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Cupra Tavascan

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Two variations of the automotive are provided: a single-motor rear-wheel-drive automotive with 282bhp and a dual-motor all-wheel-drive mannequin with 335bhp. We’re testing the latter, badged VZ. 

Both vehicles use the identical 77kWh (usable) battery and the vary is as much as 353 miles within the single-motor model and 324 miles within the dual-motor. Charging speeds are as much as 135kW for each variations.

There’s promise within the range-topper, with its sturdy acceleration, but a bit like with the Polestar 2, you get the sense {that a} single-motor rear-wheel-drive model might be a sweeter automotive to drive, with virtually 100kg much less over the entrance axle and higher effectivity in addition.

Still, there’s a lot to admire within the VZ. Refinement is at all times spectacular and the Tavascan is a cheerful motorway cruiser, and a quiet companion with it.

There’s at all times a pleasant heft and resistance to the Tavascan’s controls at decrease speeds, together with to the preliminary step-off, which is way extra fascinating than being given all of the obtainable energy when exiting a parking bay and having to decelerate jerkily and simply as shortly. 

It’s uncommon for driving modes to make a lot of a welcome distinction in a automotive, apart from sapping all the facility in eco mode or changing into a little bit of a pastiche of a efficiency automotive within the sportiest mode. Yet the Tavascan’s most potent Cupra mode – which even will get its personal button on the steering wheel – does certainly present the automotive is at its finest. 

The chassis is stiffened – however not made too stiff – and the additional acceleration is welcome but not stomach-churning as in different electrical vehicles with related 0-62mph instances. We left it on this mode for essentially the most half as a result of it felt way more akin to a ‘Normal’ mode in demonstrating the Tavascan as its maker supposed. 

The wheels may also take a squirt of the accelerator out of the nook with out wanting to maintain going within the different course.

Motorcycles

Here’s What Makes Honda’s CBR1000RR Engine So Special

The present Honda CBR1000RR powerplant has been retuned and up to date with a dual-motor digital throttle system. Over the final 20 years, Honda additionally boosted the engine’s compression ratio from 11.9:1 to 13.6:1, which together with a valvetrain redesign helped improve output to 214 horsepower.

The 2024 CBR1000RR begins at $16,699, and has normal security options like Honda’s Selectable Torque Control System and digital steering damper programs to assist preserve a few of that engine’s energy below management.

In their evaluation of the 2021 mannequin, which featured the newer engine, Rider Magazine‘s Nic de Sena wrote, “Honda hit the reset button in terms of engine design, opting for a high-revving, big-bore, short-stroke architecture.” The mannequin they examined was the CBR100RR-R SP, a model that was constructed to mimic the bikes Honda built to race in the World Superbike Championship series. 

Nic de Sena famous that the engine is happiest at speeds above 7,000 RPM, and referred to as it Honda’s “most virile, fast-revving 999cc in-line four yet.”

[Featured image by Dije Soen via Wikimedia Commons | Cropped and scaled | CC-BY 4.0]

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Electric Audi A6 property almost prepared for 2024 unveiling

Elsewhere within the vary, there might be a alternative of extra performance-oriented dual-motor set-ups and efficiency-minded, rear-driven variants providing 0-62mph occasions starting from “well under” 4sec to 7sec.

A promised electrical Audi RS6 Avant successor might pack greater than 600bhp, as previewed by the technically related Porsche Macan EV. 

In this utility, the PPE platform accommodates a circa-100kWh floor-mounted battery that offers a claimed 435 miles of vary and might cost at a fee of 270kW to achieve 186 miles of vary from a 10-minute top-up.

Because the battery is sited flat and organized throughout the chassis, the sooner idea model of the A6 Avant E-tron is alleged to supply broadly comparable inside dimensions and cargo capability to the present A6 –  a trait that can seemingly carry over to the manufacturing automobile.

However, product advertising boss Niko Martens stated EV platforms will finally “give more leeway and flexibility, not just in the trunk [boot] but also up the front for a potential frunk”.

Importantly, the electrical idea reveals how the longer wheelbase afforded by an EV platform permits for extra leg room within the entrance and rear.

The A6 Avant E-tron measures 4960mm lengthy, 1960mm extensive and 1440mm tall, which makes it roughly the identical measurement as its ICE forebear.