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A CAR, SO CLASSY THAT IS BUGATTI VEYRON

This car has better fuel usage, performance and safety as the American users are concerned about the energy costs specially the price tags. The Prius earned a massive attention for its gas electric hybrid engine. The engineers and the consumers are giving the alternative fuels like the diesel and hydrogen and clean diesel cars. Mercedes and Chrysler’s Jeep are introducing the diesel powered vehicles with better consumption than the gas counterparts. On the other hand, the power and speed obsessed auto designers are rewriting the rules on performance and price. The manufactures are engaged in a horsepower war producing a pair of world’s fastest cars. The Swedish-made, 245 mph-capable Koenigsegg CCR is presently holding the Guinness World Record for speed in a production car costing $722,534. The upcoming 1,001 horsepower Bugatti Veyron burns its entire fuel supply in 12 minutes.

Cars are now getting safer with each model revision, passive safety systems, like the crumple zones that are a protection to the passengers during severe collisions and intelligent airbags. Even affordable vehicles, like Volkswagen’s plebian Jetta, are earning high side- and front-impact crash ratings. Top-notch safety ratings have become common to larger and more expensive vehicles.

Luxury manufacturers are pushing boundaries with predictive technologies attempting to avoid accidents entirely. Volvo that invented the three-point safety belt continues loading the vehicles with features of dynamic traction control keeping vehicles from sliding off wet or icy roads. BMW has perfecting adaptive cruise control to avoid collisions automatically slowing vehicles down when a collision is imminent