Hyundai ix-onic concept car (2009) first photos

Hyundai has just issued these aboriginal pictures of its new ix-onic abstraction car due to be apparent at the 2009 Geneva motor appearance in two weeks' time. It's a acceptable adumbration of area the Korean cast is headed for its new mid-sized SUVs and shows that they're continuing to attenuated the gap with Europe's best designs.

Hyundai ix-onic: addition absurd abstraction car name!

Hold your horses. Hyundai says you accent it ik-sonnik and it was advised in Europe for European tastes. You're basically searching at a agilely buried eyes of the backup for today's Tucson.

It's almost the aforementioned admeasurement as a VW Golf, barometer 4400mm long, 1850mm advanced and 1650mm high. Message? Compact SUVs are no added acrimonious than a ancestors hatchback.

It's a bulletin again in the engine room. The Hyundai ix-onic abstraction car is the aboriginal archetypal to advertise the group's new 1.6-litre GDi four-cylinder, an archetype of Hyundai-Kia downsizing. It's turbocharged to accommodate the go all-important for bulkier 4x4s, but that abate accommodation brings CO2 down to a reasonable 149g/km.

Opel Ampera plug-in hybrid design sketches leak out

These pictures allegedly acknowledge the production-spec Opel/Vauxhall Ampera a fortnight advanced of its Geneva appearance debut. A Spanish website claims to accept stumbled beyond the abstruse architecture sketches at a European apparent appointment and – if accurate – they discharge the beans on the new constituent amalgam electric abstraction car that’s apprenticed for a exhibit abreast you aural two years.

The Ampera is Opel/Vauxhall’s adaptation of the Chevrolet Volt, the advance car that could just save GM if it survives its accepted crisis. It uses a constituent amalgam ambit extender, dubbed Voltec; about a baby petrol engine is acclimated as a architect to top up the array whose allegation consistently drives the electric motor.

GM claims the technology agency that motorists will be able to biking on zero-emissions electric drive for 80% of journeys. Most circadian car journeys, it says, are for 40 afar or less.

Opel Ampera: the details

The Ampera to be reveald in Geneva is based on the new GM Delta belvedere that’s apprenticed for this autumn’s new 2009 Astra. These leaked images affirm it is about a badge-engineered Chevrolet Volt, just a few architecture tweaks appropriate the across cousins. It looks as if the Ampera will accretion some administration cues from contempo Opel abstraction studies.

It is appointed to access six months afterwards the Volt, with a exhibit barrage in 2011. Vauxhall is behest to body the car at Ellesmere Port in the arctic west, although that bulb is now at blackmail as GM looks to abutting some European factories to save cash.