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The result of the annual Car of the Year election is Monday has become known within. The car that this prestigious title for a year may carry the VW Golf.

This year was the candidate of the Car of the Year --eight cars: the Renault Clio, Mercedes-Benz A-Class, Ford B-Max, Peugeot 208, Volvo V40, Hyundai i30, Volkswagen and Toyota GT86 cum Subaru BRZ.

From this list, the jury chose the winner with a score of 404 points. In the second place, the Toyota GT86/Subaru BRZ (202 points) and as number three, the Volvo V40 (189 points) from the bus. In 1992 won the VW Golf even once.

Reason
the reason for the profit of the Golf gave the jury the following argument: "The new Golf is appreciated for its overall balance and exceptional performance in terms of safety, fuel efficiency, dynamics and comfort. The cabin has a classic style with analog instruments, is spacious and has excellent feel and materials that contribute to the noticeable quality.

Last years title went to the Opel Ampera and his U.S. counterpart Chevrolet Volt. On 2 ended the Volkswagen Up, followed by the Ford Focus. In 2011 was the Nissan Leaf top, in 2010 it was the Volkswagen Polo. The election was first held in 1964, with the Rover 2000 winner.

The complete results are as follows:
1. VW Golf 414 points
2. Toyota GT86 * 202
3. Volvo V40 189
4. Ford B-Max 148
5. Mercedes A Class 138
6. Renault Clio 128
7. Peugeot 208 120
8. Hyundai i30 111
* = With Subaru BRZ

SEMA 2012 in Las Vegas is in full swing and this among other Mazda trio attracts many visitors to himself. The three special CX-5 and recognize each as a specific theme with an adventurous approach.

 The three CX-5 and Mazda at the SEMA Show has put down are all dressed tough but the CX-5 Urban also any arbitrary autotuner could come. With its matte black lacquer, decorated with true motives for striking shadow effects should provide, and huge 22-inch wheels, the CX-5 primarily designed to impress. And that not only visual but also audible by means of an exhaust system of racing Beat.

CX-5 Dempsey
What woman does not know him, Patrick "McDreamy" Dempsey. The mainly among women beloved star playing in the hospital series "Greys Anatomy" sure enough looks somewhat sleepy eyes, but in real life it is an active person and gifted race car driver. The CX-5 Dempsey who is named after him, and among other things is equipped with a bike rack and aerodynamic roof box fits in this sense so well in this picture. The red accents scattered over the exterior and interior, the true nature of the actor reflects.

CX-5180
CX-5180, mostly about last number indicates the number of horsepower under the hood, but not in this Mazda. The number 180 has everything to do with the theme of water and winter sports and acrobatics (and 180 degrees) during this active sports may be performed. On the bodywork and the surfboard as well as snowboards on the roof gives Mazda depicted by an abstract topographic map, where are happening. For those who can not tell from the map, Mazda refers to the waters of Big Bear Lake and piont Dume in Southern California. The vastgesnoerde sports equipment on the CX-5180 come into their own as well. Inside youll find a lot leather. Luxury and practical at the same time when you and your soaking wet wetsuit to a nearby bay for drives that have higher wave.

We can jump to high or low, the Chinese are coming! Currently in Europe there are still few car manufacturers that vast Asian country, but that will change gradually. Take the Chinese Qoros. This has serious plans with three European tastes cut models.

 At this time we take the few Chinese car brands that currently are not very serious in the "Western" world car. Their cars can not nearly match the seasoned car manufacturers. Not yet. But look at a Chinese car five years ago and one of nowadays and you probably arrange for the steps they have taken.

Geneva
Qoros, a Chinese car brand that was founded in 2007 after a joint venture between the Chinese Chery and Israel Corporation, thinks its ready to be competitive and at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show they mean to prove. In early March 2013, they were in Switzerland their first of a total of three new models (preliminary) reveal. The other two will follow, but thats going to come up with a modern, European-inspired design and modern conveniences. Or so claims Qoros. To want to switch vendors will certainly not lie, because on the list no shortage names like Magna Steyr, Continental, Bosch, Valeo and Microsoft. And the fledgling automotive brand also plays immediately on safety by claiming that all of its products to the highest step of the independent EuroNCAP crash tests will end. We are curious.

It seems that in 2015 Alfa Romeo SUV releases.

For years seems Alfa Romeo off relationship with the concept of the SUV to have. Where in 2008 we have received word that an Italian cross-over in 2010, the market would we need yet no long-legged Alfa do.

The always flamboyant Sergio Marchionne wants Alfas SUV in 2015 in showrooms in them, reports Bloomberg. The model is one of the nine new Italians who brand the next four years to go enhance. Marchionne put high on the upcoming model, according to the CEO, the SUV the group in Europe get out of the doldrums.

Reportedly, the tough Alfa Romeo technique to share with the current Dodge Dart, which in turn is related to the Giulietta. In the Mirafiori factory, the SUV will see the light of day. The new apple of Marchionne must go up against cars like the BMW X3 and Audi Q5.

With the imminent return of Alfa Romeo in the United States Marchionne has his sights on the continent. He wants the company less dependent on the single European car sales.

Ford Transit Custom 2012: Preview of the restyling of the model. The renovation of the Ford Transit, a commercial vehicle in Europe, and most of the world, could take over ... Now comes fully renovated and last name Custom to customize the model even more, because despite being a working model incorporates the latest technology and all the experience of a renowned brand. Since then, many renovations incorporated into the Ford Transit Custom, so better for you to discover yourself ...

Restyling of the Ford Transit Custom ...
When we think of a truck or van work, one of the first models we imagine is the Ford Transit, one of the most popular commercial vehicles in Europe and worldwide. After the presentation of Ford Tourneo at Geneva Motor Show last March in the house of blue oval has officially unveiled to the public and the press, the new look of the Ford Transit Custom 2012.

Thus, the new generation of Ford have decided to add Custom to the name, first to underline the relationship with the concept car presented at the event, and on the other, to further differentiate the transit of current models.

Although only a commercial vehicle, the new Ford Transit Custom incorporates all the technology and experience of the American company, to create a means of commercial transport, which its segment from the top of it.

Changes in design for marketing
For starters, the aesthetic is completely new and inspired by the latest design of Ford in Kinetic Design, being able to give new impetus to the model stopped and parked. Compared to the old model, still maintains the old style, the new generation of Transit is more personal and modern.

In all likelihood, the new Ford Transit Custom 2012 will be comprehensive vehicle sales, following the most recent business philosophy of American household. And is that while Ford, tended to have different ranges depending on the market, mainly in the U.S. and Europe, now aims to create models that suit their marketing worldwide, achieving an overall cost savings.

The new Transit is available in several configurations, as seen in the gallery of official images from the classical model to model truck ... also will release a short wheelbase, whose total length is 4.97 meters.

In both cases, the cargo compartment of the Ford Transit is huge and regularly, where you can load the objects, including a length of 340 cm in the long wheelbase version, or up to three meters in the regular version. The maximum load capacity ranging from 600 to 1,400 kg, depending on the version chosen and seating position.

Interior and furnishing
inside, comfort reflects the same trend as the most recent road models like the Ford Focus. Space is plentiful, but the functionality is still one of the main features, including the new model, combined with better quality and finish.

Regarding the provision does not seem nearly that of a commercial vehicle as it incorporates six airbags, front airbags, side and curtain ESP stability control, torque vector control, Ford Sync media system, lane-keeping system sensors, sensor alert and rearview camera, among many other cutting-edge innovations.

In short, the commercial vehicle is manufactured in Turkey, and goes on sale later this year around the world, without making distinctions between the U.S. and Europe ... So far we do not know prices, but will soon published. See the Ford Transit Custom 2012, the promotion spot...

Why bother it easily? Renault is working with the hottest version of the Clio, but is apparently not necessary for this to the world to escape. He is currently being tested at the Nürburgring. Without camouflage.

"After us the deluge," Renault must have thought when they were with the new Clio RS to Nürburg understated. Why bother with camouflage if your audience a favor and do the first glimpse of this prince of hot hatches? Among these spectators there was also our photographer who rocket at the sensitive plate placed.

Clio
We see, of course, especially the lines of the new Clio with the huge attention grabber Renault logo on the grille. Immediately fall however, that this is a Clio with a big mouth, literally and figuratively. With his thick bumpers, diffuser and side skirts are sportiveness not exactly subtle eliminated. Which is just as well because the Clio RS is known as a true drivers car. In the previous generation it might work hard, you got unlimited fun in return. And we can only hope that that spirit Renault for the new RS has managed to keep alive.

2.0 liter
under the hood is at least perfectly fine because the familiar 2.0-liter four-cylinder will again going to make an appearance. Although exact figures are lacking is targeted at approximately 210 horsepower, slightly more than the current RS. It will be a while before we may find ourselves but we can not wait to get behind the wheel of this hot hot rod. In Paris we can see the car at least equally static view.

With great enthusiasm, our spy photographer sends these photos of the Volkswagen cross up! by. "Completely --!” He opens his mail. The car is part of Volkswagens winter test team currently in northern Scandinavia the first kilometers through the icy cold makes.

Volkswagen presented the cross up! September last year already at the IAA in Frankfurt. Then perhaps as a concept, but Volkswagen made quite quickly that the model would go into production virtually unchanged. Indeed, we reason in January of this year the first kilometers with a prototype of the model.

15 mm
all things considered the cross up! Neither more nor less than a five-door up! 15 millimeters more ground clearance, which is tougher bumper work and a few plastic inserts on the wheel arches. A cross here and there and it -- benjamin so can be wheeled into the showrooms. How seriously this test work is performed is therefore debatable. Maybe Volkswagen the car are very conscious in the spotlight driven. A little attention to an imminent launch is never wrong. Well, mission accomplished!

The Lamborghini Gallardo is not exactly a shortage of speed, but is perhaps the most in terms of looks tame bull from the Italian squad. A possible conviction proir Design anyway the head wants impressions.

The tuning kit from proir Design for the Gallardo is a purely cosmetic in nature. Both the front and rear will be replaced with the biggest eye catcher the huge diffuser at the rear. This was apparently not enough for the Gallardo on the road to suck because a huge spoiler adds to more down force on the rear axle. Furthermore, additional air intakes added to the front wheels and openings on the roof to man and machine cool. Or the whole influence on the velocity potential is unknown, subcutaneous there anyway - despite the PD-L800-name - nothing changed.

Lamborghini Gallardo

Old model
Have you recently bought a Gallardo and be receptive to this extreme aero package? Unfortunately, the PD-L800 is only suitable for copies of the first generation (2003-2008). For those who have a Gallardo of this class have, in this way bring your obsolete sports car back up to date. The complete set costs incidentally € 12.900, - and that does not include installation.

Smart ForTwo and ForFour:  We are something more than a month and a half for the start of the 2012 Paris Motor Show, which will begin on September 29. That proximity makes that we have the confirmation of the different models will be presented at the Paris event, among which will be the new generation of Smart ForTwo and ForFour Smart. Two cars will face a review that has already attracted considerable interest because of the significant changes that offer. This evolution will still take some time to get to our roads.

The list of innovations that we will meet at the 2012 Paris Motor Show is already wide enough for us not to miss any detail of what will happen in the French capital at the end of September. There we meet the next generation of Volkswagen Golf, the new Mitsubishi Mirage or the Peugeot HR1, models that look along with new products for Smart, which is likely to come in the form of Concept Car

New generation of Smart ForTwo
In many ways it was announced that the brand managed by Mercedes, and has collaborated with Renault in its latest developments, submit a Smart ForTwo which will feature many of the elements that we have known in experimental models such as the Smart ForVision Concept and Fours Smart Study, characters in recent lounges in Frankfurt and Detroit respectively. These two proposals have marked the development of the new Smart ForTwo, which will feature new engines and will be manufactured on a new platform.

According to those information’s, it is precisely within this Smart ForTwo more noticeable where the partnership with Renault as the French firm has been involved from the outset in the design and development of this new platform. A new platform that will be three types of bodywork such as the standard coupe and convertibles, and up to five different equipment options for the third generation of one of the most recognizable cars in the automobile market.

Secrecy around the Smart ForFour
If in the case of the Smart ForTwo we do have a lot of data on its development and evolution, everything changes when talking about the new Smart ForFour, against which maintains secrecy. For now, we have little more about him than any image of their first demos and why the announcement of his arrival in production occurred already in 2010 by one of the top managers of the firm.

However, after two years since that comment, are not yet finalized the details about the new developments in the Smart ForFour. However, the work may have been accelerated in recent months as though it thought would not be filed until the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show, is given as probably its presence in the Paris Motor Show this year next to the Smart ForTwo.

Proudly shows Donkervoort D8 know the production of the GTO to have started. The small Dutch automaker leaving both knows what the new weapon can Zeal.

The D8 GTO is the new flagship of Donkervoort, but as Premium will also quickly from the price list of the Lelystad Company disappear. There are only 25 because of this special introductory models built 19 units of which are already reserved by customers, so actually sold. The price tag amounts to 140 thousand net of taxes. In 2013 Donkervoort start with the normal versions of the D8 GTO.

6.1 seconds
currently, the D8 GTO for many months at Quattro GmbH performance division Audi, Bosch and thorough testing activities. In September hopes Donkervoort tests the Nardo Ring, the Porsche test track in Italy to finalize, but there is already fixed a glimpse of the performance given. And although not yet official, who promise much. How about an acceleration from 0 to 200 km / h in just 6.1 seconds and Donkervoort our own words into the mouth explains by saying that "the D8 GTO one of the fastest sports cars accelerated at the moment belongs.

700 kg
the gigantic task performance of the D8 GTO comes from a car weighing just 700 kg in relation to a standard output of 340 hp coming from a 2.5 liter turbocharged Audi. If desired, this Donkervoort TT-RS and RS3 engine give even more power with all the positive consequences.

Ford Focus: top-selling vehicle in the world in the first half of 2012. The Ford Focus has become its own right in the worlds best selling vehicle in the first half of this year, surpassing the half-million units. Of these, 153 400 model went to the European market, which lifts him to the top of the models sold globally. The new Focus has plenty of equipment and the most modern, multiple versions, both 4 and 5 door, and best of all, the best engine of the year, the Ecoboost, and for this reason, it becomes the Focus, in the best-selling vehicle in the world in the first half of 2012. Find out ...

More than half a million units ...
The model of the American manufacturer Ford Focus has been the best selling car in the world during the first seven months of the year, with 522,821 units, according to IHS data indicate Automotive.

From the U.S. House have stressed that the automobile over half a million sold worldwide, about 153,400 units were distributed in Europe, allowing you to put Ford ahead of other car manufacturers in Europe, as in the rest of the world.

The American house sold more than 860,000 units of this car in 2011 and has 350 million vehicles produced in the 109 years of company history.

Some features of the best-selling model
The new Focus features with various technological innovations such as the security system Active City Stop, Turns to Parking Assistance, Aid to Maintain Lane, the Lane Departure Warning, the Traffic Sign Recognition or Lo Light Automatic Change , among many other elements.

Moreover, the versions come with five-and four-door and wagon option. This year we launched the sports version of the Focus ST, with an output of 250 hp, while in 2013 it will begin to market the Focus Electric, the manufacturer like Mazda.

Is it because your engine, the Ecoboost?
The Ford Focus 1.0 Ecoboost will be available in 100 and 125 horsepower offering as discussed below very low fuel consumption without sacrificing good performance. The incorporation of this new engine is the disappearance of known atmospheric 1.6 contained in the catalog of the Focus.

Highlights are the reductions in consumption. The 1.0 Ecoboost 100 hp 4.8-liter says consume combined consumption per 100 km, increasing to 5 liters in DE125 hp version.

As mentioned, this reduction does not mean rejecting consumer benefits, thus the 125-hp Ecoboost has a top speed of 193 km / h and acceleration from 0 to 100km / h in 11.3 seconds, the 100 hp variant is a little more slowly, remaining in the 185 km / h and 12.5 seconds for the 0-100km / h.

For the new Focus consume less have added the latest technology available, incorporating systems such as Start & Stop. Another system is incorporated in charge of opening and closing the grill according to the needs, to improve aerodynamics, and therefore consumption, called Active Grille Shutter. Discover the best selling car so far this year...

Compact four-door coupe models of the new CLA German car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz has just leaked on the internet.

In addition to this leaked picture, the Mercedes-Benz will introduce a sample image of CLA in the first scene in the TV ad will be aired on American television in the 4th quarter of the current fiscal year to date 3/2 to.

In the past, it is expected that this will form CLA debuts at the Detroit auto show, but in fact not the case.

Mercedes says it will formally introduce this form CLA in public at the Geneva auto show in January 3/2013.

This model was developed based on the chassis of the compact hatchback model A-Class but below the C-Class saloon model in terms of price and equipment. However, its a bit longer and wider than a compact sedan from Mercedes.

The cars will be equipped with engine versions depending on the market that it appears the same as the A-Class hatchback.

The version of this engine is a 2.0 petrol engine with a capacity of 208 hp to 250 BlueEFFICIENCY version CLA and a radically improved version of this engine design, giving it a capacity of 350 horsepower and 450 torque nm.

This version of the engine will be equipped for CLA 45 AMG engine fitted with four-wheel drive system. In Europe there will be diesel versions.