Nissan company carried out full modernisation of minivan Nissan Moco. Novelty sales began on February, 15th.
2011 Nissan Moco
The car underwent some changes in design. The design of head lights, the front bumper and a radiator enclosure was updated. Besides, the design of the rear combined, and headlights was replaced. As to accessible colours, Nissan van is presented in 4 new colouring. In total it's possible to choose from 6 colours.
The panel of devices of a new Nissan prototype is executed in black colour. Covering of seats is executed in brown colour. Thanks to a new platform, the length of interior increased by 180 mm, thus it give to passengers the big comfort.
The prices for updated Nissan special will make, depending on a complete set, 1,079,400-1,510,950 Yens (or $12,700-18,155US at a current rate). For a month it's planned to sell 4000 copies of the modernised cars.
On the international motor show in Thailand (from November, 30th till December, 12th, 2010) will takes place the world premiere of conceptual Honda New Small Vehicle Prototype.
Prototype by Honda
As informs the press-service of Honda Motor, the serial car on the basis of this car goes on sale in Thailand and India in 2011. The version for each of these countries will be adapted under requirements of the local car market.
The new car is constructed on the basis of concept car New Small Concept (NSC), for the first time shown in India in January of current year.
The given car start to make since 2011 at Honda enterprises in India and Thailand. Further serial NSC can start to make and in Brazil, but in the North America it will not sell. Under the preliminary information, the price of a novelty from Honda will not exceed $10,500US. Competitors in Asia become: Nissan Micra, Honda Civic Type-R and Honda Elysion.
Mazda company presented official images of the compact three-door hatchback executed in a new corporate style of Japanese cars Mazda which has been presented for the first time in the end of August.
Next Mazda
The new corporate style of the Mazda company is named by Japanese word Kodo — «Soul of Motion». As the chief-designer of Mazda Ikudo Maeda earlier declared, in similar style all cars of Japanese mark which appear in the car market in the near future will be sustained.
Soul of Motion — New Design by Mazda
Prototype of Shinari came in the stead of concept car Nagare which has been shown for the first time in 2006 and till now is prototype of all models of company Mazda.
Minivan Mazda5 of following generation will be a latest model with design in stylistics Nagare.
Japanese Honda has presented on a motor show in Beijing concept car Everus which serial version will be on sale exclusively in China. Preparation for manufacture goes at full speed.
Li Nian Everus by Guangqi Honda Automobile
This prototype — not the 1st perspective working out of division Li Nian. So, earlier the company has shown a compact crossover on Honda Jazz platform, and in April, 2008 has been shown the exhibition sample of sports roadster S2000.
As concept car Honda City
However, all is this time much more serious, as this car already has under itself a preliminary basis in the form of concept car Honda City.
The technical information about Li Nian Everus is extremely poor, however a number of experts assumes, that the given car will be completed with engines in volume of 1,5 and 1,8 litres.
The car is developed on the basis of concept car Qazana and to a batch production will go under name Juke. The presentation will take place on the International motor show in Geneva in the spring.
New crossover Nissan Juke
Nissan Motor publishes the sketch of a new compact crossover, and also informs some details on the car. Created, according to own promise, in rather deadlines, Juke it's outwardly similar to the prototype — concept car Nissan Qazana.
Nissan Juke it's designed specially for the European car market which becomes the main things for a novelty. Here the car will go on sale in October of this year. The 1st public display of the car will take place already on February, 10th — then the company will extend new photos and the description, and the official presentation will take place in March on the International motor show in Geneva. By the way Qazana for the first time have shown here year before.
The company asserts, that at creation Juke inquiries of the European consumers are as much as possible considered and the experience received by working out and sales of larger crossover — Qashqai is to no small degree made use. As the senior vice-president on marketing and sales of European division Nissan Motor Simon Thomas has declared, Juke urged to offer Europeans worthy alternative: instead of traditional compact hatchbacks on the market there is a small accessible crossover.
Specifications on model while are rather avaricious. Dimensions are for certain known only: length — 4,060 mm, width — 1,780 mm, height — 1,570 mm. The wheel base makes 2,530 mm.
Will collect the car in the Great Britain at factory Nissan Motor in Sunderland. In a modelling number the novelty will take a place between family hatchback Note and crossover Qashqai. On car cost while it is informed nothing, but the company counts on high availability of a novelty in Europe. As to other car markets after Europe Juke probably will appear in Japan and other countries of Asia.
The compact car of company Infiniti which will appear in the market roughly in 2012 and will compete with BMW 1-Series and Audi A3, becomes an electrocar. On it informs edition Auto Express referring to not named source in firm.
"Compact electric Infiniti it will be unequivocal, just as also larger models", — the interlocutor of magazine has added.
Compact electrocar Infiniti
Under the preliminary information, compact electrocar Infiniti begins to be equipped with the same power-plant which is used in the first mass to company Nissan electrocar — Leaf. Hatchback Leaf, whose full-scale manufacture will begin next year, the stock of a course throughout 160 kilometres begins to be completed with an electric motor power of 109HP and the storage batteries, providing to the car. The full gymnastics of these accumulators from the household electric system are carried out approximately 8 hours.
As assume some foreign editions, compact car Infiniti also will receive versions with usual internal combustion engines and updating with a body "coupe-cabriolet".
The car promise to make accessible under the price, thus pluses of the commercial electromobile intended for every possible needs already are now obvious.
Electroupdating of commercial transport
Nissan Motor continues to expand the activity in the field of working out of mass electromobiles. On turn sector of commercial transport — this sector can appear the most demanded.
At opening ceremony of the International motor show in Tokyo the president of the company Carlos Ghosn has made loud enough statement, having made the announcement of multipurpose model NV200 EV on electrodraught.According to president Nissan Motor, prospects at similar model are rather wide.
The main task which should be solved to developers, final cost of a similar electromobile in the market is. In this occasion it has not been given any comments except that «commercial electrocar should have low cost». At present cost is not sounded even approximately. It's not given also concrete terms of occurrence of the car in the market, but, apparently, it should be expected within the next 2-3 years.
Nissan Motor data does not disclose
The question technical aspect too is not opened, in particular, Ghosn has not given any comments concerning range of run of a similar electromobile. Nissan Motor will publish details in process of project development. And at present the company has extended a unique sketch of version NV200 EV on electrodraught.
Company Honda has not refused idea to make on the automobile market the sports car under own mark. And, as the chief executive of company Takanobu Ito has declared, it will be "ecologically pure car with excellent dynamic characteristics".
Sports Car by Honda
Earlier the company declared the beginning of works on the supercar which could become the ideological successor of model NSX: it was planned, that this model will be with engine V10. However because of crisis the further development of the project has been "frozen".
Which power-plant will receive future supercar Honda it's not specified yet. "I hope, once we will have free money and the necessary technologies, and we will make the sports car under mark Honda which will symbolise our technological progress", — the director of the Japanese company has noted.
It's necessary to note, what exactly Takanobu Ito in 1990 was the developer of the unique aluminium chassis for Honda NSX, and chief executive Honda Ito became only in June of this year.
Meanwhile, competitor Honda — company Toyota — on a motor show in Tokyo has presented own supercar with motor V10. Lexus LFA it is equipped by the 560-strong atmospheric engine and it can be dispersed from 0 to 100 km/h for 3,7 sec. Toyota plans to make only such 500 similar cars at the price from $375,000US for a copy.
Sports sedan Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution of following generation can receive the hybrid power-plant similar on a design that which will be presented on conceptual crossover Mitsubishi PX-MiEV, whose debut will take place on the Tokyo motor show. On it informs British edition Autocar referring to own sources in the Japanese motor-car manufacturer.
Prototype Mitsubishi PX-MiEV
The hybrid power-plant of prototype Mitsubishi PX-MiEV consists of the 116-strong petrol engine in volume of 1,6 litres, two electromotors power of 82HP which settle down on a forward and back axis of the car, and also the complete set of accumulators.
On small speeds such car is capable to move exclusively by means of electromotors, on high as the traction the internal combustion engine is used, and at braking the system of regeneration of the energy, filling up a charge of batteries joins. Also accumulators can be charged from the usual house socket or at special stations of additional charge.
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VS Subaru Impreza
Besides, the concept car is equipped by system of full drive S-AWC with the new mechanism of distribution of draught between back wheels at the expense of the differential electromotor.
Sources Autocar have not specified about changes in hybrid power-plant PX-MiEV as expediency of application on Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution XI, however, according to some information, unique difference will consist in more powerful petrol unit.
When on sale will appear new Lancer Evo — it's not known.
Company Lexus has extended the official information and new photos of conceptual five-door hatchback LF-Ch which will be presented general public on a motor show in Frankfurt.
The serial version of this car becomes the smallest model in scale of the Japanese mark and, predictably, will appear on the conveyor in the autumn of 2010. About it it's spoken in press release Lexus.
Conceptual hatchback Lexus LF-Ch
The dimensional length of conceptual hatchback Lexus makes 4300 mm, width — 1790 mm, height — 1400 mm, and the wheel base is equal to 2600 mm. The novelty will be equipped with a hybrid power-plant which will allow the car to move as exclusively on electrodraught, and with sharing of the usual petrol engine and the electromotor. Detailed characteristics of a power-plant yet are not informed, however, under the preliminary information, concept car LF-Ch will receive the same units, as hybrid Lexus HS 250h which sales have already begun in the USA. The structure of installation of this car includes the 2,4-l petrol motor, the electric motor and a variator. Total power of a power-plant makes 187HP.
In salon Lexus LF-Ch there will be an asymmetric central console, system management of car Remote Touch functions, for the first time presented on crossover RX of new generation, and also dock-station for iPhone, located on back to a row of seats.
The serial version of hatchback Lexus which, predictably, will receive name CT, will receive a forward drive and after an exit on the market will make a competition to cars Audi A3 and BMW 1-Series.
On the car market of an electrocar of mark can leave roughly by 2015 though the considerable part of a spadework is already done.
2011 Honda FCX Clarity
Honda Motor repeatedly declared and continues to declare, that real prospects of the future sees behind development of cars on storage elements or hydrogen fuel. Compact an electromobile the company plans to show a prototype on the International motor show in Tokyo in October. It's not promulgated yet any image of conceptual working out, on technical parametres also officially it is not informed. Honda only informs, that prototype creation is carried out together with the partner-developer of storage batteries company AKB GS Yuasa.
It's underlined also, that despite the considerable experience received at creation FCX Clarity, a batch production of electromobiles Honda will begin not earlier than 2015. By that moment Honda will be only one of many motor-car manufacturers in the given segment, therefore, to speak about defining, for a policy of the company, value of electromobiles — it's not necessary.
Nevertheless, to lag behind rather demanded segment Honda Motor does not gather, especially taking into account that on special mass character of the car on hydrogen fuel, till the end of next decade — to count it's not necessary, according to the statement of the Japanese company.
At the disposal of a site 7Tune there were espionage photos of supercar Lexus LF-A (on other data, the car will receive name LF-L) which have been made by Japanese magazine New Model Magazine X.
2011 Lexus LF-A
It's necessary to notice, that the salon of a novelty and a back bumper look left unfinished, therefore pictures, possibly, have been made during works on a test prototype.
As it was informed earlier, supercar Lexus will receive the ten-cylinder petrol engine in volume of 4,8 litres, developing 550HP. The transmission will have some operating modes (among them — completely automatic, sports, winter and "manual") according to which options of system of stabilisation begin to vary, a corner of attack of a back rear wing and work of some other electronic "assistants". It is expected, that the maximum speed of such car will make 350 km/h.
The debut a supercar will take place on October automobile show in Tokyo. In total it is planned to make 500 copies Lexus LF-A from which approximately 30% will intend for the Japanese car market where the prices for the car begin to begin from 22 million yens. In Europe the novelty will manage approximately in 290,000 euro.
Company Honda has extended the first official photo-tizer of new model which has received name Crosstour, and also has informed that the premiere of this car will take place in the USA on September, 1st current year.
Crossover Honda Crosstour
As it was informed earlier, crossover Crosstour it will be constructed on the basis of model Accord, will receive firm system of full drive SH-AWD and 177 both 271HP and volume 2,4 and 3,5 litres accordingly begins to be offered with wide scale of motors, including four-and six-cylinder petrol units power.
The car will receive a body with a sloping roof in style of the car with a body "coupe", and the general direction of design is planned to execute in stylistics of crossover Acura ZDX presented in the end of July of current year. The prototype of this model has been shown for three months before on automobile show in New York.
Honda Accord Crosstour will appear in the American market on sale by autumn of current year. The price for the similar car will begin from $25,000US.
New details concerning working out Toyota Prius Coupe appear in a number of the Japanese mass-media.
New Toyota Prius
Officially Toyota Motor still does not deny, but also does not confirm them. The 1st information on working out Prius with a coupe body has appeared several months ago, but since then practically any official comment in this occasion from Toyota Motor has not arrived. New data, referring to own sources, informs edition Best Car. Affirms, that working out of appearance of the car is charged one of world famous Italian design studio. To which — does not know, but as the most probable candidates are called Pininfarina, Italdesign and Giugiaro.
If the given information corresponds to the validity desire Toyota to make a novelty as much as possible attractive easily to explain. Prius it is necessary to compete to a coupe body directly with Honda CR-Z — a sports hybrid which will enter the market in the beginning of the next year, that is for certain earlier, than Toyota. However it not strongly confuses the company, after all hybrid Honda Insight also left in sale for some months before new generation Prius, however last has easily restored behind itself(himself) leadership, hardly leaving in sale.
The engine for Prius Coupe, most likely, will be borrowed at hybrid Lexus HS250h. In any case, the most suitable petrol engine the edition names 4-cylinder 2,4-litre instead of 1,8-litre standard for Prius.
On Monday company Lexus has extended the first official image of a conceptual compact hatchback, whose world premiere will take place in September of current year on automobile show in Frankfurt.
Lexus CT concept
The debut of the serial car, which appearance practically will correspond completely to a prototype, is planned on the Geneva motor show of 2010.
The official information on how serial hatchback Lexus while is not present will be called. However, according to some foreign editions, the Japanese motor-car manufacturer has already registered in the North America as trade marks names CT 200h, CT 300h and CT 400h which, possibly, and it is planned to use for this model. As it was informed earlier, for one of updatings the hybrid power-plant begins to be offered by total power of 187HP. The hybrid power-plant will combine petrol "four" in volume of 2,4 litres, the electromotor and a variator.
It is supposed, that in Europe serial compact hatchback Lexus will appear in the autumn of next year and will make a competition to cars Audi A3 and BMW 1-Series. The car little bit less, than sedan IS in the version with the diesel motor will cost.
Company Infiniti has extended the first image of a prototype of sedan Infiniti M of following generation.
Infiniti M (sedan)
The "virtual" debut of this model will take place in a week — on August, 14th within the limits of an exhibition-competition of automobile design Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance which by tradition will take place in California, the USA. It's supposed, that during presentation present will see not the car, and only three-dimensional projection.
Car already ready to a batch production debuts only in December of this year, and sales will begin to spring of 2010. As representatives Infiniti specify, the new sedan of a series of M is made with caution on the European buyers — sedan Infiniti M becomes the sixth model of the Japanese mark sold in Europe.
In four years company Nissan plans to start the electric version of compact crossover Qazana in a batch production.
Nissan Qashqai Concept
The car will be created on motives of the concept car with the same name for the first time presented in current year at an automobile exhibition in Geneva, and becomes "younger brother" of crossover Qashqai.
The detailed information on what engines and transmissions will be offered for the serial version usual Nissan Qazana, at present is not disclosed. It's known only, that the novelty will receive design of an ex-terrier similar to a prototype and salon. The basic differences begin to consist that the commodity car will have less "exaggerated" forms of a body and usual headlights instead of light-emitting diode.
Not the electric version of crossover Qazana debuts in March of 2010, and serial release at factory in the Great Britain will begin in some months after that.
Besides it, company Nissan also plans to present in the end of current week compact serial electrocar which, under the preliminary information, will be created in stylistics of conceptual working out Nuvu. The car will receive the 109-strong electric motor and will appear in the Japanese car market on sale in 2010. In other countries the car debuts in 2012.
Company Nissan has presented a prototype of a new electromobile of last generation Nissan Ev Zero Emissions Versa. The previous prototype have constructed on the basis of model Cube, and new — on the basis of Versa.
Nissan Ev Zero Emission Versa
The car is equipped by a forward drive, the 108-strong electronic engine and the li-ionic accumulator of working out Automotive Energy Supply Corp. One additional charge of the battery suffices approximately on 100 miles. The navigating system automatically displays a distance of an admissible route at a current charge of the accumulator, and also an arrangement of the nearest refuellings.
Among other things, about a charge of the storage battery it is possible to enquire far off, for example, through a mobile phone.
At the moment of an exit on the market, cost of similar cars will be record-breaking low, despite of novelty of technology. Toyota Motor has extended the new information concerning development of own program of cars on alternative fuel elements. The company counts, that their cost at the moment of an exit on the market will be «shocking low».
2011 Toyota FCHV
Toyota Motor it is full determination to present the car on alternative fuel (hydrogen) which on availability will compete with petrol, simultaneously possessing a number of essential advantages, first of all in respect of profitability and ecological compatibility. Toyota it's satisfied by progress which already managed to be reached and level of the developed technologies.In 2015 cars on hydrogen fuel will enter the market, allegedly, irrespective of, whether the infrastructure for their service and refuelling will be developed enough or not. At present the Japanese motor-car manufacturer how consumers will concern new type of cars worries. The hybrids, in particular special version Prius should become a certain marketing prototype Plug-In.
Serial cars on hydrogen fuel Toyota will be developed on the basis of the technologies, continuing to be improved on prototype FCHV. It's constructed on the basis of model Toyota Highlander/Kluger, but it at all does not mean, the company underlines, that the first serial car on fuel elements becomes Highlander. Most likely it will be much more compact model.
It's necessary to notice, that the unique Japanese car on alternative fuel is Honda FCX Clarity, accessible in Japan and the USA in original hire-rent. To buy model while rent is impossible, and here, for example, in California will manage in $600/month.
Company Nissan Motor has presented at head office in Yokohama the following prototype of electromobile Nissan Tiida.
New Nissan Tiida
The presented car is equipped by the electric motor, and also the storage battery located under the bottom of the car that allows to keep space in salon and in luggage carrier Tiida. The stock of a charge of the storage block will suffice for journey of 160 km, the newspaper writes. During model representation operational director Nissan Motor has declared, that Nissan will be the leader on manufacture of cars with zero emission. As he said, mass production of model Nissan on batteries will begin in 2012.
Earlier Nissan showed a test electromobile in a body of model Cube. It was informed, that the model with the electromotor in a unique body will be presented in Yokohama on August, 2nd. As, occurrence of production versions of electromobiles for models Cube and Tiida is probable.
