New Mercedes Gullwing

Mercedes Gullwing was first produced in 1952. Gullwing car with excellent performance in its time. Mercedes sports division managed to combine quality with the convenience of drive control for use in everyday situations. Gullwing model shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show 6300 cc V8 engine is far more powerful than its predecessor, this machine is capable of producing 571 hp, with power of this magnitude sls to accelerate from 0-100 km in just 3.8 seconds and a maximum speed of 317 km .

Classic Gullwing

Mercedes Gullwing new model

Mercedes claims this car requires only 13.2 liters of gasoline per 100 km. The price of this car in germany 177 310 euros.

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Take Over VW Porsche

FRANKFURT - German luxury car maker, Porsche, official ultimately increase stake in Volkswagen. Porsche actively buying shares of VW, Europe's largest car company. Today, Porsche has had more than 50.76 percent of VW stock, increase the number of previous ownership of 42.6 percent. Porsche issued a statement on Monday night (5 / 1) German time.

As one consequence, Porsche must buy the shares of Swedish truck manufacturer, Scania. This is a Swedish legal order. Therefore, VW is the dominant shareholder in the company. However, Porsche said it would offer low prices because they felt had no strategic interest of Scania.

Record, last year, Porsche is already intend acquired more than 50 percent of VW stock. However, Porsche postponed after stock prices fall due to market speculation. After this acquisition, Porsche intends to buy up more shares of VW to have 75 percent.

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VW Launches New Beetle 2011

The model that is currently circulating on the streets is a coupe and convertible models. However, some sources say that VW is considering to launch other variants, such as SUV and Speedster models.

In 2000 and VW have introduced a variant of the SUV, the Beetle Dune Concept to the public. Unfortunately, until recently, VW has not realized the SUV concept car. Whereas this model can be arch-rivals other SUV cars.

At the Detroit Auto Show 2005, VW introduced the Beetle Ragster concept car that combines the name of Ragtop and Speedster. But the public still have to be patient waiting Speedster whether the variant will be produced with a more slender body style.

The latest generation VW New Beetle Mk5 Golf platform that gets the effect and the Space Up concept Up. VW CEO Martin Winterkorn said VW New Beetle that is expected to be produced in Puebla, Mexico.

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