SUV More Popular in Society

Today's society is more like SUV compared to other types of vehicles as VP and sedans. In addition to containing a large amount of luggage, SUV proved its reliability in various road conditions.

"Of the total SUV market grew by about 11-12 percent, very different from last year, which is less than 10 percent," said Head of PT Toyota Astra Communications Motor (TAM) Anton Jimmi Suwandy.

This shows SUV increasingly accepted by society, "and multiple functions, many people opt for the truck to be different, especially when you look more stylish SUV, thereby providing its own prestige," Anton said when we met in the under test drives the Toyota Rush in Bali on Thursday (14/10/2010).

Toyota has a variety of variants of the van, with the middle class and upper class. "For the upper class, who had a Land Cruiser, Hari, Fortuner, while for the middle class who have Rush," said the man with glasses.

With many variations owned by Toyota SUV, of course, give the option in accordance with the client's personality.

Toyota Rush is the right decision, "because in addition to an affordable price, which has the features also include full, and now comes with a style," said Anton.

The new Toyota Rush is currently sold at prices ranging from Rp191 million to Rp214 million, and comes with a choice of automatic or manual transmission.

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Bentley and Audi Prepare a New Machine

Bentley and Audi is rumored to work on the new V8 engine development. The machine is scheduled to be present in the variant of the Continental GT facelift, immediately in the autumn of 2011.

V8 engine with a capacity of 4000 cc will have and will aim at a high level of efficiency.

Energy resources are also planned to reduce CO2 emissions around 40 percent, to more environmentally friendly compared with the W12 engine used by the Continental GT.

6.0-liter W12 engine that is currently a total of 567 hp and a torque of 700 Nm. This machine is able to remove the car from 0 to 60 km in 4.4 seconds and a top speed can reach up to 198 mph.

Bentley will use the new machine, to transmit the generated energy to the propulsion drive all-wheel drive with a composition of 40:60 for the front and rear.

"We adapt to our purposes, thus providing unique Bentley driving," said Bentley Chassis and Powertrain Director Brian Gush, as quoted by Topspeed on Saturday (10/09/2010).

The two companies have not disclosed when the machine that will come will use a turbo or not. However, it is stated that the machine used an unconventional layout.

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Holden Will Launch New City Car

Holden, an automotive company in Australia has fame in Indonesia with large-bodied cars, announced a new city car that will be named Barina Spark to enter.

Hatchback car, the plan presented to the public was introduced at the Australian International Motor Show, held in Sydney next week.

The new vehicle, the Chevrolet Spark in fact the base, so it is not surprising that its performance is virtually identical to the Chevrolet poduk it.

This car is offered with interesting features like the sporty body kit, alloy wheels, fog lamps and rear spoiler. To pemanja ear while driving, Barina comes with head unit using the CD.

The list of standard safety features, this car is using the Electronic Stability Control (ESC) and six airbags, which are ready for the passengers and the driver when the accident occurred to protect.

"This is a very unique market and our Spark Barina has a design that is really fresh and energetic, with an economical and offer excellent safety features and best value for money as the tradition of Holden," said Director of Sales, marketing and aftersales Holden, John Elsworth, as quoted by car evolution, Saturday (09/10/2010).

The car is powered by a 1200 cc four-cylinder DOHC engine with a five-speed gearbox is used. This engine is also fuel efficient enough, because it consumes only 42 mpg, or about 5.6 liters for a distance of 100 km and is the most economical car in its class.

Holden Spark scheduled to be present in the model three-door and five-door, but do not say how much the price of the car.

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Now More Powerful Chevrolet Corvette

Chevrolet Corvette has become one of the fastest cars available today. But there are people who are not satisfied with the speed of the standard Corvette. They are usually real speed enthusiast, who wants to drive fast denan indefinitely.

To meet the needs of the speed enthusiast, Romeo Ferrari, a home tuner or modification of the Italian managed to Corvette Z06 is more powerful.

"We always have a special appeal for high-performance cars, we always refer to those who have second-class cars, but still want a top performance have," said Romeo Ferrari was quoted as saying car evolution, Saturday (09 / 10/2010).

In this case, Romeo, Ferrari offers a package of modifications for the Corvette Z06 owner, to perform car can equal the Corvette ZR1, which is a variation of the upper class.

The car is equipped with the LS7 engine capacity of 7000 cc with a V8 configuration. Not only that, the machine is also equipped with a vortex supercharger, and an aluminum intercooler, blow-off valves, fuel pumps and injectors, a high capacity, and set the ECU.

Italian tuning house also has a custom exhaust, making the Z06, which is usually only current of 505 hp at 6300 rpm and 637 Nm of torque 4800 rpm. Now you can provide power to 677 hp at 6,000 rpm and a torque of 832 Nm at 4950 rpm.

By comparison, the ZR1 supercharged V8 engine of 6200 cc, the power of 646 hp at 6500 rpm and maximum torque of 819 Nm at 3800 rpm to generate.

With the power of it, Romeo Ferrari Z06 sprint takes only 3.3 seconds from 0 to 62 mph (100 km per hour). And can penetrate up to 124 mph (200 kph) in less than 10 seconds speed.

If the driver still has the guts to step on the accelerator, the car will drive up to speeds of 211 mph (340 kph).

However, the tuner promises that the car is still comfortable for daily use, but a record of the engine speed should not exceed 3,000 rpm are.

To handle the extra power is very large, the vehicle is equipped with new brakes, dual-mode suspension and a set of custom rims with a size of 19 inch front, 20 inches at the rear.

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Supercars Rotary Engine from Germany

Specialty Car Marque Rotary Supers of Germany is said to have made the RSC Raptor GT which dikalim as super cars are slightly different from the others.

Super car body, usually of fiberglass and carbon fiber has a high-tech features, called Variable Aerodynamic System. These functions can be adapted to the nature of the aerodynamics of the car in order to create more downforce at high speeds.

However, unique, vehicle, using four rotary engine built specifically. As is known, rotary dalah identical to the Mazda tight.

Raptor GT will be sold by different spec variants, namely S GT, RS, RSR and the final N spec. Depending on model, engine configuration varies very much like using a turbo or bi-turbo system.

As disitat worldcarfans on Saturday (10/09/2010), this engine will be included in the 8-speed transmission with Shift-R RSC hydraulic gear shift mechanism that allows only takes 25 to 35 milliseconds.

Output comes from these machines range from 500 hp (368 kW) 2.6 liter engine 4-rotor, while the 800 hp (588 kW) engine and the most powerful turbo-powered 1200 PS (883 kW), due to the configuration of the twin turbo machine.

GT Raptor is also equipped with active suspension, a carbon-aluminum driveshaft and differential electronic double.

On the inside, there are two 7-inch screen for the details of the car, including the arrangements for vehicle electronic systems, and the pressure and temperature indicators. There are also 5-inch tachometer with digital shift indicator and shift light.

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