2011 Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet Review

 2011 Nissan Murano Crosscabriolet Rear View With Top Up
"It looks like some weird mechanical mutant," a friend mentioned.
"There's something oddly charming about the CrossCabriolet," noted senior editor Jonny Lieberman. "Nissan might just be onto something here..."
This multifaceted, range-topping Murano is an attention-getter devised to fill a void you never knew existed, and that marketers hope to successfully tap.
Wait, this thing occupies a segment with actual buyers?
Nissan believes it does. CrossCabriolet customers will likely call California, Texas, and Florida home; be predominantly female, well-educated, and 40 to 45 years old; and make roughly $125,000 annually. They'll need that money because losing a metal top adds $7220 to the Murano LE AWD's base price, making the CrossCabriolet the most expensive trim in the lineup.
2011 Nissan Murano Crosscabriolet Front Passengers Side Three Quarters Top Up  
Product gurus also foresee strong sales in the Northeast and Midwest,where convertible owners might cherish sunshine more than their Southern counterparts do. When inclement weather forces tops shut for months at a time, a luxurious crossover with 12.3 cubic feet of cargo room should be useful, Nissan hopes. Some 800-plus buyers want one already, and more than 5000 people have requested information. Quirkiness is becoming more attractive to a growing consumer population. Color us amazed.
Although it could come across as a left-field sort of project, the CrossCabriolet is nothing of the sort. Designers at Nissan's Atsugi center first toyed with the study in 2006. But it wasn't until Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn saw primitive sketches that it became something real. (Industry rumors persist that it was Ghosn's wife who showed a keen interest in the model's production.)
2011 Nissan Murano Crosscabriolet Front Passengers Side Three Quarters  
With the green light ablaze, the engineers heavily modified their existing D-platform. Ahead of the raked A-pillar resides a 3.5-liter VQ35DE V-6 making 265 horsepower and 248 pound-feet of torque. It's mated to an Xtronic CVT and returns an EPA rated 17 mpg city/22 mpg highway. An independent front-strut, multilink rear suspension underpins the CrossCabriolet as it does in other Muranos, which means the ride remains well-controlled. It also employs an Intuitive All-Wheel Drive system for traction in a variety of settings.Via


2011 Special Edition Fiat 500 Gucci Overview

Fiat 500 Gucci
The purpose of the Fiat 500 Gucci special edition to celebrates the 90th anniversary Gucci, and has been adapted by the fashion house creative director Frida Giannini, in collaboration with Centro Stile Fiat. The world premiere of the Fiat 500 Gucci will be held at the Geneva Motor Show this year.
Fiat 500 Gucci
Fiat 500 Gucci
Fiat 500 Gucci will be available in black and white with a bright pearl paint glass, ivory satin chrome accents and black interior. Fiat 500 Gucci sits on wheels and 195/45 R16 is equipped with the GG logo on wheel rims and other parts of the vehicle. Fiat 500 Gucci will be available with the 1.4-liter 100 horsepower engine and comes with many subtle, yet distinctive design elements.
Fiat 500 Gucci

Land Rover Discovery 3 Commercial Version Review


The Land Rover customers are a tad luckier than the Land Rover customers around the globe, because they received the commercial version of Land Rover Discovery 3 (LR3) first.
Right from the time of its launch the Land Rover Discovery 3 has established a class-leading span of potential and has accumulated awards from all over the automotive world. Seeing the immense success of this version of vehicle, the Land Rover Discovery 3 now has been engineered with the support from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) as a N1 Light Commercial 4×4. The commercial version of the Land Rover Discovery 3 will be immensely beneficial for the business users, as they will therefore get a chance to take the Benefit in complete VAT regain allied with Light Commercial Vehicles and Kind tax.
The commercial version of Land Rover Discovery will be available in two versions: the Discovery 3 XS Commercial and the Discovery 3 Commercial. The standard features for the vehicle includes 2130 ltr of load space having a complete length phenolic floor, two-piece bulkhead, privacy glass, Terrain Response and four corner air suspension.
Speaking at the launch, the Managing Director of Land Rover told that the “Ever since the Land Rover Discovery 3 was launched in the market, the dealers have been receiving a wide number of requests for its commercial derivative. As a matter of fact of the consumers actually brought the standard models of the vehicle and then converted those models into commercial models on their own”.
The introduction of Land Rover Discovery 3 commercial version means that for the very first time, buyers will be able to purchase a Land Rover approved Discovery 3 commercial vehicle, which will be benefiting them with immense levels of handling, ride, equipment and comfort that is offered by the standard Discovery 3. We also believe that the Land Rover Discovery 3’s commercial version will further redefine the 4×4 commercial segment of automotive world.

2011 Ford Focus Touring Cars Details and Spec...

Ford Focus Touring Car
2011 Ford Focus Touring Car makes its world premiere at the Geneva Motor Show 2011, just weeks before it is scheduled to appear on the track for the first time in a very competitive British Touring Car Championship at Brands Hatch. Ford Focus Touring Car, developed by the International Arena Motorsport, technical support, the first car Ford has created a global initiative for Ford to support the private teams from around the world to develop a common specification S2000 race car, so that individual groups win a big touring car classes around the world.
Ford Focus Touring Car
Ford Focus Touring Car
Team Aon car feature of the approach as flexible as possible in this program. Its features include running the 2011 season with a door Ford turbo 2.0-liter engine with local requirements, rather than the 1.6-litre Ford EcoBoost engine other teams will use in Championships in line with international FIA regulations.
The all-new Ford Focus Touring Car is the latest product of the company’s One Ford philosophy driving the development of global vehicles. It will be sold in 122 markets worldwide and manufactured in Europe, Asia and North America. As the new Ford Focus takes to race circuits around the globe, however, Ford continues to focus its ‘factory team’ efforts on its official global motor sport car and series – the Fiesta RS WRC competing in the 2011 World Rally Championship.
Ford Focus Touring Car

2011 Volkswagen Bulli Concept Details & Pics...


Volkswagen Bulli Concept
2011 Volkswagen Bulli Concept more compact and affordable than the earlier concept vehicle, it is now being shown at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. The new Volkswagen Bulli Concept – powered by an electric motor and fitted with six seats and infotainment control via iPad.
Volkswagen Bulli Concept
Volkswagen Bulli Concept
Volkswagen Bulli Concept
The Volkswagen Bulli Concept electric motor output of 85 kilowatts of power and an impressive 270 Nm of torque. As usual in this type of unit, the maximum forces generated from the standstill. The silent motor is powered by a storage capacity rechargeable lithium-ion maximum of 40 kWh. This combination can lead to an electrifying 300 km – a high value for an electric car. When the battery is charged Volkswagen Bulli to a “power of the refueling station” designed specially for electric vehicles, the charge lasts less than an hour.
The new Volkswagen Bulli Concept accelerates from 0 to 100 km / h in 11.5 seconds and top speed is 140 km / h (electronically limited). Its scope and characteristics make it ideal not only compact car for short distances, but also ideal for most commuters and recreational activities with zero tailpipe emissions. Obviously,the concept can also incorporate Volkswagen’s extremely efficient petrol and diesel engines with direct injection as a replacement disk. Engines with 1.0 or 1.4 liter engine, which is still high fuel consumption, it is cut by the book.
Volkswagen Bulli Concept
Volkswagen Bulli Concept
The new edition of the Volkswagen Bulli Concept is 3.99 metres long, 1.75 metres wide and 1.70 metres tall. The T1 was somewhat longer and taller, but narrower. With a wheelbase of 2.62 metres, the Volkswagen Bulli utilises the overall length very well. Also striking here are the Bulli’s relatively large track widths (1.50 m front and rear) in relation to body width.
Volkswagen Bulli Concept

2011 Saab PhoeniX Concept Specs Review and Gallery

Saab PhoeniX Concept
The Saab PhoeniX Concept emits a powertrain with an innovative rear axle electric motor paired with a sophisticated engine 200 hp, 1.6-liter gasoline turbo. The result is an intelligent,  Saab PhoeniX Concept hybrid all-wheel drive capability, which increases driving pleasure while reducing fuel consumption. Combined cycle fuel economy and CO2 emissions should be only 5.0 l/100 km and 119 g / km.
Saab PhoeniX Concept
Saab PhoeniX Concept 
Saab PhoeniX Concept
The engine is supported by Saab’s innovative eXWD system. It comprises a rear drive unit housing a 25 kW (34 hp) electric motor/generator powered by a small battery pack. Regenerative braking is used to sustain the battery’s charge.
The overall shape of Saab PhoeniX Concept is apparently molded by the wind. Closely-rich liquid-like skin, the teardrop cabin resembles a dark ice block and appears to erupt from the center of the muscular bodywork. Two large waves on the flow along the hood of the windscreen pillars are disguised as if barely able to contain a strong structure below. At the rear, the dark screen also bursts through the outer skin of the rear deck, conical shape of a drop back styling cues Ursaab, while a “sawn off” Echoes Kamm tail coupe form first Saab Sonett.
The front design Saab PhoeniX is characterized by a tight interpretation of the three-door Saab grille. A body-colored central wing is now dominant and, in keeping with the car’s minimalist design, LED headlamps are almost invisibly located at its tips. The new grille and hood forms are among the styling themes likely to be seen in future Saab production cars.
Saab PhoeniX Concept

2011 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport Cars


Sol-sopped Andalusia, the birthplace of flamenco and Picasso is a landscape of color Cordoba lonely hills stitched with vineyards and olive groves as well in the back of a donkey. A 204 mph, Andalusia aerosols in a test of brown and green.
At 204 km / h, even if it rolled on the pavement, paid lavish loans of the European Union seems dangerously thin and lumpy mounds of the shortcomings are invisible to the speed of sound scary exclamation-de-DOS. A 204 km / h, if you look down to check the speedometer just one second, you will lose the next 299 meters. We flirt with the cerebral cortex overload signal 204, but the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport is just the end of it and speed up the second 54 km / h before the intervention of the electronic speed limiter. mask down and signs on for more emergency exits can not do this problem, the FAA ertified.
Apparently it is a standard Veyron is a jellyfish pansy and self Bugatti create the Super Sport. The model has the last word, ie Veyrons the last 40 cars to drive the total production of 300 Price: one hundred thousand billion billion dollars, or it could very well be. $ 2,426.904000 for the Super Sport will pay (at the time of this printing), you can also buy a Ferrari 458 Italias 1910 and has $ 127,654 left for lunch. His attempt to build a final blow to the work of the super-rich, Molsheim operators are not very concerned about the practical constraints, such as fiscal prudence, or even the laws of physics.
For example, using the Super Sport more power than another 20 to stand out from the rental fleet Veyron $ 1,700,000 with his ponies piddly 1001. Why not a second you? Bugatti probably found. But it was decreed that a bump of 20 percent of the production of 1200 hp and 1106 lb.-ft. of torque genug. Enough. So to say that the Germans running subsidiary of VW bus crazy, and they do not say that very often. Consider these facts Bugatti prices Supersport 1.65, € 1,000,000 and LOADS FROM 10 TO 12 buyers expected U.S. rate based on market exchange for cash. So if the dollar softens with a few cents against the euro sticker, car window jumps over $ 16,000.
Each buyer also pays U.S. Supersport 2.71 percent duty on imports, or about $ 62,000 plus shipping costs $ 51,000 and $ 6400 tax for gas guzzlers federal. Adding an extra year for a mere two years Veyron costs of factory warranty nearly $ 70,000, but buyers Super Sport to get it free. A set of Super Sport Michelin special cost $ 42,000 and can last 10,000 miles if you pay attention, if they last only 15 minutes by car top speed (at this rate, however, the tank of 26.4 liters is sucked dry in just 10 minutes and there is no place on earth safely so fast that long anyway, so no worries). At the third change of tires, Michelin also requires that you change to $ 69,000 wheels per chance the only wheels that match the tire to ensure proper bead.
personal touches are available, such as your initials instead of Ettore Bugatti is engraved in the cap of the gas. A customer pays sills with illuminated “words that can not be replicated,”said an official Bugatti. If you want Super Sport finished in carbon fiber body with clear coating instead of paint, add a $ 428,180, just a little more than the price of a new Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupe. Let’s be frank: The car is completely spiritual. At the Super Sport to drive in the dusty hills near Jerez de la Frontera, although his chief engineer, Wolfgang Schreiber, admitted that it is easier to find a decent hedge fund manager to use as places of 1001 horses, not to mention the 1200 “Most of our customers to manage a very common occurrence. Very slow, “said Schreiber. “So we need to change can see and feel at all speeds”.
Since 2005, the Bugatti Veyron is 243 in the hands of the customer, to form a discussion group of all kinds. According to Schreiber, buyers say they want an advantage on handling the car skosh. We feel your pain. We meet every Veyron has accelerated as a player outside the line of Shiva cricket bat, but managed no better than the average Lexus. Maybe that’s why this kind in the history of Texas, driving his Youtube in a pond. Either that or he’s an idiot. Whatever. Bugatti says the Super Sport embodies everything learned from the Veyron and its customers over five years. No, does not come with a boat, but the revised agreement of the shock and stabilizer bar, stiffer is to help increase lead connection and participation. The nose dives into the corners with much more enthusiasm, and body movement is controlled better, which gives the driver a better idea of when the threshold is between excel in a fast lap and fly in low orbit.
Rather, it is vital in a Hypercar that can easily triple your speed between mailboxes. So are the carbon brake discs and Super Sport compounds (15.7 inches in front) are literally breathtaking. If a truck suddenly turn into your lane, you can drag the error of 140 miles per hour, for example, 53.7 with enthusiasm and incredible pedal instead to leave a hole twice the width of the front license plate if want to cause cardiac arrhythmias his passenger. For the Super Sport in automobile production mph land speed world record 268 (Super Sport actual production is limited to a saver tire 258 mph), Bugatti Veyron’s softened a bit like Humpty Dumpty. Most notably, bazookas polished aluminum on the back of the Veyron that regular air block for the engine are gone. In its place is like a turtle shell of carbon fiber that forms a tunnel where the driver can see where he stands back and is cut flush with twin NACA ducts.
If you want to display the engine, it takes two technicians about 30 minutes to remove the couple of dozen screws holding tank. Yet Schreiber said ducts increase the power by creating a larger ram-air bazookas, while offering less resistance. In addition to the nostrils open Bugatti radiator, added a few sites below the headlights that the air feed directly on the front brakes and redesigned front splitter and rear diffuser to increase support. Reprogrammed with rear wing was added, the body produces 882 pounds of support to its maximum speed. At 204 km / h, we can report that it feels stable in car.
The extra output-199 horsepower and 184 lb-ft of torque comes in four turbochargers are 10 percent larger and bolted to the warp of 16 cylinders are kept unchanged in the rear. A less restrictive exhaust contributes. Fuel pressure is mounted, and a pair of fuel pumps in the tank there are two in the base car, four in the Super Sport juice-making. The seven-speed dual clutch automated manual beefy hard drive shafts through a second and third team strengthened and a large gear seventh, making for an alleged coup Highway 10 percent in the number of miles. With its carbon fiber panels on the exterior, the Super Sport is 110 pounds lighter than the base, with aluminum body Veyron. A new fiber, carbon stiffer tissue is used in the bathtub and saves only 55 pounds. Bugatti also installed the rear differential cooler gill in the front passenger in the rear diffuser, which reduces the pipes, unique wheels and shaved 25 pounds net.
Supersport is too big and too heavy to feel like a second skin. With its high panels and dash, feels more like a jacuzzi real quick. He is raised indoors and not the kind of delicious high you get in a Ferrari. The tires whine oppressive at any speed, the voice engine is mostly white noise of whirring and won. It exists primarily as an art object for its owner and a circus parade car fawning public. It is perhaps a peak of internal combustion engines performance, the last word before the nascent dictatorship electrical impulses. This is a Bugatti.

New 2011 Land Rover Range e Concept Car Overview

Land Rover Range e Concept
Land Rover Range e Concept is based on the Range Rover Sport and 245PS diesel engine uses the current 3.0-liter TDV6, in collaboration with ZF eight-speed automatic transmission and a 69kW electric motor. The use of a parallel hybrid system with a 14.2kW / h lithium ion can be recharged from an external power source 240V, Land Rover Range e can be driven on electric power alone for more than 20 miles with zero emissions of harmful exhaust gases.
Land Rover Range e Concept
Land Rover Range e Concept
Land Rover Range e Concept
Overall CO2 emissions are just 89 g / km, but Land Rover Range e Concept has a maximum power of 339PS system and a top speed of 120 mph, offering fuel economy of 85mpg. Improved fuel efficiency from the hybrid system makes 690 miles possible on a full tank of fuel.
The Land Rover Range e Concept is one of a series of projects supported by the UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board and five prototypes are currently engaged in a test program with other members of the Land Rover CABLED – Coventry and Birmingham demonstrators low emissions – a consortium. Land Rover hopes its plug-in hybrid will be on the market in the near future, following on from the debut of its first standard diesel-electric hybrid models from 2013.
Land Rover continues to recognize the need to work with all our CO2 emissions such as weight reduction, reduce mechanical losses and increase powertrain efficiency and our hybrid technology represents one part of the research and development journey.
Land Rover Range e Concept
Land Rover Range e Concept

Toyota Motors Planning Expands Production Capacity In Russia


The auto major Toyota motors is planning to expand their production capacity in Russia by means of a joint venture with Russia’s Sollers in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East and Japan’s Mitsui Corp.
The joint venture that the company is planning to start at Sollers’ Vladivostok plant will solely focused on Toyota’s Land Cruiser Prado model only initially, and considering the temperatures and terrain of that region, we think it’s a pretty smart move, and definitely will benefit the company and the customers.
The joint venture in its early stages will see investment of millions of dollars for modernization of the Sollers plant.

Most of the cars manufactured there will be intended for Russian market, and the company doesn’t have plans to manufacture more than 30,000 Toyota Prado per year. The vehicle will be delivered through Trans-Siberian Railway to the European Russia.
We don’t have any information about the share of each of the company in the joint venture.
As per Japan’s Nikkei business paper, Toyota sees the Far East Russia as a hopeful region for future expansions in the country, especially considering the fact that several government incentives and programs which are scheduled to be implemented there.
We, already knows that Toyota already has production facility near St. Petersburg. The Russian plant of Toyota assembles the Camry sedans, and has a production capacity of 20,000 cars per year.

Review 2011 AC Schnitzer BMW Z4 320 Car

2011 AC Schnitzer BMW Z4 320d Front Rear View 2011 AC Schnitzer BMW Z4 320d
2011 AC Schnitzer BMW Z4 320d will make debut at 2011 Geneva auto show. AC Schnitzer BMW Z4 320d is capable of feeding its rear end 0 to 100 km / h (0-62 mph) in 6.9 seconds and reaches a top speed of 235 km / h. out to give more umpf, the German tuners, both in its portfolio. Therefore, the AC Schnitzer Z4 BMW 320d has an official fuel consumption of 3.8 liters of diesel per 100 km / h on the combined cycle and a whopping 99.18 g / km CO2 emissions level. The data of performance and efficiency provided by AC Schnitzer BMW Z4 partially 320D achieved by a very serious weight reduction of 230 kg!.
2011 AC Schnitzer BMW Z4 320d Front View 2011 AC Schnitzer BMW Z4 320d

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