Showing posts with label sportcar. Show all posts
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Thursday

Lexus LS460 Sport by Platinum Motorsport

Lexus LS460

Lexus LS was a brand leader, but now the car should search for new lines to strengthen sensation of style and to impress buyers. The US Platinum Motorsport tuners is shown a new kit-packages to make indelible impression from 2011 Lexus LS460.

Lexus LS460 Sport

Platinum Motorsport offers a new front bumper with low landing, a radiator enclosure and lateral skirts. The rear bumper is left without changes. Wheel disks — Agetro W150 (22-inch) have been added for impressing of sports style from Lexus LS460 Sport. The car has been offered in nacreous blue that gives more aerodynamical shape to LS460 Sport.

Agetro W150

As well as in the majority of the tuning projects, Platinum Motorsport left the engine for Lexus LS untouched, fairly considering that standard V8 engine (380HP/367Nm) will be enough for city racers.

Saturday

Nissan create on Leaf base a sports car

Electrocar Nissan Leaf

The Japanese motor-car manufacturer of Nissan plans to exhaust in the near future on the car market a sports car constructed from units of Leaf electrocar.

Sport Leaf Hybrid

The detailed information on a novelty is not known yet, however according to preliminary data, the electric version of a coupe 370Z can become this sport car. Earlier, Nissan company confirmed the information about development project of electrocar under Infiniti mark.

Hybrid Competitions

Infiniti electromobile, predictably, can appear on sale in two years. Electrocars makes a competition of Audi A3 and BMW 1-Series, it will be offered however exclusively with the electric motor.

Nissan Leaf is equipped by the electromotor capacity of 109HP and li-ionic batteries allowing the car to pass without additional charge about 160 kilometres. The charge of accumulator from the home electric system occupies about eight hours.

Toyota will create new versions of sportcars Supra and MR2

Toyota Supra

Toyota intends to head manufacturers of hybrid sportcars. Anyway, the next four years the company will make new versions of well-known sport cars MR2 and Supra. Ideological successors of these models will receive a hi-tech stuffing.

Replacement MR2 will take place in the end of 2013, thus the new car will equip with a hybrid power-plant on the basis of the petrol motor. Initially designers Toyota wished to establish on this car engine V6, however success Honda CR-Z in the Japanese car market has changed of they decision.

Supra creation of new generation goes practically in parallel with preparation of compact sports coupe FT-86 as term of its exit also has been shifted for 2013. However, without a competition of novelty Toyota do not remain, as the powerful corporations already declare about creation of hybrid cars, because: Honda (Honda CR-Z), Nissan (Nissan Juke) and Mitsubishi (Mitsubishi PX-MiEV) — have the cars on a full electric platforms.

For example, Nissan prepares two-door sports electrocars on the basis of Leaf platform, and Mitsubishi — the two-door sports version of a city electromobile i-MiEV. Besides, the hybrid unit will receive and Mitsubishi Evolution of the next generation.

Toyota Supra Hybrid