Audi company declassified the most powerful version of five-door hatchback A3 — RS3.
2011 Audi RS3
The novelty received the 2,5-litre five-cylinder engine (340HP, 450 Nm), working together with 7-step S-tronic gear box. From 0 to 100 km/h, Audi RS3 equipped with firm system of an all wheel drive, can be accelerated for 4,6 seconds, and its maximum speed is limited by electronics on a mark of 250 km/h. According to Audi company, average fuel consumption makes 9,1 l/100 km of run. Level of CO2 — 212 grammes/km.
Also the most powerful Audi A3 received the new suspender underestimated on 25 mm, powerful four-piston brake gears with 370-mm disks on a front axle and with 310-mm on the rear.
Besides, the charged car has 19-inch wheel disks from an aluminium alloy, and completely disconnected system of a sports stabilisation mode.
Sales of a new Audi RS3 in the European car market start in this year. Cost of car in Germany — 49,900 euro.
The Swedish motor-car manufacturer Saab belonging to Koenigsegg Company, has carried out official presentation of new car Saab 9-5. As have informed in the company, this sedan has marked a new mark in history of design and technologies of Saab brand.
New Business Sedan by Saab
Hi-tech Saab 9-5 should become alternative to business class sedans. According to official press release, the car is executed in new style — more expressional and thought over, than before.
New Saab 9-5 2010
The model equipment has been expanded at the expense of adaptive headlights, the cruise-control and system of displaying of the information on a windshield. Also, modern Saab 9-5 has received the new chassis and system of start of the engine without the ignition key.
Company Peugeot begins the European sales of the beautiful model most, probably, for last decade. In honour of this event the French motor-car manufacturer has prepared a new selection of photos on which sport coupe RCZ appears in all magnificence.
New sport coupe Peugeot RCZ
The serial version of this car has been presented for the first time last year on a motor show in Frankfurt then it was found out, that RCZ became one of those rare models, whose shape practically has not undergone appreciable changes at transition from the concept car status to the finished product. Already for one it Peugeot it is worthy praises.
The compact coupe with the formula of placing of passengers «2+2» all kind throws down a challenge less refined Volkswagen Scirocco and Audi TT, possessing thus quite competitive dynamics.
German motorcar giant Volkswagen has shared the plans on release of harmless and economic cars, intending to become in 8 years the leader in a segment of electromobiles, having equipped with electric motors even such midget cars, as Golf and Jetta.
Hybrid family
Within the next three years in grocery ruler Volkswagen there will be at once four hybrid cars, first of which — crossover Touareg Hybrid. Hardly later under hybrid "banners" there will be hatchback Golf, sedans Jetta and Passat. Hybrid variants Golf and Passat will go on sale in 2013, and economic updating Jetta which will be intended only for the North American market, will make year before.
By 2013 the management of a German motorcar giant plans to begin manufacture of electromobiles E-Jetta and E-Golf, and also city minicar E-Up. As writes WCF, for testing of electric variant Golf in Volkswagen will make 500 copies of the car on electrodraught next year.
On the Geneva motor show the manufacturer of luxury cars company Bentley has presented the fastest in the world a cabriolet. The novelty has received unambiguous name Continental Supersports Convertible.
Bentley Continental Cabriolet
Under a cabriolet cowl 6,0-l engine W12 power of 621HP, working together with 6-step automatic transmission ZF has taken places. Dispersal to 96 km/h for 3,9 sec, and the maximum speed reaches 325 km/h.
The known manufacturer of sports cars Lotus on the international motor show in Geneva has held official presentation of hybrid coupe Evora 414E which in the future can quite make a competition hybrid sport car Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, of course, provided that both cars will go to a batch production.
The high-grade hybrid Lotus Evora
Lotus Evora 414E Hybrid is the high-grade hybrid equipped with two electric motors by the general power of 414HP and the 47-strong petrol 3-cylinder motor in volume of 1,2 litres which recharges compartment batteries. To fill up a resource of accumulators it is possible and from the house electric socket.
Interior Lotus Evora
In Lotus especially are proud of the special system, capable to reproduce sounding of the powerful petrol engine. Growl of the motor which reaches from the audiocolumns placed in forward and back parts Lotus Evora 414E Hybrid, is audible not only outside, but also in the car. Lotus in the future is intended to use the given system on serial electromobiles and hybrids, that, by the way, it will positively be reflected in safety of visually impaired pedestrians.
Company Citroen has published a photo of a prototype of compact crossover DS4, informs British edition Autocar. The premiere of the concept car will take place in March on a motor show in Geneva.
Crossover DS4 by C-Sportlounge
The novelty created on motives of conceptual car C-Sportlounge presented five years ago, will be constructed on the basis of hatchback Citroen C4 of following generation, whose premiere will take place in the autumn of this year. In a series compact crossover DS4 will be started not earlier than next year.
The first car from "bonus" ruler DS — DS3 — has been shown for the first time in September, 2009 on a motor show in Frankfurt. The car is constructed on the modernised platform of model C3 and it is offered in the European car market with two diesel engines power of 90 and 110HP, and also with 95, 120 and 150-strong petrol engines.
Sport crossover Citroen С5
The sports crossover created on the basis of model Citroen С5 becomes the following model of series DS. As it was informed earlier the car it will be created in stylistics of concept car Hypnos and the diesel engine-hybrid begins to be equipped with a power-plant. As specify in Citroen, competitor DS5 becomes BMW X6.
Company Opel has shown the first official photos of completely updated minivan Meriva 2011 modelling years. Appearance of the car uses the same design receptions, as Opel Insignia, obtained an unanimous recognition of critics, and the new generation of the popular family car looks incomparably more gracefully previous.
Minivan Opel Meriva 2011
From the concept car of 2008 serial Meriva has inherited the unique back doors FlexDoors which is swinging open against a course of movement almost on 90 degrees. In a combination to a high line of a roof it is an innovation gives planting and an exit from the car very convenient.
Opel Meriva EcoFlex
Opel Meriva 2011 the smaller expense of fuel, than at the previous generation will be equipped with a wide ruler of turbo-motors power from 75 to 140HP, having on the average on 15%. On a spring motor show in Geneva where the world premiere of a minivan will take place, will show ecologically pure version EcoFlex.
In January of the next year company MINI will present on the international motor show in Detroit the conceptual crossover Beachcomber created on the basis of the first off-road car of mark under name Countryman. The serial version "Countryman" debuts in March on a motor show in Geneva. About it it is spoken in communique MINI.
MINI Beachcomber by MINI Moke
The novelty is created as modern interpretation of the last century of car MINI Moke issued in the sixties, however unlike this car the modern concept car will be hardly started in a batch production. Crossover Beachcomber is created for the purpose of demonstration of how model Countryman what will be the sizes of a body and the general structure of salon will look. The dimensional length of a prototype makes 4070 mm, and the wheel base is equal to 2606 mm, that on 135 and 59 mm accordingly more than at five-door car MINI Clubman.
Novelty as well as serial crossover Countryman, it is equipped by new system of full drive All4 which has been specially developed for compact cars. In the future concern BMW owning mark MINI, is intended to use such transmission and on other cars. The ruler of engines Countryman will be precisely same, as well as hatchbacks, including a new bee-turbo motor in volume of 1,6 litres which begins to be offered for serial updating.
MINI Countryman 2010
It is expected, that at European dealers MINI Countryman will appear in September, 2010. The car will be issued in Austria at company Magna enterprise.
Beauty and pride of autoconcern Daimler, the newest of supercar Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, will be once again shown public on an international motor show opening in Dubai. According to the official press release, the exhibition sample is already painted in unique gold colour.
Golden SLS AMG
It is necessary to notice, that the motor show to Dubai is the largest regional automobile exhibition of the Near East. In this connection aspiration Mercedes to surprise potential buyers not ordinary novelty quite explainably.
It is necessary to recognise, that the matte gold paint is looked on aluminium body SLS AMG rather interestingly. By the way to tell, such registration will not be unique — this scheme will add to already accessible to the order to nine colour themes. A car interior completely black, with set of carbon inserts.
The Gold Mercedes-Benz
The engine gold SLS remained the same — supercar is set in motion 6,3-l V8 from AMG by power of 571HP. Management Mercedes-AMG GmbH underlines, that the given premiere is completely not spontaneous, as the Near East is for the German company the fourth on degree of importance a commodity market following at once for the USA, Germany and Japan.
Company Cadillac stand on a motor show in Los Angeles — one of the most popular, and to that is the explanation: the motor-car manufacturer has brought to California new CTS Coupe.
New Cadillac CTS Coupe
The serial version of a coupe which will go on sale in the spring of next year, is not too far cunning from the conceptual car shown in last year on the international motor show in Detroit. The model with the landing formula 2+2 has identical wheel base with sedan CTS, but the total length of a coupe is less on 51 mm. From the four-door car the novelty has borrowed only design of the instrument panel, the central console, head optics, a forward bumper and a radiator lattice.
The model calculated on a young audience, begins to be completed with the 3,6-l petrol engine with system of direct injection of fuel. Power of 304HP will join the motor with a six-step mechanical transmission, and in the list of options the buyer will find out a 6-high-speed automatic check point.
Sports brakes, the electronic monitoring system of chassis StabiliTrak, sports seats Recaro, satellite navigation have entered into standard equipment, Bluetooth, a rear-view camera, system of access to salon without a key. In the end of following to year Cadillac will show the "charged" version of a coupe under name CTS-V with the 6,2-l engine power of 556HP.
On the special closed action in Beverly Hills Japanese company Infiniti has presented updated sedan G37 2010 modelling years which premiere will take place this week within the limits of the international motor show in Los Angeles.
Sedan Infiniti G37
The basic changes have concerned a forward part of a sedan: there were new headlights and a radiator lattice, a modified bumper, and antifog headlights settle down now in the bottom part of a bumper.
Sedan "stern" have freshened at the expense of the modernised bumper with two new branch pipes of an exhaust system. Specially for G 37 the new variant of 17-inch disks has been developed.
For the car have expanded a colour palette of colouring of a body in which have added two new colours — Smoky Quartz and Graphite Shadow.
New Infiniti G37 2010
Infiniti G37 2010 modelling years will be offered with the updated navigating system, original variants of furnish of salon, with a little bit changed stylistics of the bottom part of the central console for the car with an automatic transmission.
The model will be completed with 328-strong petrol motor V6 in volume of 3.7 litres which can be joined or with a 6-high-speed mechanical transmission, or with 7-step automatic transmission.
In sale updated Infiniti G37 will arrive in the first of new year.
«New Beetle» was extremely popular car when has appeared in 1998. For the first year 83,434 cars have been sold. However the next 10 years any more were not so successful and sales were close to zero.
New Volkswagen Beetle
One of these days at press conference in Germany president VW of America Stefan Jacoby has declared, that new Beetle already undergoes procedure of deep restyling. The exit updated Beetle is planned for 2012.
Back sitting — extremely not comfortable, even for a class of compact cars was one of the basic problems of the car. By 2012 this lack have promised to correct.Jacoby has declared, that Beetle will be the inexpensive car proving, that VW has returned to the roots — «Das Auto».
New generation BMW 5-Series is positioned as the most beautiful car of the Bavarian mark of our epoch. Show it time for now the camouflaged prototypes are tested in test arrivals can only. The freshest photos show a radiator lattice, antifog headlights and new aluminium wheels.
New BMW 5-Series it is true traditions
Lines of a cowl and back lanterns show relationship with 3- and 7-Series. It is known, that the ruler of engines new BMW 5-Series will include 3,0-l petrol and diesel motors, 4,4-l 408-strong V8 with the double turbo-supercharging, a new four-cylinder turbo-engine, and also a hybrid power-plant. As an option the full drive xDrive will be accessible. The car will appear on sale in 2010.
Company Mercedes-Benz announced a sport package for sedan C63 AMG, received name Performance Package Plus.
The tuning version, as they say in the official press release, includes completion of base 6,2-l engine V8, installation of new brakes, and also a carbon back spoiler and furnish of salon by a natural skin.
Supercar Mercedes Benz SLS AMG
Engine completions were reduced to installation of the piston group facilitated on three kg (partially unified with supercar SLS AMG) and change-over of the block of engine management. As a result, the new motor on 30 forces is more powerful than "base": power has grown to 487HP, and the maximum twisting moment of the engine makes 600Nm. From 0 to 100 km/h C63 AMG with Performance Package Plus it is dispersed for 4,4 sec, and to 200 km/h — for 13,9 sec (for 1,2 sec faster serial model).
BMW M3 VS Mercedes Benz C63 AMG
Besides, in Performance Package Plus the compound forward brake disks improving heat removal and maintaining strengthened loadings enter also.
Cost of a sports package for C63 AMG will make hardly more seven thousand euro at the sedan order, and about 6,500 euro — at car purchase in the version "universal". On sale Performance Package Plus will appear in December of current year.
In the end of a year the Bavarian concern BMW will stop assemblage of model of 5-Series, but only only to be prepared for manufacture of "five" of new generation, which today, having left one more layer of "make-up", has been noticed the paparazzi on road to Germany.
Release BMW 5-Series 2011
In spite of the fact that BMW 5-Series 2011 modelling years can brag of the processed design, it is not necessary to hope, that the car begins to differ strikingly from the predecessor: the model will keep the recognised lattice of a radiator, firm head optics, a sports silhouette.
It is supposed, that BMW than 5-Series becomes longer and wider, the wheel base will increase approximately by 10 cm.
As writes Leftlanenews, 2.5L the petrol motor become the base engine of new generation BMW of 5th series, and the model top-version will receive 5-l installation V10 with which it begins to be equipped BMW M5. Diesel engines in volume will enter Into a ruler of power units of 2 and 3 litres also, whose characteristics are not known yet. There are assumptions, that BMW 5-Series 2011 modelling years can equip with hybrid installation ActiveHybrid.
From innovations it is necessary to allocate an 8-step automatic transmission, the distance monitoring system at a parking, system of the circular review.
It is expected, that new generation BMW 5-Series will present in the spring of next year on the international motor show in Geneva after which termination start sales in the European automobile market.
At the disposal of Holland edition AutoWeek there was a first photo of car Peugeot 308 in a body "sedan". The car differs from a hatchback not only a new body, but little bit other registration of a forward part of a body, including other forward bumper with slightly changed air inlet, and also a new cowl.
Sedan Peugeot 308
According to some information, sedan Peugeot 308 will be offered with the same scale of engines, that the hatchback, and novelty manufacture starts in the beginning of next year at factory Dongfeng in China, in Argentina and in some countries of Eastern Europe. In this connection it is expected, that the car begins to be offered not only for the Chinese market, but also for Latin America and the European countries where sedans are especially popular.
Official release Peugeot 308
As specifies AutoWeek, in the spring of next year on a motor show in Geneva the premiere of updated hatchback Peugeot 308 will take place. Such car will receive the changed design of an ex-terrier with the reduced air inlet on a forward bumper, and also some elements borrowed at model 5008.
On a motor show in Frankfurt company Citroen has shown to general public the updated version of crossover С-Crosser which has received new furnish of salon and the robotised transmission with two couplings.
New transmission DSC for crossover С-Crosser
New transmission DSC is offered alternatively to the usual mechanical transmission, completed on cars with diesel engines HDi in volume of 2,2-l power of 160HP. According to a motor-car manufacturer, the expense of fuel Citroen C-Crosser with robot DSC in the combined operating mode the line/city makes 7,3 litres on 100 km, and level of emissions CO2 does not exceed 192/km.Changes in car salon have concerned furnish of the instrument panel and graphic display of the information to combinations of devices. Besides, С-Crosser has received new headrests of the third row of seats and the improved furnish of the block of climatic installation.
The equipment of the updated crossover has replenished with a management regulator automatic screen wipers.
Colour scale Citroen C-Crosser
In colour scale Citroen C-Crosser there were two new colours: brown Mangaro and dark blue Profond which has come in the stead of paint Muzzano blue. Besides, during updating for top versions with audiosystem Rockford Fosgate power of a subwoofer has been increased.
On the Frankfurt motor show company Peugeot has presented special updating of sports coupe RCZ which will be received by the first 200 buyers who have ordered the car.
Technical characteristics sports coupe RCZ
The novelty will be painted exclusively in white colour, will receive carbon furnish of a roof, 19-inch wheel disks executed in black colour, and leather furnish of an interior.
For usual versions of coupe Peugeot RCZ which also debuted on the Frankfurt motor show, besides the 156-strong motor of 163HP and the 1,6-litre petrol unit developing 200HP will be offered a two-litre diesel engine by power. In a ruler of transmissions of the car — six-step mechanical and automatic transmissions. As it was informed earlier, the most powerful RCZ can be dispersed to 100 km/h for 7,6 seconds and reach the maximum speed of 225 km/h.
Release Peugeot RCZ in Frankfurt
Novelty sales in the European market will begin next year. The prices for such car will begin from 35,500 euros. For the first year of sales in company Peugeot plan to sell worldwide approximately 20,000 copies RCZ.