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Published December 8th, 2010

How To Feature Your Car In Magazines

Featuring your car in Car Magazines can have many benefits for any Car Owners. First, it will give a good documentation of your modified automobile for your effort and secondly, it will give a good promotion for your car if you want to sell it.

However, since there are millions of automobiles out there on the road, how can one attract the attention of Car Magazine to feature your custom car?

Here are some tips and guides on How to Feature your car in magazines by a Modified BMW car owner whose BMW M3 Coupe was featured in 3 Car Magazines.

1. BE the FIRST (NEWS SELLS)

Car magazines works like newspapers, they need news to sell their magazines, hence to make the magazines notice you, you need to create news for them. If your car has the first new modifications from a car tuner (a new prototype), that would be ideal as it will create curiosity and attention of readers.

2. BE DIFFERENT: create a whole unique car:

Your best bet is to begin with a clear mind to create something different and unique to your own liking, of course according to your taste. You don’t want to create a unique car only to dislike it after the modifications. People want to see something extra ordinary. “Specials” always attract attention. But remember to do it tastefully if not, it will only attract negative feedback. Be creative, don’t limit yourself to parts from one car tuner, you may mix with products of other car tuners or even from other makes of car tuning companies.

3. CUSTOMISED MODIFICATIONS: ATTENTION TO DETAIL:

Custom modifications attracts attention, it shows creativity and uniqueness too, that nobody else’s has. Car Magazines are enthuasistic to show customized parts to the world and people will want to buy their magazines to read and to check out the new parts.

4. BRIGHT COLOURS:

Car magazines love BRIGHT colored car, so if your modified car is of that, you have a point ahead of other car owners. You may have noticed this in all other cover magazines too. So if you plan to repaint your car, catch attention and make it to the cover, choose bright! (special note: choose a bright color that you can live with!)

5. CONTACT YOUR CAR MAGAZINES:

Well you need to let the magazines know that you have a unique car to feature. Find the best magazine that suit your car theme or make and contact them. If your car is modified by a car tuner, you may ask your tuner to call the Car Magazines as they will have direct contacts to the publishers.

If you have a special unique car, many car magazines are more than willing to feature it. Think of it this way, Car magazines need cars to feature in their magazines every month! (At least five cars in eash issue). How are they going to find these special cars? If you have one and feel like getting it featured, take some good photos now and email them. You will have to let Car Magazines publishers and editors know of the existence of your Unique Car. Here are some pictures of modified BMW that you can get some ideas for your car tuning.

Bobby Leong, an entrepreneur loves modified cars especially BMW. He owned several modified BMW and has built a website full of guides and Pictures of Modified BMW as his hobby. Professionally, he offers advice on Internet Marketing Strategies and Social Marketing. Download a free copy of Car Modifying Guide at www.BOBmodifiedBMW.com


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Published July 7th, 2010

Luxury, Top-Class Cars Feature Difference

We need to clearly know what we mean by this class of vehicles. Luxury, top-class cars are considered styled, luxurious automobiles aimed at the comfort and satisfaction of its owner or driver, dispensing with passenger space, cargo capacity and other practical concerns for the achievement of style.


The luxury, top-class cars are very costly and their price range is above Rs 20 lakhs. Hence, these cars are affordable and are chosen by high income group.


Luxury, top-class cars have the capacity to carry a maximum of 6 passengers. The companies such as- BMW, Daimler Chrysler, Porsche, Rolls Royce manufacture these cars and companies such as -Aston Martin and General Motors are still planning to dish out their models in the market under this segment.


A car may be classified as a luxury automobile even if it is not a luxury, top class car. Performance alterations of common, production cars, such as luxury compacts, luxury, top class sedans, muscle cars, hot hatches and other cars similar to these generally are not luxury, top class cars, still share characteristics owned by luxury, top class cars.


Sometimes, performance cars of all compositions are classified as luxury, top class cars, or, often, as performance cars.


A luxury, top class car does not need a big, powerful engine, even though a lot of them do have them. Some traditional cars of this category do not possess powerful engines, but were popular for excellent handling because of their light weight, a well-engineered, balanced chassis, and modern suspension. On complex and compressed roads, automobiles like them achieve more efficiency than a heavier, more powerful luxury car with less flexibility.


As a result of North American safety regulations, a lot of luxury, top class cars are not in the market for sale or use in the United States and Canada. In the United Kingdom, Europe, and the Middle Eastern market (e.g. UAE), an adjustable attitude towards small-volume specialist manufacturers has helped companies to flourish.


The drive train and engine layout decide the handling features of an automobile, and is the core to the design of a luxury, top class car.


It is common for luxury, top class cars of any generation to have the following features: the front-engine, rear-wheel drive train layout (FR layout). This configuration has lasted the test of time longer in such cars compared to mainstream automobiles.


For achieving of better handling and weight distribution, other formats have been developed. The RMR layout is a common feature seen only in luxury, top class cars – the motor is centre-mounted in the chassis (nearer to and behind the driver), and supports only the rear wheels. High-performance cars of this type and supercar manufacturers always show a liking to this layout.


A lot of modern cars, specifically grand tourers, also employ a FMR layout, with the motor placed between the front axle and the firewall.


Only a few manufacturers still employ the rear-engine and rear-wheel drive layout (RR layout). The motor has well spread out weight across the wheels, and this delivers exceptional traction, but is not advisable, as the engine’s weight is not between the two axles, the vehicle is badly balanced. Thus, many early vehicles handled errantly.


However with the continuous modifications to the design, added with the engineering developments and support of electronic driving i.e. computerized traction-stability control, the manufacturers have been able to fight against inherent weaknesses in the design. Luxury, top class cars continue to be an irresistible attraction for car fanatics all over the world.

Published May 28th, 2010

How To Feature Your Car In Magazines

Featuring your car in Car Magazines can have many benefits for any Car Owners. First, it will give a good documentation of your modified automobile for your effort and secondly, it will give a good promotion for your car if you want to sell it.

However, since there are millions of automobiles out there on the road, how can one attract the attention of Car Magazine to feature your custom car?

Here are some tips and guides on How to Feature your car in magazines by a Modified BMW car owner whose BMW M3 Coupe was featured in 3 Car Magazines.

1. BE the FIRST (NEWS SELLS)

Car magazines works like newspapers, they need news to sell their magazines, hence to make the magazines notice you, you need to create news for them. If your car has the first new modifications from a car tuner (a new prototype), that would be ideal as it will create curiosity and attention of readers.

2. BE DIFFERENT: create a whole unique car:

Your best bet is to begin with a clear mind to create something different and unique to your own liking, of course according to your taste. You don’t want to create a unique car only to dislike it after the modifications. People want to see something extra ordinary. “Specials” always attract attention. But remember to do it tastefully if not, it will only attract negative feedback. Be creative, don’t limit yourself to parts from one car tuner, you may mix with products of other car tuners or even from other makes of car tuning companies.

3. CUSTOMISED MODIFICATIONS: ATTENTION TO DETAIL:

Custom modifications attracts attention, it shows creativity and uniqueness too, that nobody else’s has. Car Magazines are enthuasistic to show customized parts to the world and people will want to buy their magazines to read and to check out the new parts.

4. BRIGHT COLOURS:

Car magazines love BRIGHT colored car, so if your modified car is of that, you have a point ahead of other car owners. You may have noticed this in all other cover magazines too. So if you plan to repaint your car, catch attention and make it to the cover, choose bright! (special note: choose a bright color that you can live with!)

5. CONTACT YOUR CAR MAGAZINES:

Well you need to let the magazines know that you have a unique car to feature. Find the best magazine that suit your car theme or make and contact them. If your car is modified by a car tuner, you may ask your tuner to call the Car Magazines as they will have direct contacts to the publishers.

If you have a special unique car, many car magazines are more than willing to feature it. Think of it this way, Car magazines need cars to feature in their magazines every month! (At least five cars in eash issue). How are they going to find these special cars? If you have one and feel like getting it featured, take some good photos now and email them. You will have to let Car Magazines publishers and editors know of the existence of your Unique Car. Here are some pictures of modified BMW that you can get some ideas for your car tuning.