Maintaining a regular schedule for rotating your tires helps to ensure even tire wear and helps your tires last longer. Rotating your tires involves changing their position on the vehicle from one wheel location to another. All tire manufacturers recommend rotating your tires regularly. In fact, failing to do so could void the manufacturer’s warranty. Rotate tires at the vehicle manufacturers’ recommended intervals or at 5,000 to 7,000 miles if not specified.

There are two different schools of thought on how often you should rotate your tires on front wheel drive vehicles. The front tires on these vehicles tend to wear quicker than those on the rear of the vehicle. By rotating the tires front to rear and side to side the wear patterns between the wheel locations spread the wear out more evenly, allowing you to extend the life of all four of your tires.

Others argue it makes more sense to replace the front tires on a front wheel vehicle as they wear out, but to leave the back tires alone. This plan is especially effective if you do a lot of driving or plan to keep the vehicle a long time. It is estimated that the back tires will last as long as two sets of front tires.

To find out what rotation pattern would be best for your vehicle and tires, consult one of our highly trained Service Advisors in the Lamborghini Sarasota Service Department.

Lamborghini Sarasota is proud to be a sponsor of the Transitions Championship 72-hole official PGA Tour event being held at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club. The festivities begin on March 15 and last all week through to the exciting final round on March 21. The Transitions Championship raises money each year for local charities.  

Larry Morgan, CEO and owner, of Lamborghini Sarasota has been on the Board of this PGA event since 1998 and during that time the event has raised over $20,000,000 for local charities. On Monday, March 16, Larry will caddy for Toyota of Tampa Bay’s Service Director, Joe Schlueter, in the Shelton Quarles Celebrity Pro-Am which benefits the Shelton Quarles IMPACT Foundation.  

The IMPACT Foundation is dedicated to helping local Bay area underprivileged children and their families improve the quality of their lives through housing and educational initiatives.

Nationally known car enthusiast and broker Melvin Goodman is bringing his Sweet Dreams Car Show Tour for 2010 to Tampa Bay at the St. Pete Times forum on Sunday, March 21 from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm.  

2,500 people are expected to attend the event that will include displays by Morgan Auto Group’s Lamborghini Sarasota and BMW of Sarasota.  The event will include over $10,000,000 worth of cars on display, including Celebrity Vehicles from a mystery celebrity’s LP640 Lamborghini, the Lightning’s own Ryan Malone’s Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder, and Tampa Bay Buc’s quarterback Josh Freeman’s 2010 Range Rover Super Charged.  

Also on display will be the Million Dollar Ride, a Bugatti Veyron.  You will also be able to see the latest in stereos, bikes and more.  

Hope to see you there!

With all the buzz about electric supercars at the Geneva show, you can almost forget it’s possible to buy an old fashioned V-10 screamer these days. Enter the new Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera.

Instead of adding electronics and complexity, Lamborghini would rather reduce weight and increase horsepower. So we’ve got 562 hp to move a mere 2954 pounds of carbon fiber and aluminum around your favorite back roads. Naturally Lamborghini will let customers add a navigation system or the brand’s signature front end lifting system for people who aren’t afraid to negate the weight savings of the Superleggera package.

In addition to being faster than the old Gallardo Superleggera (the 570-4 does 0-60 mph in 3.4 seconds) the LP570-4 is also easier on the environment; CO2 emissions are down 20% and fuel economy is up by 2 mpg (to 14 mpg in the city!) for the automatic transmission cars. And the car will top out at 202 mph if you can find enough open road, so performance certainly isn’t sacrificed for fuel economy.

If you aren’t willing to consider a hybrid just yet, Lamborghini may be your best bet for a slightly more socially conscious supercar. Even if you don’t particularly care about the environmental benefits, it’s nice to see an automaker offering a lighter version of a production car. We can all agree with that plan.

Source: [Automobile Magazine]

New research from Hong Kong suggests that green tea may protect against eye diseases such as glaucoma because the researchers found green tea antioxidants called catechins present in various tissue structures in the eyes of laboratory rats after they had ingested green tea.

The researchers, based at Hong Kong Eye Hospital, Kowloon, and the Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, in the New Territories, Hong Kong, have written about their findings in a paper that appeared in the February 10th print issue of the American Chemical Society’s bi-weekly Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Green tea contains catechins which belong to the family of antioxidants that includes vitamin C, vitamin E, lutein, and zeaxanthin and is well-known for its disease-fighting properties.

Until this study, however, nobody knew if green tea catechins actually passed from the stomach and gastrointestinal tract into the tissues of the eye.

For their investigation Dr Chi Pui Pang, of the Hong Kong Eye Hospital, and colleagues examined the eyes of dead rats that had been fed green tea extract for varying amounts of time.

When they examined the cornea, lens, retina, choroid-sclera, vitreous humor, and aqueous humor, they found evidence that these various eye structures had absorbed significant amounts of individual catechins.

For example, the retina absorbed the highest levels of gallocatechin and the aqueous humor absorbed epigallocatechin.

They also found that the time of maximum concentration of the catechins varied from 0.5 to 12.2 hours and their effects in reducing harmful oxidative stress in the eye lasted for up to 20 hours after consumption.

Chi Pui Pang and colleagues concluded that:

“Our results indicate that green tea consumption could benefit the eye against oxidative stress.”

However, more studies are needed to verify the same effects occur in humans.

Source: [Medical News Today]