Rinspeed Dock Concept Car 2012 for Smart
And over at the Rinspeed booth at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, you can expect to see that the new Rinspeed Dock Go, a Smart Fortwo with a new mobility concept. Rinspeed Dock Concept Car 2012 for Smart.
It adds a custom-made trailer of the Smart city car and let customers go to town until two in the regular Smart, or go on an extended trip to the seaside with all the clothes (for two persons, no families allowed – unless that kids can flat packed in the trunk) is placed in the trailer. Frank Rinderknecht is called the Smart Trailer “a backpack on wheels.” It is a pleasing and simple device shows clever thinking outside of the legendary tuner.
Although at first glance a simple gimmick, it makes you wonder whether we really need large station wagons or SUVs with their greedy footprints when a simple dock could provide go-system, in fact, more than enough storage space for many motorists. Rinspeed solution has presented a variety of packages that can be stowed on the back. A trailer is a toolbox for professionals, while another pack camping gear or golf / ski equipment.Rinspeed Dock Concept Car 2012 for Smart.
Awesome, it’s even a “backpack” that in. A separate power source built It’s a bit like adding a high-capacity battery to the bottom of your bedroom torch relay has – the trailer can be a range extender, bigger battery or even a fuel house cell on board.
First mass-produced electric cars take to the streets of Africa
Delegates to COP17 global climate conference travel in zero emission vehicles. For the first time ever, a fleet of mass-produced, zero-emission vehicles have taken to the streets of Africa.
A dozen electric cars from the Renault-Nissan Alliance highlighted the benefits of green transportation and provided a zero-emission shuttle services for delegates at the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, Nov. 28-Dec. 9. The 17th annual Conference of Parties (better known as COP17) aims to “stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system.”
The highly acclaimed Nissan LEAF and the Renault Fluence ZE, two of the most affordable zero-emission cars ever produced, were on the streets as shuttles for COP17 delegates. They are also available for test drives.
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CarzPage Review: Gozilla Skyline Nissan GT-R 2012
You can see the difference? No? Come, look really closely. In fact, do not bother, because although this is a thoroughly revised 2012 model year Nissan GT-R looks, there is absolutely identical to the 2011 model year.
Thus, the Nissan GT-R is still huge and brutal and undeniably Japanese. And now it’s even faster, more capable and more entertaining.
Nissan GT-R (2012): What’s new?
The word “entertaining” is what the GT-R is a machine such Marmite. Many people see it has a super-sophisticated all-wheel drive system, a transmission efficiency minimum-input/maximum and read the improbable acceleration numbers and lap times and take on this GT-R is everything quickly and without participation; a car that needs no skill and offers no reward other than bragging pub. More power to persuade is never that vocal group that the GT-R is a real hero car and a dazzling experience.
The cold, hard facts are that this 2012 GT-R was ground in each area: for the first time since its introduction, the GT-R 3.8-liter V6 twin-turbo engine is mechanical and not just by a new configured ECU and uprated exhaust package.
All in the name of more throttle response and more power the higher rev range – it has heads, sodium filled valves, new, a revised intake system revised.
The shocks have new programming language, the springs are revised, the transmission shifts more quickly and cleanly, the end wall is structurally stiffer … The GT-R has even different spring rates and rear suspension geometry from one side to the other to the driver’s weight into account. It is a typically meticulous job of chief engineer of the GT-R, Mizuno-san and his team of GT-R possessed.
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CAR Review: Range Rover Evoque Coupe 2.2D 2011
Before we start, we can simply clear on one thing: what kind of car is the Evoque should be? Hot hatch, sedan, SUV? Well, it’s a bit of all three really. The five-door will tend to appeal to buyers looking for you in other small SUVs like the BMW X1 and Audi Q3. But Land Rover sees the three-door coupe or in JLR parlance as a rival for cars like the Audi TT.
It is certainly looks good enough to pull buyers in TT. Is the cabin look like it’s straight out of a concept car to come?
Not quite, but it’s still a great place to be. The coupe has a lower roofline than the five-door, but there’s not a big difference in the back room – although not always in the back is the work of a moment. Both have real room for four, in contrast to the TT, and Peugeot RCZ. The seating position should suit all shapes, and despite the letterbox rear window, visibility is really good. Apart from the huge blind spot through the ear of the elephant mirrors and door pillar created clunky – blame the EU legislation on the mirror mess.
Jaguar cars get the rotary gear selector that from the center console, behind which rises a few buttons, which are to optimize the Terrain Response off-road system, switching between match, asphalt, sand and mud settings to the surface. And cars with the optional Dynamic pack get a different icon, a twisty road graphics. Select this and the dials of bright white on a red switch. Our flagship Dynamic felt safe luxurious and well screwed together, but as with cars like the Jaguar XF, there are a few areas to spoil the illusion – the slight effect of the glove compartment and center console cubby, for example.
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CAR Review: Porsche Panamera Diesel 2011
Just months after the start of the Panamera is Porsche’s hybrid gasoline-an alternative maximum efficiency GT: the Panamera diesel. It can, says Porsche, covering 745 miles on his 80-gallon tank. If you have a large bubble, an optional 100-gallon tank is set to be an option.
The Panamera diesel goes on sale from August 2011, and how the hybrid is only available in rear-wheel drive with an eight-speed Tiptronic automatic torque converter, not the PDK dual-clutch gearbox, which is offered to all other Panamera.
As the numbers of the new Porsche Panamera, diesel compare with the hybrid? The diesel is a strong struggle: it is 100kg lighter, emits 172g/km CO2 (167g/km or on the optional tires with low rolling resistance) is 159g/km, compared with the hybrid, and returns 43.5mpg, the hybrid is 41.5mpg.
In terms of performance, the 247bhp diesel ft and £ 406 of the hybrid is 375bhp and 428 pounds outclassed ft, while the diesel 6.8sec 0-62mph time and 150 mph top speed through the hybrid is 6.0sec and 167 mph are shaded. Crucially, however, the diesel is far cheaper to play, his £ 62,134 of the hybrid is £ 86,476.
In terms of price, it sits one level above the entry-level V6 petrol engine. The V6 petrol engine numbers: 0-62mph 6.3sec, 162 mph, 31mpg, 296bhp and 295 pounds ft.
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