Showing posts with label 2011 geneva motor show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2011 geneva motor show. Show all posts
Monday, February 28, 2011
Video: Ferrari FF tackles every type of terrain
"Ferrari will ask all traffic signs and laws to obey," says the disclaimer at the end of this three-and-a-half-minute video used as part of the recent unveiling of the Ferrari Web-FF. For the internet coming out of the FF Ferrari showed of his skills with a video of the car is driven in a way that no one in their right mind would ever try (check it out after the jump). We visit the FF in the metal itself, if it makes her show stand debut at the Geneva Motor Show next Tuesday to see.
Ferrari was also shared by some important figures on the FF with the crowd and Internet viewers. The first number is 660, the PS developed by the direct injection V12. 3.7 is the number of seconds that elapse 0-62 miles per hour and four with a double meaning with the FF, is the number of seats and driven wheels. It is not only a Rosso Corsa cooker, either. Ferrari underlines its commitment to reducing fuel consumption by the unveiling of the FF 360 g / km CO2 emissions figure which is used 25 percent less than the previous V12 612 Scaglietti in the automaker.
The FF is a Ferrari, the intention is to change to things from his breadvan their all-terrain floggability looks. It also makes one heck of a video star, and we recommend that you check it out after the jump.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Rumormill: Renault to produce Captur concept as a Clio crossover?
It usually takes months if not years after confirming a concept car debuts in front of a car manufacturer to see if it wants to or not going into production. But in the case of Renault Captur, it has not even presented to the public and more reports are already surfacing about his future production car.
According to foreign reports, Renault will build the dynamic crossover as Teildie next generation Clio hatchbacks due next year. Of course, certain elements are lost in the translation of exhibition stand showroom, but we hope that the nice left to the body integrated signals to the transition. These wheels are pretty sweet, too.
We get our first glimpse of the Captur concept at the Geneva Motor Show next week.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Opel teases Zafira Tourer concept via hologram
We have seen present many opportunities for a car manufacturer a new car. You can do online to a special event at an auto show. You can show us, sketches and spy shots, you may get a full range of photos, or they can do it all a big surprise when they live again draw the bow in person. But has got to be a new Opel has given us our first look at its latest concept car via hologram.
Well, not quite. It's not like we are looking at the hologram now. What we see is a picture of a hologram generated by a supposedly held iPad Opel / Vauxhall design chief Mark Adams. But that's not the point: The point is that GM, the European and UK subsidiaries, is unveiling this new approach next week in Geneva, and we do not need a hologram or a iPad see it.
The show car is called the Zafira Tourer Concept and serves as a preview for the next generation of the minivan based on the Corsa. It is one of several new debuts for Opel at the European expo, joining the production Ampera (the overseas version of the Chevy Volt) and facelift versions of two crossover Antara and Corsa hatchback. We will be there to see it up close and personal, but now we have placed the press release after the jump for all interested parties.
Pics Aplenty: Smart ForSpeed tries its best to look speedy
Daimler has so kindly to serve a good portion of Smart ForSpeed photos before the car's unveil at this year's Motor Show in Geneva. As you may recall, addressed the concept of a 41-horsepower electric motor that can whisk this miracle topless all the way to 37 miles per hour in about 5.5 seconds. As a reference, has the figures to two seconds improvement on the standard, production-version fortwo ed, we are not denying the fact that two seconds is not a small gap, but we did not exactly go quickly to the call of this apparatus, either.
The ForSpeed is on stage next month with no top, even though smart kind enough to include a cover toneau should open the heavens, while waiting until the vehicle has been given top speed of 75 mph. The good news is that the ForSpeed out a range of about 85 miles and can be quickly charged to 80 percent of capacity in about 45 minutes.
Volvo confirms V60 Plug-In Hybrid for production ahead of Geneva debut
After releasing first details and a lonely picture, Volvo has more information and pictures of their newest products. The V60 plug-in hybrid is a statement of the world's first diesel-hybrid plug-in, packaging coupled a 2.4-liter five-cylinder turbo diesel with a 70-hp electric motor on the rear axle.
The hybrid diesel car, the driver can select one of three modes of drive: Pure for AC electric drive for propulsion and power for an extra boost by both Hybrid. The flexible drive train also gives the driver the opportunity to save battery life and operating costs purely on diesel pusher (for example, when entering the city), and a through-the-road all-wheel-drive option by both engines when traction is limited.
As a plug-in hybrid, the Volvo Accumulator in 7.5 hours on a 6 amp socket, are charged 4.5 to 10 amps or as little as 3 hours at 16 amps. And while the production targets were not discussed in yesterday's announcement, Volvo has now confirmed that the V60 plug-in hybrid will hit dealers next year. Follow the jump for the press release and check the pictures in the gallery below for a closer look as the cars debut at the Geneva Motor Show approaches.
Skoda to showcase new design with fresh concept car in Geneva
Skoda has announced that it unveiled a new concept car at the Geneva Motor Show next week and confirmed earlier reports of its parent company's plans for the European expo. Although little was known in the way of details, Volkswagen has revealed Czech subsidiary, that the show car the company will present the latest design language.
The mysterious concept car - which appears not to accompany the lonely image above next to the existing range - is also carrying fresh on the Skoda logo, and the previously announced Fabia Monte Carlo support the company's booth at the Geneva Palexpo. We have to wait a little longer as the show approaches for more, but in the meantime you can read the full press exploded after the jump.
Videos: Rinspeed BamBoo takes us on vacation from Geneva to Saint-Tropez
Rinspeed oddball creations are just as rare birds, as Strange Ones. Every year we come to Geneva and a good long look at the latest one before to be, and the cars never seen again. And we would not expect that, unlike this year bizarre concept car.
Called the bamboo, it is the Swiss company's vision of a modern, fully-electric, open-air beach buggy of sorts, and, like its predecessor, bears in the way of similarity with another car on the road today little. Well, maybe the old Fiat Jolly, Mini Moke, and any number of fiberglass bodied dune buggies ...
So if you take a closer look at the bamboo in its intended natural habitat - Saint-Tropez - check out the quartet of videos after the jump. Because the show will soon be over, and so is the car, the Rinspeed built for him. Oh, and guys: looks like the driver via single is ... says so right on the front of the car.
Jaguar bringing 550 hp XKR-S super coupe to Geneva
We have heard rumblings of a more powerful XKR. We saw spy shots of the rumors two-door, if it carries through the English countryside a touch of camouflage blew. And now it's official: Jaguar XKR to bring greater the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, and goes by the name XKR-S.
We can only assume Jaguar is stuck with the supercharged 5.0-liter V8 as a motivational tool, because the details are not until next week in Switzerland to be unvieled shindig. However, we already have a few figures: 550 horsepower, 502 pound-feet of torque, running top speed of 186 miles per hour and the ability to benefit from zero-to-60 mph in just 4.2 seconds.
If you are not excited enough about Geneva, Jaguar 550 reasons you have to start drooling. Get the full details in the press release after the jump.
Rumormill: Bentley to bring new Continental Supersports to Geneva?
The first generation of Bentley Continental area produced so many variants, such as its engine has cylinder. Over seven years of production, including the GT coupe, the GTC convertible and the Flying Spur sedan in three levels of motor power (standard, speed and Super Sport), sanctioned by numerous special issues and factory-cab variants (as Zagato GTZ and Touring's Flying Star) on the road.
So what's next in the pipeline? Now that the second generation of the Continental GT has come to market, we can expect that the whole rigamarole to begin anew. While the range is expanding south with a new V8 engine option, rumors have begun on the north expansion with a new Super Sports model surface.
could be sharpened even more extreme than the stripped-pumped, up, flex-fuel first gene Supersports is based, the new version on the new Continental GT by an aggressive aerodynamics package with spoilers and vents galore benefit and possibly even stronger engine. It is rumored that production could be limited to 100 units, and that Bentley could plan a surprise unveiling at the upcoming motor show in Geneva. That is, we would be surprised a bit when Bentley jumped directly from the Conti GT to the top whack Super Sports - if tradition is different body styles and a speed range of models to follow to arrive first.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Pair of Giugiaro Volkswagen concepts leak out ahead of Geneva debut
Giorgetto Giuigiaro Italdesign, and his studio have a long history of cooperation with the Volkswagen Group. Designed addition to the original Golf and Scirocco Guigiaro a number of show cars for the German automotive industry empire Volkswagen W12 concept to the many seat designs, not to mention all the Lamborghini and Bugatti models in the course say the years written. But the relationship between Volkswagen and Italdesign grew much closer than this, the former May last year acquired. Now close one year later, we have our first look at the first product of cooperation in the form of two concept cars.The pair were apparently leaked to the European patent registration and could Giugiaro's vision of the shape of the next generation Golf and Polo could look like. Or they could represent the next and the production Scirocco Up! urban runabout. It is rumored that they are electrically powered, and could to be presented at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show next week. We are firmly in place, find out for sure, but in the meantime you can watch the images of the two in the gallery below.
Subaru teases Boxer Sports Car Architecture ahead of Geneva debut
Some car manufacturers are taking the latest technology in whatever form they come. Others define themselves to specific functions. Take Subaru, for example, which has built its reputation around two features: all-wheel drive and boxer engines. The joint venture with Toyota sports car on a common platform that can give up AWD Subaru had to have (at least in conceptual form), but it's not budge an inch on the boxer engine configuration.
So far, we have all of the Subaru version of what Toyota calls the FT-86 program seen some spy shots of test mules have modified Impreza body. But to expect both Toyota and Subaru are revealing their own versions of the sports coupe at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show, and to arouse our interest, the latter released the single teaser shot you see above, which the boxer engine in a Tron embedded-like presentation of the stroller frame. Not much to go, really, but over all, what we have now, so check the statement after the jump, follow the link to the site and Subaru watch this space for more.
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