Car

I am not a real car fanatic. I am not able to explain the mechanics in details like those horse power shit or 6 pistons engine vs whatever else. I am a engineer but I am not into engines...maybe because I am a Leo?

I won't get my hands dirty doing all those mods on the car also.

My only mod attempt with a vehicle was on my retired Aprilia RS125 Racer . This Italian bike was considered as a bad boy or high end Ah Beng racing bike back in its glory days. It was made famous by Valentino Rossi. He is a multiple times world champion riding the Aprilia in 125cc and 250cc. I can still remember the huge admiration I have on the stack up twin exhaust of the 250cc.

So, what I did to my RS125? I jack up the back seat with a modified single suspension, bored up the fuel intake in the engine block, remove the filter in the air box, removed the original and installed a racer's Arrow exhaust pipe. The result was a devilish and loud silver cat.

My old bike at workshop...few months prior to selling it away. COE expiring soon back then, probably should have extent for another 10years. Spent 10k on it.

My Aprilia left me many good memories and a few scary ones. I only have one minor accident riding it (with bruised wrist), when I banged into the vehicle at the cross junction. I do have a few close calls when I almost lose balance when I e-brake (the high suspension and hence gravity contributed partially to it).

My top speed with the bike is 150km/h, not ultra fast but I did it on Singapore Expressway. Heh, those were the crazy "young punk" days...and spending whole night polishing every metal part of the bike at void deck with AUTOSOL with my friends.

Although I am not a car fanatic but I do have my own preference. My taste for car is a reflection of my Aprilia : Badass looking, especially those big badass muscle car.

Look at these cars, they are not only visually intimidating but the engines also packs alot of punch. MUSCLES! I prefer these American cars over those more "posh" automobiles like the Subaru Impreza and Honda Integra.

A Ford Mustang...what a name for a badass car!

Dodge Charger, cool colours, lots of attitude.

Vintage Charger. What a beauty and nice shape! I want it!

SUV is always my type of car that I I think it represent my attitude towards life in a bold way. I am not a luxurious sedan fan and MPV gives me a good family man feels....yeah, I don't like to be labelled as a "good" family man....I prefer people to call me a good "wild" family man.

Okay, I know I drive a Vios now, but that's for economical reasons: Money not enough ah! Heck, I will be driving a V6 Ford Explorer soon in Egypt if everything go smooth. Pray hard and dun pray pray.

I always wanted a 7-seater SUV (I like BIG badass, remember?). In the current market, my favourite of all is Toyota Fortuner:

Drools.....A Fortuner, a nice facelift to Hylux truck

...and the Ultimate badass SUV: HUMMER. Not very practical unless it's for showing off:

Commercialised US military truck... HUMMER H2 SUV

Did I just tell you I am crazy over SUV? I even have a price list I made myself to keep track of the price and fuel consumption of various model available in Singapore now:

I just found out today that Daihatsu has launched a 7-seater Terios! At S$67,000 only! It is equipped with a 1.5liter engine, so it will not have as much power as desired for a SUV, but it is still pretty attractive for it's build and seating capacity. Anyway, who want a power car in the ever populated roads in Singapore? *Sour Grapes*

It is truely a very budgeted SUV with very affordable price. Pictures shown below are the Terios sister car, 7-Seater Toyota Rush. Pretty much everything is the same including the body and engine. However Toyota demands a higher price tag due to it's branding.

I hope they can upgrade the engine to 1.8liter....and definitely it's now on top of my SUV hunting list!

-VINcE