I eight roadster. The b. M. W. I need to play has been the worlds best selling hybrid sports car since since launch in twenty fourteen b. M. W. Has no introduced a second edition of the new i aid roadster combines performance with a local zero emissions will villany at the convertible experience. That if i go to our car man reinhold ask how many electric or plug in hybrid convertibles there are on the market none right theres one now in the shape of the b. M. W. I need roadster and thats a start and be in the road. And it comes with a futuristic design and seamless contour. The front of course. Sports the classic b. M. W. Double kidney grill together with a sleek eleni headlights the roadster cuts an athletic figure the twenty inch mat jet black alloy wheels fit in perfectly with the iconic look. At the rear of the drive and i aid badges provide pointers to the hybrid drive. The plug in hybrid is powered by the combined forces of a gasoline engine and an electric motor they drive the rear in front wheels respectively the electric motor now has an increased down put together with a one hundred seventy kilowatts from the three cylinder gasoline engine the new i eight roadster generates a total of two hundred seventy five kilowatts. If it makes the dash to one hundred Kilometers Per Hour and four point six seconds fuel consumption is officially two point one leaders per one hundred kilometers but reinhold reckons thats an optimistic figure in reality its more like four or five leaders then theres the electric power consumption around fourteen point five kilowatt hours which has to come from somewhere to. At first glance the two brothers differ a little in appearance the roof is the only change on the outside. On the inside of the coup create has a rear bench with two small seats the roadster only has seating up front. The new additions roof is a soft top that folds away in a space saving position. Open top and electric is like being in a spaceship convertible the roof can be opened or closed in around fifteen seconds and can be operating at speeds of up to fifty Kilometers Per Hour the mechanism and all those particularly interesting as a roof falls for vertically and easy ships before dropping down behind the seats into these its. The cockpit retains the familiar i hate set up theres a sports Steering Wheel with shift panels and a personalized touch screen display. The colored leather adorning the central console in the seats harmonizers perfectly with the body color. Behind the seats theres a slim stowage container for items like an i pad oh it is a larger compartment which can be divided into three smaller sections. Boss hordes car roadster plug in hybrid and butterfly dorsay unique combination offered only by b. M. W. Roadster most have a bigger and more powerful matter and as well and so on all electric power you now have a range of around forty kilometers and a top speed of one hundred twenty Kilometers Per Hour thats one of the. Prices in germany started one hundred fifty five thousand euro making the i hate roadster around eighteen grand more expensive than the latest i could pay. I see it as a first s. U. V. I take it as an aim to please as many drivers as possible and so now here it comes in the sporty f. R. Version of. The new edition is also aimed at customers who appreciate the higher driving position of an s. U. V. But still want to dynamic appearance. In this case that means Standard Food eighteen inch alloy wheels tin and rear windows and all l. E. D. Had like. A high gloss mark real sports the f. R. Logo. The a take f. Or has a choice of four engines to gasoline into diesel with outputs of one hundred ten and one hundred forty kilowatts respectively in monaco i was checking out the more powerful diesel unit which he finds quite a bit of fun and delivers what the exterior promises as it should buy them i dont know why. But two liter engine propose the intake at far to one hundred Kilometers Per Hour in seven and a half seconds top speed is two hundred twelve. On the exterior of the f. R. Is distinguished from his brothers by various elements including the body colored lower bumpers with silver accents. The side mirrors are. Heated and can be folded in electrically. The backend features the models logo and twin exhaust pipes. I think we had taker is not a sports car shows him on a well and doesnt pretend to be one that changes on the inside are discreet a little logo a bit of red stitching here and they are here and of course the standard sports scenes which provide enhanced support by thanks to the reinforced signs. As a result you can take corners a little more quickly in the antique avatar this is spent you know however is identical to that of the regular intake and therefore set up more for right comfort in easy going to ring the engine and this version is standard fit in with four wheel drive and a seven speed dual clutch automatic transmission. The f. L. We have our additional lens the intake is a degree of sportiness concludes the man a well although he feels the bad should be reserved for the top Engine Version otherwise its mostly style with little substance. In germany the regular intake f. R. Sos and just under twenty nine thousand europes the two point zero t. D. I. Edition weve tested such a back over thirty six thousand. Toyota has given the i go a facelift the front sections trademark and shape design is now further highlighted by three dimensional contouring new headlights in every detail lamps with a colored background goose the visual impression the entry level version of the eye goes thirds at less. And ten thousand euros in germany. Flexes for since the new are x. L. With the l. Standing for long version which means an extra eleven centimeters but instead of simply elongating the regular edition the makers redesigned the body around the rear in the process the five seater became a seven seater the two versions share identical engines prices for the r. X. L. In germany started sixty seven thousand euro. But one hundred simmons says call them mccree Richard Burns and those on back are among the best drivers to have competed in the world rally championship i told him i did not and the cars they drove for the name thing in preset w r x s. T. I. After subaru it withdrew from the championship production of the street legal model continued but now its also coming to an end reason enough for on day to see how much rally feelings left in what may be the last generation of the s. T. I. Subaru was already active in rally sport in the one nine hundred eighty eight but it was only in one thousand nine hundred three that they really made a splash with a maybe even the first in preserve rally cars ever since the cars basic ingredients have always remained the same a turbo charge for some hundred bucks or engine and all wheel drive would drive or control center differential. Now subaru is bidding farewell to his legendary model in germany here street legal rally cars have to keep meeting ever tougher remissions standards which has led to subaru taking the w r x out it was a Product Portfolio after some two decades of production and thats a shame as it sporty attributes like this huge rear wing really turn heads. The interior also feels like a true rally car the driver is provided with a wealth of technical info and sits on record sport seat. The two point five liter engine generates two hundred twenty one kilowatts of power thats enough to send a car flying to a top speed of two hundred fifty five kilometers an hour but a whopping emissions of two hundred fifty nine grams of c o two per kilometer are the main reason for the w r x is to my eye just enough to under he says the just before he set off it started to rain which is fitting for a car with all wheel drive what Better Weather to test a car thats built to deal with the toughest of terrain and indeed on. Your power and your control is the advertising slogan for the w. R. Access to the cars low center of gravity and the symmetrical all wheel drive system contribute to that as does the moti Mode Driver Controlled Center differential which varies torque on a manically from fifty fifty distribution to a maximum of fifty nine percent going to the rear. Often he has put me under he says that for the first few meters the w. R. Access to i felt like a pretty heavy car but the longer he drives it especially on wet tarmac and more he realizes that this car invites you to play around basically understeers a bit when you take corners too fast but that can be corrected fairly quickly by taking your foot off the gas and if need be braking a little onto a says that gets the rear end dancing and then you can reduce the turning radius again and its great fun getting to test the cars limits on this way track of course the kinds. Even if subaru hasnt taken part in the world around the championship since two thousand and eight the w r x s t i is still enough to make a rally. Mr algy and a big farewell subaru is showing the final Edition Model limited to one hundred twenty two units and sells for just over fifty three thousand euros in germany as of the senate under us really sad to see the w r x s t i go as he says its one of the last street legal rally cars now that production of the focus are as suspended while thats sad its not the end of the sporty cars for subaru as a still have another very different sporty model on offer be r. C. The out ones are shifting all told and you had said to me. Its not a turbo and im like most subarus its got a rear wheel drive not all wheel drive but its still a blast to take a b. R. C. Out for a spin especially on a wet test track for just over thirty three thousand euros in germany subaru still offers a sports car that should said here is hearts racing. In recent decades Automotive Design departments have undergone a transformation in work turns out hes Design Center in english now has more than four hundred employees for example more than twice as many as in the year two thousand and the new audi a seven is an excellent example of how the latest innovations and process engineering and precision craftsmanship combine to create a car thats at the cutting edge of design. View design audis of us deanna looser describes how it works as a designer just bring their wild ideas to the model makes for well then endeavors to capture the spirit of the sketch its that collaboration among the various specialists is key because they claim model is for example fish has a real feel for how to create a perfect surface and a surface that will capture the light perfectly affective and also give you a really nice. Shadow effects. That is einar mark something clay model with tape to indicate areas that need some more work the most important part of the design workflow is that out he calls the c three process which stands for cad concept and clay milling the cad concept appears in real time on an l. C. D. Screen where its checked and then transferred to a physical one to one reference model. Of a high rez the screen in the background is a great help says the Exterior Design chief it allows the designers to compare vehicles under ordinary light conditions i think you could look at the virtual car on the screen and compare it to the clay reference model. Another important design element in a new car are the headlights and taillights. Winding design she says the a seven also has a new white signature from the designers have given the a seven a kind of digital. Is that i the light signature creates an analogy to the zeros and ones that make a binary code. So one is the light and zero is shadow shot you see that one zero one zero from the front and the rear its the unifying signature on the gun went to my signature and the headlights are available in several versions l. E. D. And two editions of each the matrix the one with out the laser light the daytime running lights have twelve light segments in the rear the the light strip is made up of thirteen vertical segments on each side. I mean you know in the interiors they used ambient light as well as contour light to emphasize the architecture of the interior fights there is suddenly accentuates the space and the way the structure. Moves from one interior element to the next its everything from these two to a from the noise interior to. The emotional power of a design is also reflected in the rest of the interior. Its not this designer explains that the four door sedan speaks to two different aesthetics on the one hand theres the elegant side but it also speaks to a very sporty progressive style our challenge was combining these two aesthetic elements to join them together in seamless fashion nucleus not go its not to list. The design process is multilayered some stages are executed on paper others digitally on a computer or graphics table mockups or models are made early in the design process to allow the team to gain a more comprehensive visual impression its a Creative Process that requires a degree of free thinking and innovation or. Is that so much you spend through shows us apart from the new eighty seven i think its an interior element and theyre very proud of it as an example of the coherence of their designs on it what special here is the way the frame is composed of one single uninterrupted party which surrounds the display on their initial schedule was perfectly translated into the final product and he considers it a real standout with the physics. And the highlights for once. Tape is also used to create a two d. Mock up on the wall its used to assess the proportions which are then replicated in the three d. Model the user interfaces are also designed in program to be as intuitive as possible. Granted so i demonstrate some of the touch response system was optimized so that it can be operated while the cars on the road if its a two stage process first you touch it to open the u. I. For. State that highlights what you just touched voiced it when you push down the display vibrates and you hear a click so you get the added to or a cue youd get from a switch or buttons. And the quick holes gives you tactile feedback to look at it helps a lot because you get the feedback that shows youve activated something you didnt just poke at nothing thats on tuesday feel to me about it once was a little in the end it all comes together the idea becomes a new reality. The first land rover was introduced in one nine hundred forty eight and seventy years on people are still using these all terrain vehicles both on and off road because as landy fans say where the road ends the fun begins originally developed for farmers land rover is quickly transformed into an all purpose four wheel drive vehicles that found buyers the world over due to its distinctive appearance which has changed a little over the years the classic Land Rover Defender as its now known is immediately recognizable and thanks to its construction the defender can morph into more versatile variants than almost any other vehicle in its weight class thats made it a favorite with private Individuals Companies and public authorities alike along with off road capabilities of our second cannot. Land rover first introduced the defender name in one nine hundred ninety to distinguish it from the discovery model which had been introduced a short time before. Who needs luxury. Certainly not the drivers and passengers of the six hundred plus land rovers that descended on by the p. C. And then by very recently for them what matters is where their land rovers have taken them. But i think its mans been to ireland all around britain and norway now they want to go to finland again although. This couple have been to the carpet the in mountainous morocco iceland and theyve just come from sweden last year they were also in the pyrenees and in norway. Its going to. There are certainly more comfortable ways to cover such long distances then in a land rover but land the drivers have other priorities. They need Less Electronics and more mechanics means you can work on it yourself and its robust. This woman appreciates the speed in the individual equipment options for every defender marvellous. Im going to be comfortable pace now this is driving a vehicle like this is a way of life for this man its his work course he needs it for his work to tow a trailer or his boat semi in germany land rover drivers meet up share stories and Exchange Tips so there are plenty of reasons to attend and events like this one can be very. Painful cuts old fisherman appreciates the tips available he plans to buy a rooftop tent but is interested in everything like how other drivers have converted their vehicles you can always learn something about us thats what i mean. Theyre here to meet new people you know other car nuts and to see other vehicles and gather ideas for their next trip. But today theres Something Else these land the levers have in common the desire to said a new Guinness World record for the largest parade of land rovers or range rovers while the First Vehicles have already set off on the parade route other participants are. Repairing themselves mentally. To the snake its not so easy you have to keep the right distance between yourself and the vehicle i havent met takes a bit of diligence as folks on the. Visitors i thought i knew. The previous record of five hundred sixteen vehicles was set in portugal in two thousand and fourteen the rules for a new record attempt are very strict the vehicles in the parade are not allowed to stop and they can never be more than two vehicle lengths away from one another thats not so simple on a route strewn with char bends in turn ups at multiple points along the route to get his World Records committee checks whether the seven kilometer long career it is abiding by the rules its a challenge for both car and driver. He found it tough to maintain the right distance like in a traffic jam you go faster and slower then you have to ensure youre within two my vehicle lengths of the car ahead its its fine if you can maintain it but you can quickly find yourself three vehicle lengths behind that was challenging for you are quite a few participants couldnt find the low gear setting that everyone here has so it seems they won a bit too quick but otherwise everything was great fathers. But women be anough just after seven pm a Guinness WorldRecords Committee official announces