Toyota Land Cruiser

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Toyota Land Cruiser

Toyota, world's first carmaker, has revealed the latest generation of the Land Cruiser. At first glance, not so many changes can be noticed. Considering that the Toyota Land Cruiser is 60-year-old and has been bought by five million customers in 176 countries around the world, we can understand that this best-selling 4WD is of strong importance to the Japanese manufacturer.

The new Land Cruiser will only be available as a five-door model with seven seats. There are other models to be released on other European markets but Toyota does not plan to make them available on the U.K. market. This version will come with a 171bhp 3.0-litre D-4D diesel engine with five-speed automatic transmission. The Toyota Land Cruiser will go from 0 to 62mph in 11.7s with a top speed of 109mph.

The Toyota Land Cruiser is quite impressive. With a length of 4.7 metres, a width of 1.9 metre and a height of 1.8 metre, it's going to be a big one. Just for the record, Toyota announced a fuel consumption of 34.9mpg with emissions of CO2 of 214 g/km.
Not really original, but still good to look at.

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McLaren MP4-12C

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McLaren MP4-12C

McLaren is back to business with this little jewel. Its name: the McLaren MP4-12C. Ok, not really easy to remember, but if you can't recall the name, you have to be impressed by this stunning look. Just enjoy it.

But as you can guess, the McLaren MP4-12C is not only beautiful, it's also quite powerful. The engine is a 3.8-litre twin-turbocharged V8 with 600bhp controlled with a seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox, made by McLaren, of course.

A few lines about the ecological trend of the moment: the McLaren MP4-12C has more power per gram of CO2 than any other cars which are not electric vehicles. No official figures are available yet, but the MP4-12C should produce about 200 g/km. It is scheduled for early 2011 and should be priced at £150,000.

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Peugeot i0n

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Peugeot i0n

And yes: this is another electric car coming up. The French carmaker Peugeot has released this picture of the i0n prior to the Frankfurt Motor Show.

And yes: it is ugly.

But the interesting part is shown in the figures Peugeot announced for this little car. The Peugeot i0n has been created in close collaboration with Japanese Mistubishi, a long-time partner of the French make (remember the 4007, which was a Peugeot-labelled Outlander). The i0n is said to go 80 miles on its lithium-ion battery, with a theoric top speed of 80mph. The battery can be charged in six hours on domestic power, but if you have a fast charge system, you'll have 80% of the baterry in just half an hour.

Coming from Peugeot this release is not surprising. Indeed, with the 106 Electric (issued back in 1995), the French firm has sold more zero CO2 emission vehicles than any other maker in the world.

But it's definitely too ugly.

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Ford C-Max

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The American giant is going to introduce the latest version of the Ford C-Max at the Frankfurt Motor Show. According to Ford, the new C-Max is derivated from the iosis Max concept that was unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year.

The Ford C-Max will used a brand new engine: the 1.6-litre EcoBoost with direct injection petrol. Ford will also introduce a semi-automatic parallel parking and a blind-spot detection system on the behalf of safety.

But there are not much information about the forthcoming car. Ford will announce additionnal details at the press conference of the Frankfurt Motor Show on 15 September.

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Rolls-Royce Ghost

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Rolls-Royce Ghost

Rolls-Royce has released some official photos for the Ghost. Well, the pics are speaking for themselves: this is indeed a Rolls-Royce. No real surprise on this one but this is not what we expect from Rolls-Royce, is it?

The Rolls-Royce Ghost is powered by a new twin turbo 6.6-litre V12 engine and comes with a 8-speed ZF gearbox. It can go from 0 to 62mph in 4.9 seconds and has a top speed of 155mph.

Inside the Rolls-Royce Ghost, it all luxury. It has been designed to be "an escape from the outside world". Among other things, you will find a 600 watts sound system with a 12.5GB hard drive. Two LCD screens are available for passengers. It is furnished with large expanses of soft-full grain leather, natural wood veneers and deep Blenheim carpets. But as each Ghost is hand-built to order, you can choose some details (if you can pay the £200,000, of course).

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Toyota Auris Hybrid

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Toyota Auris Hybrid

The world's first carmaker Toyota has released some pics of the Auris Hybrid that is going to be fully revealed during the Frankfurt Motor Show.

Visually, nothing really changes from the regular Auris, except a slight alteration of the front bumper. But following the global trend and the success of its Prius, Toyota is now moving a step forward by making a high-scale produced hybrid car.

150 Auris Hybrid will be launched in 2010 for people to try it in real-life conditions. And with the experience Toyota has in this field, we can expect something really good for the little car.

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BMW Vision EfficientDynamics

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BMW Vision EfficientDynamics

BMW is not very famous for its eco-friendly cars. Yet, the German carmaker has revealed a stunning concept prior to the Frankfurt Motor Show, this beautiful Vision EddicientDynamics.

The BMW Vision EfficientDynamics concept uses a 1.5-litre three-cylinder turbodiesel. But as it is an Hybrid, it is associated to two electric motors which are located in both front and rear axles. The car reached 351 bhp. It's a "little" more than the Prius.

Even if the Vision EfficientDynamics is only a concept, BMW stated that the future models of the make will use the innovative technology developped on this concept. If the design is equally appealing, I'm really looking forward the next things!

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