Hyundai Company Showed a Big Station Wagon

Hyundai company extended the first official photos of universal i40 — the car of a D-segment which in the European car market replaces old Sonata and will be presented in March on Motor Show in Geneva.

Hyundai i40 (universal)

As informed into the official press release, this model is "the first car of South Korean mark in a D-segment which has been created specially for the European car market with scale of power-plants, the equipment and all car technologies answering to tastes of Europeans".

is executed in a new corporate style of mark with a trapezoid radiator enclosure and the extended headlights of head light coming far on front fenders. The volume of a luggage compartment at the universal makes 553 litres at the hoisted rear seats, and at combined the free space increases to 1,790 litres.

The novelty will be offered with wide scale of petrol and diesel motors, including the new 1,7-litre motor on "heavy fuel". More detailed information about a ruler of power-plants yet is not informed. Besides, Hyundai i40, predictably, receives two petrol motors — 1.6 and 2.0 (with a turbo-supercharging) capacity of 140 and 177HP accordingly.

In Europe the list of the standard equipment of model i40 will include system of the prevention of involuntary traverse of a continuous line of a marking, and also an audiosystem with possibility of connection of external devices through Bluetooth. Among options — xenon headlights and a glass roof.

Peugeot company showed models 508

Peugeot company extended the detailed information on family 508 which replaces with itself at once two models — 407 and 607.

Peugeot 508: 9,2 cm longer...

The world premiere of a novelty takes place in the beginning of October on autoshow in Paris, but sales in the European car market begin from next year. About it it's told in the official press release.

The overall length of Peugeot 508 with a body "sedan" makes 4,79 metres, "universal" — 4,81 metres that on 10,1 and 4,8 centimetres accordingly more than at model 407 with the same body types. The wheelbase thus increased by 9,2 centimetres.

Despite the increased sizes, weight of a new sedan in comparison with Peugeot 407 (in versions with identical engines) decreased on 35 kgs, and universal became easier on 45 kgs. Besides, model 508 has, according to representatives of the company, one of the best for a sedan the class of aerodynamic resistance — 0,25, and at version SW — 0,26.

C 2012 the novelty also can be equipped with the hybrid power-plant combining a 163-strong 2-litre diesel engine and the electromotor which if necessary provides with pull-rod rear wheels of the car.

When Peugeot 508 deliveries in the USA begin, yet is not informed.

Sedan Peugeot 508

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