Future cars

The car technology is fast evolving and future cars will be packed with more computing power and will be designed to look after every need of the driver. Vehicles already have dozens of small computers, keeping an eye on everything from fuel consumption to suspension. Let’s look ahead and see how intelligent driver assistance systems will change the way you drive.

Electronics will replace most of the mechanical systems, even the mid range model will be fitted with sensors, cameras, computer screens and wifi connections. Safety systems will move from passive systems like air bags to active systems that use radars and cameras to watch out for dangers.

Most of the future cars will have hard drivers, used as core of the car’s entertainment system, storing hour’s music and video. This will combine with sensor and mapping technology to keep track of every twist and turn. This hard drive will form a sort of black box recorder for the cars.

Lane departure warning


Two integrated cameras will monitors the edge of the road and centre line, a warning sound will emanate if the car veers from its path and an intermittent vibration will be felt in the steering wheel. Additional censored can be used to enhance the accuracy in bad weather. A 360 network of radar and laser sensor will eliminate blinds spots.

Night vision

Conventional night vision system uses head-up display and shows real images, a future version will be a picture processing concept that converts poorly visible objects into warning depicted by a full width LED bar that will run at the bottom of the windshield, indicating at a glance the number of objects and their approximate position.

Intelligent parking assist

The new technology will help cars neatly steer themselves backward into a parking lot without the driver even touching the steering wheel. IPA will need to be manually programmed before it swings into operation. Once this is don you can just sit back and let electronics do all the work. IPA technology is smart and can parallel park the car or conduct a 90 man oeuvre into a driveway or garage.

Active cruise control

This system will combine distance sensing radar based cruise control with a multi beam laser that will register the width of and positions of the other moving objects, taking the sting out of tedious stop-and-go driving by reaccelerating in sync with the vehicle in front.

An international consortium of auto manufactures is coming up with standards for a system where car-to-car communication system will be possible. The vehicle will poll the oncoming traffics and pass data from car to car and alert drivers up and down the highway to accidents and weather conditions.

Cars will collect data that can be shared with dealers, manufactures and even other vehicles. Dealers will be able to do remote diagnostics to help troubleshoot a roadside breakdown.




Future cars


Future cars


Future cars


Future cars


Future cars


Future cars

Peugeot 307cc

Arguably Peugeot is the most innovative European maker of appealing convertible cars and the latest 307cc is no exception to the claim. It meets the needs of those who required a true 4 sweater cabriolet and also those who seek a genuine coupe. It can perform as the second car of a two-car couple or single conveyance of a busy man or woman.

That the 307cc has Gallic flair is indisputable. It has that indefinable chicanes associated with many things that are exclusively French, from clothes to perfume to cuisine. It has a sleek profile that sweeps from the low front end through the racked windscreen pillars across the retractable steel roof to a curved rear end.

The steel roof retracts at the press of a button located between the front seats and takes less than 25 seconds and the metamorphosis from coupe to cabriolet can be achieved while still driving at speed up to 10km/hr.

The steel roof retracts into the boot and the whole exercise is entirely automatic. On first impressions the interior design of the 307cc rates very highly on the, wow, factor scale with its dramatic styling and excellent ergonomic layout. The leather-trimmed steering wheel is adjustable for reach and rake and has a nice feel thanks to the scalped padded rim.

The cars image as a sports car is enhanced by the low driving position in the nicely shaped seats that also give very good lateral support. The instrument panel has four chrome-ringed dials set on a white background.

2.0 liter
4 cylinders
16 valves
Petrol engine
Producing 138 bops

The driving power is transmitted to the front wheels through an automatic gear box with Tiptronic manual changing facility. This latest engine from Peugeot is very fuel efficient with a consumption of only 8.9 liters per kilometers for the combined cycle according to EEC regulations.

Driving the Peugeot 307cc

Ones first impression when entering the car is extremely positive and as one settles into the drivers from fitting seat and adjusts the steering wheel that impression is enhanced even further. The low seating position still allows excellent forward visibility through the very large windscreen. Test car was fitted with auto /tiptronic transmission system and this proved an absolute delight to use.

The 2-litre engine provided lots of power and torque to make a driving out into countryside a memorable occasion. Overall reaction to the 307cc is that it continues the excellent tradition of Peugeot's success with the model and that this model will be on most people’s short list when shopping convertible.

Peugeot 307cc

Peugeot 307cc

Peugeot 307cc

Peugeot 307cc

Peugeot 307cc