Tuesday, March 22, 2011
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2011 Koenigsegg Agera R at Geneva Auto Show
A year after presenting the Agera, Koenigsegg have announced the Agera R; a harder, faster, more focused version of the original Agera. It is on display at this years Geneva Auto Salon and we’ve got photos from the show floor! We’ve already seen one delivered to the Oman Royal Family, however, this is the first time the factory has presented the car to the general public and press.
2011 Koenigsegg Agera R
Volkswagen Tex And Go! Concept Duo
Renowned studio Italdesign Giugiaro has thrown back the curtain on its first project since joining the Volkswagen family late last year, and fittingly, it's a pair of Volkswagen concepts.
One a small people-mover and the other a sporty-looking three-door, the concepts are named Go! and Tex, respectively. Both concepts utilise electric motors - a constant theme for Volkswagen's most recent concepts, and part of its push toward launching an all-electric 'E-Motion' range in the coming years.
The Tex draws power from a Twin Drive plug-in hybrid system, combining a 1.4 litre turbocharged engine with an 85kW electric motor. Together with a seven-speed Direct Shift transmission, the Tex packs 400Nm of torque, hitting 100km/h in "about" six seconds.
On electric power alone, the Tex has a driving range of around 35km.
With its hatch styling, it's no great leap to imagine the Tex as an ninth- or tenth-generation member of the future Golf family.
Little has been revealed about the all-electric powerplant of the Go!, although Volkswagen says its Blue E-Motion well get up to 240km out of its front-and-rear split battery packs, bettering the driving range of most passenger EVs.
One a small people-mover and the other a sporty-looking three-door, the concepts are named Go! and Tex, respectively. Both concepts utilise electric motors - a constant theme for Volkswagen's most recent concepts, and part of its push toward launching an all-electric 'E-Motion' range in the coming years.
The Tex draws power from a Twin Drive plug-in hybrid system, combining a 1.4 litre turbocharged engine with an 85kW electric motor. Together with a seven-speed Direct Shift transmission, the Tex packs 400Nm of torque, hitting 100km/h in "about" six seconds.
On electric power alone, the Tex has a driving range of around 35km.
With its hatch styling, it's no great leap to imagine the Tex as an ninth- or tenth-generation member of the future Golf family.
Volkswagen Tex And Go
Lamborghini Aventador supercar 700-horsepower
What can you say about a supercar that's so exciting that the start button is shielded by a red switch cover? Meet the new Lamborghini flagship, the Aventador LP 700-4, about to be displayed at the Geneva Motor Show tomorrow.
The new Lamborghini presents a sinister image
It has a unique carbon-fiber body and a 12-cylinder, 6.5-liter engine that develops 700 horsepower. Yet the car weighs only 3,472 pounds. Top speed is expected to be 217 miles per hour with zero to 62 miles per hour in 3.9 seconds. Even with that blazing speed -- an 8% increase in the power -- fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are expected to be cut 20% over the previous model.
A new transmission decreases the shifting time, only adding to its fast take off. The car's name means the bravest of bulls. And yes, because it's a Lambo, the doors open upward.
Lamborghini Aventador supercar
VW Bulli concept Geneva Auto Show
Volkswagen's design chief Klaus Bischoff looked at his new Bulli concept, turned to TopGear's reporter and asked, ‘Well, at the moment is there an MPV that you would actually WANT to buy?' Well, no there isn't, really. Certainly not VW's own Touran, we're thinking Mr Bischoff.
Which is why they made the Bulli. An MPV with the potential to be a cult production car. It's a two-row three-abreast MPV with a lot of cues recalling the original VW Microbus. We think it's one of the cars of the show.
VW has been here before. In 2001 it showed another Microbus concept. But that never made production. Why come sniffing around the idea a decade later? Well the 2001 car was too big for Europe, so would have sold in the US only and they couldn't make a sound business out of it. This one is smaller so would fit the roads over here too.
VW Bulli concept
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