Posts Tagged ‘GENEVA MOTOR SHOW’

Renault Lifts the Curtain on New Captur Small Crossover, the French Juke

By Ant On January 11, 2013 No Comments

pot.com/2013/01/renault-lifts-curtain-on-new-captur.html”>After the release of a teaser image and a video earlier this week, Renault pulled the wraps off the all-new Captur, a sub-compact crossover that will make its world debut at the Geneva Salon in March before arriving in showrooms across Europe in late spring.

The new Captur is the French version of the Nissan Juke, with which it shares its platform architecture that also underpins the Renault Clio Mk4.

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Smart Goes All Bumblebee with New Fortwo Edition Cityflame

By Ant On January 11, 2013 No Comments

pot.com/2013/01/smart-goes-all-bumblebee-with-new.html”>The latest news from Smart is the introduction of a new special edition version of its Fortwo city car called the “Cityflame”, which will be arrive in European showrooms this April.

What you will first notice about the Cityflame is the contrasting colors used on the outside with Smart applying a pearlescent ‘flame yellow’ finish on the body panels and black on the tridion safety cell and the bespoke 15-inch alloy wheels.

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Startech to Butch Up New 2013 Range Rover SUV at the Geneva Salon

By Ant On January 11, 2013 No Comments

pot.com/2013/01/startech-to-butch-up-new-2013-range.html”>Brabus affiliate Startech will be heading to the 83rd edition of the Geneva International Motor Show in the beginning of March with a new tuning proposal for the fourth generation, 2013 Range Rover luxury SUV.

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Renault Drops First Teaser Image and Video of New Captur Small Crossover

By Ant On January 9, 2013 No Comments

pot.com/2013/01/renault-drops-first-teaser-image-and.html”>It has been close to two years since Renault impressed us with the athletic three-door Captur Concept at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, and even though we’re not going to see that car on the road anytime soon, the French brand has borrowed its name and certain design elements to create a new sub-compact crossover model.

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Peugeot Officially Unveils 2008 Crossover, Premieres at the Geneva Auto Show

By Ant On January 9, 2013 No Comments

pot.com/2013/01/peugeot-officially-unveils-2008.html”>The B-Segment SUV market has just (officially) got itself another contestant in the form of the Peugeot 2008 that will make its international debut at the Geneva Auto Show in March, following an early release of the first pictures of the car on Friday.

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First Official Photos of All-New Peugeot 2008 Small Crossover

By Ant On January 5, 2013 No Comments

pot.com/2013/01/first-official-photos-of-all-new.html”>We cannot know if Peugeot intended for us to see its new 2008 crossover so early, but fact is, official pictures of the car are already making the rounds on the internet.

Peugeot previewed its new Nissan Juke and Opel / Vauxhall Mokka (Buick Encore in North America) with a thinly disguised concept model at last year’s Paris Motor Show.

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Spied: This is the New 2014 Hyundai i10 City Car

By Ant On January 4, 2013 No Comments

pot.com/2013/01/spied-this-is-new-2014-hyundai-i10-city.html”>Hyundai is like one of those kids who just can’t stay put, always looking to improve and/or renew its product line, something that has served the Korean automaker well over the years.

In the past few weeks alone, we’ve seen Hyundai update both its Korean market Equus and Grandeur (also known as the Azera), while also preparing a facelift for the North American market Equus, a

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Alfa Romeo Teases New Model for 2013, will Likely be the Production 4C Coupe

By Ant On December 30, 2012 No Comments

pot.com/2012/12/alfa-romeo-teases-new-model-for-2013.html”>If there’s one thing Alfa Romeo has graciously afforded us these past years, it’s broken promises – be that its fabled return to the U.S. market or a swarm of new models covering just about every segment in the market, none of which ever happened.

That might change now that parent company Fiat has made the decision to aggressively compete in the lower and mid premium segments with Alfa Romeo and in the upper levels with Maserati.

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Qoros Reveals its First Ever Production Model, the New GQ3 Compact Sedan

By Ant On December 24, 2012 No Comments

pot.com/2012/12/qoros-reveals-its-first-ever-production.html”>Qoros might be a brand new name in the automotive world having been formed by China’s Chery Automobile Co. and Israeli investment firm Israel Corp. in late 2007, but it sure has picked up quickly on how the business works.

Borrowing a page from much older and established companies in the industry, Qoros’ teaser design sketches of the exterior of its first production model left promises of a dynamically styled saloon, which as you can see,

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Scoop: MQB-Based 2013 VW Golf Estate or 2015 Jetta SportWagen

By Ant On December 20, 2012 No Comments

pot.com/2012/12/scoop-mqb-based-2013-vw-golf-estate-or.html”>This fresh spy video from Spain shows the station wagon version of the seventh generation Volkswagen Golf that will be named the Golf Variant (Estate in Britain) when it is introduced in Europe in 2013, and Jetta SportWagen when it arrives in North America within the next two years.

Built on the same MQB platform as its hatchback sibling, the estate model features a longer rear overhang along with a taller and boxier shaped rear end to offer a significantly improved (and more practical) luggage area in excess of 500 liters.

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