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The Best New Cars Coming In 2011

The most anticipated cars due to hit showrooms in 2011.

 Vauxhall Ampera
Price: £28,995
Due in UK showrooms: spring 2012
We wouldn't normally get too excited about a new Vauxhall here, but the Ampera is different. It's electric, with an on-board generator engine (called a range extender), which allows the Ampera to travel further than the usual 100 miles other electric cars offer. If you want one, you can place your order right away, but you may not receive the car until 2012.

 Audi A6
Price: from £30,145
Due in UK showrooms: spring
The A6 is not just a big car physically, but big in terms of its importance for Audi. It's a big seller for the German marque and the new car promises to better compete with its BMW 5 Series and Mercedes-Benz E-Class rivals on driver appeal. It features lots of efficiency savings thanks to lighter construction and leaner engines, too.

 BMW 6 Series
Price: starting from about £55,000
Due in UK showrooms: spring
BMW's big grand touring coupé - and convertible - features lots of style, plenty of performance and luxury. All with a price tag to match. The new model is certain to be greener thanks to BMW's latest EfficientDynamics technology. The 6 Series promises to be a beautifully accomplished all-rounder when it arrives early in 2011.

 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster
Price: £180,000
Due in UK showrooms: summer 2011
How do you out-glam the stunning Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG? Lop its top off and create a roadster. You might lose the signature gullwing doors of the coupé with this glamorous convertible, but who cares when it looks this good? Expected to be in showrooms in time for the summer and in all the hot spots around the world shortly after. Oh to be wealthy...

 Porsche Cayman R
Price: £51,731
Due in UK showrooms: February
It's a derivative model sure, but it's a lighter, harder charging Porsche Cayman - and that should make every keen driver happy. Dropping 55kg in weight, riding on more focused suspension, a manual gearbox and a mid-mounted, flat-six engine developing 330bhp, the Cayman R is very much our kind of car.

 Volkswagen Up!
Price: estimated to start at £9,000
Due in UK showrooms: summer
Volkswagen has been showing various Up! concept models for a while now and this summer we should see them start to reach showrooms. The city cars will be small, space efficient and sip fuel. The perfect car for these times then, with the promise of VW's fine build quality and desirable badge, too.

 Nissan LEAF
Price: £23,990
Due in UK showrooms: March
Stealing the thunder of the Ford Focus as the most important new car introduction in 2011 is the Nissan LEAF. It's probably the most significant car to be introduced this decade, not just this coming year. Why? It's the first fully production electric car from a mainstream maker to reach showrooms.

 Honda Jazz Hybrid
Price: £15,995
Due in UK showrooms: January
Hybrids just got smaller, and Honda is pushing the move forwards with its Jazz. Small hybrids make lots of sense, with smaller cars more advantageous around town and hybrid technology working best in the city. It's a shame then that the Jazz hybrid doesn't maximise this with a London Congestion Charge beating sub-100g/km of CO2.

 Range Rover EvoquePrice: from £30,000Due in UK showrooms: summer
Victoria Beckham is apparently involved as a styling consultant for Range Rover's new Evoque, but let's not hold that against this exciting new SUV. Luxury, style and economy combine, though some of Range Rover's legendary off-road ability will be lost with the front-wheel drive models. Expect it to be a huge hit in the trendier parts of town.

 Porsche Cayman R
Price: £51,731
Due in UK showrooms: February
It's a derivative model sure, but it's a lighter, harder charging Porsche Cayman - and that should make every keen driver happy. Dropping 55kg in weight, riding on more focused suspension, a manual gearbox and a mid-mounted, flat-six engine developing 330bhp, the Cayman R is very much our kind of car.

 Aston Martin Cygnet
Price: likely to start at under £30,000
Due in UK showrooms: summer
Based on Toyota's iQ, but re-skinned to look like a mini Aston Martin, the Cygnet doesn't come with any Aston enhancements under the bonnet. Sure it'll be nice inside and looks good outside, but don't plan on winning any traffic light Grand Prix stand offs. No price has been confirmed, but it'll be on the wrong side of silly.

 BMW 1 Series M Coupé
Price: £39,990
Due in UK showrooms: May
An M car for these more austere times, the BMW 1 Series M Coupé brings the entry price down to a - relatively - more affordable level. Performance isn't dented either, with the 1 Series M Coupé boasting M3-rivalling performance. Muscular looks and a fruity exhaust note also enhance the appeal of M division's latest product.

 Ford Focus
Price: from £15,995
Due in UK showrooms: March
Forget new Lamborghinis and McLarens, this family hatchback is one of the most significant new car launches in 2011. Consistently a top seller, and likely to be the finest driving car in its class, the new Focus needs to be good if it's going to beat the latest VW Golf and Vauxhall Astra.

 Citroen DS3 Racing
Price: £23,100
Due in UK showrooms: early 2011
Hot hatches are very much back and Citroen wants a slice of the market with its DS3 Racing. This MINI Cooper S rival comes with all the DS3's cool, but with a bit more fire under its bonnet. The 207bhp machine reaches 62mph in just 6.5 seconds. Just 200 cars are coming to the UK.

 McLaren MP4-12C
Price: £168,500
Due in UK showrooms: summer
The most hotly anticipated supercar of 2011 is the new MP4-12C from McLaren. The Ferrari 458 Italia rival is due to arrive in the summer and promises sensational performance thanks to its 592bhp engine and light weight. Helping it with that brief is a carbon-fibre chassis and plenty of know-how borrowed from McLaren's F1 boffins.

Source : Yahoo Cars

Swimsuit Models

Swimsuit modeling is a very competitive field and the number of top models herein increase and decrease on daily basis. Once you decide to be a swimsuit model, the first job is to do a lot of research in order to find the right agency for your promotion. The city of New York is known as one of the major cities for modeling opportunities. Hard work, attraction, connections and luck - all play a part in deciding where you end up in this profession. No matter where you are based, if you sign with a big and popular agency that's based in New York as most of them are, there is a fairly good chance that you'll end up well. But it is important to know that there is always a demand for models in minor markets such as Chicago, Philadelphia and Phoenix.

Swim suit modeling very necessarily demands a good body. Being a swimsuit model might seem easy but coming back to reality, modeling is just another job at the end of the day. It's hard to make a good living and even harder to sustain it for more than a few years. Only a very few make it into the upper echelons of the profession. The supermodels that we are so used to seeing around must have initially had to take on secondary jobs just to make their ends meet. Many models end up doing this job only for a few years as it is pressurizing to live on a daily diet of rejection and keep up to look a particular way. Such pressures can take a severe psychological toll and may even be a risk to life.

It is usually the young models with training and experience that are most wanted as swimsuit models. There are various training schools out there that teach ramp walk, picture posing and hone your present skills as young models. It will also help you when you audition for a modeling agency. Having a models portfolio and gaining some basic instruction is important if you are considering taking up modeling as a full-time career. It is a swimsuit models duty to select swimsuit-modeling agents, who are correct for them. You can mail your picture and resume to all of the modeling agencies in your area. Every major city has well-established modeling agencies so you must get in touch with a few to get their opinions. Some of the best lingerie models modeling agencies look for bikini models but they may vary according to their requirements and choices. Picking an agent for swimsuit models that is well known and established is important.

By Ross Bainbridge

The Appeal Of Swimsuit Model Videos and Photos

It's obvious swimsuit models have a massive worldwide appeal, and there is a huge demand for swimsuit model videos and photos. Specifically those produced by professional photographers, on exotic locations, and with gorgeous young rising star and sexy celebrity models. Simply seeing, or hearing, the words "swimsuit model" conjures up sensual and exciting mind images and emotions, especially for adult males of all ages. So, it's not surprising that the term "swimsuit model" is currently searched for over 400,000 times each month in one of the major search engines.

One of the great things about looking at pictures of swimsuit models, and swimsuit model videos, is that they're not pornographic. Exciting but tasteful, stimulating but not sleazy. Virtually everyone knows of Sports Illustrated. Their beautiful, professional publication is sold all over the world, and not shamefully tucked away in the adult magazine section.

Now, with the rise of the internet and lightning fast broadband connections, there has been an explosion in the number of online videos, including swimsuit model videos. Video adds a whole new dimension of viewing pleasure with the addition of high quality audio and special effects.

For many young women who aspire to be models, swimsuit modelling adds a whole new field of possibilities, where the height requirements may not be as tough as they are for runway models. Swimsuit models are in high demand for magazine editorials, catalogs, advertisements, swimsuit calendars, and billboards. Live event swimsuit modeling is also on the increase. Runway models usually have a body type that is quite different to that of swimsuit models e.g. very thin with long legs and a special style of "working the catwalk" that is unique.

The gorgeous young women we see in swimsuit model videos and photographs deserve the appreciation they get. After all, it's been said they're "living works of art" for not only do they need great body tone and physique, a pretty face, lovely curves and healthy hair, but they also need to have the x-factor. That "special something" that "seduces" the camera, and has us all falling in love too. To maintain their looks and tone, often requires a lot of self discipline, especially leading up to a major swimsuit model video or photo shoot. In some ways swimsuit models are great "role models" to young women in that they look like real women, full of vitality and health, not like many catwalk models who look well underweight. So, swimsuit models, we say thank you, and we appreciate all that you do!

By Steven Jones