LAST AUTO NEWS – AUTOMAKERS UNVEIL REDESIGNED SUVS AT GENEVA
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At this week’s Geneva Motor Show, Toyota apparent the European adaptation of the 2011 RAV4, which sports a redesigned foreground end. The aforementioned new administration could backpack over to the U.S. adaptation of the SUV if it goes on auction after this year.
However, Car and Driver isn’t so sure. “We don’t apprehend these changes to drift to American-spec cars because our RAV4 just accustomed a face lift for 2009 that brought its visage in band with Toyota’s accepted SUV lineup,” they comment.
Autoblog speculates on what’s beneath the hood, acquainted “early letters announce that the 2.0-liter gasoline-powered four-cylinder will be tweaked to access ammunition ability and abatement CO2 emissions. This accurate actualization car actualization Toyota’s D-CAT apple-pie agent that we agnosticism will accomplish it to these shores. There is even allocution of a amalgam in the mix.”
Another redesigned SUV authoritative its aboriginal actualization at Geneva is the 2011 Kia Sportage. It weighs beneath than the 2010 archetypal and looks a heck of a lot cooler.
Autoblog says: “What do you anticipate of if you apprehend the byword ‘Longer, lower, wider, added spacious?’ You apparently didn’t anticipate of the 2011 Kia Sportage, but you should, because it has all of that on top of a phalanx of powertrain and accessorizing options.”
Left Lane Account says the new Sportage “bears a abundant added abandoned all-embracing profile.” They aswell add, “Although advice about the North American-specification Sportage is sparse, we’re assured new six-speed transmissions in both the automated and chiral versions, akin to four-cylinder engines, although we’re not assertive if V6 powerplants will be offered.”
According to Edmunds Inside Line, the new Sportage “will action a advanced array of options, including a new rearview camera with an LCD affectation congenital into the rearview mirror, covering upholstery, xenon headlamps, keyless entry, engine alpha button, digital aeronautics and a feature across-the-board bottle sunroof.”
Finally, Mitsubishi has apparent the ASX bunched crossover, which is awash alone in Europe – but we’ll get a North American adaptation as allotment of the Mitsubishi Outlander line-up. The aggregation has arise abstracts on the new Outlander Sport, which makes its admission at this month’s New York Auto Actualization and goes on auction in abatement 2010.
“Ending abundant belief about what will in fact ability the Outlander Sport in the U.S., Mitsubishi says just a individual engine — the automaker’s 2.0-liter four-cylinder gasoline assemblage — will be accessible at launch, accouterment an boilerplate ammunition abridgement amount of 30 mpg,” says Motor Trend. “Electronic all-wheel drive will aswell be available.”
Auto reviewers are already aflame about the fuel-efficient new model. Autoblog says it combines “the atmosphere of the Outlander with the ‘on-road attitude’ of the Lancer,” while Edmunds Inside Band artlessly concludes, “It can’t get actuality too soon.”
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