For car lovers, the first days of March are always exciting, as one of the most important events in the auto industry begins - the Geneva International Motor Show (international motor show). This year's motor show is number 85 in its 110-year history and impresses with presentations of visionary vehicles of the future and new models that will hit the roads in the coming months. We have reviewed some important innovations for you.
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Volkswagen will unveil the off-road-inspired Passat alltrack in Geneva, which will get the expected off-road capability, greater ground clearance and the always standard 4motion drive. Buyers will have a choice of two gasoline TSI and three diesel 2.0 TDI engines and DSG automatic transmission. We can expect the volkswagen passat alltrack in showrooms in September.
Hyundai apparently realizes the confusion caused by the different numerical designations, so it is dropping the ix35 name and reverting to the old Tucson name, for a newcomer to the small SUV class. Tucson will be presented in detail in Geneva.
The Opel Corsa is one of the most successful city cars of all time, as it has been on the road for more than 30 years. The new generation of corsa proves that it does not make sense to excessively change old and successful recipes. With a thorough renovation, it again caught up with its competitors and even overtook them in some segments. On the test, we hosted the most interesting one with a three-cylinder 1.0 ecotec turbo engine, which is, simply put - exciting.
In a few days, Hyundai will drive the somewhat refreshed, but extremely interesting Hyundai i30, which was launched in this generation in 2012. After three years, the designers and engineers decided that it was time for some minor cosmetic corrections.
The McLaren 675 LT, which we will be able to see live for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2015, will stand out for its longer "rear end", which comes at the expense of better aerodynamics and a tribute to the F1 GTR Long model. Okay, maybe this one won't stick out as much as Jennifer Lopez, but this athlete will definitely stick out because of another trump card, because he's not only attractive on the outside, but also on the inside. It carries a V8 "basket", namely a V8 twin turbo engine is hidden under the hood.
Not Eyjafjallajökull, not Vesuvius, the most active volcano will be the new Aston Martin Vulcan. The racing car, which was named after the Roman god of fire, is so beastly that it would rather not be let out of the "cage", and it can only be driven on the racetrack. Yes, we are really not used to such extreme trips from Aston Martin, as they are more at home in prestigious sports cruisers, but they are also no strangers to supercars. But this one is the most brutal after the One-77 model, and the price is also brutal - 2.05 million euros.
The new Volkswagen Touran will be officially presented in a few days at the Geneva Motor Show. But, because volkswagen is already teasing us and increasing the tension before the official presentation, it showed us the new volkswagen touran and also announced it with the first photos. We can conclude that the new VW touran summarizes the guidelines of its brothers and thus steps into the design shoes of the last generation golf and passat, as well as the rejuvenated volkswagen sharan presented some time ago. The new Touran will hit Slovenian roads in autumn 2015.
After Land Rover "shocked" the automotive public in 2011 with a surprisingly modern and advanced crossover, this renowned English brand has now announced that they will come to Geneva "armed" with a rejuvenated model of the new Range Rover Evoque. The greatest progress has been made in the area of economy and weight, and there is also a lot of talk about the convertible version, which should hit the roads a little later.
More than 20 years ago, McLaren wrote a new chapter in sports motoring when it created the McLaren F1 GTR road sports car. Despite its enviable age, this is still not for the old model, but compared to younger rivals (eg Ferrari LaFerrari and FXX K) it is still Rocky Balboa from the sixth part and not the first part. McLaren responded to the last moves of the competition with the P1 GTR model, which will be presented in Geneva, and even earlier it walked around the circuit with its "great-grandfather", the F1 GTR.
In the year that we have just left, Ford thoroughly ventilated, or rather renovated, its range of LGV models and added quite a few new ones. So there is a certain amount of confusion at Ford now, because there are so many models that even buyers sometimes don't know which model it is without visual support. See how the Ford tourneo connect fared in our test.
The Lotus Evora 400 may be looking at the back of some other supercars, but that's why it's much lighter than the competition (it has lost weight to only 1.4 tons). Otherwise, the final 300 km/h per hour is not at all that "swish", especially considering that it is made for driving on normal roads. It will make its world debut at the 85th Geneva International Motor Show on March 3, 2015.