EcoBoosted dancers in Ford KA, Tony Guy Event

Today was the last of day of Ford KA and Toni Guy event in Bullring, Birmingham. Yesterday I did not have time to take a video of dancers in event. They did the same show every one hour I guess, or every 45 minutes. I am not sure about the timing but they were very energetic. Hopefully today I manage to take a full dancing show of EcoBoosted dancers.

I am sure you will be asking what is EcoBoost? This is the new engine technology in Ford cars. Small engines are coupled with turbo and they produce more power and consume less fuel. Also current 2,0lt engine turn into V6 engines with the help of turbo! Now you can understand why I called the dancers EcoBoosted :)

The iTunes link for the song
Party Girl, McFLY

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A Ford KA inside a BullRing

For many years, I always have sympathy to Ford KA. The first generation and never be the old generation Ford KA was one of the most significant and iconic designs from 1990s. When you think about the cars like Mercedes E Class, Ford Escort, Renault Megane, VW Passat; you can understand what I mean. I even did not upload their pictures to prevent any adverse flashbacks. From the mess of 1990s, I can clearly say Ford KA is the only car I loved. I know it is a very basic car and mainly targeted to girls. But it had the integration of basic and cleaver design and an identity for that price tag. Actually if you pay less, you get less but Ford KA can be an exception for this.

Anyway, my second big encounter with Ford KA was on Friday. My dear twitter friend Laurence Borel kindly invited me to Ford KA and TONI & GUY hair design event. As you might remember, I nominated Richard Hammond as the winner but he did not appear in today in Bullring Birmingham. Honestly, new Ford KA did not excite me that much. Even though it has the new Ford Kinetic Design, I could not emerge the same feelings like I had it for the first generation KA. This new model is based on Fiat 500 and that’s much better looking car. Sorry Ford, this is the ugly truth! Unfortunately, Fiat 500 and Ford KA share more than chassis and KA has the same interior dials from Fiat 500! That’s second minus point for KA. However, the production quality and some nice bits like leather steering wheel tries to compensates the catastrophe of Fiat and Ford dating but I didn’t feel the same like the new Ford Fiesta.

Okay, that’s enough for Ford KA. The event was dominated mainly by women, and it was something very usual. And they did something very clear to attend this event and have their hair designed by the team of Toni Guy. Despite the Ford KA’s lovely price tag, Toni Guy does not have very lovely price tags and this event was a great opportunity to people.

Lastly, there was a limited edition Tattoo Ford KA and it had very nice bits like chrome or chrome looking door handles, leather seat with a heating button which wobbles too much due to hurry design and powered by a 1,2lt engine with 69 horses which gives you’re the opportunity to put the engine into your huge handbag. By this way, you need to worry about your car :)

You cannot buy something better for this price. I know there are many annoying bits but for this price, it is a great value. It is safe, reliable, good handling (this is a Ford must), slightly better looking that Nissan Micra. You can see the full album in Picasa.

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iRing, sorry that's Bull Ring!

For last three weeks I am Birmingham, UK. A demand of popular culture, when we move to a new city, we have to visit the shopping malls before the museums :) So I did the same and I end up in Bull Ring. This shopping centre has a very distinctive architecture; shopping mall is not limited by roads or anything else instead, it became a part of environment. Some part of the Bull Ring is under the road some part is over the road. Actually it is a bit confusing, when you first visit you cannot realize where you are and you will start thinking, did I visit this part. It is a very nicely designed and a bit confusing shopping mall. Until you get use to it, you might get lost or never visit some of it parts.

When I was confused in Bull Ring, I remembered the time I got confused in BMW’s first generation iDrive interface. Actually it was suppose to help drive to access menus and settings very easily without any confusion but you have to be either ten years old or you have to have a master degree of engineering. If you cannot satisfy these two criteria, you will not able to use iDrive. So BMW realized the pointless iDrive technology and revised many times. Now, it is more usable and less confusing. But why BMW waited for such a long time to understand their mistake.

This is the same with designing a building, it might look very nice and unique but when you wish to use it, it may not be as exciting as you imagined. Actually, making a revision in a building is much much harder than making a revision in a software.

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BMW and Bullring Websites

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