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This is the magic number Lancia registrations a year that has set itself to achieve from 2010, a very large number that for many may seem unattainable, but in reality thanks to new range announced could be reached without too much difficulty. After Brand reborn Turin with the third generation of Delta, the next model of the ladder is the new series of Ypsilon waiting exactly one year with debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show 2009.

Compared to that there retabling images, the second generation will be totally different from the floor, it uses the same platform Panda and 500 revised and corrected, then stretched, and reinforced to withstand future 6 star test Security EuroNCAP engines and large size as the 1.6 Multijet. The dimensions grow slightly in fact should reach 3.85 meters long, while the real news is the five-door, leaving the configuration with only three, now just pleasing to the public.

The winds of the storm that expire on the economy and global finance have cooled around the world, even in China’s growth is no longer strong as it was a few months ago. It is clear testimony and the clear example of Volkswagen sales in the Far East: the first nine months of 2008 saw a growth of 13.1% compared to last year, with registrations climb to the peak value of 773,000 units. But behind this apparently given excellent hiding dynamics of concern.

In the period January to June in fact, the rate of growth of the house was 23%, and that is down ten points in three months means that between July and September gains were slightly above zero. Winfried Vahland, head of Volkswagen China, said yesterday in Beijing that “the shadow of the global economic situation is affecting the development of the Chinese market.”

Poor choice present rust color: black, assured, expresses a greater sense of sportsmanship. Want to the absence of appendices gray - but what jumped to mind? - Either for the natural effect (visual) of lower volumes. And yes, because the Renault Megane Coupe is not like a slender reed. In particular in the rear.

In any case, the harmony of its volume is appropriate to make it attractive to a wide range of users. The dissatisfied, however, will have to wait for the RS and its wealth of enhanced “visual sportsmanship.” The three-door hatchback, lower than the 12 mm sedan will be initially proposed with gasoline engines - aspirated 1.6-liter and 2.0, respectively, 110 and 150 horses, with the news provided by TEC 1.4 in version 130 and 180 foals - and the usual plethora of diesel, whose powers are between 85 and 160 horses.

Even “injection” of photos and data from Paris: it is the turn of B0, electric toto by Pininfarina designed and developed by the body Turin in collaboration with the French Bollore. Despite its appearance from concept, the B0, a four-seat people carrier-class media, come on the roads in late 2009 and will be equipped with a package of batteries, lithium polymer.

This will enable a range of 250 km, producing the equivalent of 41 hp and working on operating temperatures of between 60 and 80 ° C. The B0 is capable of operating from -20 ° to 60 ° and maintain the photovoltaic roof panels and bonnet, helping to replenish the electrical board. Life declared for batteries, lithium polymer is 200,000 km.

We continue with our series coming to Paris to talk about the new Toyota Avensis, companion bench of the smallest iQ on the Toyota stand by the French event. The average Japanese new generation was designed in the French Style Center of Toyota, and grew up in the external dimensions, both in sedan and the station wagon, which reached respectively 470 and 477 cm in length, with an equal and equal to 270 cm and a height (unchanged) of 148 cm.

The width gained 5 cm reaching 181. The engines of the new Avensis promise big savings in terms of consumption and emissions, with values reduced from 10 to 26% and power increased from 3 to 20%. The gasoline include the 1.6 132 hp, which combined with a manual six-speed transmission delivers 152 g / km of CO2, 1.8 147 bhp emitting 154 g / km of CO2 with the manual and 157 with the new automatic Multidrive and 2.0 CV 152, which emits 163 g / km of CO2 with the manual and 164 with Multidrive.

The news is that only a few months ago would have seemed only the plot of a film such catastrophic, but the current negative economic climate has made harsh reality: while belonging to two different levels of market and customers, the German BMW and Opel have decided the temporary freeze production to try to stop the decline in market demand triggered by global banking restrictions.Although Opel in 2007 sold 1.74 million vehicles in Europe, the car justifies its choice with the collapse of sales in Spain, Great Britain and Germany.

Opel stop its factories from next Monday for two weeks to Bochum and three of Eisenach.The only Opel plant that will not be closed in Germany is the main Ruesselsheim, where you are in the production of the new Insignia. Temporary closures are planned for some establishments outside the German border: Gleiwitz in Poland, Ellesmere and Luton in England and Zaragoza in Spain. “The crisis in Europe said a spokesman for the Opel-reduced the purchase of new cars.Opel said that no layoffs are planned although, because of the period of inactivity, a part of the workforce could suffer a small decrease in salary.

It is just out, we photographed at the Paris Motor Show and smiling with a future bright ahead of him. Yet as the Americans say, is a dead man walking: three years, only three years, and then, puff! Disappear surrounded by a cloud of smoke. According to Automotive News reports, production of the Volkswagen Golf will end in December 2011.

His role, in fact, be compared to that of a Supporting Actor: act as the conduit between the fifth and the seventh generation, football scenes during most of his thirty screenplay. The next “film” - so she nominated OSCE and appreciated by critics - will be based modular platform MQB (Modular Querbaukaste), already adopted by Ulrich Hackenberg, Head of Development, as the most significant innovation. The reason? Can accommodate engines from different architecture, including the hybrid car derived from the Twin Drive.

After Fiat Multipla and Lancia Lybra, a project Alfa Romeo was sold for production in China. This is the 166 already quitting lists. A choice difficult to digest for fans, although the 166 has not shone as a sales results in his long career.

The car will be built by Guangzhou Auto, former partner of Fiat and Nanjing for the production of Pearl, derived from the project of world car Palio and Siena and Albee. The news interesting, yet unconfirmed, is that Bertone is working to study a restyling to rejuvenate the 166 and make it more attractive for the Chinese market: the risk of not cripple it’s original lines, we only know that the Bertone and especially its fact that this operation can make a po ‘lifeblood of the dying Italian society.