Nissan Micra and Mito Best In Waiting

Sydney - global economic condition is getting better predictable, so that new cars will be many who went to Australia. There are at least 40 new cars that will be released on this 2010.

The cars most of them expected the Aussie public is Rome Alfa Mito and Nissan Micra.

The Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo Mito prove that combine gasoline engines with a gas-fueled engines (LPG) capable of speeding and can travel a distance of 1200 km. Even these environmentally friendly cars can still dibesut to 120 horsepower and only takes 8.8 seconds to reach 0 to 100 km / hour. Mito presence in Australia will increasingly indulgent Alfa Romeo enthusiasts in kangaroo country.

Meanwhile, the Nissan Micra which ensures the latest generation will appear in public for the first time in the event the Geneva Motor Show, March 2010, will also be present in Australia. Leader of the global compact car project Nissan Cobee Vincent, said it would target a total production of 1 million units of this new generation Micra in each year. In a sketch that was released, Nissan Micra is the latest generation of Nissan Micra that had existed since 2002.

This car will be sold in more than 150 countries around the world. If seen from the sketch, this car looks more stylish and suitable for all circles.

Transformers The Flying Car From Pentagon

Arlington, United States military's heart, the Pentagon over defense research center (Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Project Agency = DARPA) was researching something that is more general. They are now back working on flying car project through a program called "Transformers".

DARPA said the party, the purpose of the program Transformer (TX) is to create a vehicle for one to four passengers can be driven at once to fly. In addition, vehicles will also have combat abilities, avoiding the water, difficult terrain, road barriers, the threat of ambush, until the danger bombs (improvised explosive devices / IED).

TX workshop will begin on January 14 next year with a variety of preparations including the company appointed chaperone. This report quoted insideline.com (30/12/09).

One of the obstacles faced with a surplus of vehicles able to protect and hold will attack, they had difficulty when passing and be landed like in Afghanistan. The reason, a variety of terrain. Such difficult conditions expected to be a crucial factor.

Well, in a DARPA project to see three things in that program. Here they create a solid vehicle that is designed to have maximum military capability, but with the lowest possible cost. Then create a flying car technology can be realized, and the final prototype able to conquer all terrain conditions.

Some of the technologies that will be created, among others, adaptive wing, propeller channel, the material vehicles, hybrid systems, and battery vehicles.

Mercedes Benz Opening the 2010 With E-Class Cabriolet

Stuttgart, Germany - German automakers, Mercedes-Benz had already had a surprise at the beginning of 2010 with the release of the latest Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet.

As quoted from the official site Daimler, Saturday (2/1/2010) Newer cars are planned to be released on January 11, 2010 in Germany. Earlier variants of the four E-Class that will appear at the Detroit Motor Show event the day before the launch of January 10, 2010.

As a supporting, E-Class Cabriolet has a roof that can be opened and closed within 20 seconds that set up automatically. While the E-Class Cabriolet has a car length 4.62 meters, 1.76 meters wide and 1.27 meters high, which is sufficient dimension to be a great maneuver.

And for the safety of passengers, E-Class Cabriolet has a myriad of safety features including a roll-over bars behind the rear seat, 7 fruit airbags, seatbelt, active headrests, driver detection system when sleepy, and headlights that are adaptive.

In Germany, Mercedes-Benz offers 2 different engine variants. Supporting, among others E350 Cabriolet is equipped with 3500 cc engine with a V6 configuration that can produce up to 268 hp, and type of E550 with 5500 cc engine that ejects a V8 configuration of power to 382 hp.

Unfortunately, this story revealed that there has been no official statement from the price of a Mercedes Benz E-Class Cabriolet. However, as reported by the official site Daimler, the car continued success in the aerodynamic E-Class.

Audi Will Beat BMW With 8 New Models

Wolfsburg - the largest car factory in Germany, Volkswagen AG, ready to challenge the brand countryman, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW). They set up eight new models by relying on products from the group, Audi, as a weapon to compete with the largest luxury car manufacturer in the world until 2015.

In preparation, Audi said it would increase investment worth 7.3 billion euros (about USD 98.7 trillion). In addition to developing new models, this step while increasing the quality of the plant when production started in 2012. Similarly quoted gasgoo.com, late closing years. Of that amount, 5.9 billion euros is used to create a new model or absorb up to 81 percent of the total budget of four-year period since 2009.

Fresh funding is part of a plan of parent company VW Wolfsburg-based automotive manufacturers to become dominant in the world. Currently, Audi has a total of 34 models of vehicles and will grow to 42 models in 2015. For your information, currently under Audi BMW and Daimler AG Mercedes-Benz.

"BMW and Mercedes should start looking more seriously Audi. Volkswagen currently spend a lot of Audi to become the best manufacturer of premium cars. Maybe Mercedes could lose his position early next year," said Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, Director of the Center for Automotive Research at the University of Duisburg - Essen, in Germany.

Several new models including the Audi's A1, which will be introduced to the market in mid-2010. This product becomes the cheapest model of the Audi and the secret weapon in the BMW manufacturers are developing small urban vehicles and Mercedes-Benz will invest 1.4 billion euros, also for small cars.

In addition, the manufacturer will also launch another model luxury coupe genre, the A7. This car will be head to head with the BMW 6 Series and Mercedes-Benz CLS. The end of 2010, Audi has started selling a hybrid version of the Q5 SUV. To technological advances, Audi will start producing electricity powered sports car E-Tron end of 2012.

"The development of electric and hybrid vehicles will become the main foundation of our company's growth. Investment is made out of the flow of funds within the company itself," said Finance Director Axel Strotbek Audi.

Audi has raised its sales target this year to 2.8 percent or 925,000 units in November and due to increased sales in China. In 2016, the manufacturer determined to be able to achieve global sales of 1.5 million units.

Hyundai I10 Electric Vehicle

New Delhi - India's storehouse small cars. Do not want to miss, from the Korean manufacturer, Hyundai plans to display their car from the city I10-powered electricity generation, namely I10 EV (Electric Vehicle) at the Delhi Auto Show next month.
Five-door city car is run by I10 EV-powered electric motor 65HP with the support of 16 kWh lithium-ion polymer battery that has been developed together with Motorola Korea.

With such a configuration, I10 EV can have mileage in the range of 100 miles or 160 kilometers with a top speed of more than 80 mph or 130 km per hour.

Apart from the presence of I10 EV, we expect the Hyundai to show the concept version of the small car. Media reports recently Hyundai i30 also going to add, i40, Tucson and Santa Fe.

Hyundai also will display the range and the existing concepts for vehicles with futuristic technology on the mat the Indian automotive exhibition, in January 2010. Curious?

Production will begin in 2010 and will be sold in Korea first, from the side of the exterior design is not much different from the I10 version of the gasoline sold in the global market.

Korea is the active to make changes in the engines that drive their cars during the last 10 years.

Diesel Cars Will Flood The United States

Detroit - As the year 2009, hybrid cars flooding the United States, then in 2010 recorded a number of manufacturers such as Audi, Volkswagen, Fiat and Suzuki have prepared the models for the diesel-engined American market.

Indeed, hybrid cars that can produce cleaner emissions, but diesel engines can prove durability, even in conditions of economic recession though.

The people who used to think 70 years old hatchback's diesel as the car that hard, dirty and difficult, may have to adjust our thinking to see the current diesel as a "green car".

Like the Audi A3 TDI diesel which won Green Car of the Year in 2009 at the Los Angeles Auto Show, following the Jetta TDI, another diesel from Volkswagen Audi.

Chrysler is expected to show versions of the Delta in the North American
International Auto Show in Detroit, 11-24 January 2009, where diesel engines will probably come later with the SUV Grand Cherokee and Liberty SUV crossover.

Nissan Infiniti also introduce a V6 diesel version of the M sedan. To compete with Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi and luxury brands in Europe, Infiniti should have the diesel for the U.S. market.

Even the other Japanese brands, Suzuki, can get through a Volkswagen diesel engine for nearly 20 percent stake in the company. it could be a diesel version of SX4 in India will be trafficked into the U.S. market.

Meanwhile, according to JD Power and Associates, 50 percent of cars in Europe are diesel, will reach 10 percent in the U.S. market in 2015, as reported by the Detroit News, Saturday (2/1/2010).

Batman Car Limousine Version

New York - When the movie Batman, of course, there are only Batmobil in Gotham City with the specifications of sport specifically designed for use Batman to fight crime.

Well, in New York City, there is also a similar car approaching reality. However, a more phenomenal because this type of limo! This car may be called Batlimo, you can see on the streets of the Big Apple, Manhattan, New York.

As reported by Topspeed on Thursday (31/12/2009) this car a long dimension properly sedan limo, of course, it's just that the car was designed as Batman, with the base of the C4 Corvette.

Seeing the front face, this car reminds us of a car icon Batman Batman in the 90's era, which was directed by Tim Burton.

But, unfortunately, the spraying fire from the exhaust is only a decoration only, but will be more fascinating when exhaust Batlimo really took fire, like in the movies of course.