Friday, 19 July 2013

Skoda Rapid Spaceback: Compact Short-tail Model for Younger Buyers

Skoda Rapid Spaceback - Skoda Rapid is expanding its offerings to include the space back. The Skoda Rapid Spaceback builds despite his Combi-like design 18 inches shorter than the sedan Skoda Rapid in execution and will increasingly attract younger buyers.  The side view looks compared to conventional short-tail models sportier and sleeker, basically like a mix of coupe and wagon. Thus, the Skoda Rapid Spaceback follows the current trend and...

Tesla founder Elon Musk : Alpha version of Hyperloop comes in August

Hyperloop with Tesla founder Elon Musk wants to get close to the people a new form of transportation. From the East to the West Coast of the USA in an hour, faster than by plane. The alpha version of the new means of transport is on 12 August presented. Here you will find out what it will turn right. People are shot to their destination by a pneumatic tube system. Thus Tesla and PayPal founder Elon Musk wants to influence the individual revolutionary....

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...

Tuesday, 16 July 2013

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...

Saturday, 13 July 2013

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...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Opel Insignia Tourer Country: With four-wheel drive and off-road

Opel Insignia - This is the car for all the socialites who also love to poach off the road. Opel launches the Insignia Tourer out a gritty Country Estate, with the all-wheel sometimes you can venture a ride in the area. Off-road Opel's for the first time at the IAA in Frankfurt in September 2013 to marvel at. The price list for the terrain Rüsselsheimer might as well start at around 37,000 euros. With the Opel Insignia Tourer Country brings out...

Lamborghini Aventador is for 1,000 hp monster

Lamborghini Aventador - The tuner Novitec Group blow the Lamborghini Aventador plenty of power under the hood. Did this in the standard equipment already 700 hp, so it brings the tuned V12 engine to a whopping 1,000 hp. The monster then rolls on high-tech forged wheels and is thanks to lots of improvements to the aerodynamics probably even better on the asphalt. This course is also high technology from Formula 1 to use. Strong, stronger Aventador....

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

The New BMW 4-Coupe

The New BMW 4-Coupe  - With the new 4-series BMW once again proves its innovative spirit. This time, not necessarily under the sheet metal, but in terms of marketing strategy. How does it work? On the basis of the sedan in decades to develop a convertible and a coupe version. The trick now is to this (elegant) variants visually and technically aufzuhübschen equipment and simply as an additional (obviously more upscale) to position range. Significantly...

Thursday, 6 June 2013

Chevrolet Spark EV : From mid-June to have for only 15,500 Euros

 Chevrolet Spark EV - More favorable than previously thought, the Chevrolet Spark EV in the U.S. from mid-June will be offered. Thanks to state funding of the price for the electric runabout for the urban jungle with the equivalent of just 15,500 euros is (20,000 U.S. dollars). However, the vehicle will initially be offered only in the U.S. states of Oregon and California. And who does not want to buy the U.S. electricity, which can also lease...

Nissan Micra facelift : Flat Ironed for Europe

Nissan Micra facelift: Flat Ironed for Europe - Actually, cars are often extremely visually smoothed out to match the tastes of as many customers. The facelift of the Nissan Micra now before you went unusually thorough and gave the car manufactured in Thailand, a new front design and a revised interior. Prices for the five-door apparently start at around 11,000 euros. From September there will be to buy the new Micra. The revamped Micra comes with...

Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Preview Opel Insignia Facelift 2013

Opel Insignia facelift 2013 - The Opel Insginia is now on the market for five years. Since it is naturally high time for an optical and technical facelift. In October 2013, will be ready. We have ventured only a preview. Specifically, the engine screams for a portfolio update. Here, the newly developed 1.6 CDTI diesel and the new 1.6 SIDI Petrol engine should come into play. The 1.6 CDTI engine as the base is likely to replace the two-liter diesel...

Sunday, 26 May 2013

Facelift for the BMW M5

Alongside the launch of sedan, wagon and 5-Series GT of the M version of BMW towards summer gets a revised model. In addition to fine-tuning the design there is an optional Competition Package, new features and again extended range of "BMW Connected Drive".  The Competition Package is designed for a specific increase in the handling qualities of the BMW M5. With him, the power of the 4.4-liter V8 increased by 11 kW to 423 kW / 575 hp. In addition,...

Monday, 20 May 2013

Skoda Octavia Combi 4 × 4 coming in July 2103

Skoda Octavia Combi 4 × 4 - Just a few weeks after the debut of Sedan and Combi Skoda brings another variant of Octavia on the market. In July. Prices start at Euro 27 140th Skoda offers the four-wheel drive model in the Ambition and Elegance trim levels. The drive units are a two-liter TDI with an output of 110 kW / 150 hp and 132 kW / 180 bhp 1.8-liter petrol engine to choose from. While the diesel is equipped with a six-speed manual transmission,...

Friday, 17 May 2013

Video: Experts split a Tesla Model S

Since there is observed in the recovery of injured from an electric car a lot, you have now a pilot with a Tesla Model S performed at the Fire Department in Fremont, California. Under the supervision of engineers Brock Archer and Ron Moore Firefighter disassembled the car made by Tesla are available and then have the entire procedure summarized in a video. The core message of the approximately 37-minute strip can be stated that the converter for converting DC and AC must not be damaged. By destroying the entire car could be electrified and thus...

Tuesday, 14 May 2013

BMW Z4 sDrive18i : New Entry-level Engine for the BMW Roadster

The current, so-called "facelift" for the BMW Z4 holds ready manageable updates. The most important innovation in the BMW Z4 range: the new entry-level engine "sDrive 18i" with 156 hp.  Under the long bonnet of the BMW Z4 sDrive18i a 2.0-liter engine works with BMW TwinPower Turbo technology. At a speed of 5,000 revolutions per minute, the unit braces a maximum output of 156 hp to the rear axle. Between 1,250 and 4,400 rpm, the new variant...

Sunday, 12 May 2013

Land Rover Range Rover Sport: Hybrid and 4 cylinders program

After the very successful Evoque, the statutory Range Rover, Land Rover still seduces us by unveiling a few weeks ago, the Range Rover Sport Mk2. If the template is still impressive, the British SUV is not least a great success ... but so far it has only large engines namely TDV6 3.0 L 258 hp SDV6 3.0 L 292 hp V8 5.0 The Supercharged 510 hp.  Present at the next Frankfurt Motor Show, the Range Rover Sport will be unveiled in hybrid and diesel...

Wednesday, 8 May 2013

BMW M3 E92 : End of M3 aspirated Engine!

End of M3 aspirated engine! Place the generation M3 engine TwinPower Turbo. Indeed, it is no longer possible to control since the beginning of this week a E92 M3 Coupe or Cabriolet. Firedrich Dr. Nitschke, head of BMW M GmbH has confirmed the BMW E92 M3 is no longer available for sale at all locations of the Bavarian brand. All M3 will still be produced in the next 6-7 months are all sold. So exit the V8 4.0 L 420 hp, get ready to welcome the L6...

Tuesday, 7 May 2013

Meet Worthersee 2013: Skoda displays the "Rapid Sport"

Meet Worthersee 2013 - Skoda shows the world premiere of its "Rapid Sport" at this year's GTI-Meet at Wörthersee. The first sketches ever see exceedingly well and can guess: the Skoda Rapid Sports is just a show car or we are dealing with the first glimpse of a possible Skoda Rapid RS? Rapid Sport shows the potential of the Skoda design and the possibilities inherent in rapid. The car is painted in metallic colors Corrida Red and Steel Gray. Saturated...

Special tax for electric cars?

Actually, one would think that buyers of environmentally friendly electric cars should pay less tax, and thus ensure the policy contribute to protecting the environment. But in the U.S. there are now first considerations, owners of electric vehicles with a special tax to ask for cash. This is intended to missing revenue from the gasoline tax will be cushioned. Electric cars are good for the climate, but obviously bad for the state treasury. If...

Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Renault begins the teaser for the concept Twin'Run

Renault - For the fifth petal of his daisy "Cycle of Life", Laurens Van Den Acker seems to have chosen to double the lead. Planned as blue, while the sixth is indigo color to assume wisdom ("Wisdom"), the fifth stage of life is the game, "Play". But recently, LVDA and Ross Lovegrove have already submitted a blue concept, Twin'Z which foretells the Twingo 5 doors. In May, its derivative is 3 doors, Twin'Run, who will talk about him. "Twin", the...

Monday, 29 April 2013

Audi TT Ultra Quattro Concept: Light is Bavarian?

Audi TT Ultra Quattro Concept - Spring is here and soon came the time of the annual meeting of the Volkswagen Group, the famous collection of Worthersee who for three days, going to the center of the communication of the Volkswagen Group, at the new and the tuning or vehicle customization of different brands. As part of the communication time, we find the first official vehicle prepared an Audi TT-S becomes to kick Audi Ultra TT Quattro Concept...

Maserati: The rumor of a V8 diesel

Maserati: The rumor of a V8 diesel - Discovering the new Maserati Ghibli, we discovered the arrival of L Biturbo V6 diesel engine with a power of 3.0 275 hp.  If this engine is perfectly matched to the Ghibli, it may be just a little on the Quattroporte and the version Upscale future SUV Levante who will fight against the BMW X5 and X6 M50d who develop some 386 hp. Not to mention the Cayenne, ML or Q5 and Q7 offer or propose punchy diesel...

Friday, 5 April 2013

Fiat: Here is the Panda

Fiat: Here is the Panda - Fiat benefits from early spring to reorganize its Panda range with an enrichment of the range with the arrival of a new finish that enriches the range Pop, Easy, Lounge. Here is the Fiat Panda is now simply that the entry level of the small city of the Italian group in Europe. The basic version is only available with the 1.2 L L4 engine 69 hp, 102 Nm associated with BVM5 (). This version contains the basic equipment of...

Carbon Motors: Lost sight

Carbon Motors: Lost sight - You probably remember the famous American police car, the E7 powered by a 3.0 L diesel BMW L6 (another supply contract which falls into the water for BMW after Fisker and Saab) that seemed accomplished, interesting in of these functions and performance because of its modern design. Unfortunately the one hand the U.S. saw a giant evil eye the arrival of this troublemaker and it seems that lobbying have borne fruit as...

Maserati Ghibli 2014: The tease

Maserati Ghibli 2014: The tease - This time it's official! The new Maserati Ghibli looks for the Shanghai Motor Show where it will have its world premiere. Nothing new for now if it is a beautiful blue draped Maserati suggesting the shape of this sedan will pick up the "mess" in the 5 Series, 6 Series Gran Coupe, E-Class, GS, A6/A7 Mr. No new big thing at the moment whether this is confirmation that this sedan Ghibli will spearhead the attack Maserati...

Renault: The start to the luxury segment with Clio

Renault : The start to the luxury segment with Clio - At Renault, we obviously want to start your own luxury line. Under the label "Initial Paris" to many models are particularly well equipped and specially designed.  The first model with many extras it will be according to the magazine "Autocar" from 2014 in Clio. Only a short time later to be followed as a luxury variant of the Espace. Initially it was planned that a special version of...

Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Hyundai Sonata Hybrid 2013: new technological configuration

Hyundai Sonata Hybrid 2013: new technological configuration - The South Korean manufacturer has felt the need to rejuvenate the sedan Sonata Hybrid 2013. This facelift mainly affects the hybrid hosting, among others, an electric motor more performance associated with a more powerful battery to the output. New hybrid configuration From the outset, we always trust the four-cylinder Theta II 2.4-liter Atkinson cycle, which delivers 169 horsepower...

Sunday, 31 March 2013

Jaguar XJR V8 with 550 hp

Jaguar XJR V8 with 550 hp - Not to make too thick trousers. Dignified travel. Holding British understatement that draws from the Jaguar XJ. At least so far, for the leaves to go to the New York Auto Show XJ version presented the tiny Appendix "R" neither visually nor drive technically but restrained. Jaguar calls its appearance simply "self-aware". The occasionally menacing-looking front splitter, rear spoiler and aerodynamically optimized side...

Monday, 18 February 2013

Nissan Canada announces pricing of NV200 Compact Van

Yesterday, Nissan announced that its new compact van NV200 Cargo will sell at MSRP of the lowest in its segment is $ 21,998 CAD. The NV200 has several unique features in its segment, including the best fuel economy in its class at 8.7 L/100 km city and 7.1 L/100 km on the highway, the shortest turning radius in its class to maneuver in tight urban spaces and other useful features such as control system tire pressure, low headroom for easy indoor...

Kia Carens: The Compact Van comes for 19,990 Euro

At 04 May 2013, the Kia Rio comes on the market and now has also been announced, which is expected to cost the van. The price table starts at € 19,990. The Carens can preorder now before. The basic version can be obtained for nearly 20,000 euros to be paid 136 hp 1.6 GDI petrol engine installed. The choices are then also an additional charge for the 136-hp 1.7 CRDi diesel engine and the 166 hp 2.0 GDI petrol payable. All engines transmit their power...

Sunday, 17 February 2013

Mercedes GLA celebrates its world premiere in April 2013

Mercedes introduces its new compact crossover coupe GLA in April 2013 at the Auto Shanghai show. It is well ahead of the competition models BMW X2 (2016) and Audi Q2 (2015) on the market. As reported, the "Auto Bild" in the morning showing a number, the model rolls on the basis of the A-Class - internal "cross-Activity Vehicle" called-with larger wheels, more ground clearance and a wider range of engines from the tape. There is an additional cost...

New Details for Appearing Audi A3 Cabriolet 2014

Even just a year ago we ventured a preview of the upcoming Audi A3 Cabrio. Fortunately, the Convertible of the A3-8V-generation is not based on the hatchback model, but on the much more stretched lower notchback variant.In comparison to the base hatchback This approach will significantly sportier proportions. And different than those shown by us in March 2012 draft, has the design of the "Auto Bild" actually very smart and very athletic. Under the...

Saturday, 16 February 2013

Ssangyong Smart Interface Vehicles-1

At the Geneva Motor Show (07 - 17 March 2013), the South Korean Ssangyong wheel specialist will present the design study of the "Smart Interface Vehicles" -1 of the world public. This is the fourth concept study of the South Koreans in two years. With the SIV-1 now, a study for the segment of mid-size SUVs are presented.The show then the dimension of the concept car: the SIV-1 is 4.50 meters long, 1.88 meters wide and 1.64 meters high. The wheelbase...

Thursday, 14 February 2013

Kia Forte 5 2014: More than a Facelift

In Chicago, the South Korean manufacturer has its model Forte 5 2014.Among the most obvious changes, there is a new section before hosting a grid closer to make room for the more aggressive grille, which is reminiscent of the Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart and Evo.Under the hoodThe main improvements to the Kia Forte 5 2014 found under the hood. The chassis is new, while the 4-cylinder 2.4-liter disappears from the landscape, the 4-cylinder 2.0-liter...