Audi Q8 vs Mercedes GL Coupe vs BMW X7

Audi Q8 vs Mercedes GL Coupe vs BMW X7 - Mercedes, BMW and Audi round their product range upwards and plan in the coming years, the introduction of full-size SUV. 

The beginning, therefore, makes the 2015 Audi Q8 coupe. Mercedes likely to bring in 2016 a coupe version of the big GL-roader and BMW plans a long X7 based on the next X5/X6-Generation for 2018. The coupe-like off-roader should mainly on the world market - attract clients - particularly in the U.S. and in China.

Audi plans to introduce by 2015 a Q8 Coupe, based on the upcoming Q7. Particularly promising is the Ingolstadt of the two V6 engines: the 3.0 TFSI 310 hp, the 3.0 TDI comes to 272 hp. Even more power there is in the two four-liter eight-cylinder with 435 hp (gasoline) and 394 hp (diesel).

Mercedes is planning a coupe version of the GL-roader, the less reminiscent of an SUV than the previously produced GL. For the GL Coupe Mercedes has taken up the plans of a discarded Maybach SUV again. Main feature is the in-line six-cylinder diesel engine, which brings more than 300 hp on the street.

BMW working on an elongate X7, based on the next to come X5/X6-Generation and 2018. With the increased use of aluminum, magnesium and carbon fiber, the weight of the entire X-Series is expected to fall by up to 350 kilograms. Also provided is a power increase to 400 hp whole.

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Jaguar Project 7 Premiere at Goodwood

Jaguar Project 7 - The Jaguar Project 7 is a throwback therefore the Le Mans racing legend D-Type. Premiere has this floor now 550 horsepower this weekend at the Festival of Speed ​​at Goodwood in southern England. The resultant based on the F-Type in fewer than four months only comes as a single-seater racing car. With the Sunday trip with the girlfriend so that it will not ever.

A pre-Jaguar promises ever had a top speed of 300 km / h This should make the 550 hp and 680 Nm strong five-liter supercharged V8 engine. An eight-speed Sports automatic then transmits the power to the rear axle. There shall provide a locking differential for increased traction. In order to improve the roadholding of the athlete, there is again lowered the landing gear with respect to the Type F-7 by 10 mm in the Project. To ensure a safe road contact, the 20-inch lightweight forged wheels bother with carbon inserts and 255/30 tires in front and he 295/30 rear tires it.

Immediately fall outside the cantilevered side sill panels and redesigned front and rear aprons on. Of course here are only the finest materials are used. With carbon to the designer throw her boss Ian Callum all over the place and even with the lightweight aluminum gun is not stingy. Behind the driver's seat sits a Airdome and is adjacent to the equipped with suspender belts leather chair only has room for a helmet holder. The flat salaried windshield was heavily cut. At the rear, there is of course the obligatory, adjustable rear wing and diffuser. The two double tailpipes then provide also including ceramic finish for the breathtaking racing sound. As it sounds, you can here in this video ever learn:

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Audi RS 7 Sportback starts at 113,000 euros

Now it's out: just set for the Audi RS 7 Sportback times you have to loose at least 113,000 euros on the table. For this, there's a real monster V8 with 560 hp, which was presented at the Motor Show in Detroit in January. 

Who wants to drive the car around the Nordschleife, which perhaps is the recommended 3,500-euro dynamics package. There is then a rear axle, which increases the cross-competence of the carriage significantly.

Also new is the ordernde to 950 euros for active roll compensation. So that the car drops in the curves a not so strong and should be stable on the road. The so-called Dynamic Ride Control will also reduce the strong pitching of the car when braking. How it works exactly is this short clip. But Audi also can not outsmart physics. Although this system provides the feeling of more stability, but that the driver can then also difficult to judge when the car is really in the border area and when the car breaks. The driving through a curve should provide a broad smile on the face of the Audi drivers in the RS 7 Sportback but still.

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