Mercedes-Benz Concept Coupe Style

After many rumors, here's Mercedes-Benz confirms unveiling the world premiere at the International Motor Show in Detroit, the CLA model series.

A stylish four-door coupe compact template which fits the style of the Mercedes-Benz CLS. It is also a model from the Style Concept Coupe concept, unveiled at Beijing.

Mercedes-Benz CLA has been developed on the basis of new cars Class A, which are already sold in European soil.

The CLS also inherits the new grille Floating Dots.

With a length equivalent to that of the C-Class sedan, one can imagine that this new model will squeeze between the Mercedes-Benz Class B and Class C.

The European engine
Mercedes-Benz CLA, will obviously be offered engines models of class A, that is to say:
- CLA 180 with four-cylinder engine of 122 hp;
- CLA 200 with four-cylinder engine of 156 hp;
- CLA 250 four-cylinder engine with 211 hp;
- CLA 220 CDI four-cylinder engine with 170 hp.

A sport version CLA 45 AMG should follow the following year, which will benefit from a powerful 335 horsepower.

The stylish four-door coupé is a car with front wheel drive, while most exclusive versions will benefit from AWD 4MATIC specially designed to secure a front wheel drive car.

Photo: Mercedes-Benz

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Mazda6: sacred "Swiss Car of 2013"!

This coveted award as the innovative spirit of Mazda and price / performance ratio of the outstanding new Mazda6.

The Mazda6 was crowned 'Car of the Year 2013 Swiss. " This coveted title was awarded by a jury of ten automotive professionals. Of 42 new models originally selected, these experts have selected ten first. Then, after a day of testing at the center of TCS Betzholz, the Mazda6 received points from all members of the jury, even picking up 10 points twice and ending the race the highest step of the podium, with a comfortable lead over her princesses, Adam Opel and VW Golf.

The title of "Car of the Year 2013 Swiss" does not reward only the design universally appreciated and price / performance ratio of the outstanding Mazda6, but also and especially the innovative spirit of Mazda, a brand that focuses on solutions unconventional move in the direction of progress. After the CX-5, the Mazda6 is the second model in fact benefiting from the technology SkyActiv, which reduces fuel consumption and emissions dramatically without resorting to "downsizing."

Mazda, a creative brand
The manufacturer of Hiroshima cultivates a pioneering spirit forever. It took a lot of courage and perseverance to put one point the famous engine "rotary" invented in the fifties by German engineer Felix Wankel, and equip a sports-prototype - the Mazda 787B - who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1991. Launching the Miata - MX-5 alias - in 1989, Mazda was also behind the revival of small sports convertibles affordable, such that the English had their specialty, but was in decline since the seventies .

More recently, Mazda was the first manufacturer to make really aware of the need to lighten cars to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. The current Mazda2, launched in 2007, in fact weighed a hundred pounds less than its predecessor, an example followed by other manufacturers since, not less.

The Mazda6, it also uses advanced technologies simple and efficient to be even lighter, less greedy, safer and cleaner than its predecessors. A result that Mazda got without ever losing sight of a core value driving pleasure!

SKYACTIV Technology includes: engines, transmissions, chassis and body
i-ACTIVSENSE: the eyes of the Mazda6 for active safety
i-ELOOP: energy recovery system
i-STOP: start-stop system smart

Source: Mazda Switzerland

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Carbon Motors presents its E7 police cars and TX7

The venerable Ford Crown Victoria Police Pack take their bow and they will be replaced, either by:

Chevrolet Caprice PPV;
Ford Police Interceptor;
Ford Explorer Police Interceptor;
Dodge Charger Pursuit.
In addition to these four possibilities, a fourth manufacturer will come and confront called Carbon Motors.

Carbon Motors
It is a small manufacturer that has assembled next year, a police car like no other, powered by a turbo-diesel Original BMW.

In the words of the direction of Carbon Motors, they would already have a well-filled order book, including 14,000 reservations.

The model E7
Among its main features, we find rather impressive flashing LED placed at the ends of the front bumper, while others are embedded in the roof.

Nobody can pretend not to have seen this coming police car.

The BMW engine
The contract signed between the two partners, is the production of 240,000 six-cylinder engines of 3.0 liter diesel, showing a power of 265 horses. All mated to a six-speed automatic transmission.

With all this enthusiasm, the police car can reach 100 km / h in six seconds and has a top speed of 250 km / h.

According to company data, this sedan reserved for police, would record fuel economy reduced by 40%, compared to that granted by other police cars.

The TX7 model
In addition to the sedan E7, Carbon Motors plans to produce an ultra safe vehicle and multidisciplinary, designed to transport prisoners, dignitaries, money, or explosive materials or chemicals.

To do this, the TX7 will be provided with a system of recognition of hazardous materials and weapons of mass destruction.

The TX7 is powered by a V8 diesel engine mated to a six-speed automatic transmission.

Both projects Carbon Motors will add to this very lucrative market, our neighbors to the South, with more than 840,000 police cars across the country.

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