So it is kind of side by. People who put big dreams on the big story. In the magazine on the w. L o and welcome to drive and your motor magazine on d w coming up zipping around the alps and Mclaren Seven Twenty S super car. The World Car Design Of The Year the range rover valar. But first the latest and greatest from the los angeles auto show. The Convention Center in Downtown Los Angeles every year its those site of the l. A. Auto show this time around over sixty brands have shown up for the event was the internet and not all Industry Journalist the money was shaffer says there are many Major International automobile trade fairs and that many car makers now say they arent worth it but l. A. Is everyone whos anyone is here to show off their newest creations. Certain to be one of the highlights a porsche nine eleven not this one here of course but this one. The nine eleven is such an defining model for porsche that designers always think twice about changes visually they want you to be
if we can manuel says the new mazda three hasn t been touched by the trend towards electricity although its engine isn t really conventional because i managed to has a very special concept in engine design doesn t the spec to exhaust this question either since it s proud to have the first series production gas powered engines with compression ignition. marge who wants to have the efficiency of a diesel with a cleaner remissions have a gasoline powered car at least under certain driving conditions and carry on a has come down between the electric and full combustion camps it s new koroma is a hybrid. it also showed off his prius which is equipped with a hybrid drive as well as all wheel drive and speeds up to seventy five kilometers an hour i m not their electric motor feeds power to the rear axle which is supposed to improve control on slick driving surfaces this version. or the car however is
nine seconds and can hit a top speed of three hundred forty one kilometers per hour. from legarda kind hope turns north into the else headed towards austria and its spectacular alpine scenery the twin turbo charged v eight with his five hundred twenty seven kilowatt output makes driving on a winding mountain roads lots of fun but this is just a tiny taste of the power. and performance it has to offer. well doesn t it i hope that explains that the developers used lots of carbon to get the cars weight down they double the chassis the cage to cage a cockpit steering wheel and side mirrors have carbon fiber accents the instrument cluster can be retracted so the driver can get a better view of the road or track and let you enter an actual parking garages without potential scrapes the nose lift holds the front splitter back