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With abbreviations rife in car speak all over the world, its easy to feel a bit overwhelmed during the launch of a new car, marketing material awash with terms and codes you simply don't understand. One thing you can rely on is that you at least understand the definition and description of the type of car you're looking at, right? Coupe? Two door, sportier version of, inevitably, a bigger, more sensible 'Saloon' brother. SUV? Sports utility vehicle. We all love them and hate them all at once. We love the practicality and security of the big car feel yet increasingly find it harder and harder to justify the size, expense and environmental impact these 'gas guzzlers' represent.

So, we have a handle on describing cars then? Maybe not.

Thanks to BMW, you can now occupy yourself with another type of vehicle, a Sports Activity Vehicle, or SAV for the abbreviation obsessed. This new and latest offering from BMW is a crossover concept blending the elevated, 4X4 feel and practicality of an SUV with the sleek, sophisticated and far more delicate lines of a Coupe. Revealed at the Frankfurt Motor Show for the first time, the German car maker is certain this niche vehicle will be a top seller with many innovations, referred to as 'efficient dynamics' designed to make this new SAV as environmentally friendly as possible. BMW has applied innovative solutions to a number of aspects of the vehicle helping it reduce its impact on the environment by reducing emissions and maximising fuel savings, One of the various solutions applied and an illustration of the innovation applied by BMW's engineers is 'air vent control.' Vents cut into the front of any vehicle for cooling purposes are bad news from an aerodynamics point of view, particularly for larger vehicles such as the BMW X6. Whilst the cooling requirements of modern cars are inescapable, BMW have designed a system that ensures that when ventilation is not required, vents at the front of the car are shut to maximise the aerodynamic efficiency of the design thereby reducing fuel consumption. Reduced rolling resistance tyres are another added solution making their debut on the new BMW X6.

Along with two petrol and two diesel engines, designed to give cars like the Porsche Cayenne and Range Rover Sport a run for their money, BMW will be releasing its first hybrid engined car in 2009. Along with the efficient dynamics program, the ActiveHybrid should prove one of the friendlier SAV's (the only one?) out there, taking the game to the Lexus RX400h.

The first vehicles are expected to be delivered to lucky customers in May/June This Year and you can find more details about the new BMW X6 at [http://www.bmw-x6.co.uk]. By then, the press will have had plenty of time to review theBMW X6 and either whet all our appetites with news of good things to come, or rain on BMW's parade. Something tells me that BMW might just be onto another Bangle Blockbuster.

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An Early Race Driver

Selwyn Edge was born in 1868 in the town of Concord, near Sydney, Australia. When he was three years old, his parents relocated to England. As a young boy, Selwyn was interested in bicycling and won his first bicycle race when he was nineteen years old. Later Selwyn was employed by Dunlop Tire Company as an office manager. Edge bought his first car, a De-Dion Bouton in 1896. By 1897 Selwyn had started to become interested in automobiles. In 1899 he, along with Charles Jarott and Herbert Duncan, formed De Dion-Bouton British and Colonial Ltd. to import automobiles.

Edge had also made friends with Montague Napier of Napier & Sons, as both men were avid cyclists. In 1898, Edge asked Napier to make some improvements to the Panhard car. Then in 1899, Edge and Harvey de Cros organized the Motor Vehicle Company, Ltd to sell the improved Napier cars. Unlike any other British dealer of the time, Edge recognized the value of auto racing as a marketing tool. He realized that the publicity provided by auto racing would increase sales. In this he was ahead of his time.

Edge started entering Napiers in various races. The Napier that he entered in the Automobile Club's 1900 Thousand Miles Trial won in her class as one of thirty-five finishers out of sixty-four starters. His Napier won again in the Gordon Bennett 1902 cup race. In the meantime Edge learned that Sir Hugh Locke-King was constructing a closed circuit motor racing track at Brooklands. At that time British law imposed a strict twenty-mile speed limit on automobile drivers. Edge quickly realized the potential value of Brooklands and started to encourage Locke-King in his endeavor. He made a public commitment to drive one of his cars for twenty-four hours without stopping at 65 mph.

Edge had also hired a secretary named Dorothy Levitt who quickly picked up his enthusiasm for cars. He taught her to drive and she won several titles in Britain. When Brooklands opened, Edge came with his team of drivers as he had promised and Levitt was one of them. She was denied the opportunity to race as Brooklands would not allow female drivers on the course. However, Edge then employed her as a works driver and sent her off to Europe to promote Napier.

Edge had prepared well for his race at Brooklands. He had engaged in a program of physical training to build his personal endurance. At the same time he had equipped the Napiers to stand up to the rigors of the race He had installed a special fuel tank, a special windshield, canvas mudguards, and removed some bodywork. When the race began Edge easily made good on his promise, driving the course for 24 hours at 65 miles per hour without a rest stop. The other two drivers on the team did stop to rest. It would be thirteen years before any driver would break the record Edge set at that race.

In 1912, Edge sold his dealership to Napier and signed an agreement promising not to get involved in automobile manufacturing for seven years. At the end of this time, Edge acquired AC Cars but the company folded in 1929. After that, Edge had no further involvement with motor cars. He died in 1940.

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Could anyone tell me what programme the character Selwyn Froggett was in ???

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