of pride honour and value:Sapura Industrial Executives 012 trashes it out..

It was maybe a refresher for most of us that had forgotten company retreats..specifically..the norms and expectations of Sapura Industrial Berhad  Culture...i can still remember my last outings  quite clearly...i  said to En Tahar ..with sadness ..looking back at my years here..thick or thin..difficult or hard...with loyalty or as novelty...my days here the last 10 years had been...ecliptic..at least...so to speak...but as i constantly remind my self here as the fog sets in endlessly,nevermind how its started...its how we can end it...in style was my reminder!..Broga ..i recalled...was eerie...Morib...fun....Janda Baik ..i thought to myself.....revealing...as simple and difficult as that...!.Never mind Change was the main topic,teamwork,coordination,perception,anticipation,communication,understandings,humanitarian values,are also elements we cannot do without...all the facilitators gave us their best in relaying the intended message...,,which is how bad do u want this thing called success...and in the end...if its good  with intentions then there should be no stopping you....and  even if it isas  ill  and evil meant,theres also no stopping you...the choice is yours, and with the sound mind knowledge and financial beings with you,im sure theres justification all around...god or no god!..
Which really points to the fact if theres any self actualization to be done or change in short,it has to be from within...no force,no ill treatments,it is only you and only you that can wake up from the hypnosis of hate and scum speaking and realize there isnt really much more i can be or do nor he can be from all the current condescending environment we are creating for him..and if this stays as it is.....who is more likely to be a nothingness in the end...the answers are there all around you and by the hour its getting to be quite a popular Club it seems....lets lock people up n steal their belongings!haha..hehe...yup hoo cares if one dies in alzheimer,deep insanity  or even moronic if  you like..at least the money you  spend and rely on is mine...yup..you cant even keep a  a dog alive or dogs ,you are asking my son  of his rights..BOZO! ..

Sure , the definitions and  cases aplenty,allah as  the causer  effector to the lover and forgiver, we praise them all, and along side the Rasullullah, there seemed to be no other., But on this weekend...are we there to fantasize gods clemency of  our forecast ed doom or we going to make that paradigmn shift so to speak and forget all our  differences of  hate and work as Achieving  One to sail the Oceans Of  Triumphant Return Once More...?..though i think we will all sink like a Titanic on Ice....lets hold on to this vest called vss..shall we....then a sugar cane stall serving Coconut Rice on Oxford Street ..y not?..coz i think this Friendly Fire just got Bigger Than U Imagine..Salam..

The Force: and its perceptions,a Sapura Industrial Think Tank..

It was maybe a refresher for most of us that had forgotten company retreats..specifically..the norms and expectations of Sapura Industrial Berhad  Culture...i can still remember my last outiungs quite clearly...i  said to En Tahar ..with sadness ..looking back at my years here..thick or thin..difficult or hard...with loyalty or as novelty...my days here the last 10 years had been...ecliptic...so to speak...but as i constantly remind my self here as the fog sets in,nevermind how its started...its how we can end it...in style was my reminder!

DRB shows how its done..

Remember that gag photo of Dany Bahar from sniffpetrol.com and the subsequent press release from Group Lotus? We covered it. Well, it seems that it could have carried some grain of truth because everything is fine and dandy in Lotus Cars… at least for now.

Autocar UK has recently reported that DRB-Hicom have opened up the cash pipeline and channelled it to Lotus Cars. This allows the Hethel-based company to produce cars at maximum capacity.

The plan is to get the new Esprit, which is the first of the five new-wave models, to roll into showrooms by the end of 2013. It confirms our earlier post, except that the launch might not be in time for spring. The fates of the other proposed models are still in limbo.

The secured cash flow also means that Lotus will continue with the development of its own V8 engine and automated manual transmission. Production of the current Elises, Exiges and Evoras can also resume thanks to the lifeline.

In regards to the recent report by Bloomberg that KPMG was appointed to “reevaluate Lotus with a view to sell” Dany Bahar said that there was “no fire sale, no selling process and no bidding.”

Dany Bahar’s stance has strong backing from DRB-Hicom, as stated in a Bernama report. The same report said that Group Managing Director Datuk Seri Mohd Khamil Jamil hired KPMG even before the acquisition of Proton.

Autocar’s report also carried a comment, by Dany Bahar, that a top-ranking Proton employee, the CFO of Proton Group, has joined Lotus’ top management. It is move that the Lotus Cars’ CEO welcomes.

Proton Delisted from KLSE

The Edge Financial Daily reported today that Proton Holdings Bhd is well on its way to being delisted from Bursa Malaysia after new owners DHB-Hicom had secured over 90% equity interest through its takeover offer. As of 5pm yesterday, DRB-Hicom owns 90.02% stake in Proton as announced by the company’s advisers Maybank Investment Bank Bhd and Hong Leong Investment Bank Bhd.

DRB-Hicom now has the freedom of restructuring Proton without the need to answer to the minority shareholders. There is also speculation that Proton’s Shah Alam plant will integrate its operations with those of Tanjung Malim. Consequently, the land in Shah Alam will be sold or redeveloped.

The report continues to note that the privatisation of Proton will create a sizable automotive entity that would rival the Perodua-Toyota Malaysia alliance that lists Toyota Japan, Permodalan Nasional Bhd and Daihatsu Japan as its key shareholders. The shockwaves of DRB-Hicom’s move will send tremors to certain parts vendors; DRB-Hicom is known to have an extensive automotive parts manufacturing business and it might be sourcing parts from its own backyard.

When asked about the fate of Lotus Group, DRB-Hicom was quick to put the stopper on the rumour mill. The conglomerate also renounced the knowledge that Lotus would be sold to Youngman or be put under administration. As of now, DRB-Hicom is still supporting Lotus Group financially and management-wise.

The Best Engineered Car In The World:012 BMW 335i Sedan..Checking the numbers: We strap our gear to the latest 335i

If you’re like us, you’ve bored holes through pictures of the new 3-series sedan trying to discern the styling changes versus the outgoing model. Yes, there are some. A new face features headlights that puddle in toward the chrome-wrapped kidneys and a broad, blunt-faced front bumper that creates a sort of grimacing overbite into the lower grille. Move around to the sides and tail, and it all looks very familiar, even though the new car is 1.9 inches longer in wheelbase and 3.7 inches longer overall, which gives it more of a sleek, sprinter-on-blocks profile. But what’s really new about the F30, you ask? Well, after 600 miles in a brand-new 2012 F30-generation 335i Sport Line—and a couple of plates of South Carolina barbecue—we have a pretty good idea.

The turbocharged N55 3.0-liter inline-six carries over its silkworm-woven symmetrical outputs of 300 hp and 300 lb-ft of torque. The six-speed manual still operates in concert with a tautly sprung clutch pedal and a spindly shifter that moves with greased precision, and the suspension and steering still make us smile. The differences are in the details: The dash controls and vents stay in roughly the same locations, but a welcome redesign of the panel—with its more pronounced instrument hood, driver-oriented center console, and traditional pull-type parking brake—concentrates the focus on the pilot. The Sport Line (the flashiest of three available trim packages) offers a decorous marriage ofleather, metal, red stitching, and low-gloss plastic.

The wheelbase punch-out creates a few more cubic feet here and there, most noticeably in the back seat with its extra head and knee room, plus some subtle tactile difference in the steering, no doubt due to the switch to electric assist (more on that in a second). The 2012 335i’s base price rises merely $370 from the 2011 model’s, and the weight gain from our last E90 335i test car is 77 pounds, at least some of which must be from the new optional 19-inch wheels ($900) and run-flat tires.

As Porsche did with its overhauled 911, BMW played it safe, not so much redesigning its icon but giving it a scrub and polish.

The company has laid to rest the bad memories of its original iDrive and brought forth an easily navigated multimedia system, though the 3’s new freestanding center display doesn’t retract, and it matches the surrounding landscape about as well as the screen in a desert drive-in theater.


The 335i loves being hurried down country two-lanes with a radar detector on guard, showing the same easy comfort with a quick pace as the previous model did. If the definition of good steering is that which allows the driver to place the car exactly where desired, the 335i’s still got it. Its clarity is undimmed by the switch to electric assist and a new, optional variable-ratio steering gear, even if its feedback is more opaque. Surface textures and impacts are indeed tuned out by this rack-and-pinion setup (though not by the body’s sound insulation, which lets a surprising amount of tire noise through), but the sense of control doesn’t really diminish.

The on-center window of slackness is just wide enough to hold the car on a straight path but not too wide or too dead—as we’ve noticed in the 5- and 7-series—to allow wandering. Meanwhile, the effort rises gratifyingly as you turn in. Unless you’re the type that likes wheel shudders through every apex, the new 3 leaves little to complain about.

The wheel does feel a little overassisted with the Driving Dynamics Control (DDC) console switch—which this year finds its way from BMW’s bigger cars into the 3-series as standard equipment—set on Comfort. But bump it up to Sport or Sport +, and a natural heft returns. There’s also an Eco Pro setting that waters down the throttle response to something closer to that of a Toyota Corolla.


We can’t say definitively that you need the optional Adaptive M suspension ($900), which adds electronically variable-damping shocks to the functions controlled by the DDC. For decades, the 3-series has gotten by fine without wires to its suspension. But we never found a setting, which varies depending on what DDC mode you’re in, that reduced either the ride quality or body control below that of excellent. Even in the Sport and Sport + modes, which perk up the throttle—and in the latter also cuts traction-control intervention—the suspension still weeds out the worst chop. The suspension option does give the 3’s character some flexibility. If you like your 3 to always be in hunt-kill mode, an optional M Sport package, coming later, will drop the ride height by 0.4 inch on firmer, non-electronic shocks, stiffer springs, and thicker anti-roll bars.

As for the numbers, the 335i proved marginally slower than expected in testing. It needed 5.3 seconds to reach 60 mph instead of something in the high fours, as we’ve recorded with previous 335s. Sometimes that’s the driver’s fault, but forensic analysis revealed that the launches came off okay. However, the car then slowed appreciably even though the shifts were clean. We even tried power-shifting (keeping the gas pedal floored during the gearchanges) a couple of times, but the numbers wouldn’t budge.


A slower 5-to-60 time of 5.9 seconds—we expected mid-fives for that—also indicated that something may have been amiss. Bad gas, perhaps, or not enough break-in miles on the odometer (1365 at test time). Possibly, the new 19-inch rims and correspondingly heavier tires may have helped act as anchors. The 3’s other anchors, the brakes, did their duty to perfection, pulling several stops between 164 and 170 feet and never failing to offer a firm pedal in any situation.

The upshot is that the 3-series marches on with improvements that mostly require engineering drawings to ascertain. This is either good news if you passionately adored the previous model or bad tidings if you were hoping for more newness. At some point, BMW will have to take a bigger step to move forward or risk falling behind its competitors—but not just yet.

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Now~!Thats A BEEF!..haha...624bhp Ford Mustang 2013

Ford Racing has an extensive performance parts catalog for the Mustang—so to remind everyone that its extensive support for Ford’s pony car will continue with the refreshed 2013 model, it has created a project car built up with parts from the catalog. Ford Racing began with a 2013 Mustang GT painted Gotta Have it Green, and threw the kitchen sink at it. The result is one very cool rolling showcase for Ford Racing’s available upgrades.

Engine and Driveline

The 2013 Mustang GT is a pretty powerful stallion in stock form—its 5.0-liter V-8 gained eight hp this year for a new total of 420—but Ford Racing went ahead and added even more power, anyway. In went a Ford Racing/Whipple supercharger kit that includes a 2.3-liter supercharger, larger injectors, and a prototype ECU reflash. (The 2013-specific kit hasn’t yet been finalized, but it will share its catalog part number with the supercharger kit for the 2011-2012 Mustang GT.) Ford Racing says the supercharger goods are good for an additional 204 hp, bringing the grand total to 624. Look out, Ford Mustang Shelby GT500! An 8.8-inch rear axle routes the additional power to the wheels, and a Mustang GT side-exit exhaust system and sport mufflers amp up the exhaust noise.

Chassis and Suspension

Ford Racing also beefed up the Mustang GT’s suspension with adjustable dampers front and rear, a set of lowering springs that reduce ground clearance by one inch, and tubular rear lower control arms. The stock front brakes were swapped for Brembo units with 14-inch rotors and four-piston calipers, and Ford Racing fitted a Mustang Laguna Seca brake duct kit to cool the bigger binders. The project Mustang rides on black 19-inch Track Pack wheels, and a Boss 302 Laguna Seca–derived adjustable front splitter juts out from below the front bumper.

The best part, as we already mentioned, is that everything on the car is or will be available from the Ford Racing catalog. Regardless of your feelings on modding cars, we must say that this project Mustang GT makes a pretty compelling case for the trade.