New Concept Car: Lotus Elite

LOTUS is back – and here are the pictures to prove it. This stunning supercar is the first of an all-new Lotus sports car range, which will seek to put the famous Norfolk-based firm on top of the world again.

Called the Elite, it will make its debut at the Paris Motor Show next week, joined by a host of other new models, including what is thought to be a fresh Esprit.

Resurrecting a famous Lotus badge from the Seventies, the new Elite is, like its predecessor, a four-seater, front-engine, rear-wheel-drive coupé. But that’s where the similarities end.

The new model has a folding hard-top roof and sources power from a 5.0-litre V8 from engine partner Toyota which will be either supercharged or turbocharged. Priced at £115,000, it will target the Ferrari California when it goes on sale in 2014.

The Elite gives us our first glimpse of the maker’s new ‘face’ – a look that will be shared with the rest of the line-up. As you can see, the front end features an oversized central grille, flanked by slim LED headlights and twin lower air intakes.

Incredibly, inspiration has come from the original Seven. “The existing two-dimensional grille [on the Evora and Elise] is not expressive enough. We need more sculpture and dignity, so we looked at the Seven – the way the grille worked with the headlights on the wings,” said chief designer Donato Coco.

The shark-like mouth, dramatic body slashes and aggressive, angular lines combine to produce a striking-looking machine. The Elite is packed with the latest technology, too. It will get a twin-clutch semi-automatic ’box and hybrid drive, featuring electric motors and a front-mounted F1-style Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS), which gives an extra 50bhp when the driver activates a ‘boost’ button on the steering wheel. Although it will weigh 1,650kg, Lotus claims the Elite will be the lightest in its class. Aluminium and carbon fibre, along with the firm’s variable vehicle architecture chassis – complete with double-wishbone suspension – will feature. Together with hybrid technology, the company claims emissions of 215g/km. By comparison, the Ferrari California emits 305g/km.

Under the bonnet, Lotus will completely re-engineer the Toyota unit, adding a supercharger or turbocharger to give it extra thrust. Two tune options will be available – the ‘standard’ car, which produces 542bhp, and a 612bhp ‘R’ version. Lotus claims that the Elite will be able to sprint from 0-60mph in around 3.5 seconds. Expect a top speed of 195mph.

Inside, the newcomer will boast steering wheel gearshifters and a large central ‘human machine interface’ screen through which the car’s functions are controlled.

“There will always be those who say that Lotus should stick to small sports cars,” said Lotus boss Dany Bahar. “But we didn’t take the decision to design the Elite lightly. In the past, the 2+2 market has been very successful for us, and now the Elite raises the benchmark higher still.” For more details click here.

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2010 Carlsson C25 Super-GT Concept

Carlsson presents an own developed auto at this year’s Geneva Motor Show – the Carlsson C25 Bound Super-GT. The abstraction of this Super-GT is based on the eyes of accumulation best active achievement with an absolutely new architecture and aerial exclusiveness. The aftereffect is a amazing and admirable sports coupé with 753 hp in a bound copy of alone 25 cars world-wide. The achievement abstracts of the six litre V12 Bi-Turbo is impressive. The high-performance accumulated with a motor administration optimisation patented by Carlsson renders 753 hp (554 kW) and allows fast dispatch as able-bodied as bland campaign at lower speeds. Additionally amenable for the absolute achievement evolvement is the elaborately developed stainless animate bankrupt arrangement with ends in four anxious pipes at the back. The ability catapults the C25 with a torque of 1320 Newton metres at 3750 r.p.m. which is electronically bound to 1,150 Newton metres from 0 to 100 km/h in alone 3.7 abnormal and achieves a best acceleration of 352 km/h. The Carlsson C25 Super-GT Abstraction additionally comes with an ultra-light and artificial auto 1/10 UL in the ambit 9,5×20 and 12×20 inches accept been abnormally advised for the C25 and are able with aerial achievement tyres barometer 265/30 at the advanced and 325/25 at the rear alive axle.

2011 Hyundai iX20 specifications and features with price details

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The Hyundai ix20 will be supplied with a 1.4-litre petrol engine building 89 hp, or a 1.6-liter gasoline unit with 125 hp. The company also declare they will offer the Hyundai ix20 with diesel engines too.It will also come with Hyundai’s five year/unlimited mileage warranty as standard. In addition, as a flexible and user-friendly interior, it should be cheap to run with a range of frugal engines including 1.4-litre and 1.6-litre petrol engines and a 1.4-litre diesel.

The equipment list of the Hyundai ix20 will include Start/Stop technology, Bluetooth, ESP and air-conditioning.Measuring 4068mm long, 1765mm wide and 1600mm tall on a 2600mm wheelbase, the ix20 is bigger in every direction than the i20 (3940mm, 1710mm, 1490mm, 2525mm).

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2011 Mercedes-Benz E550 Cabriolet

There accept been letters about the appraisement for the 2011 Mercedes-Benz E-class Cabriolet. With the Cabriolet’s bigger admeasurement and added equipment, it ability appear as a abruptness to buyers that it is priced analogously to the abate CLK convertible it replaces.

A agent appear that Mercedes-Benz expects the E-class soft-top to be priced at about $56,000 for the V-6 E350 and about $65,000 for the V-8 E550 (which makes it about $8,000 added big-ticket than the auto on which the Cabriolet is based). Mercedes is befitting appraisement advice from the accessible until the Cabriolet goes on auction on May 10.

A auto and a auto in the new-generation E-class ancestors had been launched endure June. And this June, a base wagon goes on sale. Mercedes-Benz had adopted a fold-down bendable top for the E-class convertible rather than a harder top.

The CLK convertible and auto were based on the abate C class; however, they were discontinued at the end of the 2009 archetypal year with the June barrage of the new E-class coupe. The Cabriolet, which uses the E-class auto platform, is about 185 inches long.

Comparably, it is seven inches beneath than the E-class auto and two inches best than the asleep CLK. Christian Frueh, arch architect for the auto and convertible, said that admitting its bendable top, the new convertible is a “four seasons, four people” car primarily because of added abundance features.

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Small Car Concept-IIMS 2010

World already changed, everything has to be compact and easy.
so do the car's design, already turn to city car and small car.
Honda, Daihatsu and Nissan also ready with the small car concepts.
Pictures below:

2011 Benz A-Class E-CELL specifications and features with price details

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Make one's premiere performance of the A-Class E-Cell pursue the impression of the BlueZero E-Cell Plus petrol-electric hybrid in September last year, it's hybrid powertrain producing 100kW and 320Nm of torque.Start of A-Klasse E-CELL production at Rastatt plan.Third Daimler electric passenger car built under series production conditions.Integration of E-CELL production into existing A-Class series production line.Staff training and qualifying to deal with high voltage technology on central training production line.Based on the regular A-Class MPV and limited to just 500 units, the A-Class E-Cell is powerful by a 50kW electric motor that delivers 290Nm of torque. For overtaking, the motor can also offer bursts of power up to 71kW.

The 0-60km/h shuffle is insured in 5.5 seconds, with 100km/h attain in a claimed 14 seconds. Top speed is electronically restricted to 150km/h.With a Europe-only inaugurate planned for 2011, Mercedes-Benz has partnered with Germany energy company Energie Baden-Wurttemberg AG for the installation of 700 charging points surrounding Germany.

• •All cables are clearly colour-coded, and safety warnings are placed on high-voltage components.
• •Generously dimensioned insulators and special plugs provide full contact protection for the entire system.
• •An electronic controller continuously monitors safety requirements and immediately alerts the driver to any malfunctions in the high-voltage system.
• •All high-voltage components are connected in an electric loop. This means that the high-voltage system is automatically completely disconnected in the event of a malfunction or an accident.
• •The high-voltage system is also automatically completely disconnected when the ignition switch is placed in the 'off' position, or in the event of possible faults.
• •The system is continuously monitored for short circuits.
• •An automatic drive disabler activated when the charging cable is connected prevents any possibility of the car being driven off by mistake

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2010 GMC Terrain AWD SLT-1

GMC has been General Motors barter analysis for a accomplished century, but with the abolishment of several car lines, the automaker acquainted that GMC bare to ample some voids in its artefact offerings. As a result, this year GMC gets the five-passenger bunched crossover Terrain, which slots in beneath the ample three-row Acadia.

The Terrain shares a belvedere with the Chevy Equinox and the Cadillac SRX. The exoteric actualization of anniversary of the three is, however, absolutely different. The Terrain, in a bow to its GMC roots, is the a lot of truck-like in its administration cues. It has a boxlike and able-bodied attending with boxlike off billowing caster wells and a ample three bulk foreground barbecue amidst by chrome. The ample foreground headlights and fog lights, which are pushed out to the corners of the vehicle, accord it a adumbration of ancestors affinity to the Cadillac. Yet admitting its adventurous foreground end appearance, GM says the Terrain has the aforementioned accessory of annoyance as the endure bearing Corvette. The foreground end getting added glace than it looks apparently helps accumulate the Terrain quiet while canoeing on the highway, as there is about no wind babble in the cabin.