From zed f. And the new stinger from kenya. So. That key a stinger is the first ford sedan the korean car maker is put out on the market it will be challenging the market dominance of the audi a five ford backs and b. M. W. Four series grand coupe a. Way to finding a not long ago of car to history man to watch over head to list all the car makers that it sports versions in their model range he probably would have left out but that changed with the c g t at the latest and now theyve really gone all out with this one the stinger. The look is mainly the work of german designer paper schreier who had just come from twenty six years with the most wagon where he gave the audi its new face and created the new beetle. The test emanuel is testing the strongest engine a three point three liter gasoline powered unit putting out two hundred seventy two kilowatts or three hundred seventy horsepower and he can feel that brute force the moment he steps on the gas that hurls the car from zero to one hundred kilometers an hour in under five seconds with a top speed of two hundred seventy audi b. M. W. And others often kept their top speeds at two hundred fifty. The maker reads average fuel consumption at ten point six liters per hundred kilometers but the stinger will probably take one or two more in every day driving. The stinger sharp contours leave no doubt about it still intentions and embody sportiness combined with that one gets large air intakes make for an aggressive face while cooling the powerhouse inside. The stingers rear is reminiscent of alfa romeo and juliet. The interior passes muster with high quality and sound workmanship. This key is strong points arent limited to sporting us they might want to size them in spite of the performance and sporty suspension the key a stinger lives up to the expectations many drivers have for a midsize lechery sedan plenty of. Home and comfort for long haul trips. The Cargo Capacity expands from four hundred six to one thousand one hundred fourteen leaders with the rear seats down. The real surprise comes when you sit in back. Theres enough room even for passengers who are one meter eighty in height and over to sit in absolute comfort. Women will find so they can choose from a good five driving those before or after he sets out and that affects the accelerator response among other aspects and the only thing that doesnt change unfortunately is the sound its too quiet in modest for a man who was taste especially considering the power behind it and no matter what the neighbors might prefer it that way. Besides the top of the range engine we tested it also comes with a two point two leader diesel putting out one hundred forty seven kilowatts and a two liter gasoline burner producing one hundred eighty eight kilowatts. I die one point a man who i would criticize in an otherwise well done car is the rather small rear window when he looks in the Rearview Mirror only sees is a small slit but then be jokes was so much power under the hood you dont have to look in the Rearview Mirror that often. The key is sticking your starts at almost forty four thousand euros in germany. At its Design Center an english dot audi is presenting the Second Generation of the a seven sport pack visitors were delighted by this sweeping lines of a new design the new a seven is a dynamic all rounder. At first glance it has the appearance of a coup pay but in fact the seven sport back is much more versatile offering plenty of space for a family. To go listen the chief designer says the challenge was to create a truly new design which still makes you think of any seven but really shows a new directions like that somebody lies to. The front grill of a new a seven is typical audi but its wider in closer to the road than in the larger eight model. Taking a closer look at the rear you see that the spoiler has shifted higher up to create a sporty or silhouette along with twenty one inch alloy rims this car is a real head turner. As it is a canister marked link to says they wanted to highlight the quatro all wheel drive in the design for this reason they deviated from thirty years of audi style and pushed the belt line down between the wheels to make room for powerful front and Rear Quarters that way the quatro is made visible. With the spec and. A leading innovation as far as the chassis is concerned is the dynamic all wheel steering it combines sporty steering ability with handling stability the steering varies according to the speed actively engaging with the front and rear axles the vehicle offers thirty nine Driver Assistance Systems divided into three categories city parking and tour. The interior is a seamless blend of design and innovation new touch Response Technology does away with Center Console control knobs and Old Fashioned buttons replacing them with High Definition touch displace. The upper display allows the driver to control the multifunction infotainment. Systems. The lower display allows text important gives access to Climate Controls and come for related functions. With. The back offers plenty of room and has a display that allows you to regulate the seed heating in temperature in the back of the vehicle. Itself in the audi chairman Rupert Stadler says the two big highlights of this model are the elegant interior which is very modern and the design around the rear which is really some shows. The sake of me to hit that and actually deposit they say someone buys them. The trunk opens quite easily and despite a slim tapered rear the storage compartment is room for five hundred thirty five to one thousand three hundred ninety leaders of volume. That he markley to says he loves the back of his car the compact cabin sits atop a broad powerful body and is underscored by a well defined band of l. E. D. Lights and vertical elements of the impression is modern fresh and forward looking. Locking and unlocking the doors activates a flashing display of lights in the rear giving this big coupe a a dynamic look even when its part of a new feature for the headlights twelve slender evenly spaced light elements. As anything other stylish says the seven will be released in china but he expects it will be popular in europe as well and there is growing demand in the u. S. With. The new audi a seven sport back comes with a turbo charged three leader v. Six engine and will be available from the end of feb the starting price in germany is around sixty eight thousand euros. The new b. M. W. X two blends s. U. V. And coupe a styles using elements of both vehicle types the car morphs the x. One into an s. U. V. Kupang the shape was said by making the roof seven centimeters flatter than the x. One the technology and assist systems are also those from the x. One the entry level engine is the x two s. Drive twenty i which can deliver one hundred forty one kilowatts and two hundred eighty newton meters of torque. To say at a rona marks the start of e ws crossover offensive and twenty eighteen it will be followed by the polo s. U. V. T. Cross and skoda polar be our own is a class lower than the take f. And has the same platform as the three petrol engines are available and two one point six liter diesels they range in power from seventy to eighty five kilowatts prices for the iran has started fifteen thousand nine hundred ninety year olds in germany. A cyclist crosses that intersection without looking where the driver apply the brakes in time it doesnt matter because the car will stop itself. A vehicle is parked on a highway a panic stop may not be enough to avoid a collision the only solution is to swerve around it by using the neighboring lane the car and experimental vehicle from said have. Performed a maneuver on its own. Version zero is all about a promise a commitment in the future to pursue a time when there will be zero accidents and there will be zero emissions associated with personal mobility and buy on the road then you can say its about you will have a test right today and you can see tangible steps tangible examples of technology that contribute towards our long term objectives these are initial steps that were taking as a company. The component suppliers and have some bases near Lake Constance its loaded up a car with lots of Visionary Technology including active seat belts that tighten when the going gets rough and intelligent operating concept and even new driving assistant functions. Car test him out his career and says there are plenty of signs ahead and have Development Engineer yohannes process thats the point to says the route is clear. But your highness says people do enter highways going in the wrong direction. And the car is fitted out with sensors and an extremely precise location system. And knows the way and which direction to take. On by itself. If we try to drive up the highway entrance ramp going. The wrong way. To seize the warning on the display just beginning that as engineer says first theres a visual warning then a signal from the Steering Wheel once you begin going the wrong way the car slows itself down it could be a one way street or something less dangerous than i way at some point the car decides to come to a full stop youll have says more functions could be added to an emergency call or directions to resolve the situation while avoiding for the risks i mean that whats the name of the form i have. Every year in germany alone there are more than two thousand cases of wrong way driving on highways this system could help reduce those numbers. Distraction is another cause of accidents with some drivers looking at their smartphones rather than keeping their eye on the road the developers have built in assistance systems for these threads to a camera recognizes where the driver is looking in an emergency it takes over to avoid collisions or other types of accidents. And if a driver is given up steering entirely they car takes over that to. You on a says there are buttons on the Steering Wheel that let you see when the car is ready to take over control. The driver then activates the entire system and lets the car drive itself. A month this is amazed noting that the car does it all very smoothly on the side and on the south of. Your home is telling him that the speed is set to limit lateral acceleration and with the aim of keeping driver and passenger comfortable. Autonomys driving is supposed to free and decouple the driver from the job of driving. Then hes a passenger and driving should feel as smooth as possible. Imagine reading a paper or doing Something Else you dont want to be getting bounced around the whole time. Thats why when we get to the bumps the car will change lanes smoothly with the help of its rear steering meaning the car wont rotate on its vertical axis. Lets check it out. Not his ass if theres a built in rear axle steering so yes as your highness were still looking straight ahead and feel a bit of lateral acceleration thats unavoidable. But when youre in the back and look down its much more comfortable. That. Theyve put Similar Technology in another car the ford f one fifty isnt exactly known for its maneuverability its more likely to drive over the cones than around them theres an assist for that too. Young mother says bigger cars can be problematic and nowadays all cars are bigger and the ford f one fifty is one of the bigger ones are those what happens when you have to go down a narrow road going into a parking garage for example or driving on a course. He says theres no way this car can do it. And theres not who does know how to if i hoped the guy on the street soup of a thing is. Always should i go with the car which is about so i dont know twenty five thousand meters long and how should i go through this with the wonderful thing is whether a casey system will give you twelve degrees of where stair i angle never sufferings or turn circle down from what the stuff on fifty would be down to what would be the ford who got. To says hes not so sure so hes going to see for himself really steering is on and we can give it a try. At first the test seems almost impossible and now this seems to be very very narrow here it would be would be without without rooster. And i to says if you look at the course it seems really narrow driving through it is a real challenge. Of a few is i dont know is fought off. Yet the enormous steering angle makes it all is easiest childs play there are already cars with systems like this but the steering angle is much smaller said f one c used the f one fifty to show what the technology can do the six metre long. Can be steered through the cones effortlessly its turning radius drops from fourteen point six to eleven point six meters. Its not his says he thought it would have been impossible but you can actually do the course in this big car thanks to the added a rear axle steering that moves the rear wheels twelve degrees as well. Its great and says. Player. We go back to the car thats got all the new systems on it sums up a day thats been full of surprises. Despite the vision zero is really exciting its shown impressively the way in which driving is rightly to develop in the next ten or fifteen years whether assist systems are involved or is completely autonomy and the whole steering thing thats really outrageous. In. This. It could be described as a breezy purist the votes wagon twelve hundred convertible and turned only the open top v. W. Beetle was given the rather dry bureaucratic designation type fifteen nicknamed the punch buggy this car must over arouse more emotion than any other car in the Twentieth Century qantas to coast up our codes of own advertising slogan for the convertible from the mid one nine hundred fifty s. A car for young people of every age the person beetle convertible rolled off coach builder carmens Assembly Line in one nine hundred forty nine and it kept on rolling and rolling for over thirty years until one nine hundred eighty over three hundred thirty thousand units were built and sold to fresh air and sunshine fans the world over and over and over. In one nine hundred thirty four on commission from the nazi controlled germany by his so ca shin of the Automotive Industry said non porsche began developing the most wagon right from the start a convertible version was planned. Volume production only started after the Second World War beginning in one nine hundred forty nine coachbuilder have turned out a total of six hundred ninety six open top beatles. A devastating fire ended his first production run. That millers competitor carmen had better luck and just three years it turned out ten thousand beatle convertibles. Has bought it for the kristof tells us it was always the most powerful and best equipped beatle that was taken as the basis for the convertible and early one nine hundred sixty that was the thirty horsepower export beetle a v. W. Itself wouldnt contribute to enhancing the performance im awake nordoff looks wagon head at the time gave the reliability absolute priority and so it took thirty six seconds to reach one hundred Kilometers Per Hour from zero and didnt ever go much faster to top out at one hundred twelve Kilometers Per Hour. But v. W. Kept steadily ratcheting up the horsepower anyway eventually doubling it from an initial twenty five to the maximum fifty horsepower the beetle convertible kept modernising on the inside at least. As far as christophes concerned nothing compares with the beatles handling of the steering is easy and direct the boxer engine mounted on the rear axle makes for all the traction youd need as porsche fans will confirm this configuration works for way more than thirty horsepower a brochure from back in the day describes the twelve hundred as uncompromisingly sporty. Be that as it may you have to shift quickly because the engine reaches the maximum torque of seventy six newton meters at two thousand r. P. M. s and Peak Performance at thirty four hundred r. P. M. s after that a car doesnt get any faster by only louder you know without going to jail no but its not that i come back to my cliche love going out with a. As skipped christopher knows there are some designs that need no improvement only minor touch ups are made to the body of the beetle convertible in the thirty one years of its production the twelve hundred convertible was based on the post one nine hundred fifty eight beetle with a rectangular rear window and somewhat larger front and rear windows and this was v. W. His version of face lifting in one nine hundred fifty nine they replaced the door levers with fixed door handles over a push button and in august one thousand nine hundred sixty the pop up turn signals were upgraded then they glint instead of waving white and for the next model year the nicely practical taillights made way for those fatter Elephants Foot like says its. In one thousand nine hundred four the beatles nitrile based paint was changed to Synthetic Resin paint modest tones like this gravel grey dominated the color schemes of the one nine hundred fifty s. And sixtys the top export model is shown with far more chrome than the standard models on the dashboard for example. The golf course of christopher nude so the well insulated top muffled the noises of traffic of effectively making this beetle two cars and one so aside from the weather acoustics can be another good reason to put the top up for one with a shut out the rattling from the now legendary four cylinder boxer engine that is highly dependable and runs smoothly and free of my brace shells of course but with a very assertive background noise across this mythical so it might be a good idea to give the yours a break now and then when. And they think christoph explains that in the one nine hundred sixty s. The powerful head of the ignored set the course focusing on improving details and stead of making radical innovations and he made volkswagen europes top earning car maker and may well have been this policy of holding on to the tried and tested and run such huge success for example twenty one point five million beatles were built for years it was the worlds most frequently built car and most frequently built convertible even at a hefty extra price over three hundred thirty thousand v. W. Convertible sold a