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Mercedes Showing CLA45 AMG Racing Series Concept and CLA 250 Sport at Frankfurt Show

Mercedes Showing CLA45 AMG Racing Series Concept and CLA 250 Sport at Frankfurt Show

The Racing Series imagines a cheaper, customer racing version for the brand

Mercedes is showing the possible future for the CLA45 AMG at the Frankfurt Motor Show on September 10 with the Racing Series concept. It imagines a possible CLA45 AMG for a future one-make racing series. It will also debut the CLA250 Sport at the ...
04.09.2013 | 4110 views | 0 comments
Nissan Mexican Plant Will Likely Build GLA-Class and Q30 in Future

Nissan Mexican Plant Will Likely Build GLA-Class and Q30 in Future

The two cars already share a platform and some engines

According to two unnamed sources speaking to Reuters, Nissan and Daimler will collaborate to build the Infiniti Q30 and Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class at Nissan’s factory that is still being built in Aguascalientes, Mexico. The $2 billion factory i...
04.09.2013 | 1404 views | 0 comments
Hyundai i20 WRC Completes Gravel and Tarmac Tests

Hyundai i20 WRC Completes Gravel and Tarmac Tests

The team has reworked the body for better high speed balance

Hyundai is continuing to test its i20 WRC car. It completed a five-day tarmac test in France early in August and just completed a ten-day gravel test in Finland with test drivers Bryan Bouffier and Juho Hänninen. “I’m very ple...
04.09.2013 | 5833 views | 0 comments
Toyota Shows the 420hp Yaris Hybrid-R on the Track

Toyota Shows the 420hp Yaris Hybrid-R on the Track

It believes that it is the future of the hot hatch

The Toyota Yaris Hybrid-R is Toyota’s concept for the ultimate hybrid hot hatch that combines a 300hp 1.6-liter turbocharged four-cylinder for the front wheels and three – two for the rear wheels and one between the engine and transmis...
04.09.2013 | 6149 views | 0 comments
Ford Launching Vignale Luxury Sub-Brand with Special Mondeo in 2015

Ford Launching Vignale Luxury Sub-Brand with Special Mondeo in 2015

It gets exclusive colors, body parts, colors and technology

Ford has not even introduced the new Mondeo to Europe yet, despite it being on sale in the US for nearly a year, because it is reducing production capacity in Europe. At the Frankfurt Motor Show, Ford is launching a new luxury sub-brand called Vig...
04.09.2013 | 7994 views | 0 comments
Jaguar Land Rover Begins New Hybrid/EV Research Project

Jaguar Land Rover Begins New Hybrid/EV Research Project

It will build three Evoques using different electric technologies

Jaguar Land Rover will begin a £16.3 million, two-year research project into batteries and hybrid technology called Evoque_e in October. The Technology Strategy Board, third-party suppliers and universities in the UK are supporting it. The p...
04.09.2013 | 1582 views | 0 comments
Lexus Goes Angular with Its LF-NX Compact Crossover Concept

Lexus Goes Angular with Its LF-NX Compact Crossover Concept

The interior uses a huge touch pad for the controls

Whatever team penned the Lexus LF-NX concept is clearly a fan of sharp, angular lines. Lexus design remained fairly boring almost since the beginning, but it is clearly trying to get away from that image with its LF-NX compact crossover concept at...
04.09.2013 | 985 views | 0 comments
The Audi Sport Quattro Concept Is a 691hp Plug-In Hybrid

The Audi Sport Quattro Concept Is a 691hp Plug-In Hybrid

It has retro-inspired styling and uses 2.5l/100km.

Audi is attempting to revive the Quattro name on its 30th anniversary with the new Sport Quattro hybrid sports coupe concept at the Frankfurt Motor Show. While the shape is familiar, the concept uses VW Group’s 4.0 TSI twin-turbo V8 with cyl...
04.09.2013 | 12713 views | 0 comments
Alfa Romeo Updates Giulietta and MiTo for 2014

Alfa Romeo Updates Giulietta and MiTo for 2014

New Engines and UConnect infotainment

Alfa Romeo is updating the Giulietta and MiTo for the 2014 model year with new engines, the Uconnect infotainment system and other small upgrades. The 4C sports car will also go on sale early next year. Giulietta The Giulietta gets a new 1...
03.09.2013 | 6523 views | 0 comments
Audi Looks Back on 20 Years of Its Audi Space Frame Design

Audi Looks Back on 20 Years of Its Audi Space Frame Design

It was introduced on the A8 in 1994 and continues to be used on the A8 today

Audi is celebrating 20 years since the introduction of its Audi Space Frame design at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1993. It has continued to refine the concept into the monocoque of the A8 that weighs 231kg. The original aluminum and high-stren...
03.09.2013 | 7898 views | 0 comments

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