Eurocars launches Porsche ‘Driving Experience’ here
Eurocars, official agent of Porsche cars in Sri Lanka, will host the first-ever exclusive Porsche ‘Driving Experience’ in mid-September, where Porsche enthusiasts will get an opportunity to experience six German-built top-of-the-range sports cars that have never before been seen or driven in the country, a media release issued by the company disclosed.
It will consist of a series of events that will take place across a one-month period kicking off in mid September.
This includes four exclusive track driving events and public displays in selected locations that will give prominence to Porsche’s world renowned luxury sports car model range.
The country will witness for the very first time the 911 Carrera 4S Cabriolet, 911 Turbo, Panamera GTS, Cayenne GTS, Cayman GTS and the Macan GTS.
These cars will reveal Porsche’s pioneering technology that combines outstanding performance and efficiency, media release said.
The range will also be on display at the Porsche Centre Showroom during weekdays,
The Global Fuel Economy Initiative is supporting Sri Lanka to assess the fuel economy of its vehicle fleet numbering around 4.5 million and develop new policy measures. The country should harness maximum benefits from this initiative by implementing a clean air action plan which will contain proposals for vehicle fuel economy labelling and fiscal incentives.
The roadmap is essential for air quality management in the country with specific objectives, strategies, actions, timeframes and key performance indicators.
In order to control air pollutants from the country’s vehicle fleet, there is an urgent need of traffic management measures, new emission standards, effective vehicle inspection and maintenance programmes encouraging public transport, and cleaner fuel as well as road user charges, etc.
Even though some of the above measures have been implemented in Sri Lanka, proper fuel standard, vehicle emission standards or effective management programme are still to be enforced.
Sri Lanka has to take a big step towards implementing the current world fuel standard to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and improve public health as the use of cars in the country is on the rise along with the average engine capacity.
According to latest statistics, the active vehicle fleet in the country is 4.5 million, annual fuel consumption 2.7 million tons and average fuel economy 0.025 litre/pas- senger-km. The data shows that there is an urgent need to implement world fuel standards to control air pollution in Sri Lanka.
Use of hybrid vehicles has improved the fuel economy by 15 per cent. But the Government should take measures to implement world fuel standards as it is essential to import cleaner fuel. It is not a difficult task under the present set up of declining fuel prices in the world market.
The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) completely phased out leaded petrol in mid June 2002 and it is now marketing only low sulphur "unleaded petrol" of grades 95 Octane, 92 Octane and 90 Octane.
While unleaded petrol of 95 Octane grade is imported and is meeting "Euro-2"