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Maserati
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Maserati Quattroporte

Maserati Spyder Cambiocorsa

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Maserati’s flagship saloon, the Quattroporte, was launched to rapturous acclaim at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt.

The President of the Ferrari-Maserati Group, Luca di Montezemolo, flanked by the CEO of Maserati, Antonello Perricone, and Quattroporte designer, Sergio Pininfarina, addressed a packed Maserati stand at the German exhibition centre.

The covers were then lifted off two Quattroportes on stage. The unveiling was greeted by the applause of hundreds of journalists and the audience was invited on stage for a closer look at the cars.

This car represents a new interpretation of the high performance Italian luxury saloon, a segment created by Maserati with the first Quattroporte in 1963.

Pininfarina’s masterful styling is matched by a powerful 400 bhp V8, an extraordinarly spacious cabin, and the possibility of personalising the car right down to the smallest detail.

At the stand along with a fine display of the Spyder Vintage (Cambiocorsa) the Coupé (GT and Cambiocorsa) models.will make its debut  A 1:2 model of the classic Maserati 420M/58 Eldorado and the 2003 Trofeo car will also be on view to the public.
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Skoda (Volkswagen Brand Group)
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Skoda Roomster

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A real surprise was brought forward by Skoda, which proved Skoda as the courageous and innovative frontrunner within a more conservative Volkswagen Brand Group. The Roomster Concept, which we would have expected in Detroit possibly shown by a Japanese company targeting at the “Young Generation”, demonstrated to us, that a young, fresh concept for fun demands young designers and a strong promoter in the management like Mr. Vahrland, the head of finance in Skoda.

The name is the target: "Room" is an interior that breaks all standards in its class with its extremely generous space and its great number of variations, "(Road)ster" expresses the dynamics and feelings of this study.

Thomas Ingenlath,
Chief of Design Skoda

Roomster maintains its compact external dimensions and at the same time manages to offer a remarkably generous and flexible interior combined with an attractive dynamic design in one complete and harmonious whole. The compromise between attractiveness on one side and utility value on the other, which has so far been inevitable, is eliminated: the Roomster study offers both simultaneously and in an exceptional form.

Roomster is a concept for a compact family vehicle. Its length of 4,055 mm guarantees great handling in city traffic and easy parking. The width of 1,843 mm and especially the height of 1,669 mm exceed all standards usual up to now. This is also true of the unusually large wheelbase, which is 2,710 mm.

With its greater width and height, larger wheelbase and original interior arrangement, Roomster achieves roominess comparable with significantly larger vehicles.

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Opel
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Insignia Concept

Astra

... Astra through the eyes of ...
Jens Neumann, Head of Organization & IT Volkswagen Group

... better or worse than the new Golf?

.. gear shift, ok?

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.. sealing, not to bad?!
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Carl-Peter Forster: “With its excellent driving dynamics, exceptional versatility and expressive styling, the Insignia embodies three of the Opel brand’s core characteristics.”

With its well-balanced proportions and its progressive, elegant and dynamic lines, “the Insignia shows how Opel’s new design language translates to a large sized car for the very first time,” explains Opel’s Executive Director of Design, Martin Smith. “With its many creative ideas, this study is a vision reaching far into the future, showing how Opel defines such a new concept.”

This departure from a conservative notchback silhouette is evident in the coupé-style body lines and design details such as the long engine hood with sweeping A-pillars and the inward-tapering front and rear ends. The Insignia’s short overhangs and balanced proportions (length/width/height: 4803/1914/1414 millimeters) and the long 2915-mm wheelbase are just as striking. The wide track (1666 mm) emphasizes the Insignia’s dynamics even further.

... the other Astra test...

"Piech's gap test"

... vibrations ...

... expert discussion

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