Date of Sales of Superhybrid Porsche

In 2013 company Porsche will present the first copies of the hybrid supercar of Porsche 918 Spyder.

Hybrid Spyder by Porsche

The prototype of supercar has been presented in March on the Geneva autoshow. The car has been equipped by a hybrid power-plant which combined the 500-strong 3,4-litre atmospheric 8-cylinder engine, two electromotors the general capacity of 218HP, the complete set of special accumulators and a 7-step gear box with two clutches.

The hybrid supercar Porsche 918 Spyder can finish the well-known Northern hinge strain of a Nurnburgring faster, than coupe Carrera GT, less than for 7 min 30 sec. Thus average fuel consumption of the car does not exceed 3,1 litres on 100 kilometres of run, and level of blowouts CO2 — 70 grammes/km.

1st Real Test Drive of Porsche 918 Spyder

The project of Porsche 918 Spyder has been approved by company management in the middle of current year, however then exact terms of occurrence of the car on the conveyor were not called. As of July the number of potential buyers of this model, according to some information, exceeded 2,000 persons. The main competitors of the given model: Porsche Cayenne 2011 and Porsche 911 Turbo.

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Ford Presented the Police Version of New Explorer

Ford company presented the police car constructed on the basis of off-road car Explorer of following generation. The novelty joins in a ruler of Ford's special cars and appears on the enterprise conveyor in Chicago next year. Tests of both cars were used by policemen of district Los Angeles and the State of Michigan.

Ford Explorer for US Policemen

Police Ford Explorer will be presented in all-wheel drive versions with the atmospheric 6-cylinder engine in volume of 3,5 litres and power of 280HP. Such motor is aggregated with a 5-step automatic transmission and is capable to work, both on usual gasoline, and on bioethanol E85. According to representatives of Ford, Explorer for 20 percent is more economic than the police sedans Crown Victoria.

Ford Explorer Police Vehicle

The novelty received the strengthened body, more hardy suspender and the modernised brake gears, the new generator and a radiator, and also 18-inch wheel disks which for drop of expenses are unified with disks for police Ford Taurus. In off-road car interior there was a computer system with the nine-inch screen for access to a database, fastenings for the weapon, video registration systems, and also special closed compartments in a luggage compartment.

Besides Ford, the cars for police of the USA offer some more companies — Dodge (which prepared version Charger), Chevrolet (prepared for special services Caprice) and firm Carbon Motors which has developed own car.

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Audi A7 gets acquainted with technologies of competitors

Road tests of test prototype Audi A7 carry out in Norway, far away from curious eyes, however and in vicinities of Oslo of the paparazzi do not give rest to testers of the new car which as it was found out, run in not only the model.

Audi Sportback Concept

Cars BMW of 7-Series participated in winter test drive along with two copies Audi A7 and Mercedes E-class. Probably, thus engineers Audi try to compare the technological advantages to innovations of competitors.

Four-seater sedan Audi A7, according to all available information, will receive wide scale of engines, including the petrol 3-l motor power of 225HP and diesel engine V8 with the twisting moment of an order of 800Nm. It is supposed to equip the car with several kinds of transmissions — a six-step mechanical transmission, an eight-high-speed automatic transmission and a seven-step transmission with two couplings.

Sedan Audi A7 will present in Geneva

Audi A7, whose design will be as much as possible approached to concept car Sportback Concept which has been shown for the first time in January of last year in Detroit, model Debut, possibly will go on sale in the summer under the price about $80,000, will take place on a forthcoming motor show in Geneva which will begin the work in the beginning of next month.

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In two years Volvo will begin tests of electromobiles

Company Volvo plans to begin testing of 50 copies of the electric version of hatchback C30 in two years, informs magazine Autocar.

Electrocar Volvo

Tests of these cars partially (at a rate of 150 million Swedish crones) are sponsored by a Department of Energy of Sweden and will proceed throughout two years. Cars will give to specially selected group of persons on the basis of which responses it is planned to make operational development of electromobiles and to create a corresponding infrastructure.

Earlier Swedish motor-car manufacturer already represented the concept car on the basis of this model, however to coming a motor show in Detroit, opening in the beginning of January, the prototype has been a little modernised.

Electrocar by Volvo C30

First of all, electrocar now it is constructed on the basis of updated Volvo C30, and also has received completely updated interior.

The electromobile is equipped by the 111-strong electromotor which eats from lithium-ionic of the accumulators, capable to provide to the car movement throughout 150 kilometres. The maximum speed of a novelty, according to representatives Volvo, makes 130 km/h, dispersal with 0 to 96 km/h for 10,5 seconds, and on full gymnastics of batteries from the usual house socket it is required about eight hours.

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New Audi A1

Today paparazzi have given to the automobile public the first photos of prototype Audi A1 which has started the test program, and it can mean only one — to a debut of serial version Audi A1 remains not so a lot of time.

Firm lattice of radiator Audi

Engineers Audi have tried to disguise prototype A1 under model BMW for what even have closed a car body a firm black-and-white camouflage of the Bavarian concern, but the firm lattice of radiator Audi has declassified the car.

On the first photos of a novelty experts have drawn a conclusion that wheel base Audi A1 is little bit longer, than at competitors. Earlier in the German company declared, that A1 will arrive on the market in several variants of a body. Except 4- and a 5-door hatchback, Audi plans to make: cabriolet, universal and crossover A1.

Power ruler Audi A1 will please with the variety. In a standard complete set the model will receive a forward drive, but family A1 top version, most likely, begins to be offered with system of a full drive.

Audi A1 by Metroproject Concept

Design of model will execute on motives of conceptual car Metroproject Concept. It's expected, that next year in March the novelty debut will take place, and sales in the autumn will begin. A guiding price: £11,000.

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New BMW 5-Series — the most beautiful car BMW

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.

Official release BMW 5-Series

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"Charged" Skoda Fabia RS has started tests

The prototype of "charged" hatchback Skoda Fabia RS has started tests. As writes Autoweek.nl, the experimental version of the future novelty has been noticed on Northern loop of a Nurnburgring.

Serial version Skoda Fabia

Serial Fabia RS, predictably, will present in March, 2010 on a motor show in Geneva. According to British magazine Autocar, the novelty will be equipped by the 1,4-l petrol motor with double pressurisation (the turbine and the compressor), developing 180HP. Now with such engine it's completed Seat Ibiza Cupra, and in the future will appear and on VW Polo GTI.

Presentation Skoda Fabia RS

No other details about Fabia RS yet are informed.
Meanwhile, in 2010 Skoda Fabia will get not only the "charged" updating, but also will carry out easy face lifting. The premiere updated Skoda Fabia will take place on the Geneva motor show.

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Mercedes-Benz CLS has got support AMG

In spite of the fact that company Mercedes-Benz still officially has not presented four-door coupe CLS following generation, engineers of German concern have started working out of the "charged" version of model CLS AMG which this week for the first time has been noticed during test tests.

Stylistic element AMG

Because of special plates on a model body it is inconvenient enough to notice changes in an ex-terrier of the car, but that engineers test Mercedes-Benz CLS AMG does not cause doubts as on shape of a prototype characteristic handwriting of studio AMG — huge carbon disks and four branch pipes of an exhaust system is traced.

Present generation Mercedes-Benz CLS AMG is completed with the 514-strong petrol engine, and here the novelty should receive the engine power of 525HP which will work together with 7-step transmission Speedshift MCT. In a standard complete set the model will receive 18-inch disks, disks dimension of 19 inches will be present at the list of options.

New generation Mercedes-Benz

Sales Mercedes-Benz CLS AMG of new generation should begin in 2011. In the segment the model begins to compete with Porsche Panamera Turbo, Aston Martin Rapide.

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Cadillac CTS-V Coupe: the prepremier test

The economic crisis which has painfully struck on the automobile industry, has forced many world concerns to refuse workings out of new models but as soon as the situation was more or less stabilised, the companies have reanimated the frozen projects.

Testings super-power coupe

So, company Cadillac has started a finishing stage of testing of super-power coupe CTS-V Coupe which should appear on roads to next year. In comparison with a last year's prototype the present copy has considerably changed and is ready to a batch production.

The design of model is executed in uniform stylistics of family CTS. It is possible to name distinctive lines of the car special emblems with the letter V, two massive branch pipes of the exhaust system, located on the centre of a back part of model, sports disks with wide rubber, huge a support.

Under a car cowl has taken places engine V-8 in volume of 6.2 l, power of 556HP.

Cadillac CTS-V Coupe

Novelty manufacture will begin next year, and it means, that debut Cadillac CTS-V Coupe can take place on the international motor show in Detroit.

Cabriolet Mercedes SLS AMG: test by a heat

Engineers Mercedes-Benz have started tests in the conditions of very hot weather of new supercar SLS AMG with the petrol engine. Test the car in the Californian desert.

From photographers has not taken cover, that under a prototype camouflage the collapsible top disappears, and it means, that the new cabriolet will lose type doors "a wing of a seagull". The traditional arrangement of door handles says also that in the car there will be a usual system of an input-exit.

Mercedes-Benz SLS with the engine power of 571HP it can be accelerated to 100 km/h for 3,8 seconds at the maximum speed of 315 km/h. In some weeks cabriolet SLS will appear in the true shape on a motor show in Frankfurt.

Photo by: worldcarfans.com

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BMW X1 — the first photo without a camouflage

BMW skilfully warms up interest to novelty X1: that suits tests of the camouflaged prototype a headlight will show a radiator lattice.

Today the Bavarian company has published a photo of not disguised crossover, the truth, having made the image indistinct.

On photo BMW X1 of white colour, it is parked on a beach. The car general view is already known on espionage photos. It is expected, that the German motor-car manufacturer will present high-grade official photos and all detailed characteristics next week. The premiere of a novelty is planned on autoshow in Frankfurt in September, 2009.

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Declassified cabriolet Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG

On it to a week for the first time on test tests new cabriolet Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG was lighted, whose manufacture is planned to adjust after a year-two after a coupe debut. The first meeting with open version Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG has taken place in desert in the State of Arizona where engineers of German concern hoped to hide from the paparazzi.

"Espionage" pictures of model say that the novelty will receive a roof made of cloth, and type doors "a wing of a seagull" will give way to traditional doors. Other distinctions between a coupe and a cabriolet it has not been noticed. It is supposed, that open version Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG begins to be equipped the same atmospheric 6.3 l with engine V8 power of 563 h.p.

Dynamics of a cabriolet will be on the ball: dispersal to 100 km/h for 4 seconds, and the maximum speed will make about 320 km/h.

Open version Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG will appear after a year or two after a coupe debut, whose official presentation will take place in September on the international motor show in Frankfurt. Cost of the car with a roof made of cloth will make an order $200 000.

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In BMW test restyling version X3

In the Bavarian concern have started test tests of updated crossover BMW X3 which should appear on roads in a year.

Engineers have closed new design BMW X3 massive "camouflage", but it is possible to assume, that appearance of a crossover will not change radically. But "camouflage" cannot hide that fact, that the car became little bit less. As experts assume, in such a way in the Bavarian concern wish to "outline" distinctions between crossovers X1 and X3 which have today practically identical sizes.

It is expected, that updated BMW X3 will please buyers with a wide power ruler into which four diesel units power from 177 to 299 h.p. the Car will enter will equip also with the new 3 litre petrol engine power of 230 h.p. and 300 h.p.
Hearings that the novelty can receive hybrid installation which structure will include petrol and electric motors but while it only hearings go.

The debut of updated crossover BMW X3 will take place in the beginning of next year, and to dealers the model will arrive in the middle of 2010.

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There were espionage photos Mercedes SLK of 2012

Internet edition WorldCarFans publishes a photo and video of the image of a test prototype of coupe Mercedes-Benz SLK of model 2012.

As writes the edition, despite a camouflage abundance on the car, it is possible to make out, that at the given stage designers have made a forward part of future SLK similar to model SLR, and a radiator lattice the same coupe Mercedes-Benz of an E-class.

As writes the edition referring to sources to the companies, future SLK in a base complete set it will be equipped by the 3,5-litre petrol engine from AMG. Thus, any harmless and economic versions of model it is not provided yet.

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