Showing posts with label Italdesign. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italdesign. Show all posts

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.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Marchionne: Chrysler planning hybrid minivan for 2013



Chrysler, the automaker to the top of the minivan movement in the 1980s, is seriously thinking about his family tractor business. As we reported earlier, the Chrysler is scrapping one of the two twins minivan by 2013, making room for a small micro-van within the next few years to start - a vehicle that compete with the likes of the Ford C-Max and Mazda5 . Now, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, reports confirmed that a hybrid version of the company's next-generation minivan on the way, should be up to 2013 debut.

Which is for use in hybrid minivans use the same drive technology, we shall see in the gasoline-electric version of the Chrysler 300 sedan, will also be set to start in 2013 planned the drive train. The factory, where both the Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan are built today - The new van will be built at the automobile manufacturer Windsor Assembly Plant in Canada.