Finally has a larger sports car in its range that b. M. W. 8 series the lancia the coupe a has now been followed by a convertible the new 8 series marries both sporty performance i am not sure if pretty much says it feels like the range of attractive convertibles in germany is getting ever smaller but today hes testing out an especially good looking specimen. Chunky air intakes sleek l. E. D. Headlights and the b. M. W. Signature dual kidney grille dominate the front. How long the hood emphasizing the low slung structure along with wide wheel arches the typical b. M. W. Proportions. The wide sporty rear end features large exhaust outlets and blacks around. In them again says you can certainly enjoy life an m 850 i like this one the engine under the hood is of course super powerful and he can choose whether he selects the comfort mode for a comfortable ride or the eco mode to save fuel and he can choose sport and even sport plus if he really wants to let regrets although they did cut out the benefit if i thought in sport models what off tonight in sport postmortem its i think its not. Despite its weight of more than 2 tons the m 850. 00 i convertible really sprints off the starting line thats all thanks to the 4. 00 leader v a turbo charged gasoline engine that moves from 0 to 100. 00 in 3. 9 seconds the top speed has been a like tronic limited to 250 Kilometers Per Hour in germany prices for the top engine started nearly 134000. 00 euros the leg in size the steering is light on the 1000 inch braking system is super exact you can gauge it precisely and the 8 speed automatic transmission means doesnt need to bother with the gears. The convertible comes with all wheel drive and sports differential as standard the electronically controlled rear axle differential lock i dont leave provides optimum traction it also helps with accelerating out of the curve meaning you can really fly around those bands. And says he can close the roof in just 15 seconds while still driving to a speed of 50 Kilometers Per Hour the quick. Nap of the leather upholstered features and sport weather Steering Wheel become a standard. If you wanted to really swish you cannot for a start stop button and gear shift lever. Made of crystal. Nick warmers integrated into the french headdress which blow out warm air and colder days are only available as an optional extra despite the high starting price which we think is pretty poor for their kind of get my ends measures one meter 75 which is not particularly talk if he can sit comfortably in the front but he wants to try out the back of that ive got a front seat moves forward and of course with the roof open getting it is easy so i. Like this hes quite comfortable but now when he puts the driver seat set to his height back into position its pushing against is neat. No ones going to want to sit here for longer journeys that. The intercoastal active steering enhanced is the overall sporty feel of the car up to a speed of 72 Kilometers Per Hour the rear wheels are steered in the opposite direction to the front this makes the steering a lot more precise and significantly reduces the turning radius. You have about the un says the exhaust sounds great and he can make it louder if he wants so here you can choose between a more serene and reserves style or in your face loud when you opt for the sport or sport plus modi i voted against likes it a lot with the v 8 under the hood the enormous acceleration power and the sound of the exhaust its enough to give anyone goosebumps when you dont want them to that are coming up and for what i declined. For. Journalist Emmanuel Shaffer says hes just read an article in germanys biggest automotive magazine if they compared 21. 00 cars from various manufacturers focusing on their infotainment systems one of them leapt out at him opel insignia why because it took a very respectable 5th place behind Premium Brands like porsche b. M. W. And mercedes which have cars in their line up that cost twice or even 3 times as much thats reason enough to take a closer look at the opel. Your. Insignia is opals flagship model so its one of the 1st theyve outfitted with the latest generation infotainment systems touch screen up to 8 inches in size is the heart of the system the Premium Version is the multimedia navvy pro which will get a look at. And if the emanuel says that when it comes to an in 14 months this. Them you want to be easy to use and to reach thats the case here everything is easily within reach and you can brace your hand while youre entering something in the actual issue is connectivity there is apple car play and android auto but you do need a cable its not wireless yet. But you can connect your phone to the sat nav or infotainment system. They dont do that now. That. Will be. First press and phone. Then go to bluetooth mode often bluetooth. Then most see how long it takes to find it. A few seconds later the smart phone has detected the bluetooth connection and paired with it a vital obvious this speech recognition system means you dont have to fiddle with the display while youre driving a manual gives in a trial. A man alone tells her to drive to the Deutsche Vella and bon. A sad mad recognizes the voice commanding gets to work. From there is the best route the sat nav as he man oh well if he wants to head out. You know. Because i was not in monaco since both touch screen or voice commands work well and he finds the interior appealing but now its time for him to leave the stage for a moment its the place. Where the tethered smartphone the system delivers traffic information in close to real time when the system is not connected it can use d. A. B. To access information carried by t. Paid protocols that way you can always stay up to date the sat nav maps also stay up to date since for map up days per year are included in the package. The insignia sports to refeed years a long low silhouette 18 inch alloy wheels and chrome trim extending all the way to the trunk add to the sporty look luggage capacity is up to 1665 leaders. Out on the road b. Insignia is agile and easy to handle on curves at higher speeds when noise is more apparent but its still within the acceptable range. Test this car also has a head up display its very practical you can always see how fast youre driving and the speed limit as long as the car is equipped with speed limit recognition like this one if you have a sat nav device you can see the next turn without taking your eyes off the road so its very practical for this dawson the most out of it out of the partition. This car is powered by a 121. 00 kilowatt 1. 5 liter turbo charged gasoline engine. It makes the spring from 0 to 100 kilometers an hour and 8. 9 seconds and sports a time speed of 222 Kilometers Per Hour and germany the sports tour innovation version starts in about 36000 euros. About anything documentable gives his verdict the opel insignia is an absolutely solid car with its good showing on the comparison test is well deserved if you want to cut costs a bit if you could easily do without the sat nav and the somewhat larger display even in the basic version the infotainment system supports android auto and apple car play then you just use your cell phone as a g. P. S. Rather than buying a car equipped with one. Beats thats the name of a us Audio Products manufacturer founded by rapper dr dre say that has no one stole the companys Premium Sound system and a special edition of the beats of the of beats of beats side mirrors and fog lights and eclipse orange are just some of the features that enhance the beaches already dynamic youthful mind. Highlights in the interior include the sports seats with a beach design they provide more lateral support than the standard version of the beat so also bose a well equipped infotainment system with an 8 inch Color Touchscreen and a virtual cockpit that can be adapted to suit the drivers individual wishes a 300 watt amplifier with 8 channels and 7 premium loudspeakers ensure a great sound. So i tried a car test of vinyl guys and over wonders if you can really call the beats a small car. Maybe now he says it measures 4. 05 meters in length but consider that the go for from 1997 to 2003 was just 9 centimeters longer by that standard the beats that isnt all that small. Amount i would like climbs in i know hold whos fairly tall and has plenty of space i mean how do things look in the rear its. Still its a thug. But are plenty of space here to not sweat and he concludes a respectable amount of leg room for a small car. Conspicuous features on the exterior are the grill in a shiny chrome diamond designing and the l. E. D. Headlights. And then there are the 16 inch aluminum rims and chrome framed windows. The original indeed so look isnt swamped by the ever present beach logo but rejuvenating. The trunk of fashion it can be very thanks to the flexible seating configuration. At the beach this drug offers 200 6221072 leaders of Storage Space which are tester says is just below average for its class less than the open course or the ford fiesta but the loading floor is even and the still is not too high you finds. We take a spin in the beats a beats with the most powerful gasoline engine the one leader eco t. S. I. Generates 85. 00 kilowatts of power according to see at the a. B. C. Uses 4. 00 leaders of gas for 100 kilometers the sprint from 0 to 100 kilometers an hour takes 9. 5 seconds and top speed is 193 Kilometers Per Hour in germany prices for the beads to be started around 28000 euros for sale it is the i hope says the beats is an especially important model for say that since its introduction in 1904 over 5500000 have been sold worldwide more than 600000 in germany alone its basically a small version of the leon says reinhart sporty sturdy and not a bit boring and it has what it takes to face up to the bigger rivals like the ford fiesta or the opel courson. Our entire test drive was plagued by bad weather but the qashqai took it all in stride as you would expect from an s. U. V. It feels very sure footed on the red but you want to find out how the car performs in various every day driving situations. New sun offers 5 different trim levels for the kind of guy were testing the 2nd highest level the tech now well its in 14 months system and black design Leather Seats and even offers a certain sense of luxury. Unites the card to stay in his crate he says the 19 inch wheels and smart wheel rams come standard with a technique she thinks they fit perfectly with a 4. 00 metre long wide run a looking car. Typical boomerang inspired daytime running lights graced the front along with his sons iconic wii motion front grille. Black plastic panels underlined that cars robust look around clarences 18 centimeters out. The window line keepers upward sharply towards the back of the car with the chrome surround directing attention to the roof spoiler. Even listen i have it in a sense the most important change can be found. Under the hood listen now offers a 1. 3 liter gasoline engine without cords of either 103 or 117 kilowatts they replace the old 1. 2 and 1. 6 liter engines today shes testing the smaller 103 kilowatt version thats the one that. It takes 10. 9 seconds to go from 0 to 100 Kilometers Per Hour this smaller gasoline engine has a top speed of 193 Kilometers Per Hour the combination of Engine Version and trim line that we tested is exactly in the middle of the overall kind of sky price range. In a sense the 103 kilowatt gasoline engine always comes with a manual 6 speed transmission she notices that the throws are quite long and theres considerable resistance on the clutch pedal so it doesnt feel like such a dynamic right although the engine actually kicks in the full 240 new meters of torque at 1600. 00 revolutions per minute. She now wants to test it on the german not a bunch. Of dollars of course the business of changing gears is not really an issue on the autobahn driving here is much better in is found that in the city a smart design feature with a wide c. Pillar was actually a disadvantage she found it impacted her all round vision considerably amos also thought the car felt overall a bit too big and cumbersome for the city and even. With that in mind it might be a good idea to order the onboard Navigation System with all around hue monitor for a 360. 00 degree view many will find it helpful when reversing up in the higher trim levels its part of a standard phoenix along with other safety. Features. In a says that car that she tested with the high level take that back h m a smaller gasoline engine costs roughly 30000 euros in germany she would be interested to know what the car feels like with a more powerful gasoline engine and 7 speed to a clutch transmission whether it would feel more dynamic and agile that would certainly be worth a try. After all the more powerful engine offers an additional 14 kilowatts of power but if youre looking to go more off the road with a cash guy and need all wheel drive you wont get it once again so inversion youll need instead to opt for the more powerful of into diesel engines on offer. The porsche 924 is one of the biggest selling sports cars in history its origins go back to the early 1970 s. When voce wagon asked the companys engineers to develop a successor to the 914 a car they jointly developed. Was put in i saw that artistically stuff power says the 924 was originally intended as welsh wagons flagship sports coupe a it was even some talk about it being sold as an audi so the porsche engineers borrowed from the most wagon groups entire range of models with many of the small parts like the interior knobs and switches that wheel suspension and brake components come from the beetle often others had to leader 4 cylinder engine powered the audi 100. 00 and the votes wagon l. T. V. Then but in 1974 the newly w boss tony smoker bailed out due to the oil crisis and potential competition with v. W. Own sure rocco he decided to cancel the Development Project for. But porsche didnt give up. Any stead they brought the 924 to market themselves the new 924 was a ready made peoples porsche exactly what the Marketing Team was looking for to appeal to a Broader Market and the 911 but the 924 was a world apart from the agile and 911. Back then the porsche disciples believe firmly in the trinity of the rear mounted engine and box are designed with air cooling the 924. 00 had none of that plus the ignition was to the right of the Steering Wheel which was definitely not on but at least the seats in the instruments came from the good old 911 which cost 32000 marks back then and 1004 started at 23000 marks which brought in many new customers of course and it became a huge seller but decades later traditional is still disparage the 924. 00 as a housewives porsche flash an offense that kept saying to speed im back at it that i feel its right there at the white house for all parts as i. For a time and even seem like the 911. 00 his days were numbered which would have spelled the end of the traditional Porsche Design the water cool front engine 924. 00 looks sent to become the standard for future models. The 1st porsche with the front engine needed a bit of tweaking to meet the brands reputation for sportiness christophe explains the engineers throughout the trans actual principle meaning engine in front transmission at the rear and nearly 2 meters of rigid metal in between that help distribute weight even way and ensure neutral handling qualities so it was a fast and confident right and that particularly spectacular is on the high spec that. Because i thought it would be porsche 924 was designed by a harmless guy who later became porsches head of design when he wasnt even 30 years old at the time his design featured a completely plain chassis with a many flat surfaces pop up headlights and a pointed snout the sleek design i needed a world leader in terms of aerodynamics its drag coefficient was a 0. 36 which was among the lowest in the world for Series Production cars another memorable and very practical element was the glass hatch which offered what was at the time the largest drug ever on a porsche plenty of room for your golf clubs but courses chief designer out of poland the pine wasnt a fan he said whoever came up with this was someone who always wanted a ferrari human but never got one kind of a come out at that at that. Today the understated 924 is seen as a timeless icon of design it echoed the wedge shape that was extremely popular at the time but with the rounded edges and corners from the late 1970 s. To the really 1990 s. Nearly all porsche models mirrored this basic design. The rear seat of the 2 plus 2 didnt offer much room though and it changed the 360. 00 leader trunk of pasty was a standout in the sports car category up that posh life was the porsche 924 a true sports car well look under the hood tells a different story because this water cooled 4 cylinder here you also find it in the audi 100 and a volkswagen in a light panel van comes up but here in porsche the cage at tronic fuel Injection System and. Amps up the sportiness to give you 125 horsepower is. So poor ship purists may have turned up their noses but it was popular the original model of a 2 leader naturally aspirated engine had seals figures topping 120000. Thats a lot christo says that many years after the model was retired in 1988 the disciples of the 911 finally began to praise this very successful compromise with its combination of usefulness good workmanship and acceptable sportiness plus the 120. 00 fours popularity with buyers pulled porsche out of a slump during the crisis it was the worlds best selling sports car for years after its ancestor the 356. 00 it was only the 2nd porsche to enter serious production with a 4 cylinder engine so the 1004 was definitely a milestone an automotive history. But the 924 and other front mounted engine models could knock the iconic porsche 911 from its throne even today the 911 is a porsche trademark meanwhile its transaxle models were taken out of the lineup in the mid 1990. The path to freedom. The fall of the berlin wall. Which places still bare traces of the decades long german divide. 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