Showing posts with label spy pics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spy pics. Show all posts

Monday, February 21, 2011

Spy Shots: Audi A6 Avant plays in the snow


We have just had from the first stint behind the wheel of the new 2012 Audi A6 sedan, intended to come to North American soil this fall. And while Audi forward on the hybrid version of its stylish new four-door, the German automaker has been discovered in testing the faithful car variant, which are likely to arise later this year (IAA sounds about right).

We are excited about the new A6's new styling with the larger rear hand works, although it seems that Audi with a rakish tailgate design (limiting the usefulness of the hold?). Be performed to expectations, Interior and Powertrain fittings to unchanged from the sedan.

Audi A6 Avant has always been offered here in the United States, we have not much reason to doubt that this new iteration will also be sold Stateside. Granted, the car has not just in large quantities for sale here in the U.S., but if not there a business case for them on our shores, the automaker is likely preserves the current model would now be.

Scroll to browse through our high-res gallery below, the A6 Avant prototype frolicking in the snow.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Spy Shots: Subaru FT-86 spied again ahead of Geneva reveal


Subaru has announced that it plans its rear-wheel-drive version of the FT-86 concept in next month's Geneva Motor Show debut. It's safe to say that the joint venture between Toyota and Subaru one of the most anticipated debuts of the year, and during the journey that takes the stage in Switzerland are still labeled as a concept, it should give us a very good impression what's in store for the production car.
Our spy photographers have loyal Subaru version of the sports car, tests taken, and while we have the fast Toyobaru as a coupe-label, this latest set of photos suggests a hatchback configuration. There are still a small back deck, though, so perhaps the term "Fast Track" is better in an instance of it (a bit like the Scion tC) is used. Either way the body looks similar assessment mules we have seen periodically over the last few years, but it is not known if the body is wrapped in camouflage production.
In any case, you can expect to see a 2.0-liter turbocharged flat-four under the hood, produces something like 260 hp. Subaru broke its all-wheel-drive-only mantra with this new car as the automaker has confirmed that power walk alone to the rear wheels. View the latest set of spy shots below for yourself in our high-res image gallery.

Spy Shots: Kia mystery box spotted testing


Every once in a while, comes a set of spy photos from our screens makes us, as we search for the secret image in a Magic Eye stereogram image stare. This is one of those cases, we are just not sure what to make of this diminutive Kia prototype.
Our best guess is that this is a new kei car for the Japanese market, like the uber-boxy dimensions and tiny wheels mounting the small MPV, are roaming the streets of Japan. Since we do not, however, get a good feel for how big the car is really, there's a chance that might work on a sub-Kia Soul two field. But from where we sit, look, the wheels simply too small for consumption here in the United States (imagine hitting a Detroit-spec pothole with the tiny tires), think this way that we, regardless of this prototype flowers in, we'll likely won 't it to our shores.
Protect our notice that the rear doors from side to side different, with the left side offers a conventional front-hinged door and the right side of the decision for a slider, making it a quality MPV. Either way, this mystery box looks pretty far along in development, so we would expect that in the production sooner rather than later, perhaps with a 2013 model year.
Take a look at the spy shots in our high-res gallery bet down, and you guess at best, what lurks beneath the camouflage in comments.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Spy Shots: 2012 Mini Coupe nears production


The Mini Coupe is on sale this fall and that means the hatchless Cooper test has begun. Caught running around by our spies outside BMW headquarters in Germany, uses the 2012 Mini coupe Bayern standard psychedelic camo, but it was not able to hide a new retractable spoiler located in the trunk - something that is not appropriate concept shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show 2009.Power should come from the entire range of mini-aspirated and turbocharged 1.6-liter four-cylinder mills, although our spies fight that the prototype you see here a Works model, by braking revalue proved that barely fit in the wheels and red brake calipers front and rear. We suspect that the production version will make an appearance in Frankfurt this fall with sales beginning in Europe and the USA before the end of the year.