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 and distinctive is the sports car on its 19-inch alloy wheels. The vehicle's front spoiler and boasts the powerful designed air intake on the apron. Generous fenders and massive sills emphasize the appearance of the vehicle.

Other sporting accents the rear with the bulky bumpers and two integrated exhaust tailpipes. The rear lights in brand-typical design C are colored differently. As the lower end, a circumferential carbon frame is used. The interior continues the sporty layout, for example, sport steering wheel, Recaro seats and illuminated door sills.

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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 more buyers access to new cars with hybrid or full electric drive, then go to the U.S. government millions of Interest leg Expensive by the tabs. In the U.S. state of New Jersey Senator James Whelan suggested according to "USA Today" before now introduce a mileage allowance for electric vehicles of 0.004 cents. While this sounds not much, but if you times that amount 19,000 km, the average distance traveled by Americans in a year, multiplied to get at least to 76 euros per year. A similar vehicle with a gasoline engine is then charged against only 53 euros. However, it is unclear whether this bill will pass the Parliament.

And in buttoned Virginia to owners of hybrid and electric cars now have an annual road maintenance contribution of just 50 euros. In Washington state, there are even 76 euros. If you can make the increasing number of environmentally-friendly means of transport responsible for the failures now alone is questionable, because the proportion was only 53,000 units in 2012 with total sales of 14.4 million new cars. Meanwhile, the conventionally powered vehicles in the U.S. are becoming more fuel efficient. Whether there might be considerations in Germany now, to ask drivers of climate-friendly cars to the checkout, you have to wait. But if you come to high tax revenues, the state is safe in this country with something to compensate for this decline.

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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 strategy of splitting

Because Twingo body splits into two, the "Play" concept ad splits too. Thus, after the beautiful city clean the evocative name (Twin'Z involves twinning), we will soon discover a small ball of nerves with 3 doors and 4 front fog. Taking the gimmicks of the R5 Turbo, such as the hips, his fin or sportsmanship, this concept is the work of 100% Renault, no other protagonist out of the automotive world this time having been consulted. Surprised on April 23 during filming of promotional film in Madrid, the Twin'Run proudly sported a number evocative, the "5". Five as a fifth petal, or as R5, of course!

The Twin'Run play sports card into the framework of its presentation ... which will also double! It will thus be unveiled at the Monaco Grand Prix on May 24 before joining the July 11 Goodwood Festival of Speed​​, along with the Twizy Renault Sport F1 Concept. To ensure the show when these investments, the Twin'Run should ensure operator side: there is talk of a gas block 350 horsepower. In short, ready to "Play" (ready to play)!

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