2012 - Bertone Nuccio Conception

At the 2012 Geneva Show, Bertone will show its Nuccio, a show car intended to have a good time the life of Giuseppe “Nuccio” Bertone. Son of the company’s organizer, Nuccio--who died in 1997--is the man who through the firm a marketable achievement.

And what shines through in the 2012 Nuccio from Robinson’s design theme? A physically powerful sense of the Stratus conception. The wedge form is at a standstill there, as is the windshield that continues well down to the snout of the car and the lines along the surface of the 2-passenger Nuccio.

We’re told the Nuccio is motorized by a mid-mounted 4.3-liter, 483-bhp V-8...no word on its resource, but it be required to be Italian, right? The gearbox is a paddle-shifted automatic and 0-60 is said to come up in 4.0 seconds on the way to a top speed just underneath 200 mph. Don’t be amazed if a running edition is unveiled at the Beijing Show.

Libyan Rocket: Muammar Gaddafi’s Fresh Safe Car

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi from Libya was is standard worldwide for his penchant for magnificence fashion and other oddities has supposedly designed himself a new car, which is claimed as the safest car in this world.

The car named as the Saroukh el-Jamahiriya, meaning ‘Libyan Rocket’ is a tavern car fit for five people. The car is designed to look like a rocket in shape from its front and tail end. The car is power-driven by a V6 engine which delivers a max power of 230bhp. The car was unveiled throughout the African Unity Organization’s conference in 2009, by Gaddafi.

This car is available with airbags, collapsible bumpers that hypothetically help during a crash, and an electronic defense system. As for the function of the electronic defense system, it is not yet known how the attribute will operate and what accurately it does.

The Libyan Arab Domestic Investment Co. chairman, Dukhali Al-Meghareff, who produced the archetype for the company said that this car was an avant-garde model in the history of automotives. He went on to say that their leader spent many hours to come up with a successful answer. This car is the safest car to be fashioned anywhere in the globe.

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The Luxury Car of Buick Regal GS

A luxury car by GM with the concert of a sports car, the new 2012 Buick Regal GS has successfully compounded both worlds. Recently reveal in Miami, the new Regal GS is sportier looking than its predecessors, with that in the intend concept, you can’t say it’s a grandfather car anymore.

The GS is a mid-size 4 door vehicle, with a luxurious feel and plush inside but drives like a sport car. The GS’s engine produces 255 horse and 295 lb-ft of torque from its Ecotic 2.0 liter intercooled turbocharged steam engine, and an acceleration time of 0-60mph less than seven seconds.

The GS deferment system allows the driver to change its setting and steering sensitivity according to its driver’s preference, this modes are standard, sports and GS. GM offers the Buick six speed manual diffusion and a six-speed mechanical accompanied by a Driver Shift Control system that will be offered later on.

Hiper Strut front suspension system and four-wheel autonomous suspension system, with disc brakes on all 4 wheels and Brembo caliper on the front. The aggressive A 5 twin spoke alloy wheels on a typical 19-inch with an option of 20 inches that grips the ground firmly.

Standard skin texture like Key-Less entry, XM satellite radio, Harman Kardon 320watt surround organism and Bluetooth.

Saba Motors Build an Electric Car

Tesla Motors took cues from Apple in deceitful the business model for a new kind of electric car maker. Early-stage upstart Saba Motors, a finalist in the $10 million Automotive X Prize antagonism, has a different computer giant in mind, with its agreement manufacturing and modular components: Dell.

Based in San Jose, Calif. and working on a trivial electric sports car, Saba Motors aims to limit costs by assembling its so-called Carbon Zero Roadster from numerous portions designed for relatively simple and inexpensive outsourcing to manufacturers.

What’s really exceptional about our car is we’re changing the way cars are built; founder and CEO Simon Saba told us in an interview on Monday.

For a typical vehicle from one of today’s legacy automakers, Saba explained, much of the manufacturing paraphernalia is modified in some way to build an automaker’s unique motor, driveshaft and styling.

By contrast, Saba said he approaches suppliers and asks, what are your highest-volume products that will effort in these parameters? Rather than tooling up another big factory, Saba said the startup aims to tap existing production lines, hiring suppliers to put up Saba mechanism when they might otherwise sit idle.

Saba compared the custom tooling advance to the way computers were made 30 years ago. But if you look at the guys that won, he said, noting Dell, Sony and HP, they make very little hardware, critical out Saba.

They accumulate and ship computers using chips, motherboards and other parts from exterior suppliers, Saba said. Using Dell as a role model, while developing all of the software and battery controls in-house, he said Saba Motors will be capable to build cars with “a lot less capital than everybody else out there,” and scale up very quickly.

Volkswagen Passat Alltrack 2013

Over the past four decades, well over 15 million Passat cars have been built. Along with its favourable all-round qualities, the success of the bestseller – which is sold on all of the world’s continents – can be attributed to the Passat’s wide and diverse range of versions.

Now, Volkswagen is extending the model series with another specialist: the Passat Alltrack. This new version is offered in an estate car configuration, and it closes the gap between the conventional Passat Estate and SUVs such as the Tiguan.

The rationale here: many car drivers who use their car as a towing vehicle, or in light off-road situations, want a versatile, sporty and very roomy passenger car that has rugged qualities.

Volkswagen developed the Passat Alltrack for this clientele. In comparison with the familiar Passat Estate, the new model is defined by new bumpers in SUV style – with wheel well and side sill flares.

Its greater off-road ramp angle, approach angle, departure angle and higher ground clearance all make the Passat Alltrack an excellent SUV alternative for driving on unpaved track.

Two turbocharged direct injection petrol engines (TSI) with 118 kW / 160 PS and 155 kW / 210 PS and two turbodiesels (TDI) – also with direct injection – with 103 kW / 140 PS and 125 kW / 170 PS are available in the Passat Alltrack.

The two most powerful Alltrack versions, the 170 PS TDI and the 210 PS TSI, have standard 4MOTION all-wheel drive and a dual clutch transmission (DSG). For the Passat Alltrack with a 140 PS TDI, Volkswagen will offer all-wheel drive as an option.

Just how efficiently the engines of the Passat Alltrack operate together with the intelligently controlled 4MOTION all-wheel drive system is illustrated by the two TDI engines: the 140 PS version has a low combined fuel consumption of 5.7 l/100 km (equivalent to 150 g/km CO2), while fuel consumption for the 170 PS version is 5.8 l/100 km (152 g/km CO2).