Nissan Skyline GT-R : Wooow !

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The Nissan has introduced his/her supersportiva to Tokyo and they are already in many to wonder what the verdict of the market will be. The GT-R seems to be prepared on all the fronts: strongly of a consolidated (GT-R has existed since 1969) tradition, observing the data divulged by the Builder, you/he/she can afford to decidedly challenge currently big part of the supersportives on the market to costs of purchase more lower part. The person responsible of the development Kazutoshi Mizuno defines her/it "a supercar that, for the safety levels and the tall performances, is destined to everybody, wherever, always."

The design, had fundamentally been announcing for long time, he/she remembers from near the GT-R Proto introduced to the Motor Show of Tokyo in 2005, which, in turn, the 2001 GT-R Concept stylistically recalls. The new Nissan GT-R decidedly has aggressive lines: imposing, square in the sides, it results to be very aerodynamic: his/her Cx is in fact equal to 0,27. Also the takings of air on the anterior mudguards improve the aerodynamic performances of the car, facilitating the flow of the air around the wheels, and they are characteristic and aggressive.


As for the external lines, also the cabin of the GT-R is sought after and functional. The tools of edge on the line of vision of the driver are directly set for the maximum legibility. The circular analogical indicators have thick frames and in position of honor there is a speedometer with the red line that departs from the 7000 turns. Here you/he/she is also inserted an indicator that shows the position of the change. Entirely new it is the display multifunzione in the center of the dashboard, that shows the information of edge (speed, angular accelerations, consumptions, etc.) and the data detailed on the mechanics of the vehicle (push of the I upset, pressure of water and oil motor, oil of the transmission, distribution couple anterior / back engine, etc.), further to angles of swerve, pressure in braked and acceleration and optimal mappatura of the changed for saving fuel. The display has been projected in collaboration with Polyphony Digital Inc., the realizzatoris of the video games of the series Gran Tourism for the PlayStation Sony. The anterior seats are type sporting and very contained you, while in the back divanetto apparent offered hospitality is that of one 2+2 sporting. The luggage van has an ability of 315 liters.


Reasoning with some datum to the hand now, asks us: as you/he/she has come to turn to the Nurburgring with a GT-R of series in 7' and 38?" Simple: the mass of the car of 1.740 kg, not really few, have moved from the propeller VR38DETT, a new unity from 3,8 liters, supercharged by two turbocompressoris IHI, specifically developed for the GT-R. The maximum power is of 480 CVs to 6400 turns, while the couple of 588 Nm is disbursed without solution of continuity by 3200 to 5200 turns. Small curiosity: the propellers as the transmissions, are all realized to hand. An artisan assembles piece for piece the components of the motor: the specialized workers complete the construction in a special "white room" devoted to the GT-R in the establishment Nissan of Yokohama.


Another unpublished novelty on a GT-R concerns the transmission. The new sporting of Nissan uses a change automatic-seuquenziale type GR6, on purpose developed for the car. The change to double friction to six marches with commands on the back of the steering wheel (shift paddle), according to the diffused data, it is very fast, to second that the manual formality or the more performante are used "R." Appreciable in the urban use the automatic option "To", also it selezionabile from the command to the center of the dashboard.


The system of integral traction of the GT-R is 4WD Attended And-TS, that distributes in optimal way the power to the anterior wheels, if and when necessary. From the back traction only you/he/she can be come to give up to 50,% of the couple to it attacks him anterior to improve the traction in difficult road conditions as rain, ice and snow. The anterior traction also serves to face better the curves on the asphalt, optimizing adherence and stability.


The compartment suspensions you/he/she has been taken care of by Bilstein that you/he/she has set her for the new base "Premium Midship" and they exploit the perfect distribution of the load around four wheels. A special command allows the driver to plan three different formalities: R (for the tall performances), Sport (the normal formulation) and Comfort (to reduce the bumps on the city asphalt). The system electronically modifies the regulation of the dampers Bilstein DampTronic, on purpose developed for the GT-R.

The brakes of the new GT-R, as for the preceding models, I am griffati Brembo and they adopt disks steel ventilated and pierced around four wheels by 380 mm of diameter. The tires are 255/40ZRF20 on the anterior one and 285/35ZRF20 to the back one, while the you look for in league from 20 thumbs they have a series of protuberances on the edge to firmly fix the rubbers in the strong accelerations and in braked. In Japan Nissan makes also available winter rubbers not spiked specifications for the GT-R.

Waiting for the prices for Italy, we are satisfied there with those Japanese defined for the three available preparations: GT-R from 7.770.000 Yen (around 47.000 European), GT-R Black Edition from 7.797.500 Yen (around 49.000 European) and GT-R Premium Edition from 8.347.500 Yen (around 51.500 European). Nissan offers the total support to his/her clients for the first three years from the purchase: all the cars return in shop for the maintenance programmed after the first 1000 km and, subsequently, every 12 months.

Renault Ondelios Concept

Renault Ondelios

The Renault Ondelios announced by the Règie today, reenters really in the category of more concept "out of head", for so to say. Stuff to also be made beautiful figure to Tokyo, where notoriously the most eccentric proposals in the houses of the Rising Sol appear. But behind her so whimsical outline, a precious and refined aesthetical search hides him.
Renault Ondelios

With this black prototype from the tail truncates and from the wings of gull, French have wanted to concretize the idea for a "tall ecological crossover of range" crammed of technology up to the last centimeter of the cabin. The cellular incorporated Samsung, is for example in reality a multifunzione able to recognize the driver, and to load a whole series of information to him relative not as soon as it arranges him to the steering wheel, as the formulations of the place it drives or her preferred music.

The propulsion is insured from a hybrid system constituted by a new 2.0 dCis from 205 CVs and 450 Nm combined to two electric unities by 27 CVs the one, you climb on on it attacks him back. The motor, could count also on a general power of 260 CVs, it is satisfied with solos 4,5 l/100s km of gas-oil, giving besides to the Ondelios one 0-100 from 7,8 ses.Till now not all the big have gone out in the open with their proposals for Paris 2008, but certainly this Ondelios will remain among the most interesting and brave novelties to see to the Mondial of this year.

New Porsche 911 Targa : new faster change to the world, innovative integral traction, motor more powerful, but smaller

Porsche 911 Targa

Porsche 911 Targa

As it regards the aesthetics, the mudguards have widened, the roof in glass, elegant and flowing, it contributes to embellish the outline of the lunotto. As it regards the prices, in Italy they have gone since 4, 99.660 European for the 911 Plate 4 to the 110.700 European for la911 it Registers 4S. The new 911 Plate, the Porsche AG will complete the series 911 with the generational change faster than the world of the automobile has ever seen.

Two new injection propellers directed will increase the performance and they will decrease the consumptions of the new model, the fast change to double friction Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK) replaces the optional automatic change Tiptronic S, while the Porsche Traction Management (PTM) to electronic control replaces the preceding integral traction.In the new 911 Plate the system Porsche Traction Management (PTM) to electronic control replaces the preceding integral traction with viscous friction to thin plates. This advanced system associates the pleasure of guide typical of a Porsche, thanks to the native concept of motor and traction back, to elevated standard even more in terms of stability of guide, traction and agility.

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The new Plate will be available in two versions: the 911 Plate 4 and the 911 Plate 4S. The basic version is now fed by a motor boxer to six cylinders contrasted with rolled by 3,6 liters and power equal to 345 Cv (254 kWs), that reach the maximum speed of 284 km / h. The propeller of the 911 Plate 4S, with capacity of 3,8 liters, it develops a maximum power of 385 Cv (283 kWs) instead and it pushes the car to 297 km / h

Lotus Europa S

Lotus Europa S
A new sporting that does some agreeability of guide the weapon of point; it deals with the "Europe S" (it costs few more than 52.100 European), coupe "exploitable" signed Lotus, that in the thoughts of the planners if you/he/she should see her/it with competing of the caliber of Alpha Romeo "Brera", Audi "TT" and Porsche "Cayman."

In substance, it is an auto done for the lovers of the coupes prestazionali, but that the pleasure of the guide of other times they look for; if you prefer, for the one who loves her/it "Annulled", but it is to the search of a more variation godibiles for the moves of every day.
The "Europe S", strong of a loom tightly allied with that of the "Annulled", of a compartment suspensions seen again in comforting key and of a motor I upset of 2.0 liters from 200 CVs (of origin General Motors, seen already on the Opel "Speedster"), it has the papers in order to offer performances from baby-supercar (according to the House, "0-100" in 5 "8 and over 240 schedules of speed) in a more convincing and deprived dynamic context of electronic (the Esp is not even available to payment) helps; the weight is, as always, feather: few less than 1000 kilograms.
To the steering wheel, the hold relative with her "Annulled" it is perceptible, even if all the more sides "rough" they have been beveled with the purpose to make the least tiring guide: the steering gear, ready and precise, it results less sensitive to the least moves; the suspensions, prone to absorb the asperities of the road; the motor appears fluid and homogeneous in the push, with a consistent couple to low turns, that helps to resort few to the change (besides softer and comforting to use that on the "Annulled").

The endowment of series is exceptionally rich for an auto that goes out of the lines of assemblage of Hethel: inside of skin, I remove with navigator satellitare, double airbag and straight carpet! The finishes are not certain the point of strength of the car, but in comparison to the cabin bare volutamente of the other Lotus, seems here to be on another planet. Also the entry is oddly easy and rather than a backpack, the luggage van can also contain two (small) trolleys!
Starting today, who complains about the excessive one "education" of the sporting ones currently in list it doesn't have excuses anymore: if that that look for it is an enjoyable auto, but able emotions of other times there are not that to try the new sporting Lotus for every day.

Maserati Coupè : inspired once to the maserati of

Maserati Coupè

The Maserati is inspired to of once it is very elegant, drawn by giugiaro, the places can entertain only behind two children.

Beginning from the month of September 2004, in fact, it will be available near the commercial net the evolution Model Year 05 of these two models, an evolution that as usual it doesn't twist lines and contents, but it is to intend above all him as tangible sign of a continuous evolution of style.The principal aesthetical changes concern the adoption of a new anterior bumper, endowed with an unpublished fillets horizontal calandra, inspired to that climbed on on the Quattroporte, so much to subsequently underline the family-feeling of the range Maserati. New also the back bumper, more sportsman, that englobes the ample outlets of air protected by a sweaters net holds of black color.

Particularly in the version Coupe, the bond with the Quattroporte is subsequently strengthened by the positioning, on the back uppercuts, of the classical oval logo with arrow stylized by Frua in the '63.Se as motto, the improvements concern particularly the style of the two models, it was permissible to wait him for minute interventions in the inside preparations which now allow to have a covering in skin of different color, in contrast, for the central zone of the seats and the bridge, and for the superior panels of the doors.The instrumentation has besides a white and blue new sporting graphics of colors, of easy reading, while it is becoming also of series the kit of color aluminum for the console and the mouldings of the doors.

Other changes concerning the insides, see the central tunnel redrawn with a vain greater portaoggetti, always useful.It notices technical regarding the change, now in fact the levetta for the insertion of the reverse also has the functionality "D" of Drive, for the graft of the first march.Passing a reference to the outside goes to the you look for to seven races that with the MY 05 enter to belong to the endowment of series, while those to fifteen races are available without additional price as special preparation .Infine, the range you body shop for the models Coupé and Spyder it becomes wealthy of a new tonality denominated metalizzata "Copper Ghibli" of sure effect.

Maserati Spyder :also without roof, its body shop is fascinating and aggressive

Maserati Spyder

The form defines a coupe to two volumes with two places buckets, extremely compact in the line and with a tail from the sporting impact.

The footstep is derived from the Maserati Spyder and allows an excellent maneuverability besides a great facility of insertion curve to which joins him a notable torsional rigidity.
Pure power, active suspensions, safety and...4254cc, eight cylinders to V of 90°. A real assembled of power, light and compact, almost pits a motor been exclusively born for the runs. 390 colts, are really the case to say seen him/it the origins Ferrari, to 7000 turns to the minute and 451Nm to 4500 turns of maximum couple. Values indeed from shiver for the Spyder of the Trident, thanks to which goes off from zero to one hundred km / h in alone 4.9 second making to mark well 283km/h of maximum speed.

Insured fun therefore, with the possibility to choose, during the purchase, among the "classical" change manual to six relationships or the sequential automated "Cambiocorsa": derived by the world of the F1, this system is able to change relationship in few millesimis of second acting on the commands set on the steering wheel or in completely automatic formality.
The road qualities of the Maserati Spyder, are excited from the active suspensions Skyhook: you develop in collaboration with Mannesmann-Sachs, they found their operation on a series of sensors that you/they constantly record the movements of every wheel and the body car, and they transmit them to a central computer: from the elaboration of these data, "it is born" instant for instant the setting of the suspensions, contemplated to the confort in standard and more rigid and sporting formality with the active led on the pulsantino sport to the center of the console.


The braking plant, realized in collaboration with Brembo, it profits of constructive choices finalized to the maximum braking performance, in terms of effectiveness, immediateness of answer to the pedal and resistance to the fading also in the most sporting employment of the car: this results, particularly, from the adoption of disks of great dimensions (ant. 330 xes 32 mm, post. 310 xes 28 mm), with pliers to four pistoncinis and servofreno to elevated course, besides the electronic devices antibloccaggio ABS, of electronic division of the braked EBD and control of stability MSP.
The safety endowments are guaranteed both from the safety devices active in terms of dynamics of the vehicle (to the already quoted electronic controls of braked and traction you/they can be assistant other specific equipments, as for example the lighthouses to the xenon), both from the safety contents passive, among which strikes her/it first of all evolved to comply to the new normative of bump EEC / USA and the endowment of series of 4 air-bags (frontal and side).

Available also applications type comfortistico as the cruise controls and the electronic sensors of parking lot to the back one. But the insides of the Spyder don't only surprise for the quality just mentioned, but also for the ability to combine class and technology: they only miss the commands of the radio to the steering wheel, while for the rest, the generous color display of 5,8" it dominates the central zone of the bridge, visualizing the information that arrive from the hi-fi one of series with reader mono CD, from the computer of edge, from the automatic plant of climatization, from the system of navigation satellitare GPS and from the manifold information of the more and more complete and functional Maserati Info Centre.

The suond to the least, dark and extremely full-bodied one, of the V8 Maserati, the exceptionality of the insides and the series of buttons and pulsantini - among which the MSP and the functionalities Sport... - you/they had launched by now me in the world of the dreams but... the sgasates of a colleague bring me to the reality. And' now to depart, proclamation to the gossips. Laced belt, well connected brain, right foot on the brake and a light pressure on the bilancere of right, countersigned from it initials her/it "UP." On the display the writing 1 appear, you/he/she can be departed...
We abandon the Maserati and we direct there toward the agricultural firm Hombre, ownership of the Sig. Umberto Panini - the figurines of the soccer players tell you nothing? -, inside which, the same Sandwiches, maintain with the care and the love of a father one of the most exceptional museums of present historical auto in Italy. A visitina, is worth... I assure him to you.
The first destination - the museum is to Cittanova -, dista from Modena about twenty km and it is reached crossing a long line of bypass road: the planned speed "from the bulldozer" it fully respects the code of the road, but the Spyder doesn't seem to suffer of it. The suspensions respond with great sweetness to the asperities of the ground, while the change seems to pick her/it to him up rather comfortable between a passage of march and the other. A dry no, in short, to the sessions of massage post-trip and to the effect kangaroo typical of you change her to rhythm F1: the formality "standard", of fact, stings to the confort suiting himself/herself/itself for the demands of whom desires to use with frequency the 390 colts of the Spyder, that on their behalf not "they paw" also assuring great regularity to regimes of little superior to the 1.500 turns.

But the hills are near, and the formality sport asks for to be inserted with great urgency... The "Cambiocorsa" he transforms: the passages of march are now performed in a beating of eyelash and the scalings they are accompanied by an as aggressive as exciting shotgun. As if it was not enough, the setting of the active suspensions also passes from "confort" to "ready footstep" and the effects on the physicist feel him. The asperities of the asphalt, in fact, are copied for that that enough, with surgeon precision and few respects for pilot and passenger: now the Spyder is indeed another auto and allows to exploit, one to one, the 22 cms of footstep in less that differentiate her/it from the version GT Coupé.

Maserati Spyder Schumacher test drive

Motor, facility of guide and fun apart, it needs to admit that the electronics of which it is gifted the Spyder works indeed in dear way and allows a notable dose of fun before a "dry" cut. The romanticonis will surely twist the nose, but making the accounts with the reality, these super-sporting ones they would practically be ingestibili in the guide of every day without a generous quantity of chip.The limit, is very tall in short... but if percaso owed find you in the autodrome and you wanted to see what they mean really 390 CVs and 451 Nm... I suggest you to disarm the control of the stability and the traction cliccando for some according to the pulsating MSP.
Attention however: to find to look in the eyes who it follows you is matter of some degree of inclination in more than the pedal of the gas, for which light foot in gone out of the curves, ready controsterzo and well open eyes.
Defects: only one. Do you want to know him/it?...to owe to redeliver her/it... for then to climb on another car. A true trauma, also for the one who has gotten used to try and to change cars as her own suits! A suggestion to all the maniacs of the Made in Germany: make us a stroll of a hour and then some prejudice it will disappear and perhaps we will become some more nationalists.
The range it is very articulated, given by the possibility to freely combine the 16 shades of the external (some of which you on purpose develop for the new Spyder) varnishes with the 10 colors of the range skins for inside and the 5 tonalities of the color hood. To them it turns, every color of the skins is proposed with combinings (carpet and chromatic division of the show up inside car) developed for getting the maximum elegance and chromatic harmony in the inside environment of the car.

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!