Just a car guy : Seeing this from across the street, my first thought was "looks like a Foose design", I was right

Just a car guy : Seeing this from across the street, my first thought was "looks like a Foose design", I was right

The pace of the race turned in Lotus Renault Team dominating the leads for 2nd and third position block in two series battling to win the Formula One Championship in Japanese GP Suzuka Circuit past 3 hours today. The Lotus driver Kimi Raikonnen winning the 2nd position almost winning the Korean GP last week and 3rd place by his team mate Romain Grosjean pinning Red Bull driver Mark Webber behind at 4th spot until he quit due to crashing incidents with Forced India car in Korean GP.

Today French Romain Grosjean hooks the 3rd position after he battling for first position in early lap until the last 53 lap giving Red Bull driver Mark Webber a hard time and a good race in the track. Romain Grosjean has a good performance in the track today out the grid leads the the 1st 2nd grid behind him putting a good investment with a gap of  few seconds.

As a matter of fact Red Bull car ingenuity is more faster than Lotus car as the speed tells supremacy in the stretch battle between Mark Webber and Romain Grosjean, but off course the patients and strategy counts in the circuit of Suzuka we are not only dealing with the speed in this circuit because it has many narrow S curve obstacles were Romain using his blocking ability and making Mark Webber a hard time in sneaking Romain Grosjean cruciall laps from 43 until 53 lap.

This month is in favor with the Lotus team from the last 3 months of scratch to dust status and it was a big return for the team, while his team mate Kimi Raikonnen agonizing in 7th place with Ferrari Fernando Alonzo from crucial lap 55 until 53 lap.
Sources Image : Euro Sport | The Associated Press | Paul Giham | ECT

Too expensive for Cygnet mini-car

Luxury car maker Aston Martin had make a final statement to end the production of Cygnet due to its selling price were too expensive for small cars. This will officially stop the Cygnet mini-cars production by the end of the year that causes big losses of about £24.6 million pounds critical losses for the company.

According to Reuters BBC, Aston Martin, in the beginning of production Cygnet mini-car way back 2011 produces 4000 unit and hoping to get the selling point mark 4000 Cygnet mini-car a year which is far beyond with their expectations, until now it ended up with only 150 Cygnet mini-car sold or 5 percent were in 2012 which supposed to be the crucial selling point with at least 35 percent of the total units are being 

sold. The Cygnet mini-car doubled the price of Mercedes Benz V8 sedans $21,500 US dollars were the mini-car cost $51,000 US dollars. The sedan is wider and spacious than minis which are fit and buy-able to the masses enjoying the benefits and its feature, comfortable car.

The Cygnet was intended to catapult the brand into a new market but at roughly double the price of many competing cars in that segment, it was misjudged by Aston Martin, said Ian Fletcher, an automotive analyst at research consultancy IHS.

"The premium supermini market is a good place to be at the moment but Aston got it wrong in thinking putting a grill and a fancy interior on what was basically a Toyota iQ would make people buy it," he said.

Compare to the BMW, Audis A1 mini-car has been sold well in the market achieved great success with its balanced marketing and productions and pricing decisions. 

Source: ECT Reuters | BBC