Paris the city of the light and traffic jams and every two years it becomes the city of the Paris Motor Show the Automotive Industry is facing radical change as visitor figures for motor shows drop scandals are shaking confidence in car makers like scissors come with an subcompact crossover s. U. V. U. N. C. Equipped with a hybrid drive to get out soon as he put it up the i called twellman from lexus germany explains theyve improved the driving qualities of a fourth generation i bred drive so responds with a lean ear excel aeration that doesnt feel like the engine is revving higher than it is actually accelerating the fuel consumption any missions values have also been improved radically. Within several beaded seat positions in compact exterior dimensions the u. X. Combines the best of two worlds the lexus Safety System plus. Includes lots of assistance systems and Adaptive Cruise control when wayne departure alert was steering assist as well as an adaptive high beam system. Like his siblings the us x. Is available with a dynamic support package. Another lectures highlight the premier of a new are seen it shares design features with its big sister the l. C. D. That make it look larger and sporty the streamlining tires and wheels suspension have been upgraded taken together with the improved responsiveness and tighter steering it ensures the r. C. Lives up to the lexus promise of precision and power the power comes from an optional v eight that puts out a sizeable three hundred forty one kilowatts it will also be available as a hybrid. Lectures as Parent Company toyota rolled out the new fifth generation rav four most buyers of its predecessor opted for the hybrid drive so lexus is engineers devoted extra attention to this version of a new model it puts out one hundred sixty three kilowatts and makes the standard screen from zero to one hundred Kilometers Per Hour in just over eight seconds fuel consumption is rated at just about four point five liters per one hundred kilometers to leader gasoline powered engine is also available. In the Toyota Corolla has also made some changes it comes or not hybrid and two versions in fact one minimizes consumption and thereby fuel costs the other is sporty or with a view to maximizing driving fun. To. Be additional for you to germanys on weve one points out that some toyota hybrids are already in there for generations they develop around. But ray but a lot can still be improved batteries electric drive and other things every generation has seen a great improvement for the so. Smart is going to diameters micro car division or ride with a special edition of their four to e. Q. And their electric convertible concept car for e. D. S. The mercedes star shines down on a selection of plug in hybrids and all electric models like the e. Q. See its any v. C. Range is over four hundred fifty kilometers. The new g. O. P. With it still really revamped design was also unveiled in paris models from the b b x classes would miss the show. Also of paris living by their slogan why not now and presenting the flagship of their s. U. V. Model range their redesigned trappers oil grill leads into the triangular l. E. D. Headlights while a light strip connects the taillights this is the look and style of into rocca. Its the name of the city that i want to. Put on a fundraiser and so to get me there surrounds it was the name that was chosen by the by the public we made a competition for the names so we got soem finalists and then that i call was the finance ice of the public. Are nother premier by sea outside this time is the natural gas power to run a t. G. I. The car maker gives it a range of around four hundred kilometers on natural gas alone a full tank of gasoline will take it another one hundred sixty eight kilometers. To start. Skoda show is yet another and shell be a new our as a version of the kodiak with a one hundred seventy seven kilowatt diesel engine. Which a Company Brought a concept car of their own the vision our as is a sneak preview of the new space back it also gives an idea of where our as models are headed and indication that skoda is building on plug in hybrids for the near future. Even as more and more all or part of electric vehicles hit the road and the law is already gone a step further with as propeller and paraglider this to see their name pick us can actually fly its already covered the distance from paris to london by air but does it have a real future events are already being made. The fourth generation a b. M. W. X five has hit the market and the latest incarnation of a popular sports activity vehicle is visually sleeker comes with new engines and is packed with a range of technological innovations. A car just i no dice and over explains the x five has sold over two Million Units since its launch in one thousand nine hundred ninety new visual highlights include larger grills and french tail lights and the model is grown its four centimeters longer and six centimeters wider its gotten taller too he says and is now one metre seventy four in height point who will give almost all yet i mean. The most striking characteristic of front b. M. W. Is trademark kidney shaped grill and the new x five theyre set into a single piece frame. All of the lights in the back of nobody quick with Energy Saving l. E. D. S. I know it says the x. Five has a two part of electric tailgate and is smart and terms of connectivity so ideal for longer trips its also equipped for a future that will include autonomy is driving functions and has its own cloud and the smartest drivers has systems on the market he says the b. M. W. Also made it a real off roader on an awful lot about. The german car maker is an optional air Suspension System with the x five which has a Ground Clearance of over twenty centimeters its off roading package features four different driving modes at the touch of a button snow sand gravel and rocks. Were standing by now it says here in the woods of georgia had some presently clear what the x. Five can do even equipped with just a normal set of High Performance tires. To gasoline and to diesel engines are available for the model which has an eight year out of miami transmission i know tested the four wheeled x. Drive forty i a three liter six cylinder gasoline powered version that comes with a twin scroll turbocharger its two hundred fifty kilowatts rocket the x five to one hundred kilometers an hour from a standstill in just five point five seconds but it doesnt come cheap in germany this x. Y. Will set you back around Seventy Eight thousand euros. The interior is both clearly. Structured and elegant. Theres plenty of space both in front and in back. And the trunk is roomy. So its comfortable in the cockpit also packs plenty of check. In and thats me i know it says there are twelve point three inch displays they can be individualized the design has changed and there are no more analog dials just graphics. Elphick b. M. W. Is chosen to go with open angled ellipses he thinks thats interesting and modern theres a central touchscreen and heres another feature you can order extra an automatic selector lever made of glass. B. M. W. Has also up the number of drivers to systems the new x five has partially autonomy ascetics thats a theme of mine be a big the assist systems in the x five prevent boredom and traffic ryan moats s because you can take your hands off the wheel to do things like take a sip of water. But too long and the car sounds an alarm reminding you to concentrate and thats because the law currently since you cant take your hands off the wheel for an unlimited period of time while driving that and hand info and fog dolphin see how that works and moreover camera also keeps watch over the cockpit checking whether you continue to Pay Attention even when your hands are off the wheel or whether you might be chatting too much with passengers because that hasnt been regulated either thats why there are still strict limits in europe and here in the us as well and hope the rules are more relaxed so he doesnt have to touch the Steering Wheel as often and then go from like. Another helpful feature is the parking back up assistant i know explains how that works in detail. When they hear. If hes parked in a tight space or has even. Driven into a cul de sac thats hard to get out of then he activates the assistant because its recorded the last fifty meters then hes driven just like he says then all you has to do is put it in reverse activate the backup assisted in control speed with the brake and then he can take his hands off the wheel and the assistance drives him back to his starting point or to the place where he took the wrong turn and it landed him in the dead end street and. This is going to get him back out he says as easily as he drove in. Alongside the more modern design improve comfort in driver says programs another addition turns the vehicle into a kind of secretary for the driver. If thats what is the big advances are in connectivity says ryan hall the car can pull current traffic data from the cloud and check it against his calendar if theres a traffic jam on route and he needs to leave early the car tells him what he was b. M. W. s also which change information warning each other about fog or black ice and no going back to the dealer for updates he says he can load them himself via the internet by hensley assignments on account of the absence of us internet only to. Around twenty years ago b. M. W. Founded the sports activity vehicle segment with the x five technically the latest generation has made further advances but optically these models still carrying many of the originals jeans a sign that even back then b. M. W. Had a good feel for trends. Out of the sport customer racing has rolled out e g t three race car version of its our eight elements the german manufactures fourth new model insurance for years this. As you know the car thats already had worldwide success since friends and insurance racing has been tailored very closely to customer needs and wishes the new r eight l. M. s will hit show room starting in january for a list price of four hundred seventy five thousand euros. After a seven year hiatus or c. B. S. Has brought back its a b. Class with engineering borrowed from its little sister the a class and includes the new m. B. Us in for tame and system with really a graphics Voice Control functionality and intense screen as standard but despite all the new features the b. Class remains what its always been as sub compact executive multipurpose re a call for the whole family. Is a known for its Business Class models but why not in the past the german car makers produced many classic sedans including the capitaine the record and the senator now opals insignia gran sport is also turning heads but the four point nine meter five door kookery like sedan doesnt just look up again its also got something new under the hood. Look car tester on the lam stakes his old bill is close the gap in the insignia of gasoline engine range before there was nothing between the one hundred three kilowatt and one hundred ninety one kilowatts models but now theyve given this insignia a one point six liter charged gasoline engine with an output of one hundred forty seven kilowatts. The four cylinder engine is already used in opals compact astra model and it meets the strict euro sixty temp emission standards maximum torque is two hundred eighty new meters and the car has a top speed of two hundred thirty five Kilometers Per Hour the new engine is available for all three variants of the insignia the grands. Ford sports tour and country tour. And i will tell you ronnie says the insignias new motor is powerful enough to stay in the fast lane. And two thousand and thirteen opel created the luxury monzer Concept Elements from the concept car can be seen in the insignia grand sport like the design of the headlights and radiator grille and the forceful lines of the hood compared to its predecessor the new insignia not ford mondeo and the skoda superb. The grand sport proves you dont have to buy a Station Wagon to get lots of luggage space it holds up to one thousand four hundred fifty leaders or cargo when the second row seats is folded down and that can be done at the touch of a button. The digital speedometers well laid out and easy to read the sat nav can be controlled through the eight in central display but ronnie is most impressed by the economic sheets which can be adjusted to fit people of every size. He says the insignias seats are especially comfortable called a. G. R. Seats there are approved by the campaign for healthier backs and lets you drive for long stretches without discomfort there he did have a massage function and adjustable side bolsters mortgage as for. Decided. On a three month. That makes the insignia an ideal sedan for long hauls the suspension is stiff enough to be sporty yad soft enough to be back friendly bumps and im even pavement are barely filled the seating position has been a little. By three centimeters to make drivers feel more at one with the car. Ensure many most insignia customers opt for the more expensive sports tourers Station Wagon which costs around one thousand euros more irani thinks that when it comes to style the grand sport is simply a more elegant car. Today car tends to cost up power is introducing us to a v. W. Sports car that never got the respect it deserved the corrado g sixty the sure rocco secured volkswagens place in the segment of affordable sports compact who pays the corrado was conceived as its Successor Company strategists were demanding lower fuel consumption and greater comfort at a more affordable price in other words better but cheaper their response was to keep making the sure rocco and aimed the corrado at the premium end of the sector. Make it out as christoper tells it to folks way against Development Team got to work on a new sports car in the mid one nine hundred eighty s. Under the project name typhoon harking back to the wind theme behind names like show rocco and president eventually they realized the image of the typhoon as a destructive Natural Force wasnt that ideal so the p. R. Department took the spanish were caught out meaning run and morphed it into colorado. By nineteen eighty eight he says they had new sports compact ready for Series Production oh yes dr hecker not on fox fox. Its been called on to. Something useful fucking. That t. V. Ad introduced the colorado as volkswagen first real sports car. The new models interior was adapted partly from the new place not three. Much of the Platform Technology was taken from the Second Generation v. W. Golf a modular design and short high quality while keeping Assembly Cost down to cool down to fun folks thought. Once in the spotlight for the ad says the corrado by volkswagen this is how we imagine the sports car. Christof explains a v. W. Added a few technological highlights into the corrado mix hoping to create a marketing range of the corrado as a high tech vehicle it boasts of the most powerful engine and is history whether one point eight leaders four cylinders and a g. Lot or super charger putting out one hundred sixty horsepower. And to keep all four wheels on the ground it was graced with a retractable rear spoiler like the new porsche nine eleven so the fastest way to draw admiring glances was to drive up to the village disco in a corrado g. Sixty christophersen sure that was the precise in between w was aiming for a fall before state but even as it got such a. Listing at forty two thousand five hundred marks the v. W. Colorado cost about as much as a five series beamer or a mercedes e. Class out of reach for most of its young target buyers when purchased secondhand many colorados word chewed up by tuners and customizers widened lowered and souped up. Joining up the noise kristen doesnt think the new corrado shes sixty needed any of that i car reviewer once wrote between fifteen hundred and sixty three hundred revs it moves ahead at near relentless speed this was mainly because the g. Letters scroll type supercharger gave the car plenty of pick up at a lower rent bands at least from zero to one hundred Kilometers Per Hour at eight point three seconds topping out at two hundred twenty five incredibly fast for a front wheel drive at. That time if Christophe Blakeley over does it the car might understeer a little but he just has to ease off the gas to get it back on track in the curves and hes having fun like. Owns us christof knows that at the time v. W. Is marketing the part was very proud of the near rear spoiler concept it extends on a manically when the speed hits one hundred twenty Kilometers Per Hour and when you drive down to the ice cream parlor and want to flaunt it a little bit you can put it up manually and thats good on a wave but in other respects we corrado those who work reflects many elements of the w. s design language in the one nine hundred ninety s. And clear lines smooth surfaces and rounded corners up when a little boring is the christofferson you optically he definitely wouldnt call it a milestone that if hes my style. The compact v. W. Corrado made up for its pedestrian design with extra practicality the big hatchback allowed easy access to the spacious cargo space the rear seats accommodated two adult passengers and the generous Standard Equipment package was unmatched at the time with a. B. S. Power steering support seat thermal insulated glass and heated wing mirrors. To. Highlight is this red she sixty emblem indicating the legendary g. Letter supercharger under the hood. Thats it provides a steady increase in thrust without the infamous terrible lack of a major downside says chris stuff is that if you floor it with the Oil Temperature too low or after a do it yourself tuning. It can total. Of one reviewer wrote at the time that its a lots of fun to drive but it takes a toll on your nerves about giving into. The turbo charge one point eight leader four cylinder engine puts out a very respectable one hundred sixty horsepower in the late one nine hundred eighty s. That was have to keep up with most porsches. By forty christa tells us that v. W. Is very proud of its new showcase car that is in that she has that hope for market success even if the practical four cylinder aspirated engines and somewhat more impressive we are sixty would have satisfied most demands for only about ninety seven thousand corrado as were ever built that way too few of my v. W. Standards being. In the end the corrado is high price was its doom but not before it had set new benchmarks as a practical high quality sports car with robust Standard Technology that was nearly unparalleled at the time. Invaluable corrado showed the world a v. W. Could be more and compact High Performance vehicles became a fixed year the manufacturers model range special features like the gene wilder and the automatic rear spoiler keep the corrado on classic car fan radar even now he says it was definitely a milestone in automotive history. But a long time would pass before the corrado had an official successor twelve years to be exact and two thousand eight. Hundred number sports who pay in the corrado spirit but they decided to call it the new sure rocco. And next time im driving a world premier in San Francisco how do you launches its easy to run. And wed check out the Technology Behind them b. W. Touring she oh man im driving. On. The. 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