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Mila coupic promises three cars in one

Wednesday, 14 March 2012 14:10
Magna Steyr has also shown this year in Geneva, they can satisfy their customers. This time we can look forward to Coupic study, which will be shown including flexible seating systems, roof modules and atypical.

MILA Coupic its character resembles the CitroenC3 Pluriel or Skoda Felicia Fun. Up to five-seat car is basically a two-door SUV, but can be modified by removing some parts of the convertible and pick-up.

Electrical car roof consists of two independently openable modules, which are made of glass panels embedded in a special fabric. The actual glass panels help to illuminate the interior of the car. The front part of the roof can be moved backward, the back can be moved in two directions - forward and backward.

Press another button can be pushed back row of seats and the rear part of the roof pulled forward Coupic is due to become a pick-up. Back row of seats in this case the back wall of the cabin crew to protect against bad weather. It is ...

Hyundai i-oniq: electric sport sedan with range extender

Tuesday, 13 March 2012 11:03
Hyundai i-oniq might designate a coupe, but croup still rather corresponds to the hatchback, and moreover, this is just eleven car holds itself in official materials. It is in these days when marketing departments consider coupe everything from small cars through super sport sedans to large SUV, quite a pleasant surprise.

Mainly, i-oniq hatchback is sporty, suggesting shapes and a single pair of side doors. Fluid design by the manufacturer from South Korea recently promoted, in his case moved a little away.

Opponents accuse the current serial models too complicated, but well-oniq confesses relatively clean, dynamic and functional lines. Deep offsets on the hood and quite futuristic side which stretch backwards in two levels, giving the car an impression of muscularity.

Speaking of diodes in the main terminal and the lights would be currently wearing wood in the forest. Study measures 4.4 meters in serial form, it was therefore representative of th...

Jcw mini countryman: a fast mini suv

Monday, 12 March 2012 12:14
JCW Mini Countryman is less powerful than its siblings and has a visually discreet body kit, which forms the nose spoiler, sill extensions and rear diffuser. The car make up two-tone paint and the number of stripes on the body. They should be along the roof and exterior mirrors always in red chili, while the body gets white or black lacquer. The combination of black and red is the standard for interior.

Like other versions named John Cooper Works Mini-SUV gets stiffer, sportier tuned suspension with thicker stabilizer, 10 mm lower ride height, more powerful brake system and will be standard 18-inch wheels, which can be replaced by 19-inch wheels. These changes will make an end to off-road trips.

Turbocharged four-cylinder actuator provide a 1.6 liter with 160 kW (217 hp) and torque of 280 Nm, respectively 300 Nm in over boost function use. The standard six-speed manual transmission and this car is the first of a series of John Cooper Works, which can be option...

Peterbilt: two series won the etc awards

Sunday, 11 March 2012 11:17
With the occasion of the annual exhibition, the American Truck Dealers (U.S. dealers trucks - ATD) gave the ATD title 2012 Commercial Trucks of the Year in the category of heavy trucks Peterbilt Model 587 equipped with a PACCAR MX engine and mid-range model 210 Peterbilt It is the first time won in both categories in the same car from the same manufacturer.

Peterbilt Model 587 was selected by a jury of journalists from leading magazines and publishers in the field of trucks. His win came thanks to a spacious and comfortable driver's workplace, high performance over a wide speed range and distinctive design.

The drive Petebilt model 587 is powered by the PACCAR MX engine with outputs from 280 kW (380 hp) to 357 kW (485 hp). There is a manual and an automatic transmission with speeds up to eighteen. Customers can choose between day or sleeper cab and Model 587 can be used for regional and long distance transport.

The second place prize is a Peterbil...

Chevrolet: the most successful sports brand in the u.s.

Saturday, 10 March 2012 13:56
The continental customers perceive Chevrolet differently than those overseas. For those home is a brand, we perceive it as more Korean, since most of us sold production comes from former Daewoo factories. It is true that Chevy was originally directed against Ford and is still profiting especially from mass models. However, it includes in its portfolio and the sport. First came the Corvette Camaro.

Camaro and Corvette in fact become the best selling sports car in its category in the U.S. in 2011. Together, they are even one third of the market. Specifically, 37% belong Camara market popular sports cars (88,249 units), the second Ford Mustang and surpassed by more than 18 thousand copies. In February, also comes Camaro ZL1. Here mainly dominated by American manufacturers before (the third was the Dodge Challenger) before hybrid Honda CR-Z and Hyundai Veloster.

Corvette occupies 28% more luxurious and expensive segment of the 13,164 specimens. It is the only repr...

Car sales in the eu: less factories does not mean the end

Friday, 9 March 2012 10:22
Network of car factories in the next years expect further reductions in Europe. Indeed, automakers faced with excess capacity of its factories in the old continent. On this issue recently highlighted Fiat boss Sergio Marchionne.

Analysts estimate that the overcapacity of the European factories around two to five million cars. While in 2007, sold in Europe about 16 million cars this year with them, according to preliminary estimates, sell less than 13 million.

The declining number of cars sold here has become the closure of some factories. This trend will continue in the coming years.

Mitsubishi at the end of this year closed its plant in the Netherlands Bornu , where it is produced by Colt and Outlander models. Production of the Dutch factories fell from 200,000 cars per year to 50,000 cars a year.

Will close next year the Volvo, and its Swedish plant Uddevalla , which brings coupe-cabriolet C70. Stefan Jacoby, president and CEO of Vo...

The sunset of car sales in china

Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:11
The car market of China plays an important role in future plans for many automakers, you need to Audi and General Motors is already the largest market ever. Huge jumps in the annual number of cars sold in this market, however, are apparently at an end.

LMC Automotive research company announced that sales of passenger cars in China during the first months of this year fell by 23%. Although the decline expected for some car manufacturers is shocking. Growth in the Chinese market in recent times has become a sort of commonplace. Local Chevrolet sales fell by 16%, then even Ford's sales by 43%.

According to sales targets thirteen car manufacturers would have the Chinese market later this year, an increase of 13.5%. LMC Automotive is pessimistic, according to company estimates the Chinese market in 2012 will grow by only 9.2%. A year ago, while car planned that in 2011 this market will grow by 20.4%.

For car manufacturers will also be difficult to expa...

Pininfarina cambiano: three doors, four models

Thursday, 8 March 2012 16:20
Cambiano concept was predicted at the beginning of the year, we'll see him live for the first time in Geneva. The car was named after the city in which the company is located and where thirty years ago opened its stylistic center. Whether celebrating an anniversary of another is not in the stars, it is still debt.

Pininfarina has not issued any official press release. According to Automotive News server is Cambiano plug-in hybrid extended-range. Powered by four electric motors, each with 59 kW (80 hp), a short course can provide up to 150 kW (204 hp). They added a small combustion turbine located at the front, which uses diesel as fuel! It acts as a range extender, it can then recharge the battery while driving and increase the radius. If necessary, however, it can also directly spin the front two electric motors. The Pininfarina decided to use this power plant atypical because we set ourselves the goal to meet future emission standard Euro seventh The value of emitted CO ...

Infiniti emerge-e: the disclosure of an electric supercar

Wednesday, 7 March 2012 14:21
The project, which will make its world premiere at the Geneva Motor Show, they began to talk aloud Inifiniti in autumn last year. The public were offered insights into the details, then still unnamed concept.

In early February, Infiniti officially published name emerge-e, in the middle of the same month there was a leak from the patent office drawings and now to the end of the month is the first series of photographs. On them is completely introduced super sport two-seater body design with mid-engine and its interior.

The appearance of the car is given its configuration - stored in the middle of the engine cab and moved forward. Emerge E-bow is then slightly resembles the Infiniti G. shapes reminiscent of the grille, but a Lexus, the car is dominated by two sides of the sharply-cut lines. Two-sport interior works and that's mainly cause together with shapes seats dashboard and center console rising from the seat to shield instrumentation.

The auto...

Toyota yaris hybrid: the world without emissions

Tuesday, 6 March 2012 10:59
Last year at Geneva Motor Show Toyota brought the concept Yaris HSD. Hybrid studies then herald the arrival of the Yaris summer, but finally she quite expectedly will see mass production. It will feature, of course, this year in Geneva.

Hybrid is easily recognizable thanks to the lights - front and rear lamps have significantly diode technology and customized graphics. The front bumper is also a massive trapezoidal hole miniature grille and front fog lamps around the notches.

The propulsion system of HSD was generally reduced - in the Yaris has a smaller electric motor, batteries and compact gearbox. Gasoline engine was reduced from 1.8 to 1.5 liters.

The combined output is 74 kW nice. The whole system is lighter than the power train in the Auris Hybrid. Interestingly, the model has the lowest emissions (79 g / km) in all cars powered by conventional internal combustion engine. Drive train is optimized so that it always worked in the most efficie...
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