Renault-Nissan and Daimler Engines United Around

Companies will establish a joint production of new engines, which will rise on cars Mercedes, Renault and Nissan in 2016.

The head of the alliance Renault-Nissan, Carlos Ghosn and Daimler head Dieter Zetsche confirmed a new project aimed at accelerating the development of engines that consume less fuel.

The project aims to co-create a new range of four-cylinder gasoline engines. Compact turbo direct injection is developed using the latest technology to achieve the reduction of pollutant emissions and significantly reduce the consumption of gasoline. The project to develop the new transmission will be controlled by Daimler, which gave the company Nissan technology licenses, making new cars Nissan and Infiniti, beginning in 2016, will be equipped with new transmissions, both sides said newsmakers.

Jatco, subsidiary of Nissan, is going to produce a new transmission under license in Mexico. The new powertrain will combine technology «start & stop» and «park & ​​shift by wire» (transmits commands shift electronically).

"Our relations are extended to natural and logical grounds," - said Carlos Ghosn. "This year, our partnership has reached a new level, thanks to the emergence of the first cars on the road and engine become the fruits of this partnership - said Dieter Zetsche. - And because our engineers are constantly looking for new areas of potential cooperation."

SsangYong e-XIV Preview, Concept, images, Wallpaper

SsangYong e-XIV

Paris Salon this year is not rich in concept cars. One of them was Korean elektrokrossover with extended range.

In fact, like any other car, crossover SsangYong - it's a hybrid, not a pure electric car, because in addition to the 80-kilowatt electric motor (109 hp..) E-XIV, and is equipped with a small two-cylinder liter engine which rotates 20 kilovatny (27 l. with.) generator. The electric motor is powered by a lithium-ion battery with a capacity of 16 kW / h

Mileage per charge is 80 km, and with the use of internal combustion engine and generator power reserve increases to 600 km. Crossover can be recharged in 4 hours from home network or 20 minutes from the station rapid charging. In this case, store the battery stops charging when it reaches 80% capacity. Interestingly, even when driving with a running engine CO2 emissions will not exceed 45 g / km.

Glass roof of the car, with its built-in solar panels that provide energy air conditioning, sound system and lighting system for the passenger compartment. The main "trick" the machine is a multimedia interface system. The very name of the machine stands for electric eXciting user Interface Vehicle - electric, exciting user interface vehicle.

Koreans believe that the car is aimed at young and energetic audience that is important bright appearance and modern entertainment technology. Thus, e-XIV can be considered the forerunner of the future serial sub-compact crossover, which is to challenge the Nissan Juke.

McLaren X-1 Preview, Image Wallpaper

McLaren X-1

Founded in August 2011, the Department of McLaren Special Operations (MSO), of course, is named so on purpose. Yet the performance of the order to the full, "dressing up" supercar MP4-12 ° C, this was a special operation, even for MSO. Proposal from one of the fans of the brand, it was the type of stuff that are not discarded.

Special operation to create the X-1 began almost three years ago, before launching into a series of "donor", the MP4-12 ° C, with a conversation between Ron Dennis, CEO of McLaren, and the customer, whose name was not disclosed, and the financial capacity to infinity. Conciseness request "timeless, classically elegant design" did not do his performance easier. The original "cloud images" formed after the three-hour meeting the customer with Paul McKenzie, head of the MSO, and Frank Stephenson, Design Director McLaren, included hundreds of items from the world of cars, fashion, architecture, music and cinema. And after careful screening is set uzhalos not to the point, but only up to the dots. Automotive component represents Mercedes-Benz 540K 1939, Chrysler D'Elegance Ghia 1953, Buick Electra 1959, Facel Vega 1961, Citroen SM 1971 and charismatic trailer Airstream. Architectural - building the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Bilbao. "Fashion" - Jaeger LeCoultre watches in the art deco style. "Music and Design" - a piano. "Cinematic" - black-and-white photos of Audrey Hepburn. And the most natural eggplant - the customer really liked shiny surface. Car and small truck in hard currency bank notes that this "Captain Nemo" was ready to roll out for the realization of his dreams, maklarenovtsev convinced that the requirement of the competition with third-party designers, is not offensive, but quite reasonable. Yet in the end won the project represents McLaren Korean Hong Yeo. According to him, the challenge is giving the classic elegance of the car with a mid-engine layout. Moreover, the customer received one prescription to use this stylistic element is the "rails", reaching the upper edge of the front fenders and cutting a rear window. Other equally categorical requirement was to manufacture a full-size layout of the X-1. No 3D-models! With such a hard-line approach to the hoisting of cast carbon chassis MP4-12 ° C body panels could be, of course, also only carbon and metal items (including logo and wing air brakes) are turned from billet aluminum. Timeless accent in the form of cover up the rear wheels lift from carbon fiber called for creation of a system of hinges unthinkable. The double cockpit MP4-12 ° C, which was not subjected to a radical redesign, though there were unique features, such as titanium sheath imparting carbon fiber 3D-effect. That in the "source code" are satisfied customer - so it returns a 3.8-liter biturbo-V8 at 625 liters. with. However, in the MSO were ready pokoldovat and over "iron." This is not much would increase the cost of setting up McLaren X-1 and its personal homologation ...