Over the last week several teams introduced their cars for the 2013 Formula 1 championship but the Red Bull Racing team took it a step further and shows us what it takes to build a Formula One car in this video called "The Rhythm of the Factory - RB9".
This should be considered a mini-bus instead of a multi-leisure vehicle (MLV), and, funny enough, it was introduced at the Seoul Trade Exhibition & Convention Center (SETEC) in Gangnam, Seoul. Unfortunately it doesn't have the style (ah ah..), in fact, its really ugly.
The car will have its worlds presentation at the Geneva Motor Show with only one diesel engine, the e-XDI200 LET with 155hp @ 4000rpm and a maximum torque of 360Nm between 1,500 to 2,800rpm mated to an six-speed manual gearbox or a Mercedes Benz E-Tronic 5-speed automatic.
This vehicle will be capable of transporting 11 people in 4 rows, so the almost 5.2meter length wasn't a surprise, and the optional 7inch touchscreen isn't big enough if someone in the 4th row wants to see anything in it. Find it more at the Geneva Motor Show.
While the Forte Hatchback was designed in Seoul with the supervision of Kia's global chief of design, Peter Schreyer, it clearly had in mind the European tastes even if it is based in a model that for now isn't available in Europe, the Forte Sedan.
The car looks sportier, with the big headlights that includes DRL LEDs, a smaller version of the characteristic tiger nose grille, while on the back taillights also have LEDs and a double chrome exhaust tips.
It will be available with two engines choices. The weaker one will be the 2.0liter GDI producing 173hp @ 6500rpm and 209Nm (154lb/ft) of torque, while the other is the four cylinder 1.6liter turbocharged GDI with 201hp @ 6000rpm and 264Nm (195lb/ft). You can choose between a six speed manual or automatic transmission.
This new crossover is based on the concept shown last year in the Paris Motor Show and not much else is known. That car was called the S-Cross concept and had a little over 4300mm in length, 1840mm wide and 1600mm tall, so this concept should have a similar size.
One thing was confirmed, the car will be available with four-wheel drive, and of course it will have both diesel and petrol engines. Find out more at the Suzuki press conference, scheduled for 1:30 pm, on 5th March 2013.
Cars, explosions and good looking women, what more can a guy want? Yesterday during the Super Bowl half-time show we got to see the first trailer of the upcoming movie, Fast and Furious 6. And it looks great. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson are back on May 24th for a action packed movie.
Also returning to the movie are Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges and Elsa Pataky, with the newcomers Luke Evans and Gina Carano.
Since Dom (Diesel) and Brian's (Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin's empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete.
Meanwhile, Hobbs (Johnson) has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind (Evans) is aided by a ruthless second-in-command revealed to be the love Dom thought was dead, Letty (Rodriguez). The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London. Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can return home and make their families whole again.
Building on the worldwide blockbuster success of Fast Five and taking the action, stunts and narrative to even greater heights, Fast & Furious 6 sees director Justin Lin back behind the camera for the fourth time. He is supported by longtime producers Neal H. Moritz and Vin Diesel, who welcome producer Clayton Townsend back to the series.
This is the first of three videos and in it we get to follow Bruce McLaren, the company founder, while he tells a short version of his life on the day he died in a car crash with only 32 years of age. "On that beautiful summer day, on that race track, I did something more than leave a name and a memory, hopefully i became an inspiration". You did, thank you.
We already saw an image teasing the presentation of the Rolls-Royce Wraith that will take place at the Geneva Motor Show on March 5th, but now the company from the United Kingdom showed a video promoting the new coupe and the darker side of the company.
They even added that the car has "the power, style and drama to make the world stand still". That is a bold statement that we will have to see for ourselves next March. See the video below and tell us what you think about this 6.75liter monster.
Hankook Tire held a competition in the U.S.A. challenging the "brightest industrial design students" to display how they envision the future of tyres in several types of vehicles. and what we get is some cool looking designs that might actually workd in the real world, we will have to wait and see.
The winning entry by University of Cincinnati student Ben Zavala took the brief somewhat literally, with his Tiltread car tyre rolling into corners at an angle like a motorcycle tyre.
Zavala's breakthrough idea was to split the tyre into three parallel ring sections, each mounted on a corresponding split section of wheel.
As the wheel turns and leans, the three tyre sections are individually raised or lowered, allowing them all to maintain traction with the road surface.
Tiltread's wheels are hubless and contain an electric drive motor which varies power to each tyre section, allowing the sections to spin at different rates during cornering.
University of Cincinnati associate professor Ralph Zammit said the competition demonstrated just how great an impact improvement in tyre design could have upon the overall efficiency, ecology and economy of road transportation.
"Hankook proposed a very challenging assignment that provided the students with real-world insights as to how tyres are currently designed, manufactured and the performance issues they must address," said associate professor Zammit.
"Students were especially encouraged to consider sustainability needs such as reducing and reusing raw materials."
Second place in the competition was taken by Mark Hearn who imagined an off-road tyre called Motiv, which features numerous height-variable, non-pneumatic tread blocks that can adapt to extremely rough terrain without risk of blow-out.
Third-placed Miranda Steinhauser's proposal for an eco-friendly tyre also impressed the competition judges.
The Tessela tyre's easily removable tread components allow consumers to replace worn-out tread when required, rather than the whole tyre carcass, reducing tyre waste and landfill.
Models of the first, second and third placed tyres were displayed on the Hankook stand at the 2012 SEMA automotive show in Las Vegas.
You have to be really brave to drive a bike at almost 320km/h (200mph) in a country road with rain and several other guys trying to overtake you in almost every single place. See the videos below and admire those guys.
The successor to the legendary F1 supercar will be named the P1 and has been shown in the Paris Motor Show in September 2012, but one thing is the look of the car another is how it drives, and the people at McLaren are hard at work on that aspect, so to prove that they released this video featuring the new supercar in a "relentless testing program".
Even if the new car still has some camouflage it doesn't look any different from what we have seen. The somewhat weird lines are a proof that form follows function. Rumors point to an V8 twin-turbocharged engine with 3.8liters and around 800hp, meaning it will be fast. Probably even faster thanks to the use of carbon fiber to keep the weight down.
The production version should be introduced at the Geneva Motor Show in March with sales starting in the summer. Only 500 will be built for a price of over €750.000 ($1.000.000).
While most carmakers use hybrid systems with batteries, the PSA Peugeot Citroen Group intends to follow another path, using an all-new technology combining petrol internal combustion engine and compressed air storage, "Hybrid Air".
This new technology is an important step to achieve a consumption of 2l/100km, and is expected to be fitted on B-segment models starting in 2016. On a normal car, like the Citroën C3 or Peugeot 208, fuel consumption should be of 2.9l/100km and will emit only 69g CO2/km.
The system has three modes of operation, Air, Gasoline, Combined, and is expected to be fitted on B-segment models starting in 2016. See the images and video below to have a better understanding of how the system works.
This is a compact, lightweight electric vehicle, with only 2.81m long, it has 3 seats, weighs under 700kg and is considered to be a tricycle because when the car has 2 rear wheels on a track with less than 460mm it is considered as a single-wheel axle.
Power comes from a 20kW (DC)/30kW motor with an 8.5kWh electric battery for a range of 100km. The car is made of an integral one-piece body made of fiberglass and polyester resin, ABS PMMA self-coloured thermoformed body panels, with a front end and door frames made of aluminum profiles.
While the Twizy is not the huge success many expected it to be, the PSA Group also wants to enter this segment that is classified as being the solution for travels in the cities, and i quote "An electric vehicle project to change the way we travel in and around cities".
The challenge taken by the BMW Motorrad development department was pretty big, they had to make the previous GS, which is the most successful travel enduro in the world with 170.000 units sold, even better, and they believe they did it. Check the video below.
What do we have over here, this competitionis reachingincrediblelevels. Just a fewmonths ago the Koenigsegg Agera R beat the Veyron Super Sport in the 0-300km/h (186mph) run with a time of only 14.53 seconds compared to the Bugatti's 16.7 seconds, but now we have an even faster car in the market.
And that car is the Hennessey Venom GT. With over 1500hp, taken from its 7.0 liter twin turbo V8, it will accelerate to 200km/h (124mph) from standstill in less that 8 seconds, to 300km/h (186mph) in just 13.63 seconds and will reach a top speed of 370km/h (230mph) in just under 20 seconds.
As you remember Sebastien Loeb will participate in just four rounds of the World Rally Championship, but still continues to dominate as he wants, being first, on the first day of the Monte-Carlo rally, in the first race of the year. See the Day 1 highlights below.
After only four stages Loeb, in the Citroen DS3 WRC, is already 1 minute and 20 seconds ahead of his French compatriot, Ogier, driving the Volkswagen Polo R WRC. Hirvonen (Citroen DS3 WRC) is third, Sordo (Citroen DS3 WRC) fourth and Latvala fifth (Volkswagen Polo R WRC). The best Ford is driven by the Russian Novikov who is in sixth place.
The boys are coming back in less than two weeks! season 19 of the popular car show, presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, will air in the UK on the 27th January, Sunday as usual on BBC2.
In the trailer, which you can see below, the Top Gear Wardrobe Department has to repair their clothes, and in the process showing us what caused the damage to their outfits.
Cadillac introduced the 2014 ELR at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit and according to Bob Ferguson, Cadillac global vice president, "is an unprecedented combination of luxury, advanced engineering and progressive design in a coupe that is both sporty and environmentally friendly,”.
The good looking luxury coupe is the first of its segment to use the Extended Range Electric Vehicle (EREV) technology, that provides a full driving range of over 480km (300 miles). This system combines an electric motor with a range extender generator.
The battery can be completely recharged in about 4.5 hours using a 240V outlet and is a T-shaped, 16.5 kWh lithium-ion battery pack located in the middle of the coupe, between the front and rear wheels. It has 1.6m long (5.5ft) and weighs 198kg (435lb). When only using the battery the range drops to 56km or 35miles.
With the help of the range-extending 1.4liter gasoline-powered electric generator, which has 207hp (154kW), the electric motor is able to produce 400Nm, so we can expect a good 0 to 100km time. It will be manufactured at General Motors’ Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant.
Honda presented the Urban SUV Concept at the Detroit Auto Show indicating the styling direction for a future SUV that will be launched in Japan later this year and in the USA in 2014.
The new car will be priced and positioned below the CR-V and will feature fuel-efficient engines with Earth Dreams Technology, plus the configurable Magic Seat setup that can provide a host of passenger and cargo options, which are already used in the Fit.
The production will take place at Honda's newest North American plant near Celaya, Mexico, expected to open in the spring of 2014.
