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GOING TURBO INTO 50 Volvo lights the safest way
RENAULT 5’s 50th anniversary celebrations continued last weekend with the release of an all-electric show car, designed for drifting, that pays tribute to the Renault 5 Turbo and Turbo 2.
The brand staged the R5 Turbo 3E’s worldwide premiere at the Chantilly Arts & Elegance 2022 contest, which took place last Sunday.
Renault’s Vice-President Design, Gilles Vidal said: “Renault 5 Turbo 3E combines ultra-tech design and wilful exuberance with numerous references to the world of car racing and video games.
“This combination propels the show car into modernity and technology, and it’s at the frontier between the real and
TOYOTA has just launched Toyota Relax, a unique “service activated” warranty for these challenging financial times.
Any Toyota passenger car or light commercial vehicle owner who services their vehicle within the Toyota network automatically receives a 12-month warranty.
Toyota Relax is available to anyone who
THROUGH the eyes of a Volvo car, the world looks so much safer.
With LiDAR powered by core computing and software, Volvo Cars sees severe accidents decreasing by up to 20 per cent.
By researching, learning and developing, Volvo has constantly improved the crash prevention systems in its cars, delivering some of the most advanced and effective systems to date.
With the Volvo EX90, which will be unveiled on November 9, Volvo will offer owns a Toyota vehicle up to 10-years-old (or which has covered up to 185,000kms on the odometer), regardless of whether they purchased it at a Toyota dealership or not.
When the vehicle is serviced within the Toyota network a new 12-month warranty is triggered up until the vehicle is 10 years of age or has completed 185,000 kms. one of the most advanced sensor sets on the market. A Volvo-unique set of eight cameras, five radars, 16 ultrasonic sensors, and a cutting-edge LiDAR sensor.
LiDAR, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging, is a remote sensing method that uses light as a pulsed laser.
Volvo’s research indicates that adding LiDAR to an already safe car can reduce severe accidents by up to 20 per cent, and crash avoidance is up nine per cent.
Their longstanding sponsorship of the Boys in Green did no harm of course but really it was the value in the cars that kept people coming back.
And then.. well it slipped a bit. Opel were still selling cars here of course but not at the volumes they’d previously enjoyed and to be honest they got a bit, well, ugly.
But the revival of the brand has banished the bulbous lines of yesteryear and now they are looking pretty sharp
— and the latest Astra is a perfect example.
Longer
It’s sporting the new
Opel Vizor face — previously seen on the Mokka and Grandland — and is built on the highly flexible EMP2 multi-energy platform from Stellantis, which it shares with the Peugeot 308.
This means the dimensions have changed ever so slightly making it 4,374mm long, just 4mm longer than the previous model, 1,860mm wide and 1,470mm tall.
PART-CAR, part-spaceship, this futuristic vehicle is called the Gen. Travel, and it showcases how the Volkswagen Group thinks travelling by car beyond 2030 could look.
The design study made its public debut at last weekend’s Concours d’Elegance at Chantilly Arts & Elegance. It looked like nothing else among the swatches of priceless classic and vintage cars.
Previewing how mobility-as-aservice could look and function in the near future, the designers have created a vehicle that might replace car ownership and even short-haul flights.
At more than five metres long it’s as big as any large SUV. value is to be had in the handling where, just like its cousin the 308, it behaves precociously and offers real fun for the discerning driver.
Buyers familiar with Opel will be happy to see the simple
At either end is an array of cameras, LiDAR and radar sensors to enable it to drive in different environments without any input.
By designing different interior layouts it can serve a variety of purposes, from a mobile office for four to have meetings on the move to a pod to sleep in overnight specification trim of SC, SRI and Elite has been retained.
Cruise
Standard equipment on the SC trim gives punters a 10inch colour touchscreen, 10inch colour driver information cluster, wireless smartphone connection, cruise control with speed limiter and a suite when crossing countries.
All you would need to do is book the type of interior you need via an app and set your pick-up point and destination.
Control
While some of us are used to adaptive cruise control, the Gen. Travel takes driving beyond the next level as it has no physical
Level 1: adaptive cruise control
Level 2: steering and brake support, including lane assist
Level 3: traffic jam assist, but driver must be ready to take over
Level 4: car can do all the driving in certain conditions
Level 5: no driver controls, the car does 100% of the driving everywhere