Feel the Air: Lamborghini Aventador J

Here is the most lunatic car after Mercedes McLaren Stirling Moss Edition, Lamborghini Aventador J. This car is totally open top, there is nothing to cover your head. And thanks to 700 PS V12 engine, it can achieve 300 kph (186 mph) without any problems!

Actually, if the driver and passenger skip to wear a helmet, they will really suffer a lot of problem :) Remember, this car does not have a windscreen! You will feel the air on every spot of your face, and also you won’t need any botox after driving.

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Ford Kuga Foot Operated Automatic Tailgate

Don't miss understood the title, new Ford Kuga's tailgate is not operated by kicking! You just need to kick your foot under beneath the rear bumper and tailgate automatically opens. Also if you repeat the same process it will automatically closes. Sounds great!

Probably people like me will play with this system non-stop all the time :) And don't worry Ford developed fail-safe system for unintended operations by animals or anything run under the vehicle.

Probably you need to order the key-less access function, otherwise how can the car detects your behind the tailgate and kicking the bumper :)

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Geneva Motorshow 2012 Models

Back to Geneva Motorshow 2012 again. But this time, only with models! No cars photos! Actually, there are some cars but photos are mainly focused on models.

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A New Package from AMG

For very long time, AMG was two things for a Mercedes-Benz vehicle; AMG Body Kit and AMG Models. First thing is just a cosmetic amend of the exterior design with louder exhaust and the second thing is the extreme expensive cars. As you can see that there is a gap here, many people want to experience the AMG without paying lots of money or just contented with cosmetic make-up. 

Hopefully, Mercedes-Benz realised this gap after some time and decided to release a new package for C Coupe. It is called AMG Plus Sport Package. This package is engineered by AMG, from steering wheel to gearbox everything is at the AMG level. This new package offers double declutch function for the gearbox, it is totally reprogrammed.

And all these can be your with C250 / 250 CDi models, you don't have to pay a lot of money! I am sure that, this package will be available with other models as well.

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Mercedes-Benz Geneva 2012

Here are the photos from the Geneva Motor Show 2012 at Mercedes-Benz stand. Unfortunately, I didn't take these photos :( May be next time.

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Volkswagen Cross Coupe

Range Rover Evoque was the last year’s the most outstanding vehicle. It received an unbelievable level of demand; even the Land Rover was not expecting this! However, there is a downside. If a car receives a very high demand, in following years you may see it everywhere and it diminishes some of its demand or prevent customers to buy it.

At that moment, they will look a good substitute and VW realised this possible scenario and released the Cross Coupe concept in Geneva. In my opinion, this is the best-looking VW for ages. Most of the VW vehicles have that conservative family car looking except some models like Golf R and GTi, but the rest have that DNA inside.

However, VW is changing it DNA and it is very clear with Cross Coupe. If they put this car in production, it will be the one of the major rivals of the Range Rover Evoque. Actually, it looks better than Tiguan and Touareg!

This Cross Coupe is planned to be TDI plug-in hybrid powertrain. 2,0-lt turbo diesel engine is connected with two electric motor and creates the a consumption of 1,8lt/km and 46g/km CO2 level. And combination of all electric motors and diesel engine, it will produce 306 PS with outstanding 700 nm of torque. Acceleration to 100 kph (62 mph) in 6,5 seconds and top speed of 220 kph (137 mph).

These figures are really good, keep eye on Cross Coupe!

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Rolls Royce Phantom Series-II

Rolls Royce announced the face-lifted version of the current Phantom range. The face-lifted models are branded under Phantom Series-II. The face-lifted range is not looking that different from the existing ones, you may have noticed the significant difference on the headlights. So, if you own the Rolls Royce Phantom, don’t worry it won’t loss it value that much!

With the Phantom Series-II, 8-speed auto transmission and more driving focused differential is offered. This means differential probably offers locking function that will improve the cornering at high speeds. Another improvement is the headlights, the different looking headlights have a reason for this. They will be offered as LED, so you won’t be jealous when you see cheaper car with a LED headlight. Also, the navigation system is renewed. It will be offering 3D maps with landscape topography. I have no idea why they offer topography like in an SUV. Finally, they reduced the CO2 level from 388 to 348 g/km. 

Regardless of face-lift, a Rolls Royce is always a Rolls Royce :)

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New Ford Kuga

Surprising news just came from the Ford. They released the photos of the face-lifted new Kuga that will be available next year. It was released in 2008 and after 4 years, that's a normal face-lift schedule. However, existing Kuga still looks fine! But technical features and interior could not keep with the competitors. This SUV segment has a very tough competition as it is one of the most profitable one. Each competitor introduces new technologies and features in this segment, then the competitors seems relatively out-dated. 

Like the existing model, it has a great design. In my opinion, existing Kuga is one of the best looking medium size SUV on market. And it won’t look old even in future, why? Because the existing Kuga has inspiration from the wild animals. You may see these parts especially on the bonnet and muscular structure. This new Kuga is a refined interpretation of the existing one. You can see this, when you look close. Ford did not change the main stream lines of the Kuga but revised it!

New Kuga will feature 2-lt 140 PS turbo diesel and 1,6-lt EcoBoost 175 PS petrol engine. I am expecting to see the new 1-lt EcoBoost petrol as well in future. There are not information about the gearbox but I am sure they will offer double clutch auto in whole engine range! Please do it!

Ford assumes that new all-wheel drive system will act at least 20 times faster than the present one. They also realised that Kuga does not offer a good off-road experience. Its all-wheel drive system reluctant to act on adverse terrain conditions. 

Coolest feature of the Kuga is the foot movement operated tailgate! I love this thing, it is available with Mercedes-Benz and BMW models. And it is really functional and creative, probably people like me break it down after playing too many times :)

And please Ford, dress up the models betters for the shooting! They still have the boring family atmosphere. Kuga is not boring!

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