The new compact model of the company - Ferrari Dino - has started the first series of over-the-road tests on track Furno.
The debut of a new Ferrari as declared president Ferrari of Luca Di Montezemolo and CEO Jean Todt on Geneva auto show. As they said, the car will be brought on car show to Paris.
For the present not clearly, as name model - it is represented to the most probable Dino, however it can be and indexes GT420 or 470. The car create on the basis of model Maserati GranTurismo, the novelty will receive engine V8 and will take a place between Ferrari F430 and Maserati GT.
Ferrari Dino as toy model will go on sale this year.
Ford prepares the RS-version new Focus it was known for a long time: in a network repeatedly appeared various novelties. Official date of premiere Focus RS - July of this year became now known.
The car debut will take place within the limits of the international interior in London. About the hatchback specification still a little that is known. Some sources approached to the manufacturer inform, that the first on the market leaves Focus RS with a drive gear on a front axle, that at once will make the main competitor of model more likely Mazda3 MPS, rather than Subaru STI. Under the hood, possibly, there will be an engine power of of 300-280 h.p.
Last year company Aston Martin has acquainted for the first time the automobile public with concept car Vantage RS, the truth then the model future seemed too foggy. But one of these days the company declared, that Aston Martin Vantage RS will go to a serial production.
On the international motor show in Geneva head Aston Martin Doctor Ulrich Bez, has declared to journalists, that serial version Vantage RS will appear on sale in the end of current year.
It is expected, that the coupe begins to be completed with 6-litre motor V12 power of 600 h.p. the Maximum speed of the car will make 300 km/hour, and for dispersal to first “hundred” model it is required only 4 seconds the Main competitors of “Englishman” name models Ferrari and Porsche.
Coupe cost is not defined yet, but, on data which journalists have, for Vantage RS it is necessary to lay out more than $200 thousand.
In Geneva the premiere of sports car Audi R8 TDI Le Mans equipped with the powerful diesel engine of configuration V12 has taken place.
This of sport penalties with high degree of probability will go to a batch production. We will remind, on a motor show in Detroit company Audi already showed R8 with engine V12 TDI, but that was only concept.
Audi R8 V12 TDI it is accelerated from zero to 100 km/hour for 4,2 sec., has an indicator of the greatest possible speed over 300 km/hour. Such dynamics provide a penalty of 500 “horses” of the 6-liter motor and the whole 1000 Nanometers of a twisting moment.
On all four wheels of the car there are ceramic brakes with six-piston calipers, and the easy body weighs only 210 kg. However, interested excites that a little, on what is capable Audi R8 TDI Le Mans: the main question - when the car will appear on sale and will cost how many, and the company management while holds back it.
The open version of model А5, according to earlier data, should show on the Geneva car show this year, however on platform Audi in Switzerland a new cabriolet it was not observed.
As has informed a management of the German company, A5 Convertible will not seem on public till January of the next year when it debuts in Detroit. To make the car intend at factory in Germany.
Cabriolet A5 will receive collapsible top made of cloth with the electric drive. Under a car cowl will take the place the same engines, as on the coupe version: 3,2-litre petrol V6 and diesel motors in volume of 2.7 l and 3.0 l. Top version becomes S5 with 4,2-liter engine V8 and all wheel drive system.
Auto show in Geneva is bright and full of unusual cars, for the prepared not only world motor-car manufacturers, but also the small private companies, and also the tuning studio always was famous. This year the Bavarian studio Mansory has exposed on show a prestigious variant superpenalty Ferrari 599 GTB. The car tuning firm known for the predilections for cars of marks as Aston Martin, Bentley and Rolls Royce, undertook completion Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano. After all spent actions in Mansory customized the car with the improved salon and more powerful engine distinguish carbon body panels.
Easy carbon Mansory also used for increase of aerodynamic parametres of model: superpenalties has received built in back difusor, lateral “skirts” and new wheel arches. (more…)
Within the limits of the international motor show in Geneva journalists and experts of a car industry have chosen the best concept car - the car which, according to experts, waits the big future.
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Mazda has released new special version of RX-8. A series of 250 cars of Mazda RX8 Kuro will appear on sale already in the end of a month. The car have christened Kuro, that in transfer from the Korean “black” means.
Any technical information of the car it was not released yet, changes have concerned only body and interior elements. Considering that basic competitor RX8 - Nissan 350Z already was many times updated both technically, and outwardly, for Mazda for a long time already has come it is time to update the car. (more…)
Subaru will release limited set Subaru Impreza WRX GB270. British stage WRC is one of the most successful for command Subaru WRT - its cars won here nine times. From base model Impreza WRX GB270 will differ forced to 266 horsepowers 2,5-litre turbo engine, prepared by tuning company Prodrive. Which builds rally cars Subaru for WRC. From zero to 96 kilometers per hour the novelty can be accelerated in 5,3 seconds, (against 5,9 seconds at the standard car), and to 160 kilometers per hour - for 13,9 seconds (14,4 seconds at base model).
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Company Audi has shared the first details about the next novelty - a compact hatchback which should make a competition to family of Mini. This car will show in some days in Tokyo where it will be presented as the concept car under name Audi Metroproject Quattro. On preliminary data, novelty Audi will receive system of an all wheel drive and a hybrid power-plant battery block has settled down in a luggage compartment under transparent glass through which are visible also knots of all-wheel drive transmission of the car. No other details about a technical stuffing of the concept car while are present. (more…)