Maserati Granturismo : Luxurious and aggressive, sporting but comfortable

Maserati Granturismo

Luxurious and aggressive, she is built on the base of the flagship Maserati Quattroporte The Cabin is sporting but enough comfortable, also to whom occupies the sets behind.Design of Pininfarina:Drawn by Pininfarina, the new coupe modenese has a fluid and luxurious sculpture with sharp details with the classical lines of the Maserati. On the façade the GranTurismo introduces an ample concave grate that from origin to a giant mouth, that proudly introduces in sign of the trident.

The optic groups extend him up to the passaruotas, under which the are found you look for in league from the new design that recalls the sketch of the coat of arms of the trident. The back entire a spoiler on the superior edge of the chest, the four terminals of unloading chromed and the triangular lights with technical LED.Con 405 horses, 460 Nm to 4.750 turns succeeds in catapulting the GT in 5,2 seconds from 0 to 100 and a maximum speed of 285 schedules, nonostate the mass of 1.955 kg. With these performances the GT introduces him as sporting of all respect. Even if it is really this that doesn't want to be.

And and really this way, as the Maserati GT is introduced during the first test drive on a run that brought from Bolzano to the footstep of Costalunga and up to Moena in the Valley of Fassa. On the narrow and nervous roads of the footsteps the GT has made to feel the sporting geniuses. Fast passing without problems, perfect insertions in the narrow curves and direzionalita' almost perfect on the rectilinear ones. The brakes Brembo is shown to the height of every situation, also in you brake her of emergency, caused by bus of tourists in difficulty in the narrow curves of the footsteps.

For the safety the control of stability and the setting of the suspensions intervene to electronic control. The control stability, called MPS, if it notices the tendency to the disbandment, it reduces the couple, it activates the brakes and it stabilizes the car in few milliseconds, and naturally it avoids the block of the wheels in braked.On the ideal lines for the "cruising" calm the GT has also shown that the ingenieris modenesi has succeeded in finding the compromise among sporting and luxurious Gran Tourism. This also thanks to the adopted techniques: The propeller has been positioned behind the anterior axle.

L' effect: a perfect balancing among the weights on the aces and an agility worthy of a sporting true. But also the new automatic change to six marcies of the ZF has been developed for a sweet and comforting guide maintaining the characteristics of sportività of the propeller V8. The new transmission exalts the characteristics of the motor to the lower part and middle regimes. The change also allows changes of march from true sporting actually to 7.200 turns. The transmission is endowed with so-called control auto-adattivo that it adjusts the type of changed to the style of guide and the conditions of march. The driver can choose through keys on the dashboard among four different formalities of operation: Auto normal, auto sport, low adherence / auto ice and Manual.

All this ago of the new GT a coupe very beautiful, Italian and with performances of all respect. The least pleasant chapter is always that of prices and consumptions. According to the technical card the Maserati GranTurismo comes to consume 14.3 liters on 100 kilometers. Accomplices the weight (almost two tons) and the dimensions (few less than five meters than length). Under real conditions, above all with fast guide on roads of mountain he also reaches 20 liters gasoline for 100 km. This year the Maserati has reached for the first time after the I purchase from the group Fiat in the year 1993 the break even, the point of balance. In poor words: start to earn money!

Lotus Exige S :only for the thin ones and not too much tall

Lotus Exige S

Coupe sporting 2 places, whose cabin is accessible only if he is thin and not too much tall. It is simply the Lotus of more series performantes ever built, and its name is Exige S.
Externally it needs to have well trained eyes to recognize it. In comparison to the Exige "normal", the side takings of air are in shade with the body shop and specific they are the aerodynamic appendixes of the anterior spoiler and the back extractor, as the sketch burnished of the also looks for in league.

But "Exige S" it doesn't mean alone spoiler and various nameplates. The important novelties are above all under the chest. Lotus Exige S uses the same propeller of origin 1.8 liters Toyota and injection VVTL-the that, thanks to the adoption of a presser volumetrico, disburses now 221 horses to 7.800 turns. How much enough to cover the release from 0 to 100 km / h in as soon as 4.3 seconds. Thanks to the presser, besides, him 80% of the 215 Nm of couple are available to 2.000 turns, reseting the typical voids of power, to the regimes I mediate low, of the inhaled versions.II all to forehead of contained consumptions (declared) to 11 km / liter.

In the respect of the best tradition Lotus, is not so much the specific power to impress, on the contrary the weight of the car compared to the available cavalry. And, in the particular one, 221 horses must deal only with 935 kg.

Exige "S" it also profits of order and seen again suspensions, that make her/it able side accelerations and of braked superior to 1g. The cabin has not by chance been optimized for the use in footstep, with knob of the change to six relationships a lot next to the crown of the steering wheel. The inside equipment is rigorously essential as on few others sporting. Cold, few pleasant, proper for whom looks for the true emotions of guide. In every case some optionals as the conditioner or the gps, are available to payment, but to require could appear him/it out place...

Price - 53.000 €

- 80.000 $

Lotus Elise

Lotus Elise

Lotus introduces for 2008 annulled him of series more

powerful usual, endowed with the motor from 220 CVs

and denominated Elise SC. Countersigned by a new

spoiler of tail and from unpublished you look for in

league, SC Annulled her it climbs on the traditional 1.8-

litre 2-ZZ VVTL-the of origins Toyota, gifted however of

presser volumetrico MP45 realized by the American

Magnuson on basic Eaton and connected in block with

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According to the data furnished by the Lotus the new Elise SC (903 kg) it is able to accelerate from or to 100 km / h in 4,6 seconds, the 160 km / h in 10.7 seconds and to reach a maximum speed of 240 km / h. To border of these results there is a consumption combined of 9,1 litri/100s km.The SC enjoys some anticipated changes for all Annulled ones her MY 2008, new inclusive ivi airbag, renewed instrumentation with computer of edge to screen LCD and new system of alarm antifurto and immobilizer.The sales will have beginning in Europe at the end of this month.
More power.They will have of whether to rejoyce, therefore, all that impassioned that desired it but they attended with anxiety a lending motor of that four cylinders, from 158 CVs, actually to today point of diamond of the list Lotus.
And that motor has arrived and it has a well precise name: it calls VVTL-the of name and Toyota of last name. Its principal characteristics are the compactness, the lightness and the elevated power it specifies, seen and considered that the 192 colts of maximum power derive from solos 1800 ccs of capacity. The worth of these performances they are to mainly seek in the exceptional one systematizes of varying fasatura of the 16 valves, that gives regimes of motion rotation to this propeller (the maximum power is to 7.800 turn!) and 18.5 kgms of maximum couple to 6.800 turns.

More .e confortsIn comparison to how much actually proposed to today, the cavalry increases notably, but with it a light increase of weight arrives: ABS, radio CD and closing centralized of series, without forgetting the optional climate, they are accessories that weigh but perhaps "they humanize" a car that of the versatility and of the confort has never made a flag.

Aston Martin V8 Vantage:Above all Aggressive

Aston Martin V8 Vantage.New wonder produced by the Aston Martin. It was already her sight of escaped the "North America International Auto Show" to Detroit in 2003 as concept car. This auto, created then already strong expectations and great enthusiasm in the lovers of the precious objects and in the dreamers of the whole world. The V8 Vantage makes to enter the Aston Martin a new segment of market, that of the "sports car", proposing a genuine alternative to the automobiles that belong to the same band.

The famous English house proposes therefore its third model, that won't find it hard to make to be known, thanks also to the success of the Vanquish S and the elegant DB9. The deliveries of the V8 Vantage will begin after the summer for Europe and Great Britain, while it is speaking of end year for America and the rest of the world. she will be built in the establishments to Gaydon, in Great Britain. With this sample the house builder wants to reinvigorate the name of the mark and her line entering the immortality with a car without equal.





Style and designThe aerodynamic form that recalls the figure of the shark makes the V8 Vantage a model of perfection. Curves give definite and from the marked features she is seen the whole care and the passion that the draftsmen have pushed and subsequently the builders to give life to the V8. From before this auto it seems to never end and in reality few misses us. 1,5 ms of face that attack the asphalt in a definite embrace and without compromises, the two dry places they almost guarantee a convenience to the nth power from living room, while the back of the V8 is also a show being very contained and simple. In the general budget the Aston Martin aims a lot at the first impression, that certain she cannot be negative.
Characteristics, performance and motorThe V8 Vantage has been the automobile that in the last 91 years in the history of the houses builders you/he/she has made more tests than test on footstep and in any climatic (Dubai 48°, while in Sweden -30°) condition. Its length is not excessive, rather her 4,38 ms make it compact and it are the smallest of the garage Aston Martin.

It strikes her of the doors and the soul of the auto, the loom, they are built in aluminum, guaranteeing good safety levels and you weigh contained, as the propeller that is a 4.3 liters from 380 CVs. The technicians of the Aston Martin build every hand propeller in Germany, exactly as the V12 that pushes Vanquish and DB9.
The V8 will be introduced to the public in the model to six marches, but in date still to define there will be the possibility to also have the automatic change. The reduced order and the you look for from 18", for the one whom wanted, spending a little more, also those from 19", they make of the V8 a car that all the characteristics have for racing in footstep. Offered with a combination of different types of skin, plotted modern and aluminum, the clients of the V8 Vantage will have a vast range of colors, both for the outside of the auto and for the inside finishing touch, among which to choose.

The insides are elegant and spacious. The place of guide is endowed with a complete and well visible instrumentation, even if the reduced position limits some the external visibility. The dashboard is studied to get over that the legibility also a stage effect that doesn't leave indifferent. While the passenger is not able whether to enjoy of her position to study the pulsanteria above the change, endowed with climatizzatore and plant audio of last generation.
The back one and the luggage van The back one of the V8 Vantage is minimale, a little elaborate, but really this design guarantees to the auto an aggressive image, accomplices also the prominences and the widening of the body shop that create an effect of push toward the outside of the back wheels. The luggage van unlike the other present automobiles in this segment it is surprisingly ample, almost spacious.

Honda S2000 :one of the sporting autos more loved by the impassioned ones of sporting guide

Honda S2000
Honda S2000. Once the sporting autos were objects for few and shrewd daring, people with well more than a characteristic talentuosa in their outfit of quality. The smaller traffic on the roads (the almost empty highways could consider him real circuits of test: it was not rare event that the quiet of the country romagnola of the A1, right-hand as an arrow, was broken by the boato of a plurifrazionato of a Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini or Bizzarrini launched to 280 by their smaliziatis and heroic collaudatori), the smaller technology, the greatest passion of whom thought her and she built, they created extraordinary objects but, at the same time, appalling for the inexperienced ones. Yet extremely satisfying: the auto was a stallion imbizzarrito to tame with promptness, technique, courage, experience, sensibility: uncertain and easy brakes to the fading, any control of traction, no ABSs, no ESPs but only the trust on the balancing of the loom. Who succeeded us was a myth! Their wild nature also reflected him in the style, in the comfort, in the endowment, mirror, after all, of the degree of theory of evolution of the epoch: simple design but with a distinctive personality, small and narrow cabins, scarce and limited endowment to the main point.

THE PRICE OF A PRESENT "OBESE" If the focal point of the matter they are the genuine emotions and "sincere" that the modern sporting auto can potentially offer and if the meter of comparison, rightful, they are the autos of the past, the matter is complicated. Today's cars are surer (drugged of electronics as I am), more strong, more reliable, more easy-to-use and to bring to the limits (even if, to onor of the truth, this last can reveal a weapon to double cut because of the weight and of the same motors, to the times also too much powerful persons in comparison to the potentialities of the mechanics).Those proposals of the prices market with still an even though least glint of humanity (up to 45.000 European) I am trendy, sfiziose, comfortable, comforting but not they always have that pinch of "folly" cleverly concealed by a good general equilibrium, up to the point to be able to drive her in footstep in a "track-day." The result is that the involving and near to the perfection sail in the tall spheres of the auto-racing of niche and elite: cars for which her "normalcy" it asks for to put to budget an investment well over the 100.000 European to be able to affirm to succeed in touching the sky with a finger. But there it benefits also to remember him, the varying comfort is as a sword of Damocle: and then the scarecrow of the excessive weight again impends. Unless.

Against everybodyWhen it was born, in 1999, were there valid alternatives, from the point of view of the relationship quality / price, in degree, concretely, to tear her scepter of queen of the spiders? Objectively: no! Neither he/she consoles to know that, perhaps, today, among the numerous alternatives of the market, something of "similar" or best there can be: the Honda S2000 is on the breach from almost 9 years. Today costs 42.000 European but, it looks like could be the best, ever spent for the one who seeks a product of niche, reliable and fast, rather fast!

The Porsche Boxster S asks for a motor 6 cylinders from 3,4 liters (and a basic price of over 57.000 European, excluded optional), the BMW forehead Z4M of 343 greedy horses doesn't trouble him for less than 62.000 European, the Nissan 350Z Spider, perhaps with 44.000 European of price and 313 Cv of power it is there. The Same tell him for the Audi TTS Roadster, fresh new entry of the category. However there is the impression that something doesn't go to the joint: we are not on the plan of the price there, of the category, of the image of mark, of the incontrovertible mechanical datum and that it represents the key of time of the Honda S2000: 9.000 turn! MAIFurio Fraccaroli, President of the S2K Club Italy, the only Italian association officially recognized by Honda, affirms, wing his/her third Honda S2000, that, perhaps, anybody car is as her. And he/she explains the reasons of it; to this price, which other spider possesses a motor 4 cylinders of 2 liters non supercharged with 240 horses and a "draught" up to 9.000 turns? The motor, a masterpiece of auto engineering, is born perfect: 240 horses are enough, it would not have some sense try to draw power further of it in how much improvements don't exist really to the course. They are able, eventually, to effect small changes of improvement on order, brakes, campanatura, convergence, zones of intervention that allow her of "to go out" from the middle configuration for the driver of every day and they leave the faculty to go to the search of the true quadrature of the circle to the impassioned holder, to find the "point of no return" where the S2000 is at the most stadium of its potential.

The design is typically nipponico, modern but with an image retrò: very long face, behind cabin, compact tail, absence of alive edges, clean forms, small volumes, homage to the lightness and the agility. Opened the small porticina, I gone down in the small and narrow cabin, the position of guide when settled in the small seat (adjustable only in length) it is almost perfect: indeed it needs to hope of "to be born" small of stature since the steering wheel is fixed but it is nearly impossible to feel to uneasiness; it is us low, put in a ditch, tremendously near to the asphalt, almost in trench. The enormous central tunnel that abruptly cuts in two the cabin in length, hides part of the motor (climbed on in anterior position but centrally, within the footstep to improve the equilibrium) and the transmission; in advanced position, the gear shift, something that could make to lose the head to whoever: short (rather, short) leveraggio, good maneuverability, precise in the grafts. A masterpiece.

The classical steering wheel, to three races, it is a diameter a lot of meeting place and the very big hilt, other element that "it pinches the nerves." Behind, the digital instrumentation with the revolution counter with the beginning of the red zone to 9.000 turns and that it is not able not to arouse the question if were possible to reach a similar value. The preparation, rational, you/he/she is reduced but it is in line with the spirit of the auto: semiautomatic climatizzatore, electric glasses, electric (rigorously in cloth and without useless complexes auxiliary systems that hide her/it under the body shop) hood, electric mirrors, servosterzo, a powerful person plant audio.

Ferrari 612 :typical dna ferrari

Ferrari 612 . Sergio Scaglietti,
Its way to create was not her that of the pencil and of the sketch but, as it was a sculptor, that to hurl from the aluminum the forms.-(Ferrari 612 )
Luca of Montezemolo has wanted therefore to devote to this discreet but important protagonist of the history of the Ferrari, the 612 that, to say him/it, is even entirely in aluminum. Power for four.The 612 Scaglietti represents the perfect combination among the pure performances of a sporting berlinetta Ferrari and the habitability for four people. To comparison with the 456M, model Ferrari of great success that has preceded her, this synthesis derives from the excellent inside measures of habitability, sensitively favored by the superior dimensions, you combine to a weight inferior car of 60 kg in comparison to the 456M and to select progettuali without compromises.

Exclusive in every detail.For the first time on a model Ferrari 12 cylinders, the construction is entirely in aluminum (loom with architecture space frame and it strikes) realized by the Ferrari in the establishment Scaglietti devoted to the technology of the light leagues. The result is a 60% increase in the efficiency of the it strikes complete (I compare rigidity / weight). The innovative structure in aluminum of the 612 Scaglietti is also translated in benefits in terms of comfort, guidabilità and in the maximum protection of the occupants in case of bump.
The motor, to V of 65° (whose rolled of 5748 ccs, rounded off, best man in it initials her/it numerical of the car) it represents the synthesis of the most advanced technology motoristica Ferrari; particularly, thanks to further developments on aspiration, unloading and fluidodinamica, it reaches the maximum power of 540 CVs to 7250 turns.

The mechanical transmission to 6 marches is anticipated both with manual command and, above all, with a command elettroattuato of new generation, denominated F1A, thought to reconcile to the best the speed of changed in the manual use with the comfort in the automatic use.
Central motor.The architecture of base with motor anterior plant (situated behind it attacks him anterior) and change in block with the differential back, for the maximum withdrawal and lowering of the baricentro, with evident benefits on the dynamic behavior of the car: acceleration 0-100 km / h in 4,2 seconds, stability, braked and, in general, a notable agility of guide. The exceptional division of the weights (46% anterior, 54% back) is completed by the order prestazionale to checked smorzamento and from the system CST (I check stability and traction) introduced for the first time on a Ferrari.

The pencil is of Pininfarina.Drawn by Pininfarina as natural synthesis of dynamism and elegance, and with a characteristic I shell concave on the broadsides (reminiscence of the famous 375 MM Rossellini-Bergman), the 612 Scaglietti combines to the nature of thoroughbred an excellent habitability: from the entry in car for everybody and four the passengers, to the notable longitudinal (favored by the extension car of 139 mm in comparison to the 456M) space, up to the habitability for the back places in terms both of space to the heads, both of ergonomics of session.The available space is completed by an ability trunk of 240 liters, increased of 25% in comparison to the 456M, and in degree to lodge a set suitcases of 5 pieces or two sweater knapsacks.
Comfortable and refined.The quality of life on board of the occupants you/he/she is completed by endowments of new guarantee generation of comfort and ergonomics (from the group instrumentation and command-police squad to disposition of the pilot, to the bi-zonal climatizzatore, up to the plant Hi-End Bose specifically developed for the 612 Scaglietti), in the context of an environment characterized by aluminum to sight and skin, completely personalizzabile to application of the client.

FERRARI 599 GTB :It removes the breath

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Heavy inheritanceThe new sporting of house Ferrari replaces the 575M Maranello that, together with the preceding 550,she has reached from 1996 the 5.700 produced unities. A result record for the Foal and a beautiful presupposition for the newborn 599 GTBs.The characteristics to make to go crazy there are everybody: the aggressive line and dynamics, signed by Pininfarina, it expresses the stylistic canons of the Dna Ferrari to the best while the motor deserves a discourse apart.

Enzo docet Under the anterior chest of the Ferrari 599 GTBs, well fed from showy takings of air, a generous V12 pulsates directly derived by the supercar Ferrari Enzo. With the his/her 5.999cc of capacity, for a maximum power of 620 horses to 7.600 turns, the new berlinetta of Maranello is preannounced as "the auto to be beaten" in its segment. Of however the philosophy Ferrari has always been clear, the alternatives don't serve to anything. Who a Ferrari chooses she wants the best of the auto technology, also on the base of a history that doesn't have equal in field motoristico.The 599 GTB, that the 575M Maranello replaces, embodies to the perfection the concept of berlinetta Ferrari, a sporting comfortable and fearfully prestazionale, with the plus of the magic sound of the 12 cylinders of Maranello

The loom and it strikes her they are entirely in aluminum and they constitute the last evolution of the consolidated experience of the Ferrari in this technology.
Thanks to the unmistakable design Pininfarina, the Ferrari 599 GTBs are countersigned by an aggressive and elegant style, that with an accurate necessary aerodynamic study is perfectly harmonized for the attainment of performances of absolute excellence.
The new car replaces the 575M Maranello that, together with the 550 Maranello introduced in 1996, you/he/she has reached the 5700 produced unities, a record in their segment for the Rampant Foal. The berlinettes to 2 places 12 cylinders are the model symbol of the production Ferrari, from the famous 250 GTs to the 275 GTBs and 365 GTB4s, actually to quotes her/it 575M Maranellos. On the market it is found to compare him with the models more prestazionalis than other famous auto houses as for instance the Lamborghini Murciélago or the Aston Martin Vanquish.
The price of the model not him far of very from the 220.000 € and for the year 2008 have attended the presentation of the version spyder.