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On a motor show in Beijing company BMW has presented concept under name Concept Gran Coupe. The main feature of a new 4-door coupe from BMW is not only rather aggressive appearance, but also small height - concept at once on 100 mm below standard "seven".

It is necessary to notice that it's already second concept four-door coupe from BMW – earlier Germans showed the model under name Concept CS. It has been presented in 2007, too in China. And here after three years Bavarians have made the new version of a 4-door coupe. So it possible to wait and the serial version of similar model. It will be called, most likely, BMW 8th series. The main competitors of new "eight" already well-known. This existing Mercedes-Benz CLS, Porsche Panamera and Aston Martin Rapide, and also preparing for premiere Audi A7.

French concept Citroen Survolt became one of the most unusual cars of a motor show in Geneva. It is not known, whether can transfer photos all aura of this car? Probably, no. For Survolt looks rather abruptly. As always, Citroens designers managed to make something unusual (we and love this mark for it), and thus them concept does not look, how any misunderstanding. The car has turned out very integral and that the most important thing, beautiful.

When you approach to stand Citroen Survolt it seems big. But actually it is rather compact car - from a nose to a tail only 3850 mm. It even is less, than at Volkswagen Polo or Citroen C3!

With what engine it is equipped yet it is not informed. Probably, any. It after all concept which is not obliged to have a high-grade suspender or a power-plant not so. It should show, in what direction the mark in the future begins to develop. If in such as Survolt, we only for. And still we for that Survolt has gone to a batch production. And in that kind in what it have shown in Geneva.

Representatives of company Audi have confirmed that they will exhaust the first Electric Super Car E-Tron. However, this model will appear on sale only in 2012, and its circulation will make only 1000 copies. Will cost how many Audi e-tron while, naturally, it is not informed, but nobody hides that it will be the most expensive serial Audi for all history of existence of the company.

Let's remind that the premiere concept e-tron has passed in September of this year on a motor show in Frankfurt. Electric super car was at this exhibition one of the most interesting exhibits. Still, after all this car is set in motion by four electric motors (one on each wheel) which eat from the litievo-ionic accumulator battery located behind seats and having liquid cooling. Total capacity of motors in peak reaches 313 horsepowers, and the size of the maximum twisting moment and is at all magnificent. Already from zero "turns" cursors in the sum give out attention! 4500 Nm.



Thanks to such indicators! A coupe from a place to 100 km/h dispersed all for 4,8 sec only. Maximum speed could be and above, but developers have decided to limit it on a mark of 200 km/h. On high speeds too much energy leaves on overcoming of aerodynamic resistance and resistance. All-wheel drive e-tron possesses the expressed rear-wheel habits as 70 % of pull-rod almost always are necessary on rear wheels.

Volkswagen has presented supereconomic double prototype L1 with a diesel engine-hybrid power-plant. A car body including the power structure, is executed from carbon fiber. L1 weighs only 380 kgs, 160 km/h accelerate momentum and on the average spends for hundred kilometres of a diesel fuel of 1,49 litres. Carbonic gas on way kilometre conceptual L1 throws out only 39 grammes. Thus the machine possesses quite good dynamic characteristics – hundred kilometres per hour L1 reaches for 14,3 seconds. Onboard the fuel stock in 10 litres allows to overcome 670 kilometres.



To achieve such indicators, Volkswagen have thoroughly worked. Thanks to that passengers have arranged one after another, developers the lateral section area managed to be made absolutely small, the factor of aerodynamic resistance L1 – makes 0,195. A turbodiesel, the electric motor, and seven-step gear box DSG designers have united clutches in one unit and have established in a body rear. At dispersals and in settled modes L1 is set in motion from two-cylinder 0,8-litre turbodiesel TDI. Work the motor can in two modes: in standard – «ECO» "cursor" develops capacity in 27 h.p. (20 kw) (at 4000 rpm), in a mode "SPORTS" which is activated at intensive speedups, capacity can quickly increase to 39 h.p. (29 kw) (at a similar rotary speed of a bent shaft). The maximum twisting moment of the engine makes 100 Nm (at 1900 rpm).



The 14-strong motor-generator of alternate current in a traction mode can work as together with the diesel motor (for example, at intensive dispersal), and irrespective of it (at movement on low speeds in plugs or in residential zones). In the latter case, L1 as the electromobile, moves exclusively for the electropull-rod account, DVC from transmission is disconnected by one of clutches. The Motor-generator works together with the lithium-ionic accumulator battery located in a front part of a body. By the way, there there was a place for a 50-litre luggage compartment. Developers say that the car is already almost ready to a batch production, the truth, concrete terms yet do not name.

Seat today has officially presented on a motor show in Frankfurt new concept IBZ which, predictably, at receipt in sale will receive name Ibiza Sport Tourer. According to president Seat, this car will be one of ten new models which will be issued the next months and years.

The design IBZ Concept is executed in corporate style Seat – the versatile person has received characteristic radiator lattice, sports bumpers, an exhaust system with two exhaust pipes, and also light-emitting diode head and rear optics and the unusual form exterior mirrors. However, not the fact that all it remains on serial model. Under a car cowl will take places 1,4-litre TFSI capacity 180 h/p which maximum twisting moment makes 250 Nanometers. Occurrence IBZ Concept in interiors of dealers is planned for 2010.

Though prospects of distribution platform Porsche Panamera on lineup VW Group remain till now foggy, it does not prevent to show to the separate presented persons a flight of fancy. In the given concrete case it is a question of designer Gabriel Rabi who at first in the imagination, and then and on the computer has created this magnificent concept car Audi R7.

Examining of the images laid out by it involuntarily pushes on thought that auto maker and really it would be quite good to German to take this project for a basis – the so precisely French artist has transferred a essence of sports cars of a brand, having created four-door sedan almost ready to a batch production.

Most think that Mini Cooper is car for girls only. Before to be at war with this bias on a motor show in Frankfurt by means of demonstration of two new concept cars, company Mini has exhausted conceptual tiser which does not deny its truthfulness........

While other admirers of the Japanese mark expect exit CR-Z, the Spanish designer Huaku Peres shows sport car Honda designed by it reminding about bolids this marks from sixtieth.

He named the creation RA-X, and first two letters in this designation are borrowed from "formula" nomenclatures Honda, on what exhaust bores in style bolid RA300 directly hint it come from 1967. On a plan of the designer, the sport car should be middle motor, with a rear wheel drive.

The letter "X" illustrates a rechristening of lateral panels, and the general interlacing of lines of a body has reminded us of softer outlines Zenvo ST1. Yes, such the compact sports car from Honda too could be …

On a motor show in Frankfurt Hyundai will present concept ix-Metro. Besides, the first drawings of this model thanks to which we can understand have got to the Internet – the small Korean crossover will possess rather … unusual appearance. Also it is not excluded, what exactly it becomes one of the main applicants for a rank «the most terrible car of Frankfurt». Under a cowl concept will be a hybrid power-plant where the electric motor begins to work together with a petrol cursor in volume only 1,0 l which possesses only three cylinders. However total capacity of a hybrid will make quite decent for such machine of 125 h.p. While Hyundai ix-Metro will be presented as the concept car. But the probability that this model will go to a batch production, is very high. In this case it will receive a name ix25.

President GM Frits Henderson has confirmed that Cadillac develops five new models for 2011 modelling years, including a sports sedan which becomes competitor BMW 3-Series and Audi A4 in a segment, more low than CTS. The company has declared that the new sedan will be offered with hi-tech engines, rear and, optionallyо, an all wheel drive.

Besides a new sedan of initial level and already presented compact crossover SRX and CTS Sport Wagon, under Henderson's statement, the company will present the serial version concept CTS Coupe which will be offered with the same 556-strong 6.2-litre 8-cylinder turbo engine, as sedan CTS-V. Besides, Cadillac plans replacement for flagman models - rear-wheel STS and front-wheel DTS which will divide a platform with Buick LaCrosse and will be offered with an all wheel drive. Unfortunately, to the detailed information on this model it was not informed.

And without that the rather numerous family of hybrids Toyota and Lexus will shortly replenish with the next model. The conceptual sample of a new compact hatchback will present company Lexus. Display of this model under name CT will take place in September on a motor show in Frankfurt.

Now about a novelty only informal information is known. It is informed that hybrid Lexus CT will be issued in versions CT 200h, CT 300h and CT 400h. The base variant of model (CT 200h) will receive the 1,8-litre 136-strong motor, the same by which hybrid Toyota Prius is equipped. Version CT 300 will equip, presumably, with a hybrid drive gear of model Lexus HS 250 (2,4 — the litre petrol motor and the electric motor which as a result give about 189 h.p.). The Top version of model Lexus CT 400h equipped, most likely, with the electromotor and the petrol V-shaped six-cylinder motor. However the information - listed above it while the opinions not confirmed with the Japanese motor-car manufacturer which state foreign automobile editions.



Anyhow, it is necessary to wait for the official information from the motor-car manufacturer, and then — and a debut of the conceptual version new Lexus CT. A pre-series variant of model, possibly, it will be possible to see in 2010 at autoexhibition in Geneva. Probably, in the middle of the next year the hybrid leaves on the world markets where will enter a competition with Audi A3 and BMW 1-Series.

«The first model of a series« V4 Concept Bike »will go on sale in first half of 2010. Not later», - president Honda Motor Europe of Shigeru Takagi has declared. It already the second official acknowledgement from the company concerning release V4 in 2010. Besides announced before sensational technology wheels, it is possible to expect multipurpose sport bike luxury with SBK. Unfortunately, it seems to us that in it there will be no titanic inserts, oval buckets and the combined analogue-digital devices as at Honda NR

About prepare to build a new super car on the basis of 599 Fiorano, Ferrari have mentioned on the Geneva motor show, then the majority of journalists has reflected into account 599 Scuderia, but after the lapse of only several months "red" have presented to Internet public something more hot - concept 599XX.

As well as its senior brother Enzo FXX, the beginner is not intended for public roads. The place fighting 599th is exclusive on a racing track where it can gambol own 700 h.p. which get down to business, having picked up spout, only on 9 000 rpm. Naturally,bolid Ferrari technologically a little than we will distinguish from bolids the first formula by which gears it is stuffed on the roof. In particular, aerodynamics of the car for the speed of 200 km/h creates clamping force in 280 kg, and for the speed 300 in 630 kg. Robotised box is capable to gearing drives for 60 msec. Well and about superclever, maybe even ingenious electronics it is not necessary to tell .

599 have a little facilitated, having fed metal carbon to analogues and definitively having selected at a coupe radio tape recorders everyone there, climate controls and other superfluous things on a racing line.Exit date in, so to say, series is not called, no less than the price, but, by itself, anti-recessionary it don't name.

Eleven years ago world famous Italian company Italdesign has presented original concept minivan Structura which for those times looked the present car of the future which, if to trust results of activity of the paparazzi has come already today.

Few people hoped that Italdesign Structura ever will appear on road, however inhabitants of Monaco can confirm that on streets the prototype of model which has been created specially to the company 30 anniversary in 1998 drives about. The car, despite the age, is in the excellent form and will handicap as regards design to many modern cars. The length of the minivan calculated on five persons, makes hardly more than 4,6 m, and for convenience of landing and disembarkation of passengers it is deprived average racks and its wide doors swing open in opposite sides. Now it is not known, what engine is established on Italdesign Structura, but the concept car has been equipped earlier by 420-strong motor W12 in volume of 5.6 l and all wheel
drive system.