Auto Moto Best: 2016

Monday, 28 March 2016

Hyundai Santa Fe

Hyundai Santa Fe is perhaps one of the iconic cars of the Korean company. And especially in the U.S. market. After all, the first crossover of the brand, which since its inception has shown how to sell and enter into the rank of the bestsellers, despite the criticism of the journalistic fraternity. Asians are very honored traditions and not forget the people who helped them. Santa Fe made by Korean company name in the crossover segment, and the company for its part is working tirelessly to update the model. Another set of amendments was presented at the auto show in Chicago.

As before, in the US market Santa Fe will be offered with five -, six - or seven-seat interior. The last two regular Santa Fe, Santa Fe Sport on Board more than five people will not accept it.

Lamborghini Urus

Italian sports car manufacturer Lamborghini has confirmed production of the Urus crossover in 2018, and also revealed information about the engine of a new car.

The head of the brand Stephan Winkelmann and head of R&D Maurizio Reggiani confirmed Autocar information about the release of the Urus crossover. It also became known that the car will be powered by the first in company history with a four-liter Biturbo engine. Lamborghini traditionally uses in its sports cars air the 10 - and 12-cylinder engines, but not this time.

KTM X-Bow

Austrian company KTM is better known as a manufacturer of high-speed racing and off-road motorcycles. But what happens when the fans of motorcycles they want to build a no-compromise car? Turns out the KTM X-Bow.

The history of the company KTM started in 1934, when engineer Hans Trunkenpolz opened in his native Austrian town Mattighofen small workshop for metal processing "Kraftfahrzeuge Trunkenpolz Mattighofen", services which were popular in the area. After the Second world Trunkenpolz decided to switch to the production of bicycles, and by 1954, the gates of the factory left the first motorcycle. As is known to us Yamaha line of motorcycles has become the main KTM: their off-road models several times won the rally-RAID "Dakar", and ring are widely used by MotoGP riders Cup. In 2006, the company thinking about creating an ultralight supercar, which later became the name X-Bow.

Bugatti Chiron

We made the best even better! says Wolfgang Dürheimer, the head of Bugatti Automobiles SAS. Is a part of human nature – to strive for new heights: sprint "sprint" faster than anyone ever, to develop new space of our Solar system. And our brand is no exception. Therefore, the new Chiron – the quintessence of the best, a car without compromises, in which there is not a single parameter that would be left without improvements.

If you look at the new Chiron critically, one might think that the designers of the car did everything but not working. Rather, they went all out on the first leg of the race when he created the conceptual Vision Gran Turismo Bugatti, but on the second stage serial – it was not enough. But we understand that the concepts is always the greatest, the ideal, and the production version is more down-to-earth execution, a victim of the rules of homologation, certification, production technology, prices.

2016 W Motors SuperSport Fenyr

After the production of the supercar Lykan of W Motors left unclaimed hundreds of requests from customers who wanted to put such an exotic car in your garage. And their wish did not remain without attention: at the motor show in Dubai, the company has presented its new supercar, which became the successor model of the Lykan.

Like its predecessor, Fenyr, named after a giant wolf from Norse mythology, has a tubular aluminum frame and outer body panels made of CFRP, and design of the machine again worked through the Studio StudioTorino. Designers changed a number of elements, however, leaving a chopped characteristic angular shape.

Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025

Not so long ago, in 2014, Daimler AG presented their vision of the truck of the future, and then the concept called Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025. And here, haven't yet been settled passion on this impressive concept truck, and Daimler AG new vision for the future? What has changed during this time? What are the principles of the new concept?

Our new concept "connectivity" of the modern truck to the public Internet network. This is a completely new vision of the whole industry of transportation. Today in Europe, more than ¾ of all cargo is transported by truck, and this number will only grow. According to the forecasts of our experts, in the nearest future the volume of Internet sales will grow, but all of these purchases need to deliver, and to cope with this task only commercial vehicles.

Flying car Terrafugia Transition

New flying car Terrafugia TF-X will become reality in 2018

Flying car Terrafugia Transition

All people who follow news and developments in the field of flying cars, wonder when, finally, all of this will move from the category of science fiction in the real everyday things? One of the leaders of this direction is known to the company Terrafugia, which experts now are engaged in the development and manufacture of the first prototype of a new unmanned flying vehicle series TF-X. the First flights of this model will begin in 2018, and by 2025 the company Terrafugia plans to begin small-scale production of such vehicles.

BMW Vision Next 100

Vision Next 100 - point BMW for cars-the next generation

BMW Vision Next 100

One would think that by the 100th anniversary of the brand German company BMW will show the public some car or several cars in retro style, whose roots lie in the history of the company. However, the leadership of BMW has made a rather unexpected move, preparing for the anniversary of four concept cars that demonstrate the company's vision for cars of the next generation and technology of automatic driving. And the most striking of these concepts is the car Vision Next 100, in which are concentrated all the most advanced existing and future automotive technologies.

Spherical wheels

Spherical wheels magnetic suspension provide maneuverability cars-the robots of future generations

Spherical wheels

Goodyear, which is a manufacturer of tires with a worldwide reputation, developed the design of the spherical tires, which will allow automated vehicles to move sideways as easily as the current cars can mix forward or backward. The use of suspension with spherical wheels allow to overcome the limitations of the possible directions of movement imposed by traditional design axis is the wheel, which remains virtually unchanged for nearly 4 thousand years.

Delivery system Redline

Redline - the concept of a network of Express delivery, is able to cover the area of the whole continent with the help of drones

Delivery system Redline

One area of practical application of small UAVs and ground-based robot vehicles are service Express delivery of different products to their buyers. A major player in this field for quite some time is a well-known Internet company Amazon, which promises using drones to deliver the purchased goods to any point in less than 30 minutes. However, this endpoint needs to be within flight range of the UAV and in the near future such systems will be able to cover only major cities and their surrounding suburbs.

Electric car Visio.M

About two years ago experts of the companies BMW, Daimler and scientists at the Technical University of Munich (Technical University Munich, TUM) have teamed up to create casual, comfortable, and safe electric car, which even then was named Visio.M. Two years passed, during which the future of the electric car have never been heard, and finally, the development team decided to introduce their offspring to the General public.

Small double electric car Visio.M weighs only 410 pounds, this is almost two times less than the nearest class electric Smart ForTwo car. The reason for such a low weight car Visio.M is that its designers used lightweight carbon fiber and aluminum as main materials of the exterior and interior of this car. In addition, the car window is made of transparent polycarbonate, which is exactly two times lighter than automotive glass.

Chevrolet FNR

This year, many car companies have launched their own concepts, which reflect their point of view on the future of electric cars-robots. First at the beginning of the year, the company Mercedes has unveiled its intriguing concept of the F 015, and one of the most exciting concepts presented later at the Geneva motor show, Italdesign Giugiaro began. A little behind in this case is known to Chevrolet, but now they have corrected this situation by presenting their point of view on the cars of the future. Their "futuristic capsule" FNR is teeming with shapes, technologies and innovative ideas of the next generation.

EOssc2 - car-crab

As they grow all of the modern city is turning into more lively places in the centre which is quite difficult to find a free place to Park the car, especially if the period coincides with the peak in business activity. But the German engineers from the Center for robotics DFKI, Bremen, invented an elegant and innovative solution - a small electric car that can turn on a dime, started shrinking in size and move sideways like a crab, squeezing in such places, where you will not be able to fit none of the traditional car.

Flying car-robot TF-X(TM)

The company Terrafugia is trying to create a flying car robot

Until recently the development of robotic vehicles and flying cars were moving on their own and not cross paths. But recently notorious company Terrafugia has decided to arrange the intersection of the above lines and this intersection should be the project of a flying car robot called the TF-X(TM), sometime in the misty future, will be able to travel on roads and fly in the sky all by itself, without any human intervention in this case.

The electric vehicle Venturi VBB-3

The previous and current year was a bad time for racing on the bottom of a dried-up salt lake Bonneville Salt Flats. A large amount of water spilled during the heavy rains, made hard and smooth salt wet, loose and uneven. Conditions for the races were so bad that racing competition is not the Bonneville Speed Week is held for the second year in a row. However, the Venturi team from Ohio did not wait for "with the wind" and last week they made the race their electric car VBB-3, which produced results that are very far from the expected, but which, nevertheless, sufficed to establish a new speed record.

The longest motorcycle in the world

Bharat Singh is Parmar (Bharat Sinh Parmar), 30-year-old craftsman from Gujarat, India, took as a basis the customary motorcycle and subjected him to design radical transformation. As a result, the length of unusual two-wheeled vehicles amounted to 26.29 meters, Parmara even managed to pass on their offspring a distance of one hundred meters. It was not easy, given the fact that the bike doesn't have extra wheels, not giving it to overturn, but this was sufficient to meet the range of existing conditions. And now motorcycle Parmara, according to the World Record Academy, is the longest motorcycle in the world and gets its place in the Book of Guinness world records.

Toyota Kymeta Concept

In the framework of the North American international auto show (North American International Auto Show, NAIAS), held this year in Detroit, January 12, 2016, the company Toyota Motor Corp. showed a concept car "Kymeta Concept". The main feature of this car, built on the model of the Mirai FCV (Fuel-Cell Vehicle), is that constant communication with external information systems and the Internet it uses innovative satellite communication system.

The Hyperloop Pod Competition Competition

The project of a futuristic Hyperloop transport system has become even one step closer to its practical implementation due to the competition of the Hyperloop Pod Competition, which was held last weekend at the University of Texas A&M. In this competition attracted 115 teams, each of which will present to the jury his version of the construction of passenger capsules for the transport system. The winner was the team of Massachusetts technological Institute, which, along with 22 teams, will produce a full-sized prototype of the passenger capsule, which is in the middle of this year will take part in a trial on the experimental area of the transport system Hyperloop.

The truck-robot

In Switzerland, plans for the construction of automated underground freight transport system

In countries and cities where every citizen has his own car, sooner or later there is a problem with congestion. And after a while there comes a time when this problem can not be solved by building more roads. In Switzerland, in which, according to forecasts, the volume of trucks will increase by 45 percent over the next 15 years, almost no space for building new roads and highways, thus to address the transport problem required some creative and innovative solution.

Rover Sherpas

When in the Internet appeared the first information about the Rover called "Sherpas", many doubted the possibility of practical realization of this project. Enough compact body, sandwiched between four huge wheels with a high cross looks too strange to be true. However, the group of Russian enthusiasts from St. Petersburg have managed to realize this project and the first prototype Rover Sherpa will be demonstrated at the exhibition "Hunting and fishing" which opening will take place in the near future.

Monday, 28 March 2016

KTM X-Bow

2016 W Motors SuperSport Fenyr

Spherical wheels

Tuesday, 16 February 2016

Toyota Kymeta Concept