Ford is planning to provide 4 F-150 pick-up trucks for the SEMA show in Las Vegas next week.
The F-150 Heavy Duty Dewalt Contractor Concept is depicted as the ‘ultimate contractor’s truck’. It has a built-in charger for battery-operated tools, a tailor-made storage area below the second-row seats and a special toolbox.
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The Mopar Underground team has customized a pair of Dodge Challenger coupes.
The ’snakeskin green’ Challenger Targa, which contended in the Targa Newfoundland road race previously this year, has a facade chin spoiler to help down force, upgraded brakes and break as applied in the Viper, tailored six-speed manual gearbox and the 540bhp, 490lb-ft HEMI V8.
Suzuki is altering its Grand Vitara 4×4 with a larger 2.4-litre petrol engine.
This engine cedes 166bhp in the three-door model and 169bhp in the five-door. While it is bigger and more dominant than the old model’s 2.0-litre, fuel spending and emission are only slightly enlarged; carbon dioxide output is 208g/km from the five-door and 205g/km from the three-door.
The Grand Vitara receives minor revisions to its front-end styling, chrome and wood interior trim, new door mirrors with integrated indicators, and some new dashboard controls.
Standard tools now includes stability control, ventilated rear disc brakes, an MP3-compatible CD player, rear tinted glass, 17″ wheels and additional shock-absorbing elements fitted to the bonnet, wings and front bumper. Five-door models get leather seats, heated front seats, xenon headlamps, cruise control, 18″ wheels and a glass sunroof.
Deliveries of this model start on October 1, with prices from £14,499 for three-door manual.
The Project One-77 is ‘the final expression of what Aston Martin stands for’, blending modern technology with craftsmanship and exclusiveness.
It marks the first appearance of a new Aston Martin engine, a 7.3-litre V12 to give over 700bhp and a top speed of over 200mph. A two-door, two-seat coupe with a new carbonfibre monococque body structure, the One-77 is to feature active aerodynamics and ‘deliver breathtaking levels of power and performance.’
The ‘Project One-77′ name is just a working title, says Aston, but it does symbolize the planned production run: just 77 will be made. Customer deliveries will start late next year.
Chrysler is screening special-edition Jeep Compass and Grand Voyager models at this week’s Paris Motor Show, in addition to the Jeep Patriot Back Country.
The Compass Overland, like the Commander and Grand Cherokee Overland edition models already on sale, is a top-specification model.
Additional communications kit, a high-spec stereo, special styling details and unique embroidered seats are all included. Chrysler is also celebrating 25 years since the launching of its first Voyager MPV with a 25th Anniversary Edition Grand Voyager model.
This comes with special badging, a dark grey interior with black wood trim, satin-finish details and leather upholstery, 17″ alloy wheels, chrome side moldings, and a roof-rack with crossbars.
Chrysler has also declared that its dual-clutch transmission will now be available in Europe in the Avenger and Sebring. It works in combination with the 2.0-litre diesel engine, and offers better fuel economy than a traditional automatic gearbox.
Honda will renew the Insight name, but this most recent model will be more practical than the original two-seat Insight.
The proposal is to make this a true challenger for the Toyota Prius. It’s an appropriate small family-sized five-door, five-seater, with cabin space uncompromised by its battery pack, which is put on underneath the boot.
The new, protuberant-bodied Insight looks a lot like Honda’s FCX Clarity fuel cell car, and even though it’s not much of a looker it does have one very alluring selling point - it’s going to be priced ‘extensively lower than any other hybrid car on the market,’ says Honda, which hopes to sell 200,000 a year.
roen’s new baby MPV, the C3 Picasso, predicts class-leading space.
With its dimensions of 4.08m long, 1.73m wide and 1.62m tall, it integrates a cube-like body shape and a number of clever mechanisms in a bid to maximize interior capacity.
Either boot volume or rear legroom can be modified by slipping the split-folding rear seats back or forth, or these seats can also be closed away to form a flat load surface.
The cabin is 1.66m long and it is one of the lengthiest in its class - and the 500-litre boot can be elaborated to 1,506 liters with the rear seats closed down. The C3 Picasso also features an alterable boot floor which can be placed at two different levels.
Petrol engines on offer are the VTi 95 and VTi 120, developed in partnership with BMW, or alternatively, there are the HDi 90 and HDi 110 diesels.
Aston Martin is contributing a fresh automatic gearbox alternative to its V12-engined DBS.
The six-speed Touchtronic 2 gearbox, created from the system in the DB9 but with a less retentive final-drive ratio and more violent gearshifts, is a substitute to the six-speed manual box presently on offer.
Performance figures - 0-62mph in 4.3 seconds, 191mph - and gears can be selected via leather-trimmed magnesium alloy paddle-shifts on the steering wheel. A ‘drive’ organize on the middle console puts it into full auto mode or a ’sport’ setting can be selected with remapped throttle mapping and gearshift points.
Aston Martin has many further fresh alternatives with the DBS, including a 2+2 seating layout with an extra pair of small seats instead of rear storage areas.
The Touchtronic 2 gearbox is a £3,000 option; DBS prices start from £162,500 (manual).
Renault declares Mumbai as Design center for It’s Ultra Low Cost Car
Many car producers are ready to roll-out low cost cars in the country. Renault that is famous for its Logan sedan has chosen India to offer a larger role in scheming and developing its ultra low-cost car.
However, this is an obvious departure from Renault’s preceding plans when such coursework were constantly spread across the company’s other centre’s worldwide. So far when ever Renault worked on developing any new product, all the design centres across the world would involve and Paris would take a final call.
This is the first time that Renault is developing an ultra low-cost car in the country. It has been planned that Mumbai’s design centre will give the main design framework, with other design centres’ across the world providing smaller inputs for the ULC.
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