Le Tour de Langkawi - LTdL 2008

Savini conquers Fraser's but Ivanov snatches yellow
16/2/2008

FRASER'S HILL (16 Feb, 2008) - The stage might have gone to Filippo Savini but the day belonged to Ruslan Ivanov as he snatched the yellow jersey at the end of Stage Eight from Temerloh to Fraser's Hill to ensure his Serramenti PVC team ends Le Tour de Langkawi 2008 on a high note tomorrow.

And with a 29-second lead going into tomorrow's KL Criterium, Ivanov and Serramenti are all set to claim the silverware at the Dataran Merdeka tomorrow evening.

Ruslan Ivanov (Serramenti PVC) MORE PHOTOS	STAGE 8 - General Classification PL No. Name Time 1 84 Savini,Filippo 3h12'32" 2 14 Ivanov,Ruslan 3h12'47" 3 11 Serpa Perez,Jose 3h12'47" 4 15 Ochoa,Carlos Jos 3h13'15" 5 44 Pedraza,Walter 3h13'15" 6 221 Yates,Jeremy 3h13'23" 7 92 Cesar,Gustavo 3h13'23" 8 65 Sprick,Matthieu 3h13'23" 9 164 Fahridi,Kovij Mehdi 3h13'23" 10 62 Clement,Stef 3h13'27"

Serramenti, which won the pivotal climb up Genting Highlands in 2006 and 2007 but failed to win the General Classification, had their fortunes reversed this time round when they sacrificed the stage to Savini (CSF Group Navigare) to concentrate on winning the overall title.

"We explained to the riders this morning that we are faced with a choice since we have two riders in the GC - we can either allow Jose Serpa (the climber who had won in 2006 and 2007) to win in Fraser's Hill or we concentrate on the GC. The team chose the latter," said Serramenti PVC team manager Gianni Savio after the race.

"And since Jackson (Rodriguez) was not in the best of conditions, it was up to Ruslan to win the GC and he did a fantastic job."

Added Ivanov: "the last three or four kilometers was all Serpa when he stopped (in the breakaway with Savini) to help me. I gained 40 seconds from his pace and I dedicate this win to the whole team."

The first hour of the race out of Temerloh saw Li Fuyu (Trek Marco Polo) in front and even though he managed a lead of over a minute lead over the peloton, the hard work by Drapac Porsche and Serramenti PVC made sure that they were all together before the climb up Fraser's Hill.

Jai Crawford (Trek Marco Polo) was the first to be away but was caught by the AG2R-led bunch as Serpa, Rodriguez, Johann Tschopp (Bouygues Telecom) and Savini went off.

Rodriguez then dropped off as Savini went off at the one kilometer mark to claim his first win.

"The tactic was to stay in front and making sure that there are no dangerous breakaways," added Savini, who also took the red jersey for the king of the mountain classification.

"The climb was not too hard and it suited me. So when Serpa went ahead, I responded before going solo.

Aurelien Clerc (Bouygues Telecom) extended his hold of the sprinter's green jersey to 83 points while Shinichi Fukushima (Meitan Hompo) regained the blue jersey for the best Asian rider.

"I am very happy to win this jersey back but the climb was very hard and I thought that I did not win because I had dropped off at one time," added Shinichi.

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Source: http://www.ltdl.com.my/

Bookings for latest Proton Saga reach 23,000 units

Proton Holdings Bhd's latest Proton Saga has seen bookings (click image to enlarge)









reach 23,000 with a waiting period of between five and six months for delivery of the units.

Managing director Datuk Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir said the company would continue to give consumers what they want.

“We see such market response as one of the indications that we're on the right track in our strategy to produce the right car for the right market at the right price,” he said at a customer appreciation day at the Proton Centre of Excellence here on Sunday.

On the waiting period, he said Proton was stepping up production to accelerate the delivery to meet demand.

Syed Zainal said the company was now seeing the outcome of the concerted efforts and initiatives to improve operational performance and customer satisfaction via the Proton Customer Action Team – an integrated team made up of representatives from manufacturing, quality control, vendors, sales, after-sales, 24-hour assist and Proton i.care hotline.

“As a result of Proton's continuous improvement activities and initiatives, product quality has shown a marked improvement with a positive decline in the vehicle defects-per-unit from the introduction of the Waja in 2000 until the latest model as reflected in the recent JD Power Initial Quality Survey Study 2006/2007,” he said.

He said the survey, among other things, showed the Savvy retaining its position among the top three of the small car segment while the Wira stayed in the top three spot in the mid-size entry segment.

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Honda Sales Speed Up in May to New Record; Civic Sets All-Time Record
CR-V and Fit set records

TORRANCE, Calif. June 1, 2007 --

Record May sales for American Honda Motor Co., Inc., increased to 145,367, up from 141,810 in 2006, breaking the previous May record set in 2004, the company announced today. The Honda Division posted record May sales of 129,447, up from May 2006 results of 125,639.

With one additional selling day in May 2007, the daily selling rate* (DSR) percentage change represents a 1.4 percent decline for American Honda and a 0.9 percent decline for Honda Division. Year-to-date American Honda sales increased to 625,994, up 1.0 percent.

Honda Division's new May record was bolstered by all-time record sales of the compact Civic and subcompact Fit and a new May record for the CR-V crossover SUV - the best-selling SUV in the U.S. Civic sales of 39,993, up 32.6 percent for the month, shattered an all-time record of 36,533 set in August 2001. Civic Hybrid sales of 4,520, up 50.4 percent, also broke the all-time record of 4,146 set in August 2005. Record May CR-V sales increased by 35.9 percent to 19,513. Fit results of 5,361 achieved a new all-time record.

"Small is big right now," said Dick Colliver, executive vice president of American Honda. "Smaller vehicles have become more attractive for multiple reasons and we expect this trend to continue for the time being."

Additional large volume Honda Division products for May include the Accord, 31,915; Odyssey, 15,235; and Pilot, 10,133. Ridgeline and Element volume respectively totaled 3,600 and 3,187. Year-to-date, Honda Division sales of 551,220 are up 2.5 percent with total car sales increasing by 3.9 percent and light truck sales increasing by 0.7 percent on a DSR basis.

Acura Division sales totaled 15,920. The recent introductions of the completely redesigned MDX luxury SUV and all-new RDX crossover SUV pushed Acura light truck sales up 82.6 percent to 6,635. The MDX posted strong May sales of 4,623, up 27.2 percent versus last year and up 7.1 percent for the year on a DSR basis.

*The daily selling rate is calculated with 26 days for May 2007, versus 25 for 2006.

For more information about Honda vehicles, please visit www.honda.com. For media inquiries, please go to www.hondanews.com.For more information about Acura vehicles, please visit www.acura.com. For media inquiries, please go to www.acuranews.com.

LeeTour deLengkawi-LTdL 2007


STAGE 4 - Results Summary Gua Musang - Kota Bharu 05 February 2007 Issued: 05 Feb 2007, 16:40

Cycling/Le Tour de Langkawi: High praise from UCI’s McQuaid

06 Feb 2007
THE International Cycling Union (UCI), under pressure over the spate of controversies that have surrounded the Pro Tour in Europe, is leaving it up to the Malaysian Government to decide whether Le Tour de Langkawi (LTdL) would be part of its globalisation plans for the fledgling series.UCI president Pat McQuaid yesterday stated his satisfaction with the new organisation of LTdL under the Malaysian National Cycling Federation (MNCF) this year, even stating that the level of the event shows that the country is ready to be part of the Pro Tour expansion.

But as the first three years of the Pro Tour calendar have seen a never-ending squabble between the governing body and organisers of major races in Europe, eventually leading to the three Grand Tours — the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a Espana — pulling out of the calendar this year, it leaves a big question mark as to the future of LTdL.Latest on the cards should the Pro Tour be moved out of Europe are Malaysia's LTdL and Australia's Tour Down Under, both of which are currently hors categorie races on UCI continental calendars and McQuaid had nothing but good words for the organisation of LTdL.

"The race had a couple of troubled years, but it is a very good race and an important race to the UCI. It is a wonderful gesture in which the Government recognised this fact that this race is beneficial to their objectives," said McQuaid. Pro Tour status would mean the organisers are required to include all 20 Pro Tour teams, with just wildcard entries available for teams outside that division. The LTdL's current status as part of the UCI Asia Tour means the organisers will be able to allocate more places to lower ranked teams.

Cycling/Le Tour de Langkawi: Second win for Loddo

06 Feb 2007
ALBERTO Loddo again outwitted the sprinters' teams to win a bunch sprint and took his second stage win in the 12th edition of Le Tour de Langkawi (LTdL) in Kota Baru yesterday.The fourth stage that began 178.2 kilometres away in Gua Musang served up action to match what was arguably the best crowd support this year's Tour has received thus far as throngs of people, mostly schoolchildren, lined the streets almost every other kilometre from start to finish.
A Panaria squad weakened by the premature abandonment of Ruben Bongiorno, led out Maximiliano Richeze after the peloton had gobbled up Tinkoff's Serguei Klimov — the final escapee in a seven-man breakaway that lasted almost 80 kilometres — just three kilometres from the finish.Loddo's Serramenti Diquigiovanni team had unusually teamed up to form a leadout train that effectively leveled him with the South Africans who led out Daryl Impey. Tinkoff, who had done some of the work to keep the seven-man break at bay within three minutes of the peloton, failed to do justice when their sprinter Nikolai Trusov only managed 10th placing, even behind Malaysian team Le Tua's Anuar Manan.

"I must thank my teammates for today's (yesterday) win. It wasn't any easier than the first one, but they did the work and let me go at the right moment," said 27-year old Loddo, who brought his tally to three stage wins in two races after winning the first stage of the Vuelta Tachira in Venezuela two weeks ago and the first stage of LTdL in Langkawi last Friday.A horrific pile-up in the final 25 metres of the stage as the bunch scrambled for the finish took out Francaise des Jeux's Lilian Jegou and Azad University's Amir Zargari.
Frenchman Jegou was rushed to the hospital and was found to have suffered a hairline fracture inhis wrist, while Zargari is out with a hip injury, bringing to 10 the number of casualties in the race thus far.

Nevertheless, the yellow jersey remained on the back of Credit Agricole's Anthony Charteau, whose team did most of the pacing work in the first three quarters of the stage that kept the attacks at bay. Charteau said the main objective of the team is now to keep the jersey until the eighth stage in Genting Highlands on Friday.Loddo's win meant he wrested the green jersey as the points classification leader from Richeze, while the blue Asian classification leader's jersey changed hands from Skil-Shimano's Yokihiro Doi to Giant Asia's Hossein Askari after the Iranian took a three-second time bonus by winning the first intermediate sprint at the 49.6km point in Felda Ciku.But Askari only leads the Asian classification by a mere one second.Another bunch sprint finish is expected when the peloton heads through a flat 167km fifth stage from Kota Baru to Kuala Terengganu today.

Sebelum Modified Kereta Anda, Pastikan Peraturan JPJ Dipatuhi

Terdapat pengubahsuaian atau pemasangan aksesori yang boleh dilakukan tanpa perlu mendapatkan kelulusan Jabatan Pengangkutan Jalan(JPJ), Terutamanya pengubahsuaian atau pemasangan yang tidak memberi kesan kepada ciri kesetabilan dan keselamatan kenderaan berkenaan seperti:

• Pemasangan "air spoiler'' dibahagian hadapan dan belakang.
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• Pemasangan ''protecting guards'' pada bahagian hadapan dan belakang kereta.
• Pengubahsuaian kecil pada jeriji radiotor,bonet atau bentuk serta rekabentuk lampu.
• Pengubahsuaian kecil dan melebarkan jarak tayar atau penahan lumpur.
• Pengubahsuaian atau pemasangan tambahan bumper besar (samaada jenis keluli atau fibreglass) pada bahagian hadapan dan belakang.
• Pemasangan rim dan tayar yang lebih besar.
• Pemasangan para bumbung.
• Pemasangan lampu brek tambahan (berwarna merah) atau lampu penunjuk arah (berwarna amber).
• Pemasangan sun roof diatas bumbung.
• Pemasangan sportlight atau lampu halogen (berwarna putih atau kuning) pada bahagian hadapan sahaja iaitu tambahan kepada lampu sedia ada.

Go for the 12th edition of Le Tour de Langkawi (LTdL) on Feb 2-11-2007

The LTdL contingent of over 1,000 people will cover a total of 1,374 kilometres, traversing through eight States and two Federal Territories.

"There will also be local and international television crews. It will take up about 9,000 room nights in the hotels along the routes and catering for about 36,000 meals," said Naim.

"There will be 300 vehicles in the convoy and 100 motorcycles. It is quite a massive operation and needs precise coordination."

He added that cycling fans will be able to follow the race news through SNTV's representatives covering the race through 265 broadcasters which will reach at least 840,000,000 homes worldwide.

Channels in the Asian Continent and also Europe will air the highlights through arrangements being made with ESPN and other viewers will be able to follow the Tour through other television channels.

"Being one of the biggest cycling events in the world, which promises prize money and contract value close to US$300,000 (about RM1.1 million), Malaysia will definitely benefit from the event with the promotional and advertising value," said Naim.

The traditional curtain raiser to the Tour, the Blue Ride for enthusiasts, could also be renamed to suit the new sponsors and is likely to be held in Putrajaya this time around.
Source: http://www.tdl.com.my/

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