Tuesday, November 30, 2010

New Cozy Car

New Honda CR-V at first glance gives the impression of solidity. In the car there is nothing child: he is one hundred percent solid, solid, grown-up. Owning such a machine is uniquely speaks of her owner, as a man held and successful. Obviously, for the image has to pay: the price of CR-V 2010 model year range. 
In the maximum configuration the car is equipped with electric sunroof, leather interior, Parktronic, powered driver's seat, electrical lumbar support for driver subwoofer ... That is practically all you need for comfort. However, we went for a test model in the Elegance version with a two-liter engine and five-speed automatic transmission. This car is worth 1 million 195 thousand rubles. (That is cheaper than a top at 203 thousand rubles). And it was not nothing of the above. No hatch, no leather seats, no power seats or a subwoofer, or even Parktronic, not to mention the navigation! And it is up to 1 million 195 thousand! Especially disappointed with Parktronic, without which unfold in a car longer than 4,5 meters and a width of 1.82 meters was extraordinarily difficult.

Monday, November 29, 2010

New diesel for Seat

Seat Leon and Altea in January to replace the outdated Diesel 1,9 TDI will have a new motor 1,6 TDI, corresponding to Euro-5.
The engine is equipped with power system Common Rail, to develop those same 90 hp, and its predecessor, and 230 Nm of torque. In conjunction with manual transmission diesel hatchback allows Leon to spend on 0.5 liter less in comparison with the old engine - 4.5 liters per 100 kilometers. Fuel Altea minivan fell even more serious - from 5,4 to 4,8 l per 100 km.
Machines with a new diesel engine until fall only on the market in Spain.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Mitsubishi is preparing a hybrid model by 2013


Year 2013, Mitsubishi will join lineup own hybrid model, said Yoshikazu Nakamura, responsible for directing the development of electric vehicles in the Japanese company.


Apparently, the serial hybrid constructively will repeat the concept car Mitsubishi Px-MiEV, submitted in 2009 in Tokyo. It was equipped with two electric motors 82 hp power, rotate each its axis, and a gasoline engine of 1.6 liters ( 116 hp), which could run on batteries recharged, and as traction.


On electricity prototype could drive 45 km, and further work included in an internal combustion engine, which at first recharge the battery, while increasing the load time with him began to be transmitted to the wheels.

It is reported that at present, this machine is the final test.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

GM and SAIC have presented a new brand

General Motors in conjunction with the Chinese SAIC concern brought to the market of China new brand Baojun.
The first model of the new brand was Baojun 630 - a budget sedan, the price of which will be installed within the 10000 dollars. Such a pricing policy should allow to compete for customers not only with other manufacturers, but also to entice them from the secondary market.
It is reported that production has already started, and every year is planned to produce 100,000 cars of this model.

Friday, November 26, 2010

Audi has declassified most powerful version of the A3

The family of Audi A3 supplemented with the most powerful version - RS3. Images and technical details were declassified on Monday.
Under the hood RS3 - row "five" in volume of 2.5 liters, develops 340 hp and 450 Nm. In tandem with the motor running seven-step "robot S-tonics. As is usual for cars with an index of RS, the car is equipped with all-wheel drive Quattro. Maximum speed artificially limited to 250 km / h and 100 km / h RS3 develops over 4,6 seconds after launch. At the same time fuel consumption is declared at the level of 9.1 liters per 100 km, and emissions CO2 - 212 g / km.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

De - Tomaso back next year


Italy's legendary brand De Tomaso makes the next steps to recovery. It is already known, which will begin production.
An agreement was reached on the use of the newly formed firm capacity at Termini Imerese in Sicily. The plant belongs to the concern Fiat, which is intended to close it, but the local authorities and the Italian government had strongly opposed. Therefore, the appearance De Tomaso, ready to rent to suit your needs factory floor, it was an opportune moment to save jobs.
In the next year will begin production sports car Ghepardo, and then range should fill a sport sedan and crossover. In order to reach break-even level, the firm must produce for 10000 cars a year - these plans are based on more perspective

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Two awards of commercial vehicles Mercedes

Two commercial vehicle Mercedes-Benz were awarded contest PROdvizhenie. Best Truck of the Year "
As a result of the contest, led at the International Transport Forum "IAF-2010," The Best Truck in 2010 (from 1,5 to 5,0 m) "was voted the best Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, a Mercedes- Benz Actros was the winner in the Best tractor in 2010 (the engine power from 351 to 500 hp).
The rewards for these achievements in a solemn ceremony were representatives of Mercedes-Benz Rus Sales Director vans Mercedes-Benz North Jeroen Vraymud and director of sales of trucks for Mercedes-Benz North Alexander Greeks.
Commemorative cups will be exhibited in Autotechcenter Mercedes-Benz North, which is the official representative of Daimler AG.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

New Hyundai Grandeur

The first images of updated sedan Grandeur published Korean Hyundai. A new generation of this car segment "E" was created in the spirit of recent design concepts of the company.
New Hyundai Grandeur was swift from the body with muscular wheel arches, wide front end with a grille and slanted headlights and overall style novelty sports and aggressive. In addition, you will notice that the car has front and rear LED optics.
Data on the timing of the appearance of Grandeur serial no, do not communicate and specifications, although we can assume that under the hood will be engines V6 and V8, as well as the seven-speed automatic transmission.

Monday, November 22, 2010

Updated Acura TSX

Acura, luxury division of Honda, has updated the sedan model TSX, marketed in Europe as the Honda Accord.
Externally, the machine has changed little: there are new fog lights, another grille, modified rear optics and new design alloy wheels.
Inside - new steering wheel, handbrake lever, the front panel, the navigation system and floor mats.
With regard to changes under the hood, the existing engines were modified to reduce friction loss: it's slightly improved fuel efficiency. With the same purpose, the modified program control automatic transmission.
New Acura TSX will be the American dealerships by the end of the year at a price of 29,610 dollars.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Porsche Cayman R - even easier and faster

Porsche pokazalana Los Anzhelesskom Motor sportkarCayman R - with more moschnymmotorom and lightweight body in comparison with the already well-known Cayman S.
After ustanovkisverhlegkih seats, body panels and oblegchennyhvnutrennih novyhlegkosplavnyh drives as well as izyatiyaiz complete audio system Climate control system gross weight avtomobilyaumenshilas at 55 kg and was 1295 kg.
Modernizirovannyy3 ,4-liter engine with 330 hp, which works in tandem with шестиступенчатоймеханической PPC CaymanR accelerates to 282 km / h from 100 kotoryhpervye recruited in 5 seconds.
VGermanii new sports car will prodavats February 2011, and starting tsenasostavit 69,830 euros.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

The unique tram system Volkswagen

November 16 Volkswagen to celebrate the anniversary - a decade of unique transportation system that works in Dresden, the glass factory, which produces a model Phaeton.
In 2001 the tram ways Dresden appeared blue compounds, whose trip began in the Friedrichstadt district, in the logistics center and ended on a glass factory in the city center. Since then, daily tram CarGoTram carrying 420 tons of spare parts for Volkswagen Phaeton. 
The composition of 20 m and a load capacity of 60 tons set in motion induction motors with total capacity of 1224 hp Speed tram - 50 km / h, while the route - 25 minutes. Approximately the same is loading and unloading of the glass factory.
Unique logistics concept allows you to save a low level of noise and harmful emissions and reduce congestion in the center of Dresden.

Friday, November 19, 2010

Fastest BMW M6 by G-Power

The fastest four-seater coupe in the world is built on the BMW M6 Atelier G-power.
V10 engine after replacing the piston, as well as reprogramming the control unit began to give out 800 hp power (vs. 517 hp in the standard) and 800 Nm of torque. Top speed is limited at around 300 km / h, but the most impressive performance of dispersal: a 4.35 seconds after starting the machine travels at a speed of 100 km / h, and this is not the limit. Acceleration from standstill to 200 km / h - 9.5 seconds and a maximum speed of G-Power M6 Hurricane RR gains for 24.9 seconds.
For better downforce aerodynamic body kit coupe was made of carbon fiber. Among other features worth mentioning brand brakes G-power and electronically adjustable suspension.
For the resulting supercar tuning studio requests 252,100 euros.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

BMW is working on the car of the future

The BMW Group intends in 2013 to turn their leytsipgsky plant at the center of the mass production of electric vehicles. To do this, planned to invest in the reconstruction of the production of 400 million euros and create 800 new jobs.
Already in 2011 the assembly line in Leipzig, the company will go first electric BMW ActiveE - this is the second after the MINI E electric model of the BMW group, experience the creation of which will be indispensable in the preparation of serial production electric car of the future Megaciti Vehicle.
Megacity Vehicle - a new technological breakthrough, which trains specialists BMW. He will become the world's first production car with a body of carbon fiber. At present, the average electric substantially - by 250-350 kg - heavier than the analog with an internal combustion engine, but light carbon fiber body makes it possible to reduce this difference to almost zero.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Aston Martin Vantage N420 - Special Edition

The special edition model Vantage is Aston Martin.'s Called a modification N420 and released after successful performance cars on 24-hour marathon at the Nurburgring. Actually, N in the title and oznachet this route, and the numbers - horsepower.
4.7-liter engine transmits its 420 hp and 470 Nm at the rear wheels via a six-speed manual transmission or an optional "automatic» Sportshift. Maximum speed - 290 km / h, of which the first 100 recruited from 4,9 seconds.
Due to the wide application of carbon mass N420 compared to the baseline Vantage was reduced by 27 kg. Manageability is designed to improve the package Sports Pack, which includes the revised suspension settings, springs, dampers and anti-roll bars. The engine, in turn, features a new exhaust system, which gives, in addition to some increase of power, a very impressive sound.
Inside, use advanced finishing materials, and in addition, installed audio Bang & Olufsen.
Sales start in August next year at a price of 185,000 euros.

Monday, November 15, 2010

First Opel hybrid car Ampera

Opel called the cost of its first hybrid car Ampera, which will be sold in Europe at the end of next year.
Opel Ampera the basic kit will cost the Europeans to 42,900 euros. For comparison, the U.S. soplatformenny Chevrolet Volt - essentially, the same machine, but with other shildikami - sold for 41,000 dollars. Lower prices secured government subsidies.
Ampera constantly driven by an electric motor 150 hp - It allows you to position it as an electric car. 100-strong internal combustion engine, which he has used exclusively to recharge the batteries. Electric range - 50 to 80 km when fully charged battery. Connect engine can increase mileage up to 480 km.
The machine accelerates to "hundreds" for 9 seconds and a top speed Opel Ampera - 161 km / h. Charging the battery from the household power is 3 hours.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Special Series Fabia RS

In honor of winning factory team in the World Rally Championship series IRC Skoda will issue a special series of Fabia RS.
Spetsversiya receive paint finishes, like a champion car, a white roof and white 17-inch rims.
As for the power plant, then under the hood hot hatch will remain normal for RS-turbo 1.4 liter 180 horsepower paired with preselektivnym "robot» DSG. Accordingly, the acceleration time to "hundreds" of remaining 7.3 seconds and top speed - 224 km / h.
Special Series Fabia RS will be made in amounts of 200 units, and that's what markets expected to implement them is still unknown.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Opel Company New Car Zafira

The first images of new-generation minivan Opel Zafira appeared before the British publication AutoExpress.
On the computer photos can be seen that the drop of the machine against the door as the new Meriva, will not. However, the appearance of a new yet very bright. Emphasis is placed on fog unusual shape, familiar from opelevskim concepts.
It is expected that the new estate, which, incidentally, will be substantially larger than its predecessor, will receive a proprietary system transformation salon FlexSpace, well, a range of engines will follow that which is put to the Opel Astra, with the exception of the "charged" version of the OPC - it at Zafira will be no more .

Friday, November 5, 2010

Inizio - electric super car from USA


A prototype of an electric super car presented at SEMA tuning show U.S. firm Li-Ion Motors.
Li-Ion Inizio built on the funds won by the contest for the best production-ready car with a fuel consumption of no more than 2.35 liters per 100 km-Automotive X-Prize for the Electric Wave II.
Inizio accelerates to 60 miles per hour in 3.4 seconds - 0.3 seconds on a better result than the famous Tesla Roadster. Maximum speed - 270 km / h, power reserve of up to 400 km. The machine is driven by an electric motor power 145 kW. The main advantage over its competitors - is the availability of a replacement set of batteries and a simplified procedure for their replacement.
Li-Ion motors intend to begin production Inizio the summer of 2011, and sell at a price of 139,000 dollars to 15,000 cars annually.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Porsche Cajun - Future crossover


Small crossover Porsche Cajun goes into production - the decision was made by the German manufacturer. Auto express British edition published the first images of future innovations.
New from Porsche will be playing in the same league with the recently introduced Range Rover Evoque and future BMW X4 (the premiere is expected in a year)
For the Cajun use platform Audi Q5, but not in pure form, of course, a thoroughly revised, in any case, steering and suspension will be sharper and sport settings.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Proton will create a compact car on the platform of Nissan Micra

Malaysian manufacturer Proton is going to use the platform for your own Nissan Micra subcompact-oriented markets of India and other developing countries.
Cost of the platform of the new Micra significantly reduced by the use of parts of Indian and Chinese production, whose share in the construction - about 90%. In addition, as reported, this "truck" helps reduce weight and reduce the number of used parts as well as to easily adapt the design to various requirements.
The platform allows building machines with total mass not exceeding 1600 kg and use motors with torque not higher than 200 Nm.
It is expected that a future minicar will get the features of the concept Emas, Proton presented at this year's Geneva Motor Show.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Styling for Mitsubishi ASX


Tuning kit for the crossover Mitsubishi RVR, a well-known called ASX, provided the Japanese studio DAMD.
Designer’s aerodynamic body kit (front splitter, skirts the rapids, a spoiler on the trailing edge of the roof) was added to the rapid appearance of cars and even aggressive traits.
Complement the exterior offered exclusive design alloy wheels diameter 19 or 20 inch tires Bridges tone, and besides, chrome-pipe exhausts system, which, incidentally, in this case is not standard, and specially modified and more productive.
The cost of tuning package developers to be announced.

New Dodge Grand Carava Car Got a New Grille

Next update in the model number brand Dodge - a large estate Grand Caravan, endures restyling.
Car got a new grille, a more sculptured hood, the new head optics, as well as revised design with LED lights aft.
The new configuration also received a suspension, and besides, the whole range of engines with which the Grand Caravan was offered in the U.S. market, has been replaced by a single motor. This - the six-cylinder V-shaped "Six" from the line of Pent star, develops 283 hp with the volume of 3,6 l, packaged with six automatic.
The new-generation minivan also received treatment for fuel economy, in which the algorithm of "automatic" changes so as to ensure minimum fuel consumption in all modes of traffic.