Infiniment Crossover

It is the other surprise than Infiniti reserves, subsidiary dislocates of Nissan soon distributed in France: besides the G37 berlin and the coupé, the Japanese brand will also market its Crossover of luxury EX37.

With regard to his predecessors, the EX wants more in the standard, to compete directly with the BMW X5, with Mercedes ML and other Tuareg Volkswagen. It gets back the V6 gasoline 3.7 of 310 ch of G37, and associates it here with an automatic box to 7 reports. But he will however have to go without Diesel at first. Difficult in these conditions to hope to give way… Damage, because this luxurious Japanese does not miss technological arguments with his systems of assistant to the driving, as the AVM (Around View Monitor) mini cameras everything around the box( to reduce dead angles and facilitate the operations of car park, or still the LDP (Lane Departure Prevention) which helps the driver to maintain his ourse, following the example of the AFIL at Citroën.

Tuning chic

If Cooper S seems to you too flat, the version specially prepared by John Cooper Works should give you satisfaction. To the program, a sportsmanship aggravated in an exclusive dress and performances in increase.

Funny Mini!

The Mini lends itself so well to the customization that the official assistant of the brand, John Cooper Works, made his glory. Little just like AMG for Mercedes. And the new grinding does not make exception for the rule. More radical at the level of the aesthetics with its fine wheel rims, its profiled stockings of box, its colorful red tint, its double central exit of escape and its big projectors anti-fog in front, it also makes the difference under the hood, where 4 roll gasoline 1.6 of Cooper S pass from 175 to 210 hp, for a couple of 260 Nm between 1850 and 5600 tr / min. Result, 0 in 100 kph is brings down in 6.8 seconds.

Not given…

It limps mechanics to 6 connections was also revised, as well as the escape and the braking system. This special kit is directly borrowed from the model of competition… Of what to take advantage even better of the frame and the extremely agile behavior of the Mini? Doubtless … Proposed from 27.700 €, this Cooper JCW will be also available in version Clubman for 1.800 € more.

On April 30th, 1948, Land Rover presented its Defender to the show of Amsterdam. For 60 years, Defender receives a special series anniversary.

Every year, 25.000 Defender brings out assembly lines, most to become a tool of hardly appreciated work. The special series 60th anniversary, SVX, will propose ever proposed best equipped Defender. It will be covered with a black painting silvered with the identifications ” 60th anniversary ” satiny on sides.  This special series will also distinguish itself by the contrasting silvery finish of the badge Defender SVX, the tubular stepladders, the frame drawn by the bar of the radiator, the new lighthouses with transparent objective, the wheel rims in alloy Diamond tuned in five beams, the aluminum strengthened lower shield in front and the lights defers LED. Defender SVX will be equipped, inside, with front seats Recaro, with a knob of control lever in alloy, with a new audio system with loudspeakers with low frequency and connection USB, with a stationof reception iPod and a system of navigation Garmin.

The car is available, from this spring, 2008, in versions Soft Top and Station Car. The model Soft Top will distance itself by their arceau with tubulaire structure of metallic color which will support a black cover. They will also arrange a surface of load and a spare wheel gone up behind front seats in reference to very first opened Land Rover. Land Rover Defender SVX will be available in 3 versions: Defender 90 Soft Top two places, a Station car SVX 90 version in four places and one Station Car SVX 110 in seven places. All in all Land Rover will produce 1300 units of this special series.

Citroën launches a new model for the Chinese market. C-Élysée is really an evolution of the berlin Élysée.

The French builder makes build a specific range by Dông Feng Peugeot Citroën Automobiles ( DPCA). Among this one we found the Élysée derived of the ZX, disappeared to us. It received one face-topspin in front to make it look like the last realizations in chevrons. Furthermore, her name is henceforth C-Élysée. This one thus akes back the torch, for China, of the family berlina ” in the international standards ” in moderate price. The relifting also gets wheel rims, back lights, seats and shutter of chest henceforth automatic opening. Mechanically, it is also equipped, for the occasion, with a modern antiblocking, with a Bluetooth, with a jukebox on hard disk and with a connection USB. Citroën indicates that C-Élysée underwent 300 improvements with regard to the Élysée. It will be under the light of the objectives during the show of Peking from April 24th.

While the show of Peking points the tip of the nose, Nissan reveals a picture of a SUV which will be presented to it: C-Gear.

In the Asian range of Nissan, we find a monovolume Livina which is here declined in version SUV. C-Gear, it is its name in China, will be available in long or short versions. Few aesthetic changes with regard to Livina, except the additions to give him fighter’s air. The engine is one 1.6 gasoline reversed forecast in a manual box to five reports or automatic in four speeds. On other markets, this car will be called X-Gear, notably in Japan and in the United States.

The range Hyundai finds a break with the declension CW of it i30. It also appears as being one of the least expensive cars of its segment.

With regard to the berlin, i30 CW is longer (4,47 m 23 cms) and higher (1,52 m 4 cms). The footing was also stretched out. Taking advantage of the specificity of its body, this break Hyundai, the first one since 1996, proposes 415 liters of safe with the raised footpath. This volume crosses in 1395 liters pulled down seats, that is 145 more than the berlina. This safe is also endowed with a compartment hidden under the bottom of the safe.

The offer of motorization is very variable according to markets. In France, the break i30 runs) only to the diesel oil while solutions gasoline exist besides. It is thus only available in two motorizations CRDi 1.6 liters, 90 or 115 ch with a possibility of box automobile for this last engine.

For the rest, we find the look of it i30 with Thomas Bürkle’s leg, European Chief Designer, ex–BMW. For the back, he placed the vertical optical blocks rise rather high. In the cockpit, one lit bluish LED sets the tone and is supposed, as it is explained us, ” to create a really European atmosphere ” because the Koreans conceived this range i30 in Europe and for Europe.

New Honda Accord can count on a worked line, a new Diesel and the height of technological equipments.

Theory of evolution

New Mazda 6 will not have remained alone for a long time on the segment of the Japanese berlins: without revolutionizing for all that the kind, Honda Accord offers a rather licked design, even if its part before shows itself rather massive. Available in version break or in berlin tricorps, it benefits a battery of technological equipments with an electric direction with variable assistance and a corrector of trajectory with stabilizer of trailer. Its version up-market Executive is richer still with an anticollision radar, a system of crossing of line in the spirit Citroën or another an adaptive baptized speed regulator ACC.  From his part, the frame can count on widened ways, of new independent suspensions and a lowered centre of gravity.

Reshaped engines

If Honda always preserves a philosophy of motoriste gasoline with one 2.4 V-TEC of 200 hp, the builder does not forget for all that the requirements of the European market thanks to a new i-DTEC Diesel. Endowed with a filter with particles, it 2.2 of the 150 ch will assure naturally the big main part of sales.