2011 geneva motor show
Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Leaked: First Photo of Murcielago Successor
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After plenty of teaser shots and even some video, it’s not Lamborghini who is unveiling the new Aventador LP700-4 but a leaked image courtesy Evo Magazine Croatia. Taking design inspiration from the Reventon, powering the successor to the Murcielago is a 6.5-liter V12 rated at roughly 690-hp. It will be 18 percent more powerful than…
Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Rolling Chassis Previewed Ahead of Geneva Debut
Lamborghini is continuing the engineering strip-tease of its super sports car, with the latest reveal being the full rolling chassis. Recently, Lambo showed-off the carbon fiber monocoque and now they’ve bolted on the front and rear suspension bits, as well as the cradle for the engine and transmission. As for the suspension, it has already…
Subaru ‘Boxer Sports Car Architecture’ Teased Ahead of Geneva Debut
Subaru is building hype ahead of the reveal of its rear-wheel drive sports car next week at the Geneva Auto Show, releasing a new teaser image on a web site (http://www.subaru-global.com/boxersports.html) dedicate to the vehicle. Along with the photo of the brand’s legendary Boxer engine is a brief outline of what Subaru calls the Boxer…
MINI Rocketman Tipped as Name of New 80-MPG Carbon Spaceframe City Car
MINI‘s rumored city car, set to debut at the Geneva Auto Show, now has a name. According to reports, the more mini MINI will be called the Rocketman and will make use of parent company BMW’s carbon fiber investments to showcase an entirely carbon fiber spaceframe chassis. This should give it an incredibly low curb…
MINI City Car Concept to Bow at Geneva Auto Show
MINI will unveil a new city-car concept at the Geneva Auto Show next week as it continues to study the possibility of a smaller model to sit below the Cooper hard-top in the current lineup. According to reports, the car will be a 3 +1 layout, along the lines of the Toyota iQ and will…
Maserati Gran Cabrio Sport Gets Added Power, Performance: Geneva Preview
Maserati has just revealed a new version of its Gran Cabrio model, adding power and improved driving dynamics. Set to officially debut at the Geneva Auto Show in just a week, the Gran Cabrio Sport (likely to be called the Gran Turismo Convertible Sport in North America) makes use of the same 4.7-liter V8 engine…
Audi Plans Four-Door A3 Concept at Geneva Auto Show
North Americans only received the small Golf-based A3 hatchback a few years ago, but Audi is planning to expand the lineup with a fastback four-door sedan at the Geneva Auto Show packing 400+ horsepower and quattro AWD. The power comes courtesy of a turbocharged 5-cylinder engine, attached with precision to a 7-speed S-tronic transmission. Stylistically,…
Smart Forspeed EV Roadster Concept Revealed Ahead of Geneva Auto Show
The Forspeed concept is Smart‘s interpretation of a zero-emissions roadster, based on the only vehicle Smart currently builds: its Fortwo city car. It’s designed to complement the rest of Smart’s electric transportation lineup for really small vehicles, which includes a scooter and a bicycle. The squat, roofless car features huge, ringed headlights reminiscent of eyelashes,…
Lotus Elise Club Racer Revealed With Less Weight, New 1.6L Engine [Geneva Preview]
Due to increasingly strict fuel economy standards, Lotus was forced to scrap its 1.8-liter 4-cylinder engine for the Elise and Exige in Europe. The good news is that the smaller 1.6-liter engine now in use helps cut a little more weight from the car, dropping it down to just 1,931 lbs. For years Lotus has…
Lamborghini Aventado LP700-4 Teased Again in New Video
Lamborghini is continuing to build hype ahead of the reveal of its new supercar at the Geneva Auto Show, releasing a teaser video of the car in action. Showing more of the exterior of the car as well as a few interior shots, it’s almost possible to make out the new gauge display that Lamborghini…
Range_e Range Rover Sport Plug-in Diesel Hybrid to Debut in Geneva
Land Rover will unveil the next step in its mission to become a ‘greener’ automaker at the Geneva Auto Show in just a few weeks time. Set to take the stand alongside the new 3-door and 5-door Evoque models is the Range_e Range Rover Sport. Powered by a turbo-diesel V6 engine, mated to a plug-in…
Porsche Panamera S Hybrid Revealed Ahead of Geneva Auto Show Debut [Video]
Porsche‘s new Panamera sedan has been a tremendous success and now the German sports car company has revealed a new hybrid version of the car, combining performance and fuel economy. Motivated by the same 333-hp 3.0L V6 engine and 47-hp electric motor combo as found in the Cayenne hybrid, the Panamera S Hybrid makes 380-hp…
Toyota iQ EV to Debut at Geneva Auto Show, U.S. Leasing Program to Follow
As we anticipate the launch of the Scion iQ here in North America, parent company Toyota is preparing to introduction an all electric version of the mini-car in Europe. Set to debut at the Geneva Auto Show in March, the car uses a lithium-ion battery located under the floor. As a result it doesn’t take…
2011 Lancia Lineup of Rebadged Chryslers Revealed Ahead of Geneva Debut
As a part of Fiat’s control of Chrysler, the company will breath new life into its Lancia division by re-launching it using rebadged versions of Chrysler products – including the new 2011 300. Powering many of the vehicles will be Chrysler’s new 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 engine, as well as several diesel choices. Lancia has not…
2012 Mercedes C-Class Coupe Debuts With Direct-Injection V6, Turbocharged 4-Cylinder
Engineered to make you forget the C230 hatchback ever existed, Mercedes-Benz has just revealed its new C-Class Coupe with a planned world premiere at the Geneva Auto Show in March. With a profile similar to the E-Class coupe, it gets a slightly more simplistic front end borrowed from the C-Class sedan. It has a sportier…
Honda to Reveal Plug-in Hybrid Platform at Geneva Auto Show
For years Honda has relied on its Integrated Motor Assist hybrid system, designed to help improve fuel economy without adding a lot of additional cost. A more basic system than Toyota’s two-mode, it doesn’t speak to Honda’s engineering prowess and has become out-dated. Honda will aim to rectify that soon with the introduction of a…
Saab to Show Hatchback Concept at Geneva Auto Show
Saab is planning to show off four new models at the Geneva Auto Show, including an all-new hatchback concept that will help put the company back to its five-door (or three-door) roots. The four-car range will feature the 9-5 SportCombi wagon, which was previously teased and will debut at Geneva. There will be the 2012…
Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Spied Testing [Video]
Lamborghini has already teased its new Aventador LP700-4 supercar several times, but now we have some amateur spy video of the Murcielago successor. Better yet, there isn’t just one car, but two of them doing some final shake-downs ahead of the official reveal at the Geneva Auto Show on March 1st. Taking design inspiration from…
Lexus LFA Nurburgring to Make First Appearance at Geneva Auto Show
The Lexus LFA has been on the auto show circuit for quite some time now and owners have even started to take delivery of their Japanese supercars, but what about that special Nurburgring edition? Announced several months ago, the limited edition LFA (just 50 of the 500) will make its first official appearance at the…
2012 Kia Rio Uncovered Ahead of Geneva Debut With Turbocharged Direct-Injection 1.2L
Kia has just released the first details and photos of the new Rio sub-compact ahead of its world premiere at the Geneva Auto Show in March. A sister car to the Hyundai Accent (details on the 2012 model here), the Rio gets a unique styling and for now will only be available as either a…
2012 Mercedes C-Class Coupe Photos Leaked Ahead of Geneva Reveal, Again
Set to debut in just under a month’s time at the Geneva Auto Show, a second batch of photos of the Mercedes-Benz C-Class Coupe have been leaked showing the car in more detail than before. The luxury coupe gets some of the restyling from the newly facelifted 2012 C-Class sedan. More important, however, are the…
Porsche to Debut New Hybrid at Geneva Auto Show, Panamera Hybrid Expected
Porsche has announced it will debut an all new hybrid model at the Geneva Auto Show on March 1st. No details have been provided beyond that, but the vehicle is believed to be a hybrid version of the Panamera sedan. Likely to wear the Panamera S Hybrid badge, it will use the same powertrain found…
Mansory-Tuned Evora to Debut on Lotus Stand at Geneva Auto Show
Lotus has just announced it will debut a Mansory-tuned version of its Evora sports car at the upcoming Geneva Auto Show. In a brief statement, the British sports car company makes it very clear that this is in now way a new version of the car, not is it a facelift, but simply a look…
Renault Captur is How the French Say ‘Nissan Juke’
Previewing a possible sister-car to the Nissan Juke, Renault has announced the new Captur Concept ahead of its official debut at the Geneva Auto Show. The two seater is a look at fun crossover mobility and is the second of six concepts that will set the tone for the French automaker’s future design language. Powered…
