Chery S18
Chery’s first electric car, the S18 electric vehicle, has rolled off the production line. It is capable of traveling as many as 93 miles on each charge and has a maximum speed of 75 mph. “Most advanced technology being adopted, Chery’s electric vehicle has the merits of high efficiency, energy saving, easy operation, continuously variable [...]
Porsche Panamera
The four-door Panamera combines a wide range of features seemingly contradictory at first sight, and offering a unique synthesis quite unparalleled in the premium segment: The Panamera comes with all the sporting and dynamic characteristics of a genuine Porsche combined with a very high standard of motoring comfort. Despite its extra-low and sleek coupé silhouette, [...]
Porsche Cayenne GTS – Porsche Design Edition 3
Introducing an exclusive series of models to be produced only in a limited edition, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, is expanding its successful range of SUVs: Production of the Cayenne GTS Porsche Design Edition 3 with its exclusive features will be limited to just one thousand numbered units. With this new model, the [...]
Audi Celebrates a Century
Audi is taking an outstanding display of its cars to the world’s largest classic car show, the Techno Classica, which is held in the German city of Essen. To commemorate the centenary of the brand, Audi Tradition will have exclusively Audi models on its stand in Hall 7 from April 5, 2009 onwards. The absolute [...]
Mercedes F-CELL Roadster
In a unique project bridging various fields of profession, the trainees of Daimler AG at the Sindelfingen Mercedes-Benz plant have built a Roadster with fuel cell drive. For about a year, more than 150 trainees and dual education system students worked on the overall concept, development, assembly, and completion of the F-CELL Roadster. This project [...]
VW Polo
The Polo was specifically designed to attain the recently established, stricter and more comprehensive, 5-star EuroNCAP rating. The higher structural rigidity of the Polo’s bodyshell contributes to these results. In the footwell area alone, intrusion – related to the car body’s deformation strength in a frontal crash – was lowered by 50 percent. In the [...]
Pagani Zonda R
A Pagani Zonda is never shy of a drive at the racetrack, a fact that was undermined numerous times in the past with records for production vehicles at the Nurburgring Nordschleife. The Pagani team has created the Zonda R using bespoke engineering solutions to meet the performance demands for a trackday version of the highly [...]
Brawn – BGP 001
This season will see the launch of the brand new Brawn GP F1 Team. The car that will be used by the team will be the BGP 001 and will feature a Mercedes-Benz engine. Chassis Construction: Moulded carbon fibre and honeycomb composite structure Suspension: Wishbone and pushrod activated torsion springs and rockers Dampers: Sachs Wheels: [...]
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-24
With an unprecedented series of rule changes introduced ahead of the 2009 season, the new Vodafone McLaren Mercedes MP4-24 represents a significant departure from its world championship-winning predecessor. Incorporating new bodywork regulations and the much-heralded return of slick tyres, the team’s new challenger not only looks radical but also incorporates a host of new innovative [...]
Honda ASIMO: The Dream of a New Dimension in Mobility
Walking is the most basic form of mobility for people. Honda’s ASIMO, now on its eleventh evolution, has taken an amazing step forward by being the World’s most advanced humanoid robot. ASIMO is able to walk and move and keep balance like a human. ASIMO stands for ‘Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility’. ASIMO can walk [...]