Salon de TDUCK: New Car Releases

Ryzza5 · January 4, 2016

Does the wide air intake assist with brake cooling on some cars?

On the Golf (which looks ok (but not desirable) to me), the top small grill feeds the Cold Air Intake via the air filter.

The bottom one is for the intercooler and air conditioning compressor.

Bentley looks pretty bad [in that colour].

CLR-GTR · January 4, 2016

Here's the new E-Class. Those who expected it to be a C XL or a mini S: you've advanced a round for the refrigerator!

Not liking it. Too much the same, too easily done. Just like with the initial introduction of the current gen SL, seeing 1 photo is enough to already get interested in its successor. The coupe can save perhaps save it a little bit, the AMG won't be a surprise... Who wonders what will be done to the CLS? It could become a Mercedes-badged A# Sportback :eek:.

Low-res thanks to Autoblog.nl.

Andreas¹ · January 4, 2016

Latest round of copy/paste from Mercedes there. :yawn: It's embarrassing.

The Compensator · January 4, 2016

:yawn:

It's... Boring. And that's coming from me. Haven't they said they want to get younger customers a few years ago? I have nothing else to say other than that I am disappointed by the exterior. Even the AMG package does not help it at all; for example, the base C-class, without the AMG package and big wheels, looks like a used bonbon. With it, it looks pretty nice and hides the visually narrow rear end. This is "meh."

:boss:

Andreas¹ · January 4, 2016

Anyone wanna bet on what the coupé will look like?

... anyone? No?

Okay then :gmc:

TIMELESS · January 5, 2016

Eww. What is going on with Mercedes? It's like the designer quit after they made the S-Class, so they've just copied and pasted ever since. :rolleyes:

I'll stick with the W212/C207, thanks.

TDUZoqqer · January 5, 2016

Anyone wanna bet on what the coupé will look like?

... anyone? No?

Okay then :gmc:

C-Class coupe with slightly different head-and-taillights. I wouldn't wonder when this will be true, even.

TIMELESS · January 5, 2016

with slightly different head-and-taillights

Wow, you really think they'll go that far? :hmmm:

:lol:

CarMadMike · January 5, 2016

The new E-Class is a difficult one to judge, as if we were to judge it by itself ignoring the C and S class I think people would be a lot more positive than they have been.

My main gripe is that the E-Class, especially the predecessor to this new one, has always looked like quite a masculine 'muscle' saloon car and it's always been very cool to me for that reason.

I don't dislike the new design at all, it's just way too similar to the other two which is a shame. Still a decent car and if I was looking for a car in that sector It'd still be a contender.

Eudemon · January 5, 2016

The new E-Class looks too old fart and boring to me and that's fine as it is more than likely their core market with this car, but with the way Merc design had been going I would have liked a bit more aggression in its looks.

TDUZoqqer · January 5, 2016

The design "fusion" all srarted with the W222 S-Class. After that came the CLS, C, GLE (ML), GLS (GL), AMG GT and now the E Class. There are still some minor differences (except the fact the car bodies are different), but think how different the exact same models were before the W222 in 2014.

CLR-GTR · January 5, 2016

I agree with most, except the AMG GT and CLS, you can only mistake those for others if you have your eyes shut. The CLS hasn't followed the wrap-around-grille headlights and has unique body sides, and the AMG GT only gets near the SL because of the general shape of the headlight, but nothing else (bumpers are different, and grille on the facelift SL is now upside down creating more difference).

Ryzza5 · January 9, 2016

Hyundai Ioniq EV + Hybrid

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IONIQ: A Leap Forward for Hybrid Vehicles Hyundai Media Newsroom

I don't like the rear, but overall it looks nicer than a Prius

TIMELESS · January 9, 2016

Why is there no picture of the front? Is it even worse than the rear? :eek:

TDUFREAK500 · January 9, 2016

Why is there no picture of the front? Is it even worse than the rear? :eek:

It's a Hyundai, of course it will be

CLR-GTR · January 9, 2016

I've seen far worse front ends (on cars):

Didn't see this one popping up :drool::

The Compensator · January 9, 2016

Reminder: North American Auto Show starts on Monday.

Not sure if there will be anything super exciting as the Geneva Motor Show is in March. :hmmm:

calster17 · January 11, 2016

GM have got a surprise with Buick.

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Called the Avista, it's apparently 'Camaro' sized and powered by a twin turbo'd 3.0 V6 pumping out 400Hp.

I like this.

CarMadMike · January 11, 2016

Any news on any possible Avistas with Opel or Vauxhall badges on? As obviously Buick is the third in that GM badge-engineering trio.

3.0 400hp V6 would stand out a fair bit in comparison to the rest of their range of models so i'm not very optimistic we'll be seeing it in europe, if we do it'll most likely have a 4 pot :lol:

TDUFREAK500 · January 11, 2016

I'm pretty sure Holden is part of that re-badging thing too

TIMELESS · January 11, 2016

GM have got a surprise with Buick.

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Called the Avista, it's apparently 'Camaro' sized and powered by a twin turbo'd 3.0 V6 pumping out 400Hp.

I like this.

Interesting, very nice. Looks almost Jaguar-ish. Is McLaren aware they're missing some headlights? :lol:

CLR-GTR · January 11, 2016

Nice car that Buick. Now to wait for America's true influence: rebadge it for at least 3 brands, including former saleschampion Opel, and ruin all 3 cars by making them too cheap to touch and overpriced for their class.

Also today: meet the Lexus LC. A bit radical styling but somewhere I really like it:

And Aston Martin posted this, a video for the new 5.2 twin turbo V12: