Mar 9, 2011

Geneva Motor Show 2011 went like a high precision Swiss clock. How to sum up everything? Journalists from all over the world, world premieres, spectacular supercars and beautiful girls. A stopover with a lot of sun and wind in the Eternal City and then went to sleep till Switzerland. The city of watchmakers welcomes you with hard to pronounce ads names, but hang, also hard, at the hand of the experts. In this time of year, Geneva puts the tradition of Audemars Piquet, Hublot, Breitling or IWC watch on the second place and offers notoriety to one of the longest running auto shows around the world. The onset of spring brings back the fuss at the edge of the chic city, that becomes too small for two weeks. It seems impossible to defeat the endless string of stops aligned column flowing slowly toward the parking pavilion. However, the unwritten policy of a country that did not want to eat at the table of 27 nations, makes possible for everyone to find their way to the parking lot and the...

Mar 8, 2011

From Geneva Motor Show 2011 supercars couldn’t miss. Here’s a Top 5 of the most interesting appearances of this type. Environmental current will never kill the public sympathy for sportsmanship, so that marks that are respected names in the sports car industry brought in Geneva 2011 the latest proposals for customers who want more from the exhibit than they have in the garage. Obviously, the emergence of the five models presented in this top only confirms that the top cars will remain the same regardless of the green turns taken by the volume brands. 1. Lamborghini Aventador - anxiously awaited by the whole auto movement, Murcielago‘s successor came to Geneva after it was previously announced in a series of teasers that have “dressed” the Italian model gradually over the recent weeks. The Lamborghini manufacturer of Sant’Agata Bolognese comes with a V12 engine with 700 horsepower and interesting figures in the column entitled...

Mar 8, 2011

Geneva Motor Show 2011 has attracted not only fantastic shapes and concepts, but also some ideas  weirdly put into practice. Here are the “freaks” in Geneva! As with every great auto show, Geneva 2011 came with a series of models and slightly wacky ideas that – although they are in the current line – could not have imagined even in SF books 10 years ago. We speak of design and appearance so different from what those manufacturers presented until now that the contemporary landscape can be called without problems colorful. 1. The new Lancia range – we’re starting abruptly. In virtue of collaboration between the Fiat Group and Chrysler Group, the people who lead the two major companies have decided that American models of the Chrysler brand will come in Europe only under the Lancia brand. Thus was born the new Lancia Thema (an adapted version of the popular Chrysler 300C), Lancia Flavia (bluntly taking over the newly-launched Chrysler 200,...

Mar 4, 2011

Geneva Motor Show had man in the center, and exhibitors accompanied each model exposed with a very beautiful woman. Car-Addicts.com presents you the most beautiful girls that hosted Geneva Motor Show 2011 Live. And of course, the inevitable: Les plus belles hôtesses here at the Geneva Motor Show 2011: ...

Mar 4, 2011

Jaguar and Land Rover have introduced several novelties at Geneva Motor Show 2011. While Jaguar has come up with the most powerful car in its history, the Jaguar XKR-S, Land Rover has launched a hybrid, alongside with the most expensive Range Rover model in the range. The British concern Jaguar Land Rover stand at Geneva 2011, presented a series of novelties. Just because they have been bought by Tata Motors didn’t let the British to forget their heritage and celebrated 50 years since the release of Jaguar E-Type. What better way to celebrate this anniversary than a modern successor to the XK-E, the one and only Jaguar XKR-S. For Jaguar that is the most powerful supercar in history, but not the fastest ever made. Jaguar XKR-S is equipped with a 5.0 liter V8...

Mar 4, 2011

Maserati has a new novelty at Geneva Motor Show 2011 - it’s GranCabrio the sports version. Maserati GranCabrio Sport comes with improved performance, but with a better fuel consumption. The Maserati stand at Geneva 2011 hosted the official launch of the most powerful convertible model ever developed by the Italian brand. It’s the new Maserati GranCabrio Sport and it gets an extra 10 horsepower and 20 Nm, the 4.7-liter V8 engine developing now 450 hp and 510 Nm. GranCabrio Sport benefits from the contribution of MC-Auto Shift automatic transmission, which debuted last year on the Maserati Quattroporte Sport GT-S. With it, Maserati GranCabrio Sport manages to reach a maximum speed of 285 km/h, while the average mixed fuel consumption announced by the producer decreases by 6%. ...