New Renault Fluence Compact Sedan for Russia, Turkey and Romania (details and photos)

French automaker has revealed details on the new Renault Fluence. The new compact sedan will fabricate and start selling in Russia, Turkey and Romania from this November.

The new Fluence is 4.62 metres long, 1.81m varied and 1.48m high. It has a wheelbase of 2.7m. The rear seat has a 60/40 tension capability while the interior provides some 23 litres of stowage legroom. Renault claims the car has more passenger room than its close rivals.

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New Dacia Sandero Stepway Crossover Officially Unveiled in Barcelona

Renault‘s low-cost Romanian brand Dacia has revealed the Sandero Stepway at the Barcelona Auto Show. The four-metre long a small hatchback with raised ground clearance but no all-wheel drive system Dacia Sandero Stepway is the European edition of the Renault Sandero Stepway which has sold 2,700 units in Brazil and Argentina since its launch in 2008.

The new Stepway will be available with a 90HP 1.6-liter petrol and a 70HP 1.5-liter dCi diesel engine. The former has a common fuel consumption of 7.6 litres per 100km while the last plant up a thriftier proposition with its 5.3 litres per 100km regular. Its C02 emissions are 140g/km.

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LIVE in Geneva: Volkswagen Polo Mk V and BlueMotion Concept

Volkswagen uncovers its all-new B-segment with the new 2010 Polo Mk V and the all-new Polo BlueMotion Concept car at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show.

The new B-segment cars comes in three- and five-door tailgate flavors with a scope of gas and diesel engines, but the chief of the cram is the BlueMotion mode with 96 g/km of CO2 emissions. VW showed a thought for the next-gen BlueMotion mode that will launch in 2010 and expected to come to the US market in the next couple of years.

The BlueMotion notion uses an efficient 1.2L three cylinder TDI diesel, with 74 hp. Combining with 15-crawl low rolling resistance tires, a blanked off trellis, extensive rocker panels for worse drag, automated vault sojourn, and brake energy regeneration. The base lined is 71.3 mpg (US) and 87 g/km of CO2 emissions. That makes the new BlueMotion the most effective five passenger home combustion car on the street.

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New 2009 Volkswagen Polo Mk V Officially Unveiled (details and photos)

The new Volkswagen Polo Mk V has been finally unveiled at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show. The new Polo is now even better, improved its performance in packaging, efficiency, dynamics and styling. Production of the car starts in the summer for the UK sell, with deliveries expected to open October.

In the exterior, smooth surfaces and uncluttered lines take precedence to fortify strength while shiny front lamps and horizontal lattice facts tell a lowered bother height and wider track. Nevertheless it’s to smartly thought-out packaging that the more roomy interior owes its thanks. At 3,952 mm, the Polo Mk V is only 36 mm longer than its predecessor, with its width widening by 32 mm to 1,682 mm and the height falling by 13 mm for an enhanced stance.

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First photos of the new 2009 VW Polo Revealed on Geneva Billboard Ads

This is the first photo of the new 2009 Volkswagen Polo. A poster on billboard at the exhibition house of the Geneva Motor Show shows the new VW’s 5-door car. The new Polo made it official debut this Wednesday at the Geneva Motor Show and is scheduled to start selling by June this year at an estimate of around €14,000.

UPDATED: with new leaked scan photo

From the looks of it we can see the small VW has grown up a little bit in volume. In truth the car is said to be 3.95 metres (155.5 inches) long compared to the 3.92 metres (154.3 inches) of the preceding generation. Moreover the Polo is of higher quality and speculation is that it could even surpass as a minuscule Audi. Thus competitors like the Ford Fiesta and Toyota Yaris may be left behind by the new DS3 from Citroen as far as classing the Polo goes.

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New Opel Ampera Revealed: First official image

The first official image of the new Opel Ampera has revealed. The car is destined to be the European styled Chevrolet Volt provided by GM. The new Ampera as it will be debuting on March 3rd at the Geneva Motor Show and planned for launch in Europe in 2011.

UPDATED: with new photos + interior shots

The new Ampera is a 5-door, 4-seat hatch powered by GM’s Voltec bung-in cross scheme and is said to have a scale of 60 km running only on the lithium-ion string. An interior combustion engine acts as a generator to re-charge the batteries which GM/Opel claims will give the car an impressive complete span of 500 km. The Ampera’s string can be re-exciting through any 230 volt electrical means.

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Tuning: RENNTech presents G-Wagen Concept

Mercedes-Benz tuning group RENNTECH based in Florida has proposed a next project – Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen (Gelandewagen). Nevertheless instead of the familiar G55 AMG package, RENNtech is considering souping up a diesel model – the 3.0-litre V6 turbodiesel engine.

The body kit for G-Wagen speaks volumes about who might buy this car once it’s been polished. From these sketch we can mark the huge sonorous dish wheels, quite of shiny parts and a wide body kit. The will necessity many pots to grill up enough of rule to entice something that weighs almost three tons (6,600 lbs) along.

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2009 Nissan Cube price starting at $13,990, new Cube Krom unveiled

Nissan has announced pricing for its all-new Cube which will go on sale in the United States this May with a starting pricing of $13,990. Nissan also took the wraps off an exclusive edition type of its boxy-shaped small car called “Krom” at the 2009 Chicago Auto Show.

With this edition, the 2009 Cube will be offered in a complete of four flavors (prime, S, SL and Krom) all equipped with a 122-horsepower 1.8-liter 4-cylinder engine that’s hooked up to a continually uneven transmission (CVT) for a projected fuel market of 30 mpg on the highway.

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ABT Tuning Package for new 2009 VW Scirocco (photo)

ABT Sportsline (Germany) revealed tuning package for 2009 Volkswagen Scirocco, which consists of a full body kit, rear exhaust procedure boon engine and bodywork performance upgrades. Abt not first who show their tuning work, let’s watch at Oettinger bodykit.

On the outside, Abt emphasizes the Scirocco’s send jammed shaped look with a dramatic front mammoth fascia, trellis, periphery skirts with two air inlets, roof spoiler, rear wing and rear plentiful fascia which accommodates diagonal 4-supply rear muffler.

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New 2009 Volkswagen Polo Leaked (photo and details)

These the first images of the fifth-generation Volkswagen Polo. The styling will carefully mimic that of the new Golf MkVI as VW aims to restore its look throughout the make.

New VW Polo came to the dealers in may 2009. Then 2010 follows the CrossPolo in off-road look – again, only with front-wheel drive – and for certain markets, the Polo sedan.

Top models will get luxury kit such as touchscreen sat-nav, mandatory square help and a rear watch camera. The security and conduct are boosted, too, due to enhanced structural stiffness and a tweaked framework. The engine breadth kicks off with two gasoline-powered three-cylinders delivering 59bhp or 69bhp.

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Tuning: VW Scirocco Coupe by Oettinger

Oettinger tuned the all-new Scirocco, as the first examples of VW’s 3door auto hit the streets, and has presented a subtle bodykit that consists of aero flaps for the front splitter, sill extensions and a rear diffuser that incorporates a new set of exhaust tailpipes.

Oettinger has fiddled about underhood to twist 240PS from the 2.0-liter engine, and the smaller 1.4-liter TSI grind is good for an even 200PS at the hands of the tuner. Expecting that more is always better, the coming holds a broaden enhanced 2.0 liter TSI engine frothing out 350Hp and 470Nm.

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First Official Images of new BMW X1 Concept

First official images of new X1 Concept arrives on web ahead debut at the Paris Motor Show. Strip away those aluminum inserts on the X1 Concept and you can clearly tell that what you see here is what you’ll get in postponed 2009 when BMW releases the production edition of its baby SUV – Crossover that will sit right under the X3.

Now to our beloved issue when it comes to new BMWs: the styling. The X1 does post out but for all the improper reasons. The X1’s dished body surfacing and fussy detailing convey to brain the X3 and X5 while the front end with the large headlights and massive kidney grilles are apparently inspired from the new 7-Series. Overall the X1 is no beauty when it comes to draw.

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New 2010 Audi A8 Facelift (photo and details)

The next Audi A8 looks more luxury and elegant. Next-gen A8 planned as for a model year 2009, but a significant revision is due for 2010, and we should expect to see that car unveiled sometime during the upcoming show season.

At first new A8 will be on sale with 4.2 FSI / 372 hp and a 4.2 TDI / 340 hp engine. After that Audi followed by two six-cylinder (gasoline / diesel) with 3 liters and later a V10. On the Audi‘s W12 could renounce it lacks a hybrid drive. One sees the D4 internally referred obliquely newcomer from the rear.

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