2008 HSV W427 Concept

March 1st, 2008 admin Posted in Car Articles, Cars, Concepts, More Cars No Comments »

2008 HSV W427 ConceptHSV W427 Concept
Holden Special Vehicles unveiled a seven litre program at the 2008 Melbourne Motor Show, the last instalment of the company s 20th anniversary celebrations.

The car to be known in its final development stages as the W427 is finished in the same Panorama Silver paint scheme as the original Group A SS VL Commodore, released at the Melbourne Motor Show of 1988, exactly 20 years ago.

HSV Managing Director, Scott Grant, said the W427 was a tribute to how far the company has come in just twenty years.

“To be able to produce a vehicle of these proportions is truly remarkable”, Scott Grant said.

“The W427 will be quite possibly the fastest road registrable Supercar ever produced in Australia and among the quickest anywhere around the world”, he said. Read the rest of this entry »

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2008 Opel Meriva Concept

March 1st, 2008 admin Posted in Car Articles, Cars, Concepts, More Cars No Comments »

2008 Opel Meriva ConceptOpel Meriva Concept
The Opel Meriva Concept, due to be unveiled at the 78th International Motor Show in Geneva (March 6 - 16, 2008), illustrates how the new Opel design language can be adapted to create bold, fresh design solutions for this segment.

The Opel Meriva Concept takes flexibility to new heights with its innovative FlexDoors system, which consists of rear-hinged rear doors that swing open toward the back of the car. As the B-pillars have been purposely retained for passive security reasons, the Meriva Concept’s front and rear doors can also be opened independently of each other. Other rear-hinged rear doors already on the market can only be opened after the front door has been opened. This innovation makes access to the car interior much easier and also offers a range of safety benefits over conventional car doors. In the Meriva Concept, this innovation is combined with the highly variable FlexSpace rear seating system familiar from the production Meriva. Read the rest of this entry »

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2008 Mitsubishi Prototype-S Concept

February 27th, 2008 admin Posted in Car Articles, Cars, Concepts, Mitsubishi No Comments »

2008 Mitsubishi Prototype-S ConceptMitsubishi Prototype-S Concept
Ahead of its official global unveiling on 4th March at the Geneva Motor Show, Mitsubishi Motors now reveals further images of the Prototype-S - born from the same gene pool as the original 2005 Concept-Sportback.

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2008 BMW EfficientDynamics Concept

February 24th, 2008 admin Posted in BMW, Car Articles, Cars, Concepts No Comments »

2008 BMW EfficientDynamics ConceptBMW EfficientDynamics Concept
World premiere of the concept car BMW Vision EfficientDynamics, showing a further stage in the BMW EfficientDynamics development strategy. The first time a 4-cylinder diesel engine has been combined with BMW ActiveHybrid Technology in a large Sports Activity Vehicle.

The concept study based on a BMW X5 - even as a serial production model extremely efficient and dynamic - shows the unique potential of technology developed as part of the BMW EfficientDynamics program. It combines BMW’s superior diesel expertise with the innovative BMW ActiveHybrid Technology. A further increase in efficiency is achieved by means of BMW EfficientDynamics measures in the environment of the combustion engine by optimising energy flow and aerodynamics.

By intelligently combining a combustion engine and a generator as part of a Mild Hybrid concept, dynamic performance and efficiency are increased to an equal degree. With the extensive deployment of measures which are in some cases ready for serial production and were in some cases specially developed for this study, there is maximum utilisation of the potential of BMW EfficientDynamics for the reduction of fuel consumption and CO2 emission levels up to the limits of what is feasible within the BMW X5 vehicle segment. At the same time, the study clearly shows that any additional increase in efficiency over and above the highly efficient BMW vehicles already available today can only be achieved by means of an exponential increase in effort and expense. Read the rest of this entry »

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Rinspeed sQuba Concept

February 15th, 2008 admin Posted in Car Articles, Cars, Concepts No Comments »

2008 Rinspeed sQuba Concept

2008 Rinspeed sQuba ConceptRinspeed sQuba Concept
Thirty years after the movie thriller ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ hit the silver screen Rinspeed sQuba is the first car that can actually ‘fly’ under water.

Zumikon - “Dive it again, James!” If the situation gets too hot for the secret agent he’ll go underground - or under water. So demonstrated impressively by Roger Moore in ‘The Spy Who Loved Me” in 1977 when he dove below the waves in a sleek vehicle that moments before seemed to be an ordinary car. The only problem: The scene never really took place; it was an animation.

With the Rinspeed sQuba, the world’s first real submersible car, the movie fake now becomes reality for visitors of the Geneva Motor Show (March 6th - 16th, 2008). Rinspeed boss Frank M. Rinderknecht (52) is known for his extraordinary automotive creations. The acknowledged James Bond enthusiast and Swiss automobile visionary kept revisiting this scene in his mind over and over: “For three decades I have tried to imagine how it might be possible to build a car that can fly under water. Now we have made this dream come true.”

And it is this submerged stabile flight at a depth of 10 meters that sets the Rinspeed sQuba apart from military vehicles. While the latter can go under water, they are limited to driving slowly over the submerged ground. Rinderknecht: “It is undoubtedly not an easy task to make a car watertight and pressure resistant enough to be maneuverable under water. The real challenge however was to create a submersible car that moves like a fish in water.” Read the rest of this entry »

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