On the Internet…Anything is possible….Imagine this…

I bet you are thinking…”I could never afford a car like that!”… or maybe…”Who cares? Fast cars are a waste of money?”…or maybe…”I already own one of those!”…

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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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A new four roll turbo-diesel enter the catalog Mercedes. This engine of 2143 cms ³ increases in power but decreases in consumption.

Four roll 250 CDI brings out a power of 204 hp (150 kW) of its capacity of 2,143 l. The couple peaks to 500 Nm. Furthermore, it was conceived to decrease consumption and noxious fumes to answer the standards Euro5. It benefits from then on of the overeating two floors, the pressure of banister common to 2000 bars (against 1600 bars previously), of a driving steering wheel and of a water pump. Among others.

This turbo-diesel will soon arrive in the Class C. So, Mercedes announces 5,4 liters in 100 km aboard a Class C. Let be discharges of 143 g of CO2 by km. 0 in 100 kph is made a success in 7,7 s Besides 250 CDI of 204 hp, this engine is also declined in two other variants: 220 CDI of 170 hp and 400 Nm (5,1 l in 100 km, 13 g CO2 / KM) and 200 CDI of 136 horses and 330 Nm. These CDIs will be also installed later, under the hood of the other models.

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.

At Mercedes, year 2008 seems to be dedicated to the restylage. SL, SLK, CLS and even the new CLC: it is by slim retouch that the Star sees again its models. Latest, the SUV Classifies M offers itself some welcome knocks of bistoury. But no more …

Not much…

Launched in 2005, the ML always remains one of the most appreciated SUV. Prestigious question naturally, but especially of look, quite at the same moment muscular, aggressive and thoroughbred. The Star had from then on no reason for modifying appreciably a style so asserted: for its restylage said about “middle-life”, the ML thus contents itself with the minimum.  A mainly facial face-lift which offers him(her) a more penetrating glance with optics inspired by the SL, a radiator grill was enlarged as well as of new wheel rims. Inside, the changes are also poor. Besides the appearance of a saddlery bi-tone new, the evolution most meaning is the appearance of a new steering wheel, henceforth in 4 branches.

The consumption rather than the power
Other evolution, mass arrival of the systems of safety NECK-PRO (headrests anti-rabbit punch) and PRE-SAFE (automatic braking before impact), up to here only available optional. As a result, you doubtless have to say yourselves: ” so much the better, it is thus under the hood that the ML takes advantage of it! ” The Same step … In a initiative corresponding to the ecological requirements of moment, the builder of Stuttgart prefers to offer to his customers a decline of the consumption (-0,4 l / 100 km on average) thanks to an electronic management and to a system of escape seen again(revised), rather than a substantial gain of power. The sign of time. It remains to be seen whether price rates will undergo too an inflation or not.

Transformed!

Audi has his Quattro system, Mercedes his its 4matic today it is in the tour of Saab to present its complete transmission XWD. The slightest of things for a builder whose country is taken under the snow during a good part of the year. Boosted by this transplant and a substantial gain of power, the berlin 9-3 meets it itself transformed.

A little of lexicon!

The XWD (Cross Wheel Drive) conceived by Saab is a system of complete drive which bases itself on the information of the case ESP to distribute intelligently the couple between axles before and back. The X version, available mass special, refreshed besides a back differential with limited gliding: the eSLD transfers until 40 % of the couple on the wheel offering the best adhesion.  In the facts, the XWD anticipates the reactions of the driver. So, the power is transferred from the release of box towards the propeller shaft, then towards the device of transfer of couple (TTD for Torque Transfer Device) which commands, via the module of back transmission (RDM - Rear Drive Module), the distribution of the couple between front wheels and back.

Drive or propulsion? Two my general!

Here is for the lexical sequence. But this transmission system also has another advantage. That to transform the car into real chameleon: sometimes drive, sometimes propulsion, sometimes complete. A Haldex system indeed allows to transfer automatically until 100 % of the couple on back wheels when the driver adopts a sports driving. On the other hand, when the car is stabilized in constant speed (on freeway for example), the couple is transferred to 90 % on front wheels. As soon as the system detects a loss of drive of one of four wheels, the couple is automatically distributed and the set ESP-XWD reacts immediately to put back the car in the straight and narrow. Magic!

A fooling result
Here are for the theory and the explanations. But quid of the result on road? Simply fooling! Saab 9-3 is transformed. Resting on the frame of former Opel Vectra, this station wagon had shone up to there never with a transcending behavior, whereas the train before had more and more difficulty to take the powers - always more important of the blocks. The XWD system erases all its defects.

A beautiful tribute
Available at the moment on the versions berlin and Sport-Hatch of 9-3, this system is associated with the V6 turbo 2.8 the power of which was pushed to 280 ch instead of 255 usual. The couple takes advantage of it too, in increase of 15 % to 400 Nm. In parallel, Saab throws on the French market a special series X Turbo, a tribute in the original model of the 70s.  Besides the transmission XWD and the eLSD, this 9-3 quite of black dressed is endowed with a frame and with brakes sport, of wheel rims 18 “, of black leather seats, inserts carbon on wood panels and on board of edge and the same manometer of pressure of overeating as 900 Turbo. A sort of black destroyer of the apocalypse which can leave nobody indifferent. Neither the pilot, nor the curious onlookers who will cross it and even less your wallet (51.000 € all the same).

The Class B in fuel cell underwent extensive tests in very low-temperature. The launch of a model is scheduled for 2010.

Before throwing commercially, in series limited, a car running to the hydrogen, Mercedes tested a Class B in the North of Sweden. In fact, the engineers wanted to study the interaction between the various components by big cold. They also adapted the ESP to the engine with fuel cell because the car adopts another behavior.  The German car is, besides, capable of starting in 25 °C. The Class B F-Cell will still undergo the other rigorous tests during those two years. These tries have  the objective of Mercedes-Benz of throw during the summer, 2010 its first electric standard model requiring some hydrogen.  It will be about a limited production using a compact and powerful fuel cell of new generation. This one was presented in the concept F 600 Hygenius.

The electric engine of the Class B F-Cell develops a maximal power of 100 kW for a couple of 320 Nm. The system used by Mercedes also allows a more comfortable cold starting up thanks to the use of an electric turbo-compressor for the supply in air and the device of moistening and defogging. It does not more remain than to wait for 2010 and then also, the installation of pumps with hydrogen almost everywhere.

As such, Scandinavia, the United States, Canada and Japan fit out lanes of provisioning in hydrogen, baptized Hydrogen Highway. So, a corridor is developed to be able to go from Norway to Germany via Sweden and Denmark. The first station H2 of this Hydrogen Highway opened in 2006 to Stavanger in Norway.