Great Wall Wingle CL the great pick up for the American assault

In the past, Shanghai Auto Show, officially the Great Wall Wingle CL, a large pickup truck that should serve the mark to make the leap to the U.S. market with some potential.

With a length of 5.35 meters, has a wheelbase of 3.35 meters and a box with large capacity, and that despite being a double cabin with plenty of room for five passengers (overall width of 1.88 meters) . By now we know that under the hood will have two engines, a 2.0i Turbo with 200 hp and 310 Nm of torque, and a 150 hp diesel with 324 Nm. Anyway, Great Wall is working on a 3.0 V6 diesel engine-power, but will not be ready until later this year.

The new CL Wingle includes ESP, eight airbags, climate control, leather upholstery and parking sensors in higher-end versions. There is no date for the start of production or prices, but it certainly seems a good candidate to jump into new markets.

A new record for the Peugeot EX1 9'01''338 at the Nurburgring

The concept Peugeot EX1, unveiled just days before the last Paris continues its harvest of records.

After France (Montlhéry) then China, Germany, which hosted the EX1 and more particularly the Nürburgring.

For the first time in its history, Peugeot tried Wednesday to break a record on the line of the Nordschleife. Stéphane Caillet, technical direction Peugeot Citroen, has covered the 20.832 km circuit and broke the speed record on a power tower.

The EX1 has completed one lap in 9'01''338 with an average speed of 138.324 km / h, in adverse weather conditions.

The previous speed record on this electric circuit was made ​​in 2010 9'51''450 seconds.

The record made ​​by the EX1 concept was formalized by the WIGE Performance, the official timing of the circuit of the Nordschleife.

First pictures of New Generation VW Golf VII interior

Autoexpress published spy photos of the new VW Golf. British claim to have shot the car during the test, indicating that the vehicle was a mule for the upcoming model, with exterior identical to the Golf Mk VI, and completely new interior.

"Stalk mule, but when we approached we saw that the interior is different," says avtopaparatsite.

As shown in the photos, the new seventh-generation Golf will get a new instrument on the dashboard and a new center console.

Speedometer and tachometer are abandoned circular gauges fuel level and coolant temperature, emphasizing new, integrated as an extension of divisions, respectively, for speed and rpm.

Values ​​will no longer be displayed by an arrow and, LED indicators, such as innovation aims primarily to save space for larger display between the two major appliance, according to the information.

It becomes clear that the new board will be used in all versions of the Golf Mk VII - hatchback, wagon, convertible and Golf Plus.

Video: chromed Chevrolet Camaro SS

Chromed cars, must the past 10 years but now I feel terribly overkills. The Czechs of Tintek, after the gold GT-R, dressed with a chromed adhesive vinyl Chevrolet Camaro SS. Maybe the other colors are available (black, gold, green, blue, orange, red and purple) is beautiful, but simple chrome I think that now is must.

Superb Aston Martin DB6 Volante Prince William video

William and Kate left the Buckingham with this wonderful Aston Martin DB6 Volante his father. Wonderful car, the back plate has been replaced by one that read "JU5T WED"

Rapper Birdman Maybach Exelero - bought for 8 million dollars

The founder of the record Cash Money Records, the famous rapper Birdman aka Bryan Williams is known collector car it already owns a Maybach Landaulet and a red Bugatti Veyron. It appears that this was not enough and so I bought the only Maybach Exelero available.

The announced himself through twitter, but will not let this black, but the paint and is red.

Let me remind you that the car was presented as a prototype in 2005 and once a V12 biturbo engine performance 700 horsepower 1.020 Nm of torque. The 0-100 km / h makes to 4.4 seconds with a top speed touching 351 km / h

According to Forbes, the Birdman in January 2011 had assets of over 100 million dollars, which makes it the fourth richest rapper, after Diddy, Jay-Z and Dr. Dre.

Video: A Ford Mustang cabrio comes alive through the tornado

Has seen and read the devastation caused by tornadoes in Alabama of America. So far 204 people have lost their lives in the city of Tuscaloosa is one found at the center and have hit more.

A Ford Mustang Cabrio, which was in the midst of the fan seems to work normally, although outside is completely damaged. The 15-year Mustang "went" live by the natural disaster with the owner to drive it properly.

Peugeot EX1 is the fastest electric vehicle in the Green Hell

Peugeot broadens its expertise in the development of alternative drive systems: on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife, the French manufacturer unveiled the EX1 with a new lap record for electric vehicles. 9:01,338 in minutes rounded to the Roadster the 20.8-kilometer route.


The Peugeot EX1 is driven by two electric motors at the front and rear axle. Together they provide 250 kW (340 hp) and have a maximum torque of 480 Newton meters. The current provides a lithium-ion battery. To keep the wheel drive vehicle as light as possible, used Peugeot carbon parts for the body. The chassis was taken from the racing.


The EX1 has already established several world records for Peugeot. In an acceleration record put the open two-seater back 500 meters in 16.81 seconds, the 1,000-meter mark he broke in 28.16 seconds. When Nordschleife lap record for the French record, there were pilots, however, Stéphane Caillet a flying start. It remains to be seen what the world record Peugeot chooses the next target.

Volkswagen Beetle History : From Hitler to hippy

The design of this car is the most recognizable and beloved by people around the world. As you may have guessed, this is the Volkswagen Beetle. And everyone at least once, sitting in this car, can confirm that the beetle has a unique aroma of automotive oil, plastic ...

1. Meet a Beetle!

2. Car for the people. As is known, Volkswagen translates as "the car for the people." Although initially, the car had the name "KdF-Wagen", as the prefix KdF - an abbreviation for "Kraft durch Freude", which means "The Power of Joy" - officially authorized organization for the rest of the Third Reich. Adolf Hitler had ordered a Porsche car in late 1930 in order to stimulate the German economy, as well as to cause a new wave of advances in engineering, which would help the Nazis to create a war machine. Only after the Second World War, this machine has become known as the "Beetle" in the world. In the photo: Hitler admiringly looks at a new model of Volkswagen, Ferdinand Porsche and the designer shows that the car engine is behind.

3. Laying corner stone. Hitler and the Nazi ranks higher celebrate laying the foundation of a factory near Fallersleben Volkswagen Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany, 1938.

4. A gift to Hitler's birthday. Ferdinand Porsche (left, in dark suit) is a new design gig VW Adolf Hitler to celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the birth of Hitler, Berlin, Germany, 1939.

5. Postwar Beetle. New Volkswagen drives past the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

6. Body for the "Beetle". Production of "Zhukov", 1960.

7. "Bugs" out of production. VWs go out clearly a high-tech assembly line.

8. Ideal forms. "Beetles" ready for export at a factory in Wolfsburg.

9. Familiar spaces. Cab "Beetle" with its clean and elegant metallic touches, large and small wheel, as well as the emblem of elegance to lock in Wolfsburg, are hallmarks for the millions of owners of Volkswagen.

10. Convertible. Elegance throughout, with the same inherent "Zhuk" charm.

11. Works of art.

12. Favorite car of hippies. By the end of the 1960 Beetle (as well as from the Volkswagen minivan) became the choice of number 1 among the subcultures. In the photo: "Beetle" is sent to the festival at Woodstock, 1969.

13. Picnic near the "Beetle". Friends sat near the "Beetle" on the road to Woodstock.

14. Participants of the festival at Woodstock rest on his car.

15. Forged "Beetle". Beetle looks great next to the house in Daytona Beach, Florida.

16. Beetle wins Nepal. The owner of "Beetle" from Nepal Satendra Siddhi Barayasha poses for a photo with their favorite car in Kathmandu. Barayasha, a wholesale grocer, first fell in love with the classic design of this car when I saw a tourist traveling on an unusual car in 1970. Nepal is a destination for thousands of travelers and hippies who came to Kathmandu from Istanbul through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and many of them came specifically to "beetles." Upon their arrival, most selling their vehicles wealthy residents to fund further travels, purchase of drugs, the acquisition of antiquities, or the trip home.

17. "Beetles" in Bangladesh. Family shows the victory sign before the start of the Volkswagen Rally in the capital Dhaka, Bangladesh.

18. Brazilian Beetle. Beetle, painted in national colors of Brazil, riding along the beach of Copacabana, after Brazil won the World Cup in 2002.

19. Chair for the people. The model shows a chair made from the hood "Beetle".

20. Hungry Herbie. Herbie, the Volkswagen humanoid, the protagonist of several Disney movies, scary young woman at an auto show in Berlin.

21. Beetle hatred. Beetle with a scratch on him racist slogans during a march for Civil Rights in Alabama, shows that not all owners of "Zhukov" were peace-loving people in the 1960's.

22. The leader of the strikes. Members of the union held a strike Belgium in Brussels, protesting against unemployment, led by "Zhuk", on the roof of which was a speaker.

23. Wet Beetle. Beetle moves a mountain stream on the way from Cusco to Ayacucho in Peru.

24. National Beetle Brazil. Beetle down the hill along the building of the National Congress of Brazil (the architect Oscar Niemeyer, 1961), Brazil.

25. Virtual tour of Queen Beatrix on the "Beetle". Queen Beatrix of Holland during the virtual trip to Mexico in the "Beetle" in the Dutch Architecture Institute in Rotterdam.

26. Adios! Auf Wiedersehen! Musicians accompany the very last Beetle after he stepped off the production line at the VW factory in Puebla, July 30, 2003. Volkswagen ceased production of "Zhukov" after selling more than 21 million of these cars since their launch into production in 1938.

Audi R8 Spyder from studio RENM

Not so long ago the company from Ingolstadt has presented a fantastic model of the Spyder GT, built on a platform over the well-known "monster»Audi R8. Machine was released a limited edition, and many who could not buy a luxury supercar watched with envy the owners of Jet "Spider". But now the situation has changed radically, help came from where no one is waiting for: the Australian RENM tuning studio offers fans of high speeds and brightest "lighter" version of its RMS, which is based in a "standard" Spider.

First photos of the 2012 Audi A6 Avant without camouflage

There were pictures of the new A6 Avant, with almost no camouflage.
AutoExpress edition published photos taken during the tests.

Shows that the car retains its practicality with a huge rack (probably as current model - 1660 liters). However, the profile of the car has become more sporting and dynamic. Clearly and roof spoiler above the rear window. Rear lights are very compact, while the headlights are more narrow, giving an aggressive type of front, bearing and LED section.

Like the sedan, which weighs 80 kg. less than its predecessor, Avant will be aluminum modular platform with MLB on the Audi. This makes the wagon a lot lighter than rivals in this class as the BMW 5-Series Touring and Mercedes E-Class wagon. Of lower weight and won driving.

VOLKSWAGEN PROFITS ALMOST QUADRUPLE IN Q1

Volkswagen AG posted a profit of €1.71 billion (R16.8 billion) in the first quarter of 2011. That is up from €473 million (R4.6 billion) during the same period in 2010. It’s all at the back of revenues amounting to €37.5 billion (R368.2 billion). China seems to be the driving force behind VW’s success, along with former BRIC countries. South Africa recently joined the group to form BRICS.

In the first 3 months of the year, the German company sold 1.97 million vehicles globally. Sales are coming from all fronts, including the Polo, Tiguan, Audi A1 and Audi Q5.

It wasn’t all rose beds though as Bentley and Seat still experienced losses, albeit on a much smaller scale than last year. The super luxury brand posted €25 million (R245.4 million) negative numbers, while Seat, which pulled out of Mzansi in 2008, lost €12 million (R117.8 million), down from €110 million (R1 billion) in 2010.

Kate and William: wedding with Rolls-Royce - Kate Middleton selects Rolls-Royce for wedding

Kate Middleton 's on the horse. The future wife of Prince William prefers for her ride to the church's famous paint bomb-Rolls-Royce.

Alfa Romeo TZ3 Stradale from Zagato

Last year, the Zagato studio has presented Racing Car Alfa Romeo TZ3 Corsa, following his explanation of his classical models with the "cut off" the tail . Today the Italians have spread information about another TZ3, this time designed for public roads.