2010.-The New Porsche 911 GT3 Cup. Porsche has unveiled the new 2010 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup which is based on the newly unveiled 911 GT3 RS version. The Porsche 911 GT3 Cup engine capacity is up by 0.2 litres over the former model, engine output is 30 bhp more than before. The most important facts and figures: 3.8-litre six-cylinder horizontally-opposed. The GT3 Cup car features the same wide body in the back, the same sheet metal up front and the same 3.8 Liter flat six as the beefed up GT3 for the street, however in order to create a competitive machine the Porsche fabricators apply the same lightweight thinking that is in the RS but this time with a racing car. So the Cup car receives a few race specific items like a rear wing carried over from last year’s International FIA GT3 car, an all new exhaust that accentuates the burble of the boxer engine while responsibly controlling emissions at the same time. The Cup car comes standard with the Porsche Ceramic Composite Brakes that drop over 40 pounds from the weight of the car, and because it is a race car there is even more adjustability built into the suspension.
2009-The new Scion iQ Concept car. Scion IQ concept is a new city car with a revolutionary package, which is not more than 10 feet in length and consists of three Storage Plus. Five Axis in Huntington Beach, California, took IQ to the next level with the external aggression and internal changes, which show the potential of the vehicle for customization. Scion IQ comes with a 78.7-inch step, three-door hatchback can skillfully maneuver in the urban stream. At the same time, its overall length of 126.9 inches, overall width of 71.4 inches, and front and short rear overhang allows the IQ, to fit into any citizen of the park. Located in the front differential and pinion steering repositioned decrease the length of the foreground. In addition, IQ has a gas tank located under the floor of the plane, which reduces the rear overhang. Finally this car is a high performance and high technology.
Audi of America president, Johan de Nysschen has dismissed General Motors Chevrolet Volt as "a car for idiots".
Speaking to veteran American journalist Lawrence Ulrich, de Nysschen said that few customers will be prepared to pay the estimated £25,000 asking price for the Volt, which will go on sale in Europe as the Vauxhall/Opel Ampera.
"No one is going to pay a $15,000 (£9,000) premium for a car that competes with a Toyota Corolla,” said de Nysschen. "So there are not enough idiots who will buy it."
De Nysschen, a long-time advocate of diesel power, admitted that plug-in hybrids are good in concept and hold advantages over diesels in stop-and-go driving. However, he maintained that electric cars are more about making a statement at present.
“They’re for the intellectual elite who want to show what enlightened souls they are,” he said.
De Nysschen concluded by saying that the Volt will fail to sell and the Government will be forced to subsidise it and boost sales, having forced GM to develop electric cars.
However, De Nysschen said in his defence:
“Let me clearly state that in my opinion, electric vehicles will be part of the future transportation of society – but only if we go about it the right way. In fact, Audi is working on electric vehicles," he said."
De Nysschen also apologised if he had been "unclear" about the fact that he isn’t opposed to electric vehicles, and said he didn't remember specifically saying the Volt is a car "idiots".
With car sales rising 2.4% in July, August car sales rose 6% compared with the same month last year. The increase is the second consecutive monthly rise, after more than a year of decline in vehicle sales. Industry figures revealed that 67,006 new cars were registered during August.
The scrappage scheme is widely accepted to have prompted the boost in sales since its introduction in May. However, the scheme is expected to run out of cash by the end of the year. Most buyers have been waiting out for the '59' plate change, which changes this month. September generally yields 5 times as many sales as August. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders' (SMMT) chief executive Paul Everitt said: 'The scrappage incentive scheme is having a positive impact, but with consumer and business confidence still fragile, there remain significant risks ahead.
However, the figures from the SMMT also revealed that total sales for the year so far are still 21.5% lower than for the same period last year.
'It is essential that these early signs of recovery are sustained into 2010.'
The top 10 best-selling cars for August were as follows:
Germany has ended its scrappage scheme, but is expected to offer tax incentives instead. France will extend it's scrappage scheme until 2011, to avoid plunging car sales. The UK Government has no intention of expanding, despite the fragile state of the car industry. However, pressure from automotive magazines, car manufactures and consumers could see it expanded.
In Russia at factory General Motors in Saint-Petersburg the batch production of new sedan Chevrolet Cruze has begun. All sold in our country Cruze will be made in Northern capital. It is interesting that all over the world Cruze comes in the stead models Lacetti, however, in Russia will be not only to sell simultaneously both that and other model. However, in GM say what to compete among themselves Cruze and Lacetti do not become supposedly last car it will appear much more cheaply Cruze. Though actually the difference in the price between these models turns out not such and serious. If now cost of sedan Lacetti with the motor of 1,4 l begins with a mark 498 250 rbl. Cruze it is possible to take for 550 000 rbl. And a difference in 50 thousand not such and serious, considering that equipment Lacetti is much more modest Cruze (the truth, now on Lacetti give the big discounts, and this model it is possible to buy all for 397 100 rbl., but term of carrying out of the given action is limited).
During press conference on a case of opening factory, the general director of Russian representation GM Hans Jurgen Michel is proud has declared that «Cruze is the third model which we have started from a factory port timing in November, 2008 along with Chevrolet Сaptiva and Opel Antara».
At once it is necessary to tell – character of the car has not changed in any way. The car has not bad set up suspender. On the one hand it is more focused on comfort and easy maintains arrival on «lying policemen». But thus new Cruze is possible also to steer on high speed! From a family sedan of mark Chevrolet of it obviously you do not wait. You only do not think that Cruze gives the same pleasure from driving on a streamer as Alfa Romeo or, say, Mini. Do not forget that this car is focused on other audience. But in comparison with many other "Koreans", it really great advance. But decent roadability is connected not only with options the running. After all in comparison with the same Lacetti the new car has received much more rigid body, and an order of 65 % of weight of load-bearing parts of a body it is necessary on high-strength steels. It in 1,5 times more than at old Lacetti.
In Saint-Petersburg will exhaust cars with two motors: 1.6 l (109 h.p., 150 Nm) and 1.8 l (141 h.p., 176 Nm)
New Rolls-Royce Ghost became the most powerful and fast car in the history of the company: 563 horsepowers, 4.9 seconds to hundred! The car is stuffed by electronics, including the trekshn-control and infra-red system of detection of pedestrians. At all it is conservative enough as a whole and traditionally comfortable.
Predictably, serial Rolls-Royce Ghost practically does not differ from the conceptual version 200EX, shown this spring. Contrast silvery colouring of a cowl and a windshield framework is an option – it is possible to order and the monophonic car. On a choice 12 colours are offered, we will list their names for fans: Adriatic Blue, Claret, Darkest Tungsten, Dark Indigo, Diamond Black, English White, Ensign Red, Jubilee Silver, Lunar Blue, Metropolitan Blue, New Sable, Sea Green. Cars in the same shop where and Phantom, on painting and polishing of one Ghost leaves seven days are painted.
The system without key access already meets and on accessible models, but is unusual to conservative mark: Ghost opens itself when the owner with a charm approaches on distance of 1.5 metres (option). Inside – traditional style Rolls-Royce: simple, deliberately "craft" forms, a skin, the massive wooden panels, the chromeplated details, vent holes of type "eyeball". The interior by lamps with matte plafonds is highlighted. The screen on a front panel is hidden under a wooden cover, and additional functions can be steered or the rotary controller with additional buttons which has settled down on the central extension housing, or a voice.
The form of rear seats allows to turn slightly to the interlocutor who is sitting next. By the way, it is possible to choose both an integral sofa, and individual armchairs with massage, heating up and air-conditioning. As an option folding little tables for a lunch are offered a minibar with illumination, a compartment for champagne glasses. In backs of front armchairs it is possible to establish 9-inch monitors, and in a small box – a changer on 6 disks. The interesting moment - in front doors umbrellas with a teflon covering hide. Ghost is stuffed by various auxiliary electronic systems, however developers pay attention: they were projected so that not to disturb to the driver and to confuse it, and to do steering easier and pleasant. The list habitual enough for the prestigious modern car also engages the trekshn-control, stabilisation system, etc.
Ghost is equipped by system of night vision, the infra-red radiator allows to find out pedestrians on distance to 300 metres and to display them on the monitor. The distance to object, its speed and a direction is defined, by results of the analysis of the information the car gives out the prevention to the driver. Also in the list of equipment Head-Up the display (on a windshield the information is displayed necessary for the driver), "the alarm clock", warning vibration about traverse of a dividing strip, adaptive rotary headlights, active cruise-control with function Stop&Go. Some chambers in a lobby and a car rear help to park.
To combine traditional comfort and high dynamics the pneumatic suspender with absorbers steered electronics allows. As developers inform, it is rather sensitive, and is capable to correct the characteristics, for example, in case the passenger sits only on the one hand. The road gleam is regulated within 25 millimetres. Engine V12 in volume of 6.6 litres with two turbines develops capacity of 563 h.p. that allows the car to be dispersed to 100 km/h for 4.9 seconds, the maximum speed is limited 250 km/h. A gear box 8-step automatic, manufactures ZF. Average fuel consumption makes 13.6 litres on 100 kilometres.
In Great Britain Rolls-Royce Ghost will be on sale for 165000 pounds, in Europe the price will make 213000 euros, in the USA 245000 dollars.
Diesel engined cars remain tough to sell in the North American market but German brands like Volkswagen, have sold clean-diesel cars sucuessfully. Volkswagen's luxury counterpart, Audi now wants to sell clean-diesels. It's introducing the new A3 TDI for the U.S market, for which the Ingolstadt-based automaker released pricing details.
Starting price for the A3 TDI with the S-tronic transmission and front-wheel drive is $29,950, excluding a delivery charge of $825.
Like the European model, the 2.0 litre TDI provides 140bhp and 236 lb-ft of torque (320 Nm). Combined fuel economy is 42 mpg U.S.
So why is it so hard for European carmakers to sell diesels in the U.S? This is to meet the stringent emissions standards that are set in each U.S state for diesel powered passenger cars. Those regulations are far more restrictive than they are for transport trucks. That coupled with the lack of availability of highly-refined (low-sulphur) diesel fuel also made selling diesels in all 50 states a challenge.
