VW Passat BlueMotion Fuel Tank Sets World Record

Nothing like one upmanship, indeed. In the latest annular of erect a snook in the numbers game, a accepted assembly archetypal 1.6-litre 105PS TDI Volkswagen Passat BlueMotion has set a new Guinness World Almanac for the longest ambit travelled by a accepted assembly commuter car on a distinct catchbasin of fuel.

The attempt, fabricated in England by a aggregation from The Sunday Times, complex demography the Passat BlueMotion from Maidstone, Kent to the south of France and back. Afterwards 1,526.63 miles, or 2,456.87km, the car assuredly ran out of gas abreast Calais.

The avenue comprised mainly French highways, but included some boondocks driving, consistent in an boilerplate acceleration of aloof over 72.5 kph.

Gavin Conway collection the Passat BlueMotion during the three-day record-breaking journey, accompanied by a navigator and video crew. Following the absolute drive in a van was a two-man aggregation from the UK AA, there to attestant the adventure apart for the Guinness World Records organisation, which accepted the record.

The Passat BlueMotion’s ammunition catchbasin was drained afore the almanac breaking adventure and abounding with 77.25 litres of accepted diesel, and the end aftereffect was an all-embracing ammunition burning of 89.83 afar per gallon, or if you adopt metric, 31.8 km per litre (3.14 litre per 100km). Which is absolutely a attractive figure.

Expect attempts by the Teutonic antagonism to breach this record, and not too continued in the future. It is, afterwards all, assuredly about aloof rights, and appropriate now it’s Veedub’s to rub.

2011 Renault Zoe Hybrids cars

The Renault-Nissan Alliance is asleep austere about the electric revolution, and with the Nissan Leaf already creating waves, the Paris Motor Show saw Renault aperture adjustment books for the Kangoo Express Z.E. and the Fluence Z.E. electric cars. They will go on auction in mid-2011, and the Z.E. ambit will after aggrandize to accommodate the scooter-like Twizy and this beautiful Zoe.

The Zoe Examination is an authentic examination of the car that will admission in mid 2012. How true? Renault says that what you see actuality is 90% identical to the car that will cycle out from Flins, France. This Zoe is additionally cogent because it showcases Renault’s new cast character for the aboriginal time, including the advanced look, so get acclimated to it.

2011 Renault Zoe Hybrids cars Back Photos

The Zoe is a Clio sized supermini that’s electric powered but has “everything accepted of a B-segment car” including a ample interior, ample boot, manoeuvrable administration in the burghal and abating alley captivation for best drives.

2011 Renault Zoe Hybrids cars Pictures

A lithium-ion array admiral the 80 hp/222 Nm electric motor with a accumulated ambit of 160 km. 0-100 km/h is done in 8.1 abnormal on to a top acceleration of 135 km/h. Charging from your approved atrium takes amid 6 and 8 hours via a “Wall-Box” that comes with the car. For emergency situations, a accessible fast allegation point will accord 60 km ambit in beneath than 10 account or 80% array accommodation in 30 minutes.

The showcar additionally has some artistic highlights. Billed as a “Spa Car”, the Zoe additionally has anti-dehydrating air con (good for skin), a toxicity sensor for berth air, a aesthetic or adequate aroma diffuser (created in affiliation with Biotherm, L’Oréal) and ablaze analysis address of Philips.

Mobil Range Rover Evoque 2011 Review

We accept covered the Range Rover Evoque extensively, so no charge to busy here. The Evoque, which is the smallest, lightest and best able Range Rover ever, carries over abundant of the 2008 LRX concept’s design. Made to accompany Land Rover into new territory, the Evoque retains the affluence and adroitness of THE Range Rover, but in a bunched package.

Mobil Range Rover Evoque 2011 Picture

To go on auction in the additional bisected of 2011, the Evoque will appear with a 2.0-litre absolute bang turbo agent authoritative 240 PS additional two 2.2-litre turbodiesel authoritative 150 PS and 190 PS respectively. There will additionally be a five-door anatomy appearance that will be apparent at the LA appearance in November.

Mobil Citroen DS3 WRC 2011

We showed you the abundant attractive Ford Fiesta RS WRC yesterday, and the car that it has to exhausted in abutting year’s World Rally Championship is this, the Citroen DS3 WRC.

If you’ve been on addition planet, Citroen has won bristles Manufacturer’s World Champion titles and six Driver & Co-driver titles with Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena, and the Sebs (the added DS3 WRC will be apprenticed by Sébastien Ogier) will be cyberbanking on this new apparatus to abide their ascendancy of the sport. In the accepted WRC season, with three circuit to go, Loeb leads the championship from Ogier and looks set for his seventh title. The guy is unbeatable.

Mobil Citroen DS3 WRC 2011

Mobil Citroen DS3 WRC 2011

Using the carapace of their DS3 exceptional hatchback, Citroen’s new car replaces the C4 WRC and conforms to the new rules set by the FIA. More bunched than its predecessor, the DS3 WRC uses a 300 hp 1.6-litre direct-injection turbocharged agent acquainted by Citroen Racing. The 4WD manual incorporates a six-speed consecutive gearbox and front/rear automated differentials.

By the way, FIA’s new rules for abutting division was advised to absolute the budgets appropriate to attempt in WRC. It bans big-ticket abstracts such as titanium and carbon fibre, while standardising genitalia like the turbocharger and attached the changes that can be fabricated to the car throughout the season.

Mobil BMW 6-Series Concept Use LED rear light

Taking into annual BMW’s history of concepts that are around the accomplished item, and this showcar’s realism, we could able-bodied be attractive at “the new 6-Series”. Based on the Abstraction Gran Auto that BMW showed in Beijing this April, but with two doors taken off, this is clearly a “concept abstraction for a affluence 2+2-seater”.

Mobil BMW 6-Series Concept Pictures

Mobil BMW 6-Series Concept Use LED rear light

Mobil BMW 6-Series Cabin Interior Design

Like the F10 5-Series, this Abstraction 6-Series Auto is abundant beneath polarising than the car it replaces. BMW credibility out that all the archetypal hallmarks of a BMW auto are present, including the continued bonnet, abbreviate advanced overhang, a pushed aback commuter alcove and a low contour accumulation a abounding roofline.

It looks added and lower than the accepted car, and affected in the metal; highlights are the “shark nose” that juts out with actual arresting nostrils, an arrow-like band on the contour that starts from the “gills” and a biconcave rear end with bulit in spoiler. The LED rear ablaze elements attending like those on the F10. Speaking about lights, this abstraction sports new LED headlights that incorporates Adaptive Headlights and BMW’s brand candelabrum rings. The all-LED architecture is a aboriginal for a BMW.

Inside, there’s a freestanding 10.2-inch iDrive Control Display in the centre of the dash, as able-bodied as a 16-speaker Bang & Olufsen stereo. This is a “fully active” system, which agency the two bass speakers, seven mid-range speakers and seven tweeters all accept alone amplifiers.

Mobil Opel GTC 2010 Preview

This is the Opel GTC Paris abstraction car, declared as a advertise of how Opel can “dial up” the brand’s architecture accent via a “sporty and affecting interpretation”. This abstraction previews the accessible three-door auto adaptation of the accepted Opel/Vauxhall Astra.

Mobil Opel GTC 2010 Interior Design Photos

Following the brand of Renault with its Megane, the GTC is added than aloof a five-door Astra with two doors lopped off. Like the Megane Coupe, it’s a compact, abandoned and awful stylised three-door. The brand’s contempo signature brand sweeps aback from the front, like in the Insignia and clashing the five-door Astra. Another architecture band starts from the aperture handle abounding aback to accompany the rear lights. Opel says the car has a “bulldog stance”. Short and fat?

Mobil Opel GTC 2010 Red Color Pictures

The autogenous has some absorbing ideas. The driver’s bench is in red while the passenger’s is in black. They alike accept calligraphy laser categorical on them. The calligraphy reads “and the acceleration was authentic beauty”, a adduce from Richard Bach’s novel, Jonathan Livingstone Seagull.

Speed wouldn’t be a problem. The GTC has a twin-scroll turbo 2.0-litre with absolute injection. This 290 hp motor with bifold camshaft phasing and accompanying antithesis shafts is commutual with a six-speed chiral transmission. Start/stop is standard, as is a Limited Slip Differential for added traction. The GTC Paris additionally appearance FlexRide adaptive abeyance that continuously adapts to changes in active appearance and cornering speed.

Mobil Opel GTC 2010 Preview

This is the Opel GTC Paris abstraction car, declared as a advertise of how Opel can “dial up” the brand’s architecture accent via a “sporty and affecting interpretation”. This abstraction previews the accessible three-door auto adaptation of the accepted Opel/Vauxhall Astra.

Mobil Opel GTC 2010 Interior Design Photos

Following the brand of Renault with its Megane, the GTC is added than aloof a five-door Astra with two doors lopped off. Like the Megane Coupe, it’s a compact, abandoned and awful stylised three-door. The brand’s contempo signature brand sweeps aback from the front, like in the Insignia and clashing the five-door Astra. Another architecture band starts from the aperture handle abounding aback to accompany the rear lights. Opel says the car has a “bulldog stance”. Short and fat?

Mobil Opel GTC 2010 Red Color Pictures

The autogenous has some absorbing ideas. The driver’s bench is in red while the passenger’s is in black. They alike accept calligraphy laser categorical on them. The calligraphy reads “and the acceleration was authentic beauty”, a adduce from Richard Bach’s novel, Jonathan Livingstone Seagull.

Speed wouldn’t be a problem. The GTC has a twin-scroll turbo 2.0-litre with absolute injection. This 290 hp motor with bifold camshaft phasing and accompanying antithesis shafts is commutual with a six-speed chiral transmission. Start/stop is standard, as is a Limited Slip Differential for added traction. The GTC Paris additionally appearance FlexRide adaptive abeyance that continuously adapts to changes in active appearance and cornering speed.