Seventy truck. Large s. U. V. S tend to guzzle gas takes a lot of energy to move that much metal but some car makers are striving to change the s. U. V. Zimm each one result is only skew seventy to run a plug in hybrid version of the lecturing q seven. A car just a modest current says that when it comes to plug in hybrids most car makers use gasoline engines to support their electric motors or more likely ice versa but i would be sticking with a six cylinder three leader in turbo diesel so if the batteries empty it provides a relatively fuel efficient means of getting around and a powerful one to. Cobb. County rates average consumption for the q seventy tron it under two liters of diesel and nineteen kilowatt hours of elect. City per one hundred kilometers and its range of up to fifty six kilometers should be enough to keep it in all electric mode for most city driving though to achieve these figures youll need to charge the car every chance you get. Could i dont mind just doesnt really notice any difference between driving a normal q seven and the plug in hybrid you get in and gauge the automatic transmission and start up all youre really have to do is remember to charge the battery now and that know. What im doing. And its hard to tell the difference from the regular q seven on the outside too only a few discrete badges show that this issue is a hybrid. The battery is located under the trunk floor reducing cargo space from eight hundred ninety to six hundred fifty leaders with the rear seats up otherwise theres nothing to indicate that this is a hybrid crossover like on the so much as looks for clueless as a normal user you cant access the battery from the back you must visit a garage for that and you cant get to anything to do with the hybrid system up front either not even check the oil but then the car does that on its own anyway. Thats all. Three are you so fix attachment points in the rear seat bench as well as a clipper free cockpit with a fully digital instrument cluster and sat nav are all standard and drivers can switch to a. V. Mode at the touch of a button. No its not a says new Technology Brings with it a new challenges and with a plug in hybrid the biggest one is. Finding a way to plug it in and stick alongside the fuel tank laid on one side here theres a charge toward cover not a couple and there are more and more charging stations around some of which you can use for free like this one here do you see here a woman i thought done so attach the power cable and then just select the type of connector you have on here. To come on up and press start and the station start charging your battery of course there are also charging stations which dont allow you to connect the card directly. But monta says audi has anticipated this so every queue seventy trying comes with this guy each case with a large assortment of cables. To go with on the end. Which you may or may not need. You know for example this one here is for at home and then theres always a suitable adapter like this so you dont overload your homes electrical circuits and thoughts. So what does it cost the starting price for a conventionally powered q seventy the ice around sixty one thousand euros in germany but youll need to shell out twenty two thousand euros more for any truck. Got as much as is of course thats a lot more expensive than a regular q seven with a three liter t. D. I. Engine but you also get a lot more Standard Equipment like this digital instrument cluster the sat nav as well as lots of other Little Details that does reduce the price difference somewhat. And this. So should all hugh seven buyers opt for the plug in hybrid version. I would have thought a says the answer is yes and no it depends a lot on your driving habits and me if you are you drive and the distances you norm. Travellin interesting people who drive four hundred kilometers per day probably dont need a plug in hybrid but if you only go for a short johnson the city for shopping etc and are able to charge the car somewhere youll see a noticeable reduction in fuel consumption and emissions. Thats all too often the. Whole. Point out i was hot stuff but now. Oman on the Arabian Peninsula our adventure begins here at the muskrat airport a journey across the country and new v. W. Amaranths. Were a monthly crew reporters organizers and local people who joined forces to take on the mountains and deserts and im rocks. At first its a leisurely drive along the coast but for the next three days well be heading across some rough terrain and. We leave the airport and the capital behind and a convoy. On. The first stop is the be missing cool about forty meters across and twenty meters deep. But we dont have much time for sightseeing we head toward the mountains we have to reach where well be spending the night before dark. Even so weve got time to take in this barren yet fascinating landscape the few animals that live here are adapted to the harsh conditions and only certain vehicles are suited to them as well. On a motive journalist he Manalo Shaffer explains that the on iraqs normally on rear wheel drive but off road the press of a button switches to all wheel drive and if the going to really get stuff on inclines over thirty degrees for instance the four by four low mode with the gear reduction function can be activated. So the amarok can have a roughest of touring. We made our Mountain Camp at one thousand nine hundred meters elevation on time that evening as hot as it gets in the midst the sun it can turn pretty cold higher up especially with a strong wind blowing. The tent goes up on the amorites nice side or behind a rock before temperatures plunge with a sunset. The next morning weve got a long road ahead a Good Breakfast gets us off to a good start. The drive through the mountains goes without incident the al hunt your Mountain Range extends nearly three hundred kilometers and reaches about three thousand meters altitude. Once weve come down from the la times a short stretch of paved road leads to the next filling station. Shores says this is no prank and we have to let air out of the tires as we head into the desert so theyll have greater surface contact and most sink into the sand as easily as the asphalt feeds into desert sand almost imperceptibly while the temperatures rise very perceptibly. Emmanuel explains that driving on desert sand is very different from gravel or roads here its better to switch off the anti slip regulation because when driving on the sand one or the other well always start spinning and the anti slippery get lation would reduce the power thats the last thing you need because if you can dig yourself into a hole. This can happen to even the most conscious drivers and the worst thing drivers can do is try to force their way out theyll only dig themselves in deeper. For. One good tug and the journey can continue. After one last night in a desert camp we return to civilization now its time to fill the tires again to avoid unnecessary wear from driving on asphalt soon were back where we started. But i think im going to want sums up to three days a Cross Country over rough and smooth before you never at one of thought that both oman and amara could be so multifaceted now if you knows say. Sunday opened its branch in germany in one nine hundred ninety one it does research and development of vehicles for the German Market with affordable prices and sound Technology Hyundai car swiftly became serious competitors. Car tester on dates from a nose one day has long been active in motor racing in two thousand they first entered the world rally championship and have been a regular since two thousand and fourteen one day germanys head is a huge fan of the numbers ring north loop but this enthusiasm has hardly been felt in hyundais passenger cars till now bun days are d. Center. Nonny young is testing new models on the north loop and badging them with an n. We tested the hyundai i thirty and performance when group your brakes than the regular im thirty and and a higher output of two hundred two kilowatts it makes the leap from zero to one hundred Kilometers Per Hour in six point one seconds with a mandatory top speed cap it two hundred fifty Kilometers Per Hour the stiffness on the adaptive dampers can be adjusted. To mitigate i think under explains that the bring out the i thirty ends for potential the driver simply has to press a nifty looking but one with a checkered flag on it is. Not that different see flocka that puts a bit of adrenaline and of a driving experience at myself in front of him and raises the drivers pause is good enough for many of the drivers can choose between come on normal. Board though and moats their best andrius is the best and most just the most fun even if it does push fuel consumption well into guzzling range. B i thirty m. Is by no means bashful about showing off its motorsport quality l. E. D. Headlights are standard and the performance version is perched on stylish two tone nineteen inch wheels. A red pin stripe on the front splitter reminiscent of the gold g. T. I underlines the aggressive look twenty exhaust tips peek out from under a new rear apron with a diffuser. Inside the drive mode switch on the Steering Wheel is and i catch. A push of the checkered flag button on the right gives the i thirty m. More of a race car feeling heres. It can only be shifted manually though with an Optional Automatic rev matching system on down ships. Up on the m day recalls thing hyundai used to have cause to celebrate if the competition was heard to moan that nothing rattled when they inspected the i thirty now depending on the recipe i thirty and performance produces a satisfying rumble with every gear shift divided. Honoring points out that the Performance Pack add some two thousand five hundred euros to the list price but that its worth it on a hyundai i fear it is not only for the exhaust system and its truly impressive sound but also for the electronic differential lock on the front axle it handles like a typical front wheel drive car meaning you dont have to worry about understeering a machine and suddenly jerk your foot off the gas its possible to make your rear fishtail that way the good coming out of a curve the traction is so good you could easily forget youre in a front wheel drive. While in development the i thirty and drove some five hundred laps and the number greens north loop but it wasnt hyundais aim to have the fastest front wheel drive car on the track the point with the i thirty end was the Emotional Experience the fun of driving. The device as andre tested the feedback from the world rally championship drivers and a project head who was a dedicated fan of the north open motor racing and sure the experiment would succeed and it did everything seems right for this. Big ship is easy to work a car is easy to configure even on the road and the handle of his childs play so all in all its a success of a car. As a best focus and says theyre going to. At first sight this might look like an ordinary b. M. W. Three series car but its powered by a regular gasoline engine and an electric motor b. M. W. Calls this technology also to be found in its five and seven series he drives. Our car tested on the lets take knows the three series are b. M. W. s best selling models and this one is a very special car a three thirty which is b. M. W. s for recognizable by the chrome around the windows and air vents i have performance models like this one also come with light blue radiator struts and blue wheel. And even the hybrids name obviously stands for electric in germany this letter designates all cars fitted with electric motors. The electric motor here sits between the transmission and internal Combustion Engine and also serves as a generator like other three series beamers this one has a rear wheel drive it comes with a need speed automatic transmission with step tronic control. To the i diot card tester says the three thirty has one hundred eighty five kilowatt system performance with sixty five kilowatts produced by the electric motor neuron has to admit that the cars two leader four cylinder engine feels. Good typical six cylinder b. M. W. Engine thanks to the electric motor. Thats because the electric motor can briefly generate a maximum torque of two hundred fifty new meters a plug in hybrid makes the sprint from zero to one hundred kilometers an hour in just six point one seconds reaching a top speed of two hundred twenty five kilometers an hour b. M. W. To reach fuel consumption at two point one leaders per one hundred kilometers provided the cars batteries are giving full power. In germany the b. M. W. Three thirty with a luxury line list for almost fifty thousand euros pick the most basic trimline and youll save five thousand euros thats just two thousand euros more than b. M. W. s regular gasoline powered three thirty i. Dated all the running things with three thirty eastern teary or looks identical to regular three series b. M. W. Apart from this one but in you can use it to select one of the three drive modes and electric like auto drive mode where the gasoline engine and the electric motor Work Together or maxi drive that lets you reach a top speed of one hundred twenty kilometers an hour using electric power only while the save battery mode does just what it says saves Battery Power or recharge is it. These drive modes could be great for intercity Louis Mission zones and commuters will appreciate them too but they use electric power to the max will need regularly recharging the battery otherwise youll soon be back to using gasoline and belching purity exhaust. Today christophe hour is going for a spin in a very special v. W. Beetle at the time considered the votes wagon for high society its a real magic beads go i want time it was common practice to buy just a ready build chassis from a car maker and then have the body custom e. What it may take up your stuff explains that before World War Two romesh mainly built taxis on opel chassis during the war the company had to concentrate on producing field kitchens and it was only in the one nine hundred fifty s. That i was able to return to its area of expertise and started building exclusive convertibles and ford taxis out of the still new. Image designer yohannes pisco began a kink ring with a special body of his own the result so impressed the boss that he took it into the volume production that my dad did his thing thats the n. C. O. Romance became one of the first Coach Builders to mass produce a special edition vehicle with its low cost and robust engineering the beetle provided the ideal platform it touched off a veritable do it yourself boom among Coach Builders. Porsche utilize technology from v. W. For its first mass produced three fifty six after learn beutler build cars virtually of their own design and beetle chassis and v. W. Itself eventually followed suit with a luxury coupe a in the shape of the karmann ghia. Thats gross stuff recalls how theyre all match special sports convertible was unveiled at the German Automobile exhibition in berlin in one nine hundred fifty where the public crowded around to see it was sitting on something in hollywood stars like Audrey Hepburn and gregory peck were among those who added the luxury of e. W. S. From berlin to their collections as case with sales booming open show rooms in munich zurich ottawa and even ollywood stone and so got in hollywood. But both swag and chief einar ignored golf was less than pleased with the match a success and first the coach builder produced the v. W. Chassis straight from the manufacturer but later v. W. Research that privilege for romance his rival Carmen Romesh was obliged to cannibalize new fully assembled beatles and id say the optics on some of the visual standpoint as i knew you honestly sco went for a compact on time body with a delicately curved belt line and some people nicknamed the car the new math and either its not and then a isnt right for such an elegant car on a federal issue and thats why for the first time an automotive history they decided to badge the entire name back on the rear down through the model beast go and find chrome want to pay school and find some cool. Designer yohannes pisco was not stingy with the chrome the silvery alliance highlight the extravagant yet purest design. The beast go was actually a three seater with the rear seat mounted sideways behind the driver. Tire out and for a rematch pisco was awarded the golden rose at the Geneva Motor Show two years running in one thousand nine hundred fifty four in one nine hundred fifty fine. After that it was advertised as the most beautiful and internationally acclaimed sports convertible but the idea of it being a sports car shouldnt be taken too seriously but its generous and shing compartment was occupied by a one point one leader v. W. Boxer with a paltry twenty five horsepower although this particular model has porsche power it one point five meter sixty horsepower engine from e three fifty six guys thats more like it says christophe the top of the us. With the porsche and should the beast go can reach one hundred forty five Kilometers Per Hour by just one hundred five with the beetle you. Whatever the engine thanks to its lightweight construction and streamlined body the beast go left regular v. W. Bugs in the dust. With a success of the luxury beetle derivative voce wagon quickly made plans for a sports car of its own based on the beetle and commission coachbuilder car meant to build it starting in one nine hundred fifty six the head of carmens Technical Development team was none other than your highness pisco. The first up observes that when v. W. Rolled out the karmann ghia in one nine hundred fifty five sales were the bees go slumped that was to be expected since that was fifteen hundred dollars march cheaper and more v. W. C. E. O. Of quality and so after seven years in production yielding two hundred eighty handmade special models it was the end of the road for the beast but remains the first sporty electric car built on the v. W. Beetle platform and a clear milestone in automotive history. That pisco was a design pione