MINI Teases All-Electric Scooter Concept

Here we have the first hint at an all MINI Teases All-Electric Scooter Concept  that Mini intends to unveil at the upcoming 2010 Paris Auto Show. These sketches of the Scooter E Concept showed up early this morning on the Mini Facebook pag E lectroVelocity | The MINI Electric Scooter

MINI have announced that they will be unveiling 2 electric scooter concepts at this year's Paris Motorshow (2nd-17th October), details are a little scarce however we can tell you that the scooter will have a rear-hub mounted electric

Plug-in Electric Scooter Concept

This is Plug-in Electric Scooter Concept , ftom Daimler's Smart unit that was only in the business of making tiny city cars (well, aside from the short-lived Fourfour), but that may soon change as the company which was founded by the late Nicolas Hayek of Swatch fame is looking into the possibility of adding an electric scooter to its lineup to broaden its reach and increase sales.

To give us a taste of what their working on, Smart will unveil a concept version of the pure electric scooter at the upcoming Paris Motor Show, which opens to the members of the press on September 30.

The auto -and soon to become moto -maker released a few teaser sketches of the two-wheeler, but Smart is still holding back on the details. More to come as we get closer to the Paris motorshow.

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AUDI A1 premium supermini

This is AUDI A1 premium supermini.We’ve got a bit apathetic with the aggravate that is the Audi A1. After all, we accept a appealing acceptable abstraction what it’s all about and it seems to be actuality milked for all it’s worth. We did run the ‘Audi A1 Graffiti’ tease, and the ‘Audi A1 Design’ a few canicule ago. But we’d absitively we wouldn’t do addition until there was absolutely some able detail.

But back the video actuality alone in and we saw what Audi was adage we anticipation we care to address it. The video is aloof a ‘Talking Head’ video, this time featuring Werner Zimmermann, Audi’s Head of Quality. But what he says will put the car amidst the pigeons, decidedly as as far as BMW are concerned.

So what does he say? The acceptable Herr Zimmerman claims that the Audi A1 will be the alone exceptional car in its sector. Herr Zimmermann waxes agreeable (well, as agreeable as a Corporate German can) about the exceptional materials; the bound shut curve and console gaps; the tactility of the apparatus console and the brittle attention of the switches.

Maserati GranTurismo Coupe

This is Maserati GranTurismo Coupe.For the man who has everything except taste, there is Mansory. The Bavarian automobile tuner has now turned their attention to the Maserati GranTurismo coupe and its more powerful 'S' brethren.

The Mansory GT and GTS features a new front spoiler, radiator grille, bonnet, deeper door sills, rear spoiler, exhaust inlay, rear apron and rear diffuser. All of these add-ons are carbon fibre and made in-house by Mansory.Mansory has also tweaked the engine output by fitting the GT and GTS models with a new ECU, air filter and sports exhaust which increase performance by 30 hp and torque by 40 Nm on each model (435HP / 5000 Nm on the GT and 470HP / 530 Nm on the GTS).

he Italian coupe now rolls on 255/30 R 20 tires at the front and 305/30 R 21 tires at the back. These are painted to match the body color.The interior is also customized (of course) with new seat fabrics, aluminium pedals and a supposedly sportier-looking steering wheel.For styling sadomasochists, Mansory also has all sorts of packages for cars built by Mercedes-Benz, Rolls Royce, Bentley, Ford, Bugatti and Aston Martin.

Spyshots : 2011 Jaguar XF gets facelift XJ headlights

The XF is perhaps the best sedan in its class. Yet we were a bit ontchoogeld when we saw him for the first time. The sleek headlights of the concept had been replaced by copies Boller. With the facelift seem tight the lights turn back. In the Jaguar XJ, they are indeed great. The XF facelift is expected in 2011.

Limited series: Caterham Road Sports 125 Monaco Special Edition

Allow more than two years ago that we posted some news about Caterham. The British car manufacturer lapping steadily and occasionally brings an evolution of the car that still has the Lotus Seven base. This time we hear about a Special Edition. Caterham Road Sport 125 Monaco Special Edition to the public the idea of the small principality calls.

Before Caterham makes use of an aluminum body, with black accents and red and white stripes that refer to the Monegasque flag. Also come in red and black accents back. The 1.6 liter engine has 125 horsepower to the lightweight enough (still only 550 kg) in a small 6 seconds of 0 to 100 km / h to send. Stop, the car only at 180 km / h, although the experience at that speed are huge. Cost is around 25,500 euros, though the first 20 buyers a discount of around 1,200 euro gain.

2011 Ford Mondeo Sport Edition price and photos

If you like the Ford Mondeo bland, although this is not the case, Ford now offers a new high-end finish aptly named Sport Edition. And if the beautiful rims experiencing inflation in a beautiful way to 18 inches, the price of the tires fit should do the same. What do you want, we get something for nothing ...

In addition to these rims, you will find a sports body kit, xenon headlights with daytime running lights and directional, sport suspension, leather upholstery mixed Alcantara and aluminum pedals.

Side engines, this Mondeo is available with two petrol engines of 203 liters and 240 hp diesel with 2 liters and 163 horsepower or 2.2 liters and 200 hp. Rates and photos are after.

Mondeo 2.0 SCTi 203 ch Sport Edition : 31 300 €
Mondeo 2.0 SCTi 240 ch Sport Edition : 32 900 €
Mondeo 2.0 TDCi 163 ch Sport Edition : 33 250 €
Mondeo 2.2 TDCi 200 ch Sport Edition : 35 250 €

Search SSC Ultimate Aero 2011: new photo

It is Top Gear which Disclosure A new view of the new SSC Ultimate Aero. Here is the rear part, the work of Jason Castriota, the designer in vogue with the sublime Lancia Stratos 2010.

Diffuser in two parts, blades, tapered diode, central exhaust outlets, the supercar is truly a mouth of hell from all angles.

This dish is not rolling yet officially unveiled the new site, but Jalopnik has give us the benefit of the first images a few days ago. We are eager to see this beast on the asphalt road ...

AMG Boat photos and details

Like Lamborghini Lancia and Mercedes Amg and its subsidiary owns their outboard and it inspired the frankly fabulous SLS as you can see from the photos, the two monsters posing proudly side by side.

Unfortunately the engine, or rather the engines are not the V8 and the SLS are not even genuine Mercedes. It is the Mercury marine engine specialist who has undertaken power the beast and he did not pull his punches: under the hood you will find two turbocharged diesel V8 9 (!) Liters of displacement for a total power of 1350 hp!

And with all this horse, this machine does not point at 208 km / h ... But do not forget about water, the marks are very different than road. If you try this boat, get ready to relieve you of € 650,000. As a result, it might be better to pay the SLS .

2012 Opel Astra GTC Paris: First pictures of the three-door Old and New version

The Opel GTC Paris show premiere at the Paris Motor Show . This is the Rüsselsheim manufacturer's instructions on the design of the three-door Astra will be launched in March 2011 on the market. The new version of the Golf's competitors is so far only available as a five-door - three-door, station wagon, a coupe-cabriolet Twintop called and the van version Zafira still based on the old generation. The combined alias Sports Tourer, the production version will be shown in Paris, starts in November 2010.

Aggressive: Chevrolet launches new Aveo

In addition to the standard model Orlando MPV and hatchback Chevrolet Cruze show car with presents at the Paris Motor Show 2010 (October 2 to 17), the five-door production version before the new Aveo. The design is reminiscent of the beginning of 2010 on the auto shows in Detroit and Geneva featured study Aveo RS. The front end was eased somewhat for the series, but still looks out aggressive.

The Dagger GT-around in 2011 to 2,500 hp fastest production car in the world

The Americans now have new details on the technology and design of their supersport named Dagger GT announced. Remarkable Dagger GT are in addition to performance of 2,000 hp at the road-going version of the retractable hardtop.