Id. And on the road with a mercedes a class coupe a. Car tester some shaken up says the eclipse has traditionally been mercedes upper mid range model along with a sedan and Station Wagon mercedes has now unveiled the new eco as copay so its time to put it through its paces. It clearly follows the current Mercedes Benz design language the car maker was hoping to make the connection to the smaller c. Class in the luxury s. Class but that can make it difficult for the layman to distinguish between the sea as and different a class is in the rearview mirror. Sanchez says many die hard eclipse. Pay fans felt a bit let down by the last model it came across as a technological mash up of the sea any class or c. D. s is now corrected this with a new page which is based solely on the eclipse among the many benefits is that its become significantly larger this means more interior space and the full safety and Comfort Technology range of its a class siblings can be found in the coop a. In the specially tuned a m g line the coupe a has a sporty or a print larger wheel rims and a chrome plated diamond grille. Despite its new length of four point two meters the overhangs have remained nearly the same the trunk lid is shaped as a subtle rear spoiler. Sancia says the new eclipse coupe a has already gone on a diet and losing about one hundred kilograms its time to see a passengers also need to be skinny to get into the back seat. Getting in is not a problem and when it comes to leg room a seat comes perilously close. But has a long way exist ill have enough space. So apart from rubbing up against the drivers seat its actually quite comfortable unfortunately head room is a different story with his head almost touching the roof and. The liner is just too low otherwise he says sitting position in the rear is quite comfortable now lets find out how easy it is to get out. He thought it would he says its probably better to wait until the seat in front is folded down. Will take the one hundred eighty kilowatt eat three hundred for a spin. You he says and from that there dont seem to have been too many changes and basically looks like the standard a class its the same design in both a sedan and the Station Wagon but there are a few new trim items here and the air vents are modeled on a jet engine thats not him for that. But unfortunately the coupe a has Something Else in common with the sedan and Station Wagon the twin twelve point three inch displays are only available as an option. Alongside the standard suspension the eclipse coupe a also features optional dynamic body control with adjustable damping a new air suspension. Even the Standard Equipment include a great many Digital Systems that monitor and support the driver for example the active brake assist which can brake autonomy asli in an emergency and can also recognise but esther ians. Has a classical piece on she says the new eclipse coupe a has leap frogged the old model its now even bigger and closer to its luxury sibling the s. Class the workmanship is up to mercedes high standards and the design is top notch only the power train of the newly class coupe a has been kept smaller deliberately at least for now mercedes needs to set it apart from the s. Class but sooner or later mercedes will address this perhaps after it perhaps up the s. Class. Or test car list for just under sixty thousand euros in germany for. Our car test area manuel schaefer says many v. W. Models today are based on the modular transverse platform known as m q being. In two thousand and fifteen v. W. Began also developing a modular electrification tool kit planned for. Or and. Its the basis for a v. W. Id buzz and id and even though the m. E. B. And idea are still under development weve been given a sneak peek at the state of the id. The id is already being street tested so far its got a rather limited range of fifteen kilometers on a top speed of just thirty kilometers an hour but said the launch in two thousand and twenty theres still plenty time for improvements plans to increase the i. D. s range to between four hundred and six hundred kilometers and boost its top speed to one hundred sixty kilometers an hour its electric motor delivers an output of one hundred twenty five kilowatts directly to the rear axle. Its headlights are best described as interactive l. E. D. Elements they allow the car to signal to other cars and pedestrians the can for example signal pedestrians to cross the street. The id has no side mirrors theyve been replaced by cameras and with the wheelbase length of two point seventy five meters it ranks just behind the much larger v. W. Bus side of the emanuel likes a well thought out interior design of the id you can easily pull the seating out creating an abundance of vertical Storage Space them up giving you room to transport plans faulting bikes and the like and this here is a really neat feature a pocket where you can put things like into a magazine. On the door youll find controls for the window seats the cars hifi system and air conditioning in manoa says v. W. Has also integrated a retractable Steering Wheel in this prototype as promised place your hand over it and it emerges. Allowing the driver to manually steer the id and once you retract the Steering Wheel the vehicle switches into fully automatic pilot mode which wont be available until two thousand and twenty five however so it wont feature in the id when its launched. Its got a pretty stiff suspension so you tend to feel even small road bumps extremely large rooms and very thin tires dont help either. The ids rear is inspired by the v. W. Golf with a futuristic twist that has slim rear lights that flare up when braking along with additional l. E. D. S. Theyre almost invisible to the eye when the car is stationary and this illuminated saucer may one day contain a sensor system for autonomy is driving. Currently the i. D. S. Gas pedal seems to allow just two things either excel aeration or standstill touching the pedal jerks it forward taking your foot away brakes it just as abrupt way thats not due to recuperative braking the id prototype doesnt have that v. W. Has some pretty ambitious plans and future the idea is supposed to recognize drivers and automatically adjust its setting to their preferences it will automatically park and even be able to accept parcels one major issue remains however there are still too few charging stations and germany there are only six thousand such stations with less than ten percent fast charging. Emanuel says that with the idea set to launch in two thousand and twenty one other carmakers still have plenty of time to increase the number of charging stations with the. But i think. The mazda three has had a facelift but the improvements are mostly on the inside among other things the smart city brake has been thoroughly reworked the emergency braking system now uses a front camera and stead of laser sensors this allows mazdas work orders to handle higher speeds. Are current estimates show us in marker says at first glance she didnt notice any difference you have to look very closely. At the cars exterior is modern but timeless the new exclusive equipment Line Features full l. E. D. Headlights with automatic beam control that ensures good night vision and the mazda three even receive the red dot design award for its exterior the Sports Equipment line we tested as tinted windows in the rear and sides and back and. The only detail ides also come with the explosive equipment line and above. The cargo space has a capacity of three hundred sixty four leaders folding down the rear seats increases that to twelve hundred and sixty three leaders. In the cockpit the mazda offers an item at a Climate Control system. As well as heated Steering Wheel. White leather upholstery with electric drivers seat and just might cost an additional seven hundred euro zone the Sports Equipment line for music enthusiastic theres a Bose Centrepoint sound system. And. The show says the new interior makes a much Higher Quality impression because in them its most of the hard plastics used in the previous version. There have been no changes to the engine range artist car has a one hundred twenty one kilowatt to leader gasoline engine the car maker claims an average fuel consumption of five point eight leaders in the sports line vary of the most of three lives for twenty six thousand three hundred ninety year olds in germany but the engine we tested their front wheel drive car is only available with a manual gearbox. Michaud says the new mazda three is far more agile and more comfortable than last years model and the smooth short through shifter is really fun. Adding to the fun is the g. Vectoring control the refined Electronic Stability Program has been added to the mazda three for the first time and adjusts engine torque based on the steering movements thats meant to improve handling and driving comfort the tried and tested Sky Active Technology increases the engines compression ratio for more power and lower fuel consumption. And summary michelle says the upgraded interior is definitely serve the new mazda three well shes always been a fan of the exteriors and together it makes for a comfortable everyday car that takes her from a to b. Funk. The mazda three offers a choice of three gasoline into diesel engines east now benefit from dynamic dampers that absorb vibration and allow the diesel engines to run quieter. Seem. To be restrained her sebastian star is demonstrating what a modern s. U. V. Is capable of in the snow with electronic stability control off that is for this sebastian is taking the sienna tika for a spin on a cordoned off track. The bus and whats going on delayed symon wants to know from an experience race driver you what its like to drive on snow. Needs and what i thought of osh and says are really depends on what kind of car youre driving with a month that along with the vehicles power train is crucial. And is say you had to take a has a four drive system which uses a hall dex clutch system. It activates rear wheel drive in case of front wheel slippage giving you four wheel drive when you need it best before they will show me one of the a lot of the. Added rear wheel drive allows the s. U. V. To nimbly navigate around these cones with front wheel drive alone this wouldnt be possible the car would keep slipping whichever way it turns the one hundred out under way says the a take it has several driver modes but as a professional race driver sebastian has deactivated the electronic stability control under he wants to know what he thinks so its no driving mode of him and my life sebastian says it makes a driving much safer. It thinks its really helpful for average s. U. V. Drivers who are not into the in the scenario its a motor sports. Targeting snow driving mode is optimized as traction on snow by giving the car suspension more travel and for me out of their income must be the theory that i in fact. Best learn at the nfl. Or doesnt is overall the car stability controls work really well. If for example the cars rear over shearson and swerving the car to the left but if it in its right front wheel automatically brakes thats a street only car around innings that becomes all of it that i stock up out of the ultimate there so the snow drive mode makes travelling on the snow much safer for average drivers put in a mile and although far as these are more the money dont have the excess up on home use they still are for paying for. Snow can actually provide decent traction provided it doesnt exceed a certain height and youve got winter tires but what about driving on ice i if. Its. Sebastian says you can instantly to know when youre driving on ice will be like now. That the car is sliding ice is a real challenge and a real danger lies and if your car starts to slide downhill the best thing to do is activate the four wheel drive mohan with all that. Then youve got to hit the gas and try to get away. If anything else like braking could make the car slip out of control by them and by them so you have to move away from the slope using four wheel drive. This can depend on the cars drive motors. Sebastian points out that even if youre no fan of driving in snow and a four wheel drive gives you the greatest control. That will give you a sense of security and. Ill go about it but at the end of the day practice. It makes perfect. And you can practice the best on courses like these or by taking a Driver Safety training and labor. On coming on this new world of thought official me it is so much what i make sense of. What i had an unpublished. So take it from a pro what matters most for driving safely on snow and ice is a well maintained car winter tires and careful driving its also a good investment to take Driver Safety training which can be great fun as well. This time well be driving the legendary renault four with million spilled over three decades this boxy little hatchback was and remains the best selling french made car and automotive history. Dad heres a car tester christophe powered tells us they are four was renauds model for the masses and their challenge to the v. W. Bug italys fiats five hundred and said wednesday. It was practical robust and universally affordable like a pair of blue jeans or a nose director general at the time had a clear vision for this car for the masses and had to be robust so the prototypes were subjected to thorough test drives covering nearly three million kilometers in total before the models launch they were driven through the sarras the snows of minnesota and the mountain tracks of sardinian the project was code named but nobody chontosh. Postcards arrived at renault headquarters from all over the world with messages like movie shine tallent her children are doing well. And it is. Among the in durance tennis was one for highway worthiness and early indication of ambitions for the r. Ford to become International Best seller it was the first french car to debut not at the Paris Motor Show but at the International Motor show in frankfurt in one nine hundred sixty one. He asked the boy gustav bauer read that the first german reviews were not exactly love at first sight one german critic wrote that the french had grown sober and functional with their car all the bare metal with little insulation and casual workmanship did not live up to the two tony guy dias of quality they create rattled and clattered and creaked all over the are for may not have been perfect but it was all around practical. And absolute dollars kind of. Thing. Adventures. Clowns. And mail carriers everyone seemed to love the renault for. Its exceptional offroad capabilities and twenty seven centimeter spring range made the are four suitable for a crosscountry treks to places like most only shed equipped with four wheel drive and even placed third in the paris dakar rally this in part four by four was available as the fortune had panel van. At the bottom of her stump tells us when the car first hit the market in the one nine hundred sixty s. Rear wheel drive was still standard. One german reviewer complained that on sudden accelerations the front wheel drive knocked the vehicle off course but with twenty three horsepower he finds the claim very dubious and describes the r. For his french so i have one review and metal form and with impressive cornering ability and i was going to say but i dont buy into the idea. Of the alfie as he says the other four is a genuine minimalist with only the essential instruments in it unpadded dashboard has a windows have to be pushed rather than crank and instead of handles the doors have only slots where the bar inside is functionality over design like that got their primary consideration for the exterior was worth a look better down and more up to date to for instance one of those quaint. And more practical than renaults own theme and the result was surprisingly spacious with the platform frame allowed for a Long Wheel Base and high chassis and with a big hatchback in the rear seat bench removed our four was almost a mini van and cons but the c. N. N. The reno four was never meant to be a vintage classic now its more of a rowing curiosity the extra long torsion bar suspension makes the wheel base five centimeters longer on the right then on the left the exhaust ends as a side pipe in front of the rear wheel and to save space the main muffler is installed inside a front wheel well. The body panels are simply screwed into place so any car parts dealer can easily replace them that comes in handy given french drivers casual approach to parking. And one more crystal says the are for stuck with tried and tested drive technology the same four cylinder engine that drove the four c. V. And the doe feen back but for the r. Four it was mounted in front instead of the rear and to avoid major redesigns the transmission was located here in front of the engine with again for a reputation as long lasting and very durable and interesting detail is that the models up to the one nine hundred seventy five with the battery ran low the driver could manually start the car using the crank from the jack. Goes in here a relic of days long past hats or to my fans. The engine Capacity Group you have crew from seven hundred forty seven cubic centimeters and twenty three horsepower a one point one leaders and a proud thirty four horsepower this are for boast twenty six and a half horsepower and speeds up to one hundred ten kilometers per hour. Maybe ill do her stuff sums up the r. For it is all. The car anyone really needs either though it has its quirks if it starts raining while the air vents are open for instance the occupants might get an unexpected showering and the handbrake isnt connected to the back wheels but the front which could cause some rude surprises but nobody seems to have complained that they are poor found some eight million buyers in thirty one years in over one hundred countries on five continents and thats nothing if not success that i now find specific. Over its long production lines the economy car was regularly upgraded without changing its overall design a total of four generations had rolled off the Assembly Line in one thousand nine hundred two but the idea is that all of us chris cuffe our repeats that there were no four