challenge for you. there really. fusion and fun. street food the 5 star restaurant tasting taipei starts september 1st t w. hello and welcome to drive in the d w motor magazine coming up return of a legend the toyota g r supra. jaguars all electric s.u.v. vi pace. and the new skoda superb. the today human was shafer is testing the new skoda superb it hasn't changed much

on the outside and the reason for that is fairly simple this go to has been very successful in recent years while other car makers were downsizing heavily skoda was having trouble filling all the orders placed but enough of the older versions and see what the new model has got to watch for with the meeting up. for its new generation skoda his face lifted the sedan and station wagon lines they now come with new assist systems and l.e.d. headlights as well as a modernized infotainment and connectivity system in mind of all this taking ascent dan with the sport lying trim out for a right. personally he admits he's not much of a fan of all the sport line trim options out there as they often only offer a sporty or decide without really improving performance but that's not the. case

with a superb at least not when it has an enhanced tension like the one we're testing today to reveal how. the 2 leader turbo gas engine packs a punch of $200.00 kilowatts all wheel drive gets you from 0 to $100.00 and less than 6 seconds and max is out at 250 kilometers an hour. and about that another reason the mountain well says he prefers the short line trim is the black d.t. of a gives the current exquisite feel turned into believe there's also a crow option with a bigger bling effect the manual doesn't like the flashy details either but those who do can choose the chrome option only if they opt to buy a sport mine bought glycol from germany for sport line with a 1.5 liter engine and 110 kilowatts starts in just over 38000 euros. in any model well knows a little fun fact over 80 percent of the supreme sold our fleet vehicles one not

even 20 percent are sold to private customers but the distribution of sedan and station wagons is about even 54 percent of the units sold are way against while $46.00 are sedans but in germany the station wagon capital the difference is more pronounced here 90 percent of the superb sold are wagons. and speaking a wagon one that skoda is especially proud of is the new superb scout the off roader is raised by 15 millimeters and comes with all wheel drive as standard a specially designed under right guard for the front and back under the line since off road to sign just like its cousin the octavia scout the superb scout is only available as a station wagon but for now back to our sedan. disapproves headlights have become flatter and all the lights now come in. standard the front

grill has twin rib structures and is a little bigger than before the flat silhouette and sharp lines and hands of the supreme sporty features. at the rear of the scooter will go was replaced with lettering the tail lights are also fully quit the. new stuff a manual is pleased that the supreme comes with the keyless entry system. just like any top model should it let you automatically unlock your car and open the door but now they've expanded the much want to include all car doors the question is when would you really need that he imagines how helpful the feature would be if he had kids if for instance he's carrying a sleeping child to his car seat in the back he'd have to set it down to dig through his bag for the keys if it weren't for this add on. but

thanks to the k.c. function that's all a thing in the past. too if you go through. inside there's the optional virtual cockpit and a choice of 3 different infotainment systems featuring touch screens up to 9.2 inches in size. in our model the sport seats are standard. the trunk can hold up to $1760.00 leaders there's a power in monaco says the superb has always been an ideal show for sadam even in his 1st generation the spacious amount of leg room and the back alone attest to that and makes sitting in the back incredibly comfortable and then there's all the clever little solutions you can fight thoughts. for example has holder that works

for smartphones as well as larger devices such as tablets it's easy to clip your phone or tablet in and use it however you like. it's even great for watching a movie defense but if i'm a film called. aside from the various gas and diesel engines the school disappeared ivy has also announced a plug in hybrid version it's expected to hit the market in 2020 making this a per skilled his very 1st series production hybrid model. pollan all the man no one thinks it's going to has done a good shot with a superb facelift his favorite thing is like headlights those sleek or form gives the car a more aggressive look and more importantly the technology comes a standard which makes driving at night much safer and at the end of the day safety on the road is the most important aspect to driving that i mean fix the.

toyota sports car history began in 1967 with a 2000 and. it wasn't dubbed the super yet but it already had all the important features a straight 6 engine and front which put out $110.00 kilowatts and rear wheel drive today only an estimated $200.00 are left a few years back $12000.00 c.t. model sold for roughly $1400000.00 in the us. from 1978 onwards the super bore the name celica after 4 generations that tradition ended in 2002 and the supra sank into oblivion for nearly 2 decades.

but this year japan has brought the legend back to life the last model and this latest model are 17 years apart and see what's changed. previously the last super generation came onto the market in july 1903 the m.k. 4 model series was offered in coupe a ford target variants each with a front engine and rear wheel drive the engines were from toyota's 2 jay z. model range and are still popular today. the super is 5th generation was a coproduction with b.m.w. its underlying build is practically the same as the z.

force both have a compact body with an elongated hood 2 seats inside a short wheelbase with large wheels and a wide track with. overall the toyota charms with its self-confidence sportiness. be interior is reminiscent of a b.m.w. especially the way the buttons are arranged on the dash all materials used are high quality and pleasing to the touch. we especially like the sport seats there stitched with red and white seams and now on to the fun part driving. me out the 1st thing lewis notices is the supers incredible roadholding that's.

mainly thanks to the $5050.00 weight distribution between the front and rear axle and corners roll is minimal and that makes the whole experience that much more fun the super's automatic transmission skillfully masters the difficult task of shifting through gears quickly so for purists there are also paddle shifters high performance brakes ensure the 2 seater comes to a halt safely. you both still misses most impressed by how exciting the rear wheel drive and front engine make driving it today we're testing a v 8 engine with 500 meters of torque that makes charging along highways and country roads a real joy. b.m.w. is lively 3 metre turbo charged engine generates $250.00 kilowatts that let this sports car shoot from 0 to $100.00 and just 100 kilometers an hour with a full throated but not exaggerated route top speed is 250 kilometers an hour although they share similar engines unlike his he for the super comes almost fully

equipped for a base price of $62900.00 euros. and it was as lewis points out what makes the supra so special is the active differential on the rear axis that ensures all the $500.00 newton metres of toward are translated to the road no matter the conditions . its design performs particularly well in athletic driving situations and tight corners when you need to brake sharply and accelerate quickly. i thought so all in all lewis says the toyota supra is a whole lot of fun to drive it has a sporty handling and might even give its predecessor from the fast and furious movies a run for its money. out he continues to hold on to its diesel models and is bringing the new as 4 avant to market with obese. 6 diesel engine the $3.00 t.d.i.

engine puts out $255.00 kilowatts of power and delivers up to 700 meters of torque to the crankshaft vs 14 e.i. avant has a starting price of just over 64000 euros in germany. first c.b.s. e.m.c. is presenting a new compact super car the a 45 s 4 matic plus it features a newly developed 2 leader engine before cylinder turbo has an impressive output of 310 kilowatts this new top version of the a classic also features a drift mode though to use it you have to deactivate p.s.p. and switch the transmission to manual. if that regard testing is patriot's just bought a cheesecake but 1st he's going to test this car. gets the i pace from jaguar the brands 1st of all electric vehicle and

a completely independent model. that has you know says the eyepiece has won 3 world car awards in 2001000 car of the year world green car and car design of the year and the interior there are 2 high resolution touch screen displays with multifunction dynamic dials for adjusting the seats and the climate control system. to electric motors deliver a combined system output of $294.00 kilowatts that's a lot of power we start off with a battery that's charged to 88 percent that should give us a range of 326 kilometers. right from the get go the eyepiece delivers a whopping 696 new meters or torque the vehicle can go from 0 to 100 kilometers an hour in 4.8 seconds with no torque interrupt when you put the pedal to. the medal.

says it's unbelievable how the cards celebrates and doesn't matter whether you're just starting off or already going 120 kilometers an hour the power goes directly into all 4 wheels and the acceleration is simply overwhelming. as is usual with electric cars the top speed is electronically limited to increase the vehicles range but this selectric jaguar can still sprint up to 200 kilometers an hour and share many the i pace as a starting price of just under 80000 euros though our test car with the h.s.c. trim level will set you back over 93000 euros. so on an ominous says the car's handling is impressive simply in the normal driving mode but it gets even better when you switch to dynamic mode here the battery gives you all it's got

when you excel or rate the suspension is also tighter and the steering more direct as compared to the feel to that i was sports car added to that the long haul. truck that. you wouldn't expect that kind of sportiness from his 2.2 ton vehicle at 1st glance to strike the right balance between cooling the battery and aerodynamic performance active aims in the front grill only open when the battery really means cooling. the coop a like sloping roof line and the eye catching rear end are prime examples of the eyepiece and so electrifying design. of. the panorama glass roof and like colors give the car's interior an airy feel buyers can choose between fine grain windsor leather seats or a premium textile alternative.

on the genesis the 1st thing you have to get used to is the jaguar so-called one pedal driving to speed up she naturally steps on the right pedal but as soon as she releases it there regenerative braking kicks in she says the system takes a bit of getting used to for instance rolling to a red light and coming to a stop way too soon but once you've gotten the hang of it it's a lot of fun to brake and accelerate with the same pedal with the spot and pop but i don't doubt the amount of that i'd put that thing. but 90 kilowatt lithium ion battery is fitted into the floor of the vehicle between the axles. the eyepiece can be charge from 0 to 80 percent in just 40 minutes at any $100.00

kilowatt d.c. fashion charging station the various charging cables can be stored under the trunk floor. or in the additional cargo space at the front of the vehicle when fully charged the display shows that the vehicle has a range of some 400 kilometers but jaguar says the eyepiece can go $470.00 according to w.l. t.p. standards. inas says it can get a little confusing even in a vehicle like this which has such a huge range she catches for so checking to see how full the battery is how much rain she's got left but on the bright side she's driven roughly 70 kilometers and the system really has subtracted 70 kilometers from the remaining range it predicts so it was fairly reliable in this case but in other cases the calculation he ducks more kilometers from your ranch and what you actually driven it's not always consist. that's also because many factors come into play $100.00

turning the range they include the outside temperature the driving mode selected each driver his personal driving style as well as which of the myriad of extra features are drawing power but even without a battery that's just half the eyepiece still has a range that well exceeds the distance most people travel in a day. speaking of battery power. remembers her cheesecake. she explains how the battery is the heart of every electric car like cake is the sum of it seemed greedy and a battery is made up of many valuable raw materials like cobalt nickel graphite manganese and of course lithium. these raw materials are often obtained at a heavy cost to environmental protection answer stain ability in south america

billions of leaders of water have been evaporated to extract lithium from underground reservoirs of salty water this lowers the groundwater level and often cost people their livelihoods electric cars which are thought of as key to tackling climate change or actually destroying functioning ecosystems in parts of the world be uncomfortable truth is other people are paying the price for our green conscience that's something we prefer not to think about or simply choose to ignore . what i saw for he and his environmental protection and sustainability begin with people only taking as much as they really need but we humans are creatures of habit so we want our electric cars to have the same range as the internal combustion models we're used to and the industry has delivered the result huge batteries housed in huge vehicles but 2 electric s.u.v.s really make that much sense and most

of us are traveling alone or in our cars most of the time anyway. it's different if the large batteries are powering buses carrying lots of passengers. as in a sports and. then that awful needs to have a whole cheesecake of themselves when one slice would do. the v.w. beetle sold over $21.00 and a half 1000000 units during its record breaking 65 year history the very last speedily rolled off the production line and v.w. is clad in mexico in 2003 indisputably this is the cold card. from germany.

lots of 1st prototypes appeared in 1935 explains our car man clothes stuff but this 2nd world war cut short plans for mass production that finally got underway in 1905 the starting year of an amazing success story that came from pretty much support a table got to give that it wouldn't help it of course. but this spiegel was no mass production model it was one of just 10 built by hand not and will spore or mexico but in switzerland this extremely rare species of beetle goes by the name volkswagen beutler pick up it came to life in 1950. 5 cristo says after the war german industry was at rock bottom people had to improvise and work with whatever they had what they had was the beetle so someone got the idea of using the dependable v.w. as the basis for a van. what every transporter needs is

a cargo bed mounting this rather bulky component on the rounded rear of the beetle and a halfway elegant manner required an artistic touch this was builder beutler was up to the task. there wasn't a forest or says beutler have its roots in the construction of fancy sports who pays in convertibles it was a design house right there tony to charo impugning farina so when it was asked to build a commercial vehicle it added a touch of elegance this split rear window was replaced by a single rectangle cargo platform nestles on the shapely rear and then there's still a canvas sunroof it says luxurious as a pick up can get. though i was born and this was town of 2 and there's no. knowing this beatles heritage the bed of its distinctive rear ended can haul up to 380 kilograms of cargo thanks to their good connections brothers

abstinent transport layer receive the basic body shells direct from v.w. german factory. the delicate 2 spokes steering wheel and all kinds of chrome embellish mitts show these beetles were really the more expensive export version. went to him in the end here in the back is the legendary v.w. boxer engine with 1 point one leader displacement in 1000 kilowatts of power and he'd really like to show it but that's not easy because you have to unhook the cover here and squeaks if it's a bad fit like that he wonders how another 380 kilograms would affect the vehicle was so much weight on the rear axle already with the front wheel stay on the road.

you could hardly have wished for a better commercial vehicle engine worldwide the air cooled and none pretentious v.w. boxer enjoyed a reputation of absolute reliability you'll probably never see a boiler pick up on public roads the german swiss project came to an end after only a few were built. efforts on cristo says the volkswagen beutler pickup soon got some tough competition from within its own ranks and 1952 a flatbed version of the me w. bush went on the market it could haul 900 kilos and cost less than the handbill beetle pick up it so it's no wonder that just under a dozen of these were produced and beutler itself used the 1st $5.00 it will be as the foot of the body from a boy does about saves as these 2 are going to stop. the reason was simple the price. a 1000 swiss francs was out of reach of most small businesses in 1950 even home was a commercial flop the concept in the v.w.

beutler pickup was groundbreaking. to outfox irish so says the volkswagen beutler pick ups an impressive example of the v.w. beetles versatility who'd have thought that a swiss coachbuilder could transform this little car into a bonafide work course it also set a shining example for later small delivery vans from v.w. such as the free to lean which hauled mail bags ensure money for decades it's clear the most wagon point where pick up is a milestone and automotive history knowledgeable people. because it's so rare the v.w. boys their pickup is much more expensive today than in the early 1950 s. these days early and exotic beetles have a big following. and

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