Four More VW Up! Concepts! Announced! [Geneva Auto Show]
Allow us to present the billionth through billionth-and-fourth variants of the diminutive Volkswagen Up!: The Cargo Up!, Swiss Up!, Winter Up!, and X Up!. VW is bringing the 4 concept automobiles to the Geneva car display. Okay, so the amount of Up! variants and ideas doesn’t quite reach into the billions, but it is comfortably in double digits. Don’t believe us?
The Up! saga started in 2007 with the very first Up! notion, followed closely by the larger Room Up! and Room Up! Blue ideas. VW then launched the electrical E-Up! Up! Lite and an Up!-based taxi and brought six Up! display cars to the 2011 Frankfurt display. Frankfurt also hosted the production Up! 3-door. Earlier this year, the production five-door Up! was revealed, and VW Group members SEAT and Škoda unveiled their versions of the Up!. Whew! Now, back to the most recent members of the Up! family:
The Cargo Up! notion is fairly simple it is fundamentally a stripped-out 3-door. To prep it for urban delivery duty, Volkswagen tinted the rear windows physique-colour, extra underbody safety, connected roof rails, and put in a bulkhead behind the driver. The Cargo Up! has only a single front seat, as the passenger seat was swapped out for further parcel room. This opens up a substantial chunk of previously unused cargo volume—15.8 cubic feet, to be exact—for a new total of 49.4. The driver could be lonely, but the city-primarily based corporations Volkswagen is targeting with the cargo Up! should like the packaging just fine.
Tiny-recognized simple fact: The Geneva car show will take place in Switzerland, and not close to a lake in Wisconsin. With that out of the way, here’s a search at the Swiss Up! This five-door idea is repainted in the Swiss flag’s color scheme, with the body covered in Tornado Red and the mirror caps and wheel centers rendered in contrasting white. Within, the straightforward interior is modified with brown Alcantara seat coverings and grab handles, white interior trim, and red-painted vent bezels. Finally, VW incorporated small holsters into the backs of each and every of the front seats for Victorinox pocket knives. Volkswagen obviously has its finger on the pulse of the Swiss tiny-auto marketplace.
As its title implies, the Winter Up! idea was conceived as a ski-resort-ready piece. The car is primarily based on the higher-riding Cross Up! notion that debuted at last year’s Frankfurt auto display. Volkswagen factors to the association as evidence of the Winter Up!’s off-road chops, but after driving the Cross Up!, we’re rather sure such chops do not exist. Either way, the front-wheel-drive Winter Up! gets beefy trim close to its fenders, bumpers, and side sills. The roof rack can hold four snowboards or six skis it’s an accessory presently accessible to European consumers.
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Octavia Green E Line’s production started by Skoda
While the entire automobile industry is gung ho about going green, then why should Skoda Auto be left behind? The manufacturer who enthralled us with their new logo and subsequent concept cars is now planning to rope in the green brigade and in this earnest, have started the production of an electric car. This new electric car is called as the Octavia Green E Line. This is taken as the next level for the manufacturer.
The current Octavia Estate forms the basis for this new electric car. A motor which is rated for 114 Hp and which is ably supported by a Li-ion battery putting out 26.5 kWh of power propels this E Line car from 0-60 mph in 12 seconds, the 199 Lb of torque aiding it in the process. Though there is nothing commendable in the 87 miles range that this car projects, it nonetheless is a step in the right direction by the Czech manufacturer. Top speed of this estate is estimated to be around the 85 mph mark. Around this fall, this car would be presented to select audience and their feedback on the vehicle’s performance would be noted down and duly taken heed into by Skoda engineers.
SKODA Hispano Suiza
By Anthony Crawford | May 10th, 2011
First Skoda to wear the winged arrow logo
If you’ve ever wondered what the SKODA logo is all about, and when it first appeared?
Exactly eighty-five years ago, on this very day in Mlada Boleslav, Czechoslovakia, the luxurious SKODA Hispano Suiza rolled off the assembly line wearing the now familiar winged arrow logo.
That car, like all ninety-nine other SKODA Hispano Suiza vehicles, was custom-built to each customer’s specifications. The first car, as shown in these two photographs, was built for the President of Czechoslovakia at the time, Tomas Garrigue Masaryk.
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Geneva 2011: Skoda’s Vision of its Design Future
Skoda seems to be shedding its old style language for a new bolder corporate design direction. The aim is to highlight Skoda’s green line up while differentiating the brand from others in the Volkswagen group. The VisionD is the first such concept car under this new design direction, the overall effect is a simple, clean design that is to feature in all future Skoda cars.
The VisionD is quite a pretty car. The design is unobtrusive and taut. Compared to other family hatchbacks on sale in Europe, the the Czech automaker’s concept emulates a class and sophistication usually seen in more premium vehicles. The most prominent feature of the car’s design is the sharper more dominant grill, one that again would not look out of place on a car two classes larger.
The main focal point of the grill is the all new emblem. The new Skoda logo and script are part of the new brand rejuvenation. As previously reported, the logo leaves behind the natural green hue for the all new “ŠKODA Green” with a chrome contour. The objective of the new design language and logo is to highlight Skoda’s growing strengths internationally.
By Rory Farrell
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Poor exchange rate could be higher VW prices (UK)
Volkswagen prices will have to rise if the Pound continues at its current low level against the Euro, says the new group head of sales and marketing, Dr Christian Klingler.
‘Up to now we are handling the strength of the Euro, but if the Pound stays at a low level prices will rise,’ said Klinger.
It is a problem VW faces in other countries with weak currencies, including America. That is one reason why VW is moving away from the idea of global cars -the strategy that Ford is pursuing – and starting to focus on local production tailored to specific markets.
VW will open its first U.S factory at Chattannooga, Tennessee, in the middle of 2011. It will produce a mid-sized saloon for America, Canada and Mexico at the rate of 150,000 models a year, which means the next-generation Passat is unlikely to cross the Atlantic.
‘One of the reasons for choosing Chattanooga is exchange rates,’ said Klingler, ‘but we must also consider the needs of our customers in different areas of the world. We try to adapt our cars for the needs of the market.’