Posts Tagged ‘english overview’
Click above for high-res gallery of the Hyundai i10.Since last October, Hyundai has been selling the i10 minicar in 70 countries throughout the world. The diminutive sedan is just over 140 inches long (about 20 inches shorter than the Honda Fit), powered by an 80 hp, 1.2-liter four that returns up t......
Hyundai considering sourcing city car from India
Monday, August 18th, 2008
Click above for high-res gallery of the Hyundai i10.Since last October, Hyundai has been selling the i10 minicar in 70 countries throughout the world. The diminutive sedan is just over 140 inches long (about 20 inches shorter than the Honda Fit), powered by an 80 hp, 1.2-liter four that returns up t......
Gordon Murray planning new lightweight supercar
Monday, August 11th, 2008
It's no secret that Gordon Murray, the man behind the McLaren F1, has been working on a city car called the Type 25. It appears now, though, that the lure of the supercar is still strong with him. Autocar magazine discovered recently that Murray is considering a supercar to be built using the build ......
Bajaj to develop trike,car and scooter with KTM
Friday, August 8th, 2008
Bajaj Auto is jointly developing a trike, a budget car and a scooter with its Austrian partner KTM. Bajaj Auto holds 21% stake in KTM. All of the models will be marketed in developing countries and will have petrol, diesel and electric variants. This will be the Bajaj’s second car after the ULC it......
Spy Shots: Chevy Beat finally hits the road
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Testing of the Chevy Beat is officially underway, and our friends at NextAutos have procured the first set of spy shots. The camo'd mule is still sporting the short overhangs and upright silhouette of the concept, but GM decided to equip the squat city car with another set of doors to make ingress a......
KTM preparing low-cost, clean city cars and SUV
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
As suspected, the KTM X-Bow is just the beginning of the bike-cum-automaker's assault on the four-wheeled world. According to CAR, KTM is in the process of creating a "slew" budget oriented vehicles, including a city car and "the world's first frugal and eco-friendly off-roader."The SUV, codenamed t......
More details: Gordon Murray’s Type-25 city car
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
If such projections as cutting the cost of driving and vehicle emissions in half sounds a bit radical to you, that's exactly the response that Gordon Murray is hoping for. Before completely dismissing these claims, remember that Murray is the man most responsible for the road-going supercar known as......
Rendered Speculation: Fiat Topolino by Paolo Martin
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
We see a lot of rendered speculation on upcoming models, but they're seldom penned by renowned designers. However as Fiat prepares to revive the classic Topolino, Italian magazine Ruoteclassiche commissioned designer Paolo Martin – former of Bertone, Pininfarina and Ghia – to render his interpre......
Spy Shots: Tiny Toyota iQ caught testing
Monday, June 9th, 2008
Though Toyota already unveiled the production version of its diminutive iQ city car at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show last March, this is the first time anyone has seen the vehicle testing out in the wild. These spy photos of the iQ also give us a good sense of the car's true scale, which is to say that......
Skoda small car before Volkswagen’s Lupo
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Skoda which has tasted the success with the Fabia plans an another small car for India. Skoda’s new small car will be positioned below the Fabia (Skoda’s cheapest car) and will be developed in India. The interesting news is the new small car will be Skoda’s own version of UP! concept. It is be......