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Just a few days to present worldwide Ferrari 620 GT the model that will arrive to replace the 599 and that will become the most powerful Ferrari of all time. The date scheduled by the House of Mirabella for his debut is February 29, just days before the start of the Geneva Motor Show, where the general public can appreciate live and direct.

But before this happens, then the spy photos they began to realize its existence, Ferrari distributed a video where you can see (because you cannot distinguish) the model by taking a ride on the track at Giordano, the private airstrip Italian automaker’s where you put about all models, including Formula 1.

In command of the model can be seen that Felipe Massa, at least on this occasion, has take the role of the undisputed leading man Fernando Alonso, who appears only a mere second.

The GT 620 is still not much is known officially, but rumors realize that its 6.3-liter V12 engine will be able to deliver more than 700 horsepower, more precisely between 740 and 750 hp. This block, combined with a significant weight reduction compared to 599, would allow him to reach 100 km / h in just 3 seconds with a top speed of 340 km / h.

The Toyota Auris Hybrid made ​​its powertrain through two engines, one petrol and one electric. The gas block is a 1.8 VVT-i four-cylinder HSD, 1.8 liter engine and 99 hp at 5,200 rpm. It offers a maximum torque of 142 Nm at 4,000 rpm and complies with Euro 5 emission levels. The electric motor is synchronous permanent image develops 80 hp and 207 Nm.

The combined power system HSD (Hybrid Synergy Drive) is 136 hp. The coordination of both engines is performed by the HSD system you choose, at any time, using only the electric motor, if you add up the efforts of both or only acts on gasoline. The meeting point each to exert force on the wheels is electric continuously variable transmission (E-CVT).

The nickel hydride battery has a capacity that facilitates the move with the vehicle about 2 miles using only the power, as long as not exceeding 50 km / h. Above that of the travel speed or the gasoline engine must come into operation even under acceleration as long as remaining energy will be supported by the electricity.

Benefits automatically translate to 180 km / h top speed and 11.4 seconds in the 0 to 100 km / h but what is most interesting in a car so are their consumption, which vary depending on the choice of wheels. The combined consumption was measured at 3.8 litres/100 km with tires 15 “(or 4.0 liters with tires 17″). With the 45 liter tank could, theoretically, more than 1,100 km of autonomy.

Cars ends of the size of the Ferrari F40, McLaren F1, Porsche 959 or Lamborghini Countach, reach the end of his days and will continue to see sports cars but occasionally will use support systems such as electric motors and similar solutions on an engine block that, although powerful, hardly exceed 8 cylinders.

And when these expectations for the future, I console myself that there is still a passion rescollo last somewhere between France and Germany. And that is called Bugatti Veyron rescollo.

Ettore Bugatti, was ahead of its time. Make cars impossible, impossible designs and very powerful engines, but they were expensive … so the brand disappeared shortly thereafter, leaving his credit machines are auctioned today in quantities in the millions.

Luckily, a few years ago, the president of a company like Volkswagen, he got the bright idea of ​​buying the brand and make super-sport with this instruction; as its founder wished. Of course, one thing is to buy a brand at a bargain price because the market did not exist as such, and quite another is to build a car with the standards Bugatti involves carrying the symbol on the nose.

The Audi engineers who were there present, they put their hands to the head, have you gone crazy?
Yes, but Piech was a man of his word and what he said he met, so the team went to work, and basically did something.

Once assembled businessmen, engineers, friends of the brand and buyers from around the world in a circuit, began an advance of what would be the ultimate supercar, but in a curve the car bolted, crashing into a guardrail and was destroyed .

Thus more or less, with a note of humor, was the story of the birth of the Bugatti Veyron back in 2005, several years of testing and research, but with the expected result, a sports 1001cv and a top speed of 407Km / h.
But many years devoted to the manufacture of this car, carry a large investment in technology never before known in human and equipment especially in economic resources and the development of this vehicle is estimated at 400 million euros.

The brand ensures that waste a lot of money for each sold Bugatti, specifically, make sure you hand them one of these sports involves an expenditure of about three or four million euros and sell about half, 1.5 million euros. But for the Volkswagen group, ie brand and what they lose by one side, recover on the other.

The fact is that since its appearance, this car has evolved and have been selling all the units in various limited series: the Hermes, the Pure Sang, the Sang Noir, Le Mans, the Pegasus, the Grand Sport … total, 260 units and 35 of the Veyron Veyron Grand Sport, which is the convertible. And to round off the market, the brand has now invented the Super Sport, with mechanical and aerodynamic additives that make the Veyron is more extreme, if possible.

This version 1200cv and reaches 432km / h, thanks to more effective ways to reduce the drag coefficient to the wind, a new structure that favors its torsional rigidity and the massive use of carbon fiber to achieve a weight the end lighter.

But that was not all, the chassis has been tweaked with the buffer, we have reinforced roll bars, exhaust system, rear diffuser and the suspension has more travel, for the guidance of this car is not as radical is a utopia for a driver who has no qualifications as a pilot.
Also the engine has been tweaked to produce 199cv and 24km / h more than the Veyron “normal”.

This version will be sold between 1.65 and 1.85 million in a limited edition of 30 units of which 5, will be painted black and orange, as the unit that broke the Guinness record for top speed in a production car, will cost 2 million euros and bear a plaque commemorating the moment.

It was in the last Geneva Motor Show the location chosen by the firm to present its prototype SR1, all laboratory style as they say its creators forward lines will define the future brand models of the lion.

Its design as we see in the image is marked by a long hood and powerful, at the same time ends in a huge air intake rounded appearance. Its sides are very refined and sunken, and the headlights on this occasion he chose a rather small, arrow-shaped LED lights with both front and rear. Your hardtop can be removed.

Its structure consists of a backbone that integrates a self-supporting tubular frame which are assembled mechanical and running gear. The design director of the French brand as a two-seater designed front and rear central to the interior is designed.

Speaking of his engine, the gasoline engine is 1.6 liter THP PSA group that develops an output of 218 hp and maximum torque of 300 Nm with “overboost”. On the other hand, the electric motor has an output of 95 hp and maximum torque 178 Nm continuous, all associated with a manual gearbox six-speed piloted cams.

This configuration allows it to operate as a hybrid with an average consumption of 4.9 l/100 km and CO2 emissions are within the 119 g / km. Get accelerate from 0 to 100 km / h in just 4.7 seconds and reaches a top speed of 250 km / h.

In terms of its size, this coupe and roadster has a length of 4.8 meters, width is 1.91 m and its height is only 1.2 meters. The wheelbase of 2.59 meters.