Showing posts with label hatchback. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hatchback. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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Citroen prepares sports version DS3

Citroen DS3

In 2011 the French manufacturer is going to make more powerful version of model DS3.

Citroen DS3 R3

The charged hatchback will receive name DS3 R3 and will make competition MINI Cooper S and Renault Clio RS. On preliminary data power of engine DS3 R3 of an order of 200HP. Will be dispersed to 100 km/h compact Citroen DS3 will be for 6-7 seconds.

The representative of the company has declared, that «to tell anything concrete while it is impossible, but Citroen is full determination to create powerful version DS3».

The engine is developed for sports version DS3 by concern PSA Peugeot-Citroen together with BMW.

PSA Peugeot-Citroen + BMW = Citroen DS3 R3

Saturday, January 16, 2010

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Ford has officially presented new Focus

Ford Focus

Company Ford has extended the first details about family Ford Focus of new generation. The debut of a novelty with bodies "hatchback" and "sedan" for the American market will take place in Detroit, and hardly later — in March — in Geneva will present also the European updating.

New «hatchback» & «sedan» Ford Focus

Following generation Ford Focus is constructed on the basis of a new global platform of "S-class" in which basis thoroughly altered chassis from the previous model lays. Engineers of the company have recustomized a back taxiing up suspension bracket, and also modernised forward and back stretchers.

The steering on new Ford Focus is equipped by the new electroamplifier, and in the European market the novelty will be accessible with system of distribution of draught between driving wheels Dynamic Cornering Control, simulating work of interaxal differential.

New Ford Focus

New Focus

Focus

Ford Focus

Interior Ford Focus

Interior New Ford Focus

Predictably, Ford Focus following generation will receive a ruler of new motors: in Europe the car will appear with a 1,6-l petrol turbo-engine of series EcoBoost, and in USA Focus the first time will be offered with the 2-l unit with direct injection of the fuel, 155HP developing power. Transmissions — either mechanical check points, or new "robot" PowerShift.

Besides, the novelty will receive completely altered interior with new architecture of the forward panel, a new combination of devices, in which centre will take places big colour (in some versions — monochrome) the display. One more innovation — multimedia complex MyFord which in the American market will be integrated with communication system SYNC. Thanking SYNC the driver can operate the majority of systems of the car by means of the big, eight-inch touch LCD display.

As representatives Ford declare, new "Focus" becomes only to the first of 10 new models constructed on the basis of a new global platform. By 2012 on the basis of it chassis will exceed the general sales of all cars of two million pieces a year — on the same platform compact cars Ford C-Max and Grand C-Max which will appear on sale within 2010 are already created.

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In the USA there will be sedan Audi A3

Audi A3 Sportback

Model Audi A3 in a body a sedan will be developed only for the American market, informs Autoblog. As writes the edition, such decision is dictated by popularity of sedans in the USA and unpopularity of hatchbacks in which kind the model is on sale in the European markets.

Only for the USA

According to the edition, sedan A3 is in a stage of working out and will arrive on the American market approximately in 2012.

Review — Audi A3 Sportback