New Range Rover Sport

Range Rover Sport and Range Rover can be ordered with forced-air version of the new V8 volume of five liters. This 510-hp engine is used on "charged" Jaguar XFR and XKR, and develops a torque of 625 Nm and accelerates effortlessly any of vnedrozhnikov to "hundreds" of 6.2 seconds. True, the "Sport", thanks to nearly passenger preferences steering and stiff suspension, this power to control much easier.

Adaptive air suspension Adaptive Dynamics System is placed only on the Range Rover Sport and Range Rover. The main feature of this system is that the pressure in pnevmoelementah controlled and changed in real time, depending on road conditions and driving style of the driver. Moreover, sensors ADS produced by 500 pressure measurements per second in each of the four pneumatic automation.


System to adapt to road surface Terrain Response on cars Range Rover Sport has received additional program "Dynamic" - for a dynamic driving on asphalt. In this mode, the "clamped" adaptive air suspension, and electronics that controls the fuel supply, automatic transmission and stabilization system, goes into sports mode.


New Range Rover Sport

Renault will release a series of two electric cars - Twizy ZE and Zoe ZE

On Friday, the company Renault has confirmed its plans for mass production of two electric vehicles, built on the explanation of the concept cars ultra Twizy ZE and a small compartment Zoe ZE, tells the magazine Autocar. Production of the first one in 2011, will be established at the Spanish plant in the city of Valladolid, and the second - in France, a year later.

It is expected that the French Renault factory in the town of Flaine become a kind of center for the development programs of the company to produce to the market of compact electric - at this facility will meet the key models of electric vehicles, as well as to production and processing of batteries used in the propulsion machinery. In "Reno" suggest that the model Zoe will have two-thirds of the total European sales of electric vehicles.

As previously reported, the concept car Renault Zoe ZE equipped with 95-horsepower electric motor, receiving energy from lithium-ion batteries. These batteries provide a vehicle movement over 160 kilometers, and their charge from household electrical outlet will take from four to eight hours. Compact car Twizy ZE were equipped electric power of 20 horsepower and can travel without recharging about 100 kilometers. Maximum speed of the prototype was 75 kilometers per hour.



We note that on Friday, the alliance Renault-Nissan has also negotiated with the Atomic Energy Commission and the Strategic Investment Fund, the French agreement of intent to establish a joint venture that will investigate, the transfer of industrial production and recycling of batteries for electric vehicles. Renault plans to produce batteries at plants in France, Britain and Portugal.

by AutoNews