Salon de TDUCK: New Car Releases

hassan1995 · March 3, 2015

Very nice post mate, I think design wise a majority of them are positives especially the regera I think it looks beautiful, same for the 911. The r8 on the other hand looks weird and well ugly.

TIMELESS · March 3, 2015

Great post. Now I don't need to read about them in multiple articles on car sites :lol:

That Bentley is beautiful apart from the lights, the 911 is too apart from the colour.

T1M · March 3, 2015

The new GT3 RS needs a manual gearbox and GT3 RS written under the door in big letters... and to be in bright green..

The Compensator · March 3, 2015

How does the Regera's gearbox work? I've only read Jalopnik's clickbait title saying that it has no gearbox, and this is the only thing I have read about that car. Anyone got more info?

T1M · March 3, 2015

How The 1,500 HP Koenigsegg Regera Hits 248 MPH Without A Gearbox

Seems to kind of explain it at the bottom...

Ryzza5 · March 4, 2015

I guess the simplest way to think about it is to say it only has Gear 6, but that's no problem because it has sooo much torque. No point having lower gears as you'd have no traction anyway.

TIMELESS · March 4, 2015

Pretty much, like a torquey engine can pull from 2nd gear+ from a standstill, this has so much torque it pulls from it's highest gear, so they got rid of all the other gears :p

TDUFREAK500 · March 4, 2015

All these new cars are so ugly, the only decent looking ones on this page are the Porsche and the Land Rover, the rest of them leave me cold, I don't like the way they look, especially the Regera, it's also interesting that it is pretty much direct drive in a street car.

hassan1995 · March 4, 2015

Seen all the cars? I'm sure you have here's a video with all of them. Why? Because Chris harris

CarMadMike · March 4, 2015

Banned from driving Lambos?

:fp: Car companies, especially those whose profit revenues will not be too effected by some bad PR, are ran by complete tools.

I'm in love with the 675LT, I wasn't 100% won over by the 650S but that LT looks stunning, it's now an equivalent aesthetically to an Italian supercar.

That aston vulcan though :drool: Yeah it can look like a bottom feeder fish in some photos, but dear god in that video it looks stunning :drool: much want.

Milli · March 4, 2015

:lol: At the end.

CLR-GTR · March 4, 2015

Haha that snear at the end. Great vid, thanks for sharing :D

Eudemon · March 4, 2015

Wow when Ferrari were blocking this guy many people thought that was stupid and slated them for it, now Lambo are doing it. That's upsetting. :(

Milli · March 4, 2015

Automotive brands can be really lame sometimes. Aston, Ferrari, Lamborghini...

The Compensator · March 4, 2015

Guess we'll have to wait for a Jalopnik column to let him say a word or two about this Lamborghini ban thing. I like that he doesn't give an f about the car industry & journalism relationship at all. Most of these people just say what the PR guy at an international event tells them to say.

TIMELESS · March 9, 2015

Guess we'll have to wait for a Jalopnik column to let him say a word or two about this Lamborghini ban thing. I like that he doesn't give an f about the car industry & journalism relationship at all. Most of these people just say what the PR guy at an international event tells them to say.

Can't agree more. The man is a legend.

Not sure how new this is, in fact I know nothing about it other than the obvious, which can't be stated for obvious reasons which I won't state.

This driverless Mercedes is cruising around San Francisco, blowing everyones minds - Imgur

CarMadMike · March 9, 2015

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This'll be parked (badly) all over LA and the riviera by people with small dogs hanging out of their handbags very shortly I think.

The Compensator · March 9, 2015

Great definition of the vehicle's future purpose.

Merc should make a production version of the Concept Ocean Drive, a 4-door convertible. Now, that car would be the ultimate SoCal sunset cruiser.

CarMadMike · March 9, 2015

I agree, but if Cadillac put the Ciel into production I'd be jumping out of the Ocean Drive and into the Ciel before the Ocean Drive had even had a chance to stop.

The Compensator · March 9, 2015

Ah yeah, the Ciel was gorgeous.

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Brilliant. :toof:

CLR-GTR · March 9, 2015

I bet MB just wants the rigidity of the car to be right when throwing in modern S-Class engines. I agree though, it should have been something more than just a big E-Class cabriolet.

Which is getting even more dangerous the upcoming years: the whole C-Class has been moved up in the line-up to make room for the CLA. C-Class gets a cabriolet. Gets close to the E, so MB decides to push up the E-Class too, which in size and equipment will now get dangerously close to the S-Class. It's lacking a few cm's (aren't we all...) and 12 buckets instead of 6 or 8 but other than that.... hmm.

Still though, nice car. Still loving that new S-Coupe :drool:

TIMELESS · March 14, 2015

Have ya'll seen this yet?

Right.

CarMadMike · March 24, 2015

New Jaguar XF:

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If the XE didn't exist i'd be absolutely drooling over this car, but I think it's just a bit TOOOOO similar at the rear (Identical, really). However the old XF aged really quickly, in that the timing of its release meant its technology and interior looked and felt very out of date compared to its competition quite quickly. I hope with the new E-class around the corner this won't happen again (though this XF looks fine).

It's got new aluminium architecture meaning it'll be much lighter (they say 400 pounds, but JLR have been known to exaggerate these claims a fair bit), if it gets the Ingenium engines it'll be much more efficient too. I really hope this sells well!