the recently concluded Paris Motor Show on the Peugeot Prologue and Citroën Hypnos concept cars, and will be an integral part of the participating companies’ vehicles starting in 2011.

The decision to build diesel hybrid technology signifies the importance bestowed by PSA Peugeot Citroen to embrace technologies that will take into account the various environmental hazards. Environment friendly and fuel efficient cars are becoming essential in today’s modern world, and generally of more importance than other factors, such as having an in-car DVD player, or nice rims. In fact, the hybrid technology rates highly in the company’s environmental strategy. With this innovative collaboration, PSA Peugeot Citroën has really set the momentum for the rapid introduction of hybrid diesel vehicles in Europe. Meanwhile, Bosch, the world’s leading automobile equipment manufacturer, also has an important role to enact as the supplier of the various component parts to build the system.

Bosch is bound by the agreement to supply the rear electric motor, the front-mounted high voltage alternator and the power electronics that will control them. Further, Bosch will also provide PSA Peugeot Citroën specifications other important components like an interface between the electronic components, an antilock braking system (ABS), and an energy recovery enhancer in the form of electronic stability programme (ESP).

The collaboration, which will involve brainstorming sessions among the designers and engineers of the two parties, is expected to optimise the hybrid powertrain’s operation with the simultaneous acceleration of acquisition of mutual expertise in this area.

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There is no looking back if you are guided by something as imaginative and futuristic as the Medion GoPal E3410 GPS System. It is not for nothing that the gadget has won 4 stars out of 5 from PC adviser online magazine which testifies to the dynamism of this powerful system. Jam-packed with user friendly features, you can now get set to discover the world with the assurance that you will be looked after with care.

The device comes integrated with a MP3 player that provides you round the clock entertainment. There is also the provision to integrate your mobile phone or camera and organiser with this device which is sure to add variety and flexibility on your part and make the journey a more rewarding one.

Meanwhile, the touch screen feature ensures that you can get all the necessary information and instructions with a touch of your fingertip, just like with earlier models including the Medion GoPal E3115. It also adds to the convenience level as you can browse through the data more quickly. The Bluetooth adds the glamour and intelligence quotient to the device. You can even save important software for future use utilizing the Memory card that comes with the device. The security of digital contents is also one of the other significant traits of the device and ensures your privacy.

Your safety issues are also well addressed by the device, and features a text-to-speech feature which does away with the necessity to manually search for things while you are driving as it is a dangerous proposition.