Just an illusion
You liked the new Class C? Maybe you will be disappointed by the version 3 doors henceforth baptized CLC. This variant is other one than former C Kompact, redrawn just like the new berlin C. A skillful way of proposing of the new with old man, at a lower cost.
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It makes no more doubt today that Audi prepares versions on - vitamins of its coupé TT and its supercar R8.
Indeed, the TT-RS - if this name passes through the veto of Porsche, which considers that the ‘ RS ‘ in suffix is reserved for him - is waited with one five cylinders turbocompressé to develop around 350hp. At the same time, R8 will receive V10 of the RS6 to look to him 580 hp But quid the weighty reduction, eternal enemy of the fun? According to the American site Inside Line - generally reliable - Audi considers versions “Sport” for these two models, and we shall remember that from 2005, the previous generation of the TT had received the naming of Quattro Sport, thanks to a light increase of power, but more still thanks to a severe weighty reduction. We can thus hope to see tumbling down in 2010 R8 of 500 hp, and with 100kgs at least further to a massive use of fibers of carbon or the TT and its 300 hp for 1300kgs thus let us hope that Inside Line is right!
Treatment of shock
Opel GT misses character? The version enchanted by Irmscher should fill you with its aggressive style and its V8 of 480 hp.
Considered as its kits body and its preparations on base of Opel, Irmscher wished to mark the occasion for its 40 years. For the occasion, the roadster GT of the firm in Blitz receives a serious cure of testosterone. It threads the sports holding with a spoiler before prominent, a radiator grill with chrome-plated pin, and wheel rims of 19″. But the main attraction is under the hood, which swallows V8 6.0 of 480 hp. The story does not say to us on the other hand if it returned in the shoehorn… From his part, the frame was for the occasion decreased, but no information circulates on a strengthened braking … But be that as it may, this Irsmscher calls back to us the time or the assistants realized crazy mechanical transplantations.
The flying Dutch
The last creation of the brand, C8 Aileron resumes receipts expensive to Spyker with an aeronautical style and an aluminum construction, with this time an extended footing.
Certainly C8 Aileron has airs of déjà vu with regard to the other Spyker. But at a closer look, this version has a footing extended by 10 cms, supposed to offer more stability. This supplementary space also meets itself at the level of doors, to facilitate the accessibility. We also find the style house ampli of details borrowed from the world of the former aviation and a leather surpiqué inside. The wheel rims of 19 thumbs in ten sticks are new on the other hand. From his part, the technique resumes the spirit Spyker, with an aluminum frame and a V8 4.2 of 400 ch of origin Audi implanted in central position. You do not have more than to choose between the manual or automatic boxes, both endowed to six reports. From 199 000 EUROS.
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.
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.
