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Audi A3 Sedan Concept

Sunday 8 May 2011

The abstraction is a examination of the next-generation 2013 Audi A-O, which will spawn the approved auto models and now this fresh auto alternative as well. It alike looks like there’ll be a almighty RS alternative as well; this most recent A-O Auto Abstraction is packing a 408 application and 369 pound-feet of torque five-cylinder turbo and face all-wheel drive.

Pagani Huayra

Perhaps it’s the 700 application twin-turbo answerable 6.0-liter V-12 agent that’s acceptable us, or maybe it’s that adorable interior, but whatever it is supercargo admirers should be blessed that auto shows are still actuality graced by such adorable creations.

Rolls-Royce Phantom Experimental Electric 102EX

Silently canoeing in a acutely alarming breastwork of accomplished leather, carnal copse and hand-built animate and bottle is the ultimate ambition of the hyper-luxury automakers like Rolls-Royce and Bentley, so it's not hasty at all that an all-electric Rolls-Royce Phantom was trotted out in advanced of attendees at this week’s 2011 Geneva Motor Show.

Some analysis markets will accommodate Europe, the Middle-East, Asia and North America.

Nissan ESFLOW Concept

Bringing Nissan into the EVA sports car amphitheatre in style, the SLOW packs cues from the Z, the GT-R, Infiniti's Essence concept, and aloof a tiny bit of Juke--all while adorable us with the abstention of torque you get from an electric motor zipping you around.

2012 Porsche 928

The 928, Porsche's front-engine access in the auto GT market, never absolutely enjoyed the success of the signature sports car, the 911. Since Porsche chock-full bearing the 928 in 1995 afterwards an 18-year run, the German automaker has gone after a front-engine auto to attempt with the brand of the BMW M6, Jaguar KR, Aston-Martin DB, and Mercedes CL-class. Built on the belvedere that will affirm Porsche's 2009 Panama four-door sports sedan, the bearding two-door will ride on a beneath wheelbase but will allotment at atomic 60 percent of its genitalia with the Panama. The sedan's control-arm advanced abeyance and multi articulation rear will acceptable get firmer affability in befitting with the coupe's antic pretense. The beneath wheelbase will abate the coupe's weight and advance its handling, but the abridgement will appear at the amount of rear-seat space. Auto buyers will accept from a alternative of Porsche's next-generation direct-injection-equipped V-8 engines. Like the 928 that preceded it, this auto will be rear-wheel drive, with a auto arbor allowance to antithesis weight administration

2012 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque Revealed

Land Rover's Range Rover cast is adulatory the big 4-0 this year, and the fresh belle of the brawl is the all-new 2012 Land Rover Range Rover Devoured, which is actuality previewed as allotment of the allegorical off-road brand's altogether celebration. It's the smallest, lightest and best ammunition able Rangier anytime produced.

The fresh baby Range Rover Devoured will barrage in mid 2011. It is abate than the Land Rover R.J., but is actuality positioned as a added antic and added big-ticket agent that will aperture beneath the Range Rover Sport.

The Land Rover LX abstraction aboriginal appear at the 2008 Detroit auto appearance wasn't a designer's fantasy: the assembly two-door is decidedly abutting to the concept. While the abstraction was badged as a Land Rover, the aggregation absitively to use the Range Rover cast for the assembly adaptation of this exceptional vehicle. The aggregation has appear that, for Europe at least, there will be a front-drive adaptation of the vehicle, authoritative it the aboriginal two-wheel-drive Land Rover in history.

Nissan Offers Graphics Package or Cargo Management Systems Free on NV Van

To advice allure barter abroad from competitors like Sprinter and the Transit Connect, the Japanese automaker is alms a adulatory upgrade: either a bartering pit amalgamation or a no-charge exoteric cartoon package.

"We apperceive bartering agent buyers adapt their cartage to accommodated their business needs, and we appetite to be allotment of the band-aid for them," said Joe Costello, carnality president, Nissan Bartering Cartage and Fleet.

If you don't charge to acquaint your business on the ancillary of the ample NV vans, the bartering pit amalgamation ability assignment better. Should neither chargeless advancement amalgamation address to you, Nissan will accord buyers a $300 rebate.

The Flexibility of One Ford

The automaker's C-platform takes Centre, uh, centermost stage, as Ford believes compacts like the Focus eventually will alter midsize sedans like the Fusion as the aggregate commuter car.

Ford's Michigan Accumulation Bulb in Wayne, abreast Dearborn, has been adapted from barter accumulation to body the fresh 2012 Focus auto and hatchback. Ford hasn't articular the accumulation bulb for North American accumulation of the accepted C-Max.

Are we accessible for abate sedans, bunched hatchbacks, and micro-mini vans?

Flexibility agency the branch can add accumulation of a decidedly accepted archetypal while acid accumulation of models that aren't affairs that well, addendum Ford artefact arch Derrick Kulak. He says the Fiesta's aboriginal 60/40 hatchback/sedan breach is added auto than Ford expected. So how does Ford's bunched calendar agitate out? Focus auto and hatchback: Includes the ST hatchback. Ford counts the Audi A-O amid the fresh Focus' competitors.

Ford Syncs Up Dealers; Chevy Catches Up

Ford administration credits the company's Microsoft-based Sync arrangement for its post-2008 success as abundant as it does any accurate car or barter in the Ford lineup.

Since then, the automaker has added Mumford and Myelin systems that advance articulation activation to ascendancy aggregate from aeronautics and the radio to heating/air-conditioning/ventilation and your adaptable phone.

Consumer Reports criticized the 2011 Ford Edge and Lincoln MK systems in its anniversary new-car issue, though, bidding Ford all-around marketing, sales, and account arch Jim Farley to acquaint an continued dealership experience. While the systems are hands-free, they crave owners to apperceive which words are all-important to activate controls. The technology combines General Motor's Constar assurance and aegis arrangement with online casework via Bluetooth technology that uses articulation acceptance from a Massachusetts company, Nuance. Myelin adds beam anamnesis to the USB accessory connections, and brings Pandora Internet radio, Grace agenda tune identification, and Stitcher Smart Radio alive podcasts, radio, and account into the '12 Chevy Volt and Equinox. Chevrolet says Nuance "allows simple articulation commands to admit buzz calls and baddest radio stations or media from carriageable MP3 players and Smartphone."

'A True Jeep': Subcompact Jeep Crossover On Track for 2013 Debut

Jeep is advancing a fresh auto SUV crossover for the average of agenda year 2013. It will be congenital in Europe on a Fiat platform, but Jeep promises it will accept cogent off-road capability.

Jeep CEO Mike Manley told Motor Trend, 'It will be a accurate Jeep. There will be an all-wheel-drive version, and a Trail Rated version.'

We acknowledgment the Nissan Juke and Mini Countryman as rivals, and he agrees. As a added 18-carat off-broader, though, the Jeep would accept little absolute competition.

We ask if there are any architecture clues in the company's assorted babyish Jeep abstraction cars, such as the Jeep REO and Varsity from auto shows past. Now we accept all-embracing ascribe in packaging, interiors, ability train, everything."

Autonomous Car Technology Lurches Forward

The Industrial Age replaces the horse and buggy with ever-faster cars and trucks. The time for free car technology is now, says Jim Hall, arch of 2953 Analytics, and a common advocate on Motor Trend's Car of the Year panel. "The aboriginal free cars will be taxicabs," Hall explains. "Welcome to Johnny Cab."

Imagine automatic taxicabs whisking you about New York City or San Francisco. "The technology already is here," Hall notes. Volvos hit the brakes for you. The most recent night-vision technology uses calefaction sensors to ascertain added beings in your path.

The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, founded in 1958 to abode the Soviet Sputnik challenge-it additionally takes acclaim for inventing the Internet-held free car challenges from 2005 to 2008. Last year, Google began experimenting with free Toyota Prii for its Google Maps.