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Green gentle for collection manufacturing: new Golf begins rolling off meeting line at Wolfsburg plant at present
Series manufacturing of the brand new Golf has began on the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg: the primary automotive from the technically and visually revamped eighth mannequin era to roll off the meeting line in Hall 12 at present was a Golf Style in anemone blue metallic – nearly precisely 50 years because the very first collection Golf was in-built Wolfsburg.
“The Golf has been at the heart of the Volkswagen brand for half a century, offering affordable mobility for all at the highest technical level. The Golf has constantly adapted to customer needs, thus becoming a global bestseller – made in Wolfsburg. This is precisely what we are building on with the new evolutionary stage – with even higher efficiency, comfort and quality and a new operating concept. The Golf does not get any better than this,” Thomas Schäfer, CEO of Volkswagen Passenger Cars, mentioned.
Over the final 5 a long time, Volkswagen’s foremost plant in Wolfsburg has in a way change into the “soul” of worldwide Golf manufacturing: over half of the greater than 37 million fashions of this king of the compact class offered thus far – a mean of 400,000 models per 12 months – have been constructed on the foremost plant. This contains the “classic” Golf, now in its eighth era, with varied derivatives such because the Golf Variant and Golf Sportsvan, and a broad vary of fashions and powertrains.
The new mannequin is well acknowledged by its modified entrance finish. Visually defining options embody the newly-designed LED headlights. The top-of-the-range IQ.LIGHT – LED matrix headlights incorporate a brand new high-performance foremost beam with a really excessive vary. For the primary time in a European Volkswagen, the Volkswagen brand within the radiator grille can be illuminated. The IQ.LIGHT – 3D LED tail gentle clusters have additionally obtained a brand new design – in each the Golf and the Golf Variant.
The inside encompasses a new era of infotainment system with even quicker processors, a free-standing touchscreen (diagonal: 32.2 cm/12.9 inches) and an intuitive menu construction. The contact sliders for temperature and quantity management are actually illuminated. The newest digital devices are additionally all the time on board as normal. Also new is the multifunction steering wheel with easy-to-use buttons and the IDA voice assistant with built-in ChatGPT perform that may not solely be used to manage capabilities such because the air con system, phone or navigation system, but additionally to entry on-line info on virtually any matter – from flight particulars to basic information questions.
In phrases of the powertrain vary, along with the confirmed, environment friendly TSI, TDI and eTSI delicate hybrid drives, the Golf replace additionally provides two new plug-in hybrids with an electrical vary of nicely over 100 km and a mixed vary of some 1,000 km, in addition to a DC quick-charging perform.
The Volkswagen Group’s largest automotive manufacturing plant had one more reason to have a good time this week, too. Just just a few days earlier than the brand new Golf went into manufacturing, the manufacturing facility celebrated the 48 millionth automobile to go away the meeting line; no different automotive plant worldwide has constructed wherever close to as many autos because the manufacturing facility in Wolfsburg. It goes with out saying that the anniversary mannequin was a Golf. The mannequin in urano gray is already on its option to a buyer within the United Kingdom. “48 million is an impressive figure that would never have been possible without a motivated and skilled workforce,” Jürgen Mahnkopf, Deputy Chair of the General and Group Works Councils, mentioned. “Our employees have put their heart and soul into every single vehicle that has been built here over the last 50 years.”
With a manufacturing quantity of some 20 million autos, the Golf is the most-built mannequin on the plant. Second place goes to the Beetle, with nearly 12 million models produced in Wolfsburg between 1945 and 1975. The Tiguan now occupies third place, with just below 3.5 million fashions rolling off the meeting strains since begin of manufacturing in 2007. It has overtaken the Polo, the place manufacturing of greater than three million models on the web site on the Mittelland Canal started in 1975. “The connection between the Golf and the Wolfsburg plant is quite unique: Wolfsburg is the Golf – and the Golf is Wolfsburg,” Plant Manager Rainer Fessel mentioned. “As a team we have meticulously planned the start of production over the past weeks and months. Now we are delighted we will soon be seeing the new Golf on the roads.”
CRAFTING DREAMS INTO REALITY: ROLLS-ROYCE REFLECTS ON A YEAR OF MAGNIFICENT BESPOKE COMMISSIONS
- Rolls-Royce Motor Cars celebrates a few of the most visually hanging, technically difficult and creatively bold Bespoke commissions of 2023
- Inspirations included scenic areas, uncommon and delightful supplies, shoppers’ signature colors, celestial phenomena and extra
- Bespoke commissions are a testomony to the distinctive ability of the Rolls-Royce Bespoke Collective and underline the marque’s standing as a real House of Luxury
A Bespoke Rolls-Royce is greater than only a treasured possession. For the commissioning shopper, it’s the realisation of an ambition; a imaginative and prescient made strong; a dream come true.
During 2023, these needs impressed the Rolls-Royce Bespoke Collective to push their boundaries additional than ever earlier than. The yr’s commissions opened up new alternatives in using uncommon and delightful supplies, intricate craft methods, floor finishes and different progressive applied sciences. There had been an distinctive variety of ‘firsts’ for the marque, together with hand-perforated leather-based seats, Starlight Headliners incorporating mesmerising celestial animations and three-dimensional sculptural parts, beautiful engraved artworks, quite a few new paint processes and the first-ever fee to include a Bespoke scent.
Commissions drew inspiration from celestial occasions, the mysteries of house, enchanting geographic areas, household legacies, shoppers’ signature colors and way more. Below are only a few spectacular examples that symbolize an enduring tribute to the imaginative and prescient, creativeness and ambition of the Rolls-Royce Bespoke Collective and the outstanding shoppers who select to rejoice their private tales in Bespoke artistic endeavors.
ROSE BLOSSOM PHANTOM
This one-of-one Phantom Extended evokes the sweetness and tranquillity of a summer season backyard. Embroidered art work celebrates the marque’s very personal Phantom rose that blooms within the courtyard of the Home of Rolls-Royce. This particular flower is illustrated within the Gallery and on the coach doorways. In addition, the flowers are depicted within the Starlight Headliner which took over 200 hours to finish. Four species of butterfly – Swallowtail, Peacock, Common Blue and Duke of Burgundy – will be seen flitting amongst the blooms.
The charming floral theme continues within the intricate and detailed rose marquetry on the passenger panel and rear waterfall.
PHANTOM SYNTOPIA
The most technically complicated Bespoke fee ever undertaken, Phantom Syntopia was created in collaboration with Dutch designer and Haute Couturière Iris van Herpen. It explores the fantastic thing about fluid movement in strong supplies in its ‘Weaving Water’ theme, which extends throughout the Gallery art work, picnic tables, entrance passenger panel, bonnet and Bespoke Starlight Headliner.
The ‘Weaving Water’ Starlight Headliner alone took nearly 700 hours to provide, utilizing a single sheet of leather-based overlaid on woven ‘liquid metal’ material to create a three-dimensional impact. It contains 162 delicate glass organza ‘petals’, utilized on the Home of Rolls-Royce by members of Iris van Herpen’s group.
The rear seats are upholstered in a specifically created silk-blend material with the Weaving Water motif. For a long-lasting, refined sensory expertise Bespoke Collective integrated a scent-releasing mechanism, housed inside the headrests.
BLACK BADGE GHOST ÉKLEIPSIS COLLECTION
Rolls-Royce Black Badge Ghost Ékleipsis Private Collection explores the charming interaction of sunshine and darkness because the Moon obscures the Sun throughout a complete photo voltaic eclipse.
The totally Bespoke Starlight Headliner contains an animated sequence replicating the second of totality: a circle of 940 fibre-optic ‘stars’ represents the corona across the Moon’s silhouette, surrounded by an extra 192 ‘stars’. The animation stays seen for exactly seven minutes and 31 seconds – the longest attainable length of a complete photo voltaic eclipse.
The illuminated fascia options 1,846 laser-etched ‘stars’ in a symbolic timeline of a complete eclipse. The design culminates in a Bespoke timepiece incorporating a brilliant-cut 0.5-carat diamond set into the bezel, recalling the ‘Diamond Ring’ impact.
BLACK BADGE CULLINAN BLUE SHADOW
The Black Badge Cullinan Blue Shadow Private Collection is impressed by the Kármán Line, the invisible boundary 62 miles above the Earth’s floor, the place our environment ends and outer house begins.
The Starlight Headliner contains an intricate embroidery depicting the Moon’s floor, made up of 250,000 particular person stiches in 5 completely different thread colors. It’s surrounded by 1,183 twinkling fibre-optic ‘stars’ – 799 white and 384 blue – every positioned by hand.
The leather-based seats function creative perforations for the very first time. The art work, shaped with 75,000 tiny perforations, mimics the patterns of clouds swirling over the continents and oceans as seen from house.
GHOST CHAMPAGNE ROSE
Ghost Champagne Rose celebrates the commissioning shopper’s signature color, impressed by her digital persona @ChampagneRose. Creating a single-tone color throughout each exterior end and inside trim is exceptionally complicated; supplies take in and mirror mild in a different way, and the attention perceives slight variations if precisely the identical color is utilized to all surfaces. The Bespoke Collective subsequently developed quite a few formulations of the ‘Champagne Rose’ hue, every subtly adjusted in keeping with every materials’s particular floor traits – a real technical and creative tour de power.
MANCHESTER GHOST
This one-of-one Ghost celebrates Manchester’s pivotal historic reference to the marque. It was within the metropolis’s Midland Hotel on 4 May 1904 that Charles Rolls and Henry Royce first met and agreed to construct ‘the best car in the world’.
The illuminated fascia options 10,000 laser-etched dots depicting an aerial view of Manchester, with the biggest dot displaying the placement of the Midland Hotel.
The design additionally contains the Manchester Bee – town’s emblem for over 150 years, symbolising exhausting work and collective endeavour. It seems as a coachline motif and delicate embroidery on the entrance and rear seat inserts.
GHOST AMBER ROADS
This magnificent assortment, comprising simply 12 examples, is impressed by amber, often called the ‘Gold of the North’ and traded alongside routes often called ‘Amber Roads’ for over 3,500 years. These historic commerce routes are depicted within the Bespoke Starlight Headliner and illuminated fascia panel.
The two-tone exterior end and inside palette seize amber’s heat, lustrous character. A chunk of polished amber is about into the central rotary dial so as to add an additional tactile dimension.
BLACK BADGE WRAITH BLACK ARROW PRIVATE COLLECTION
Created to mark the tip of manufacturing of Wraith, this Private Collection contains the ultimate 12 examples of the last-ever Rolls-Royce V12 coupé.
The design celebrates the land velocity report set by Captain George Eyston on 16 September 1938 on Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats. The Bespoke Starlight Headliner’s 2,117 fibre-optic ‘stars’ depict the Milky Way and the constellations exactly as they might have appeared there that evening. The complicated design on coach doorways, comprising over 320 lasered marquetry items, mimics the cracked, irregular floor of the Salt Flats.
Unique fascia art work depicting Wraith’s V12 engine, engraved on a single sheet of black-coated aluminium to disclose the gleaming metallic beneath, commemorates the legacy of this Rolls-Royce icon.
‘THE PEARL CULLINAN’
Commissioned for the proprietor by his household to mark a big birthday, this magnificent Cullinan displays the shopper’s ardour for pearls and contains a few of the most elaborate use of mother-of-pearl ever seen in a Rolls-Royce motor automobile.
The exterior end captures the colors of essentially the most prized pearl within the proprietor’s assortment. The Picnic Tables function a spectacular round sample made out of 1,351 separate items of mother-of-pearl, every individually chosen and inlaid by hand. The fascia motif illustrates the Arabic image for ‘father’ inlaid in chrome steel. The Bespoke Starlight Headliner reveals the sky because it appeared on the proprietor’s birthplace on the evening he was born.
PHANTOM CINQUE TERRE
This one-of-one Phantom celebrates the distinctive panorama and viticultural heritage of Italy’s Cinque Terre area. The Gallery art work represents an imagined amalgamation of parts from the 5 Ligurian cliffside villages, sketched digitally, then airbrushed by hand.
The Bespoke Starlight Headliner contains a map of Italy, embroidered in 14,338 particular person stitches, with 5 outstanding ‘stars’ marking the areas of the villages.
The rear doorways are adorned with a fragile grape-branch embroidery, every comprising 9,215 stitches and utilizing two completely different methods to create lustre and texture. The grapes motif additionally seems as an intricate plated gold and chrome steel inlay on the rear picnic tables, in addition to the coachline motif.
BLACK BADGE CULLINAN LUCID NIGHTS
These three hanging commissions, created solely for Korea, are impressed by the surroundings, environment and dynamism of Seoul Metropolitan City at evening. Bold exterior colourways, harking back to the neon-lit streets of Seoul, embody the daring Lime Green, luscious Indy Red and vibrant Tucana Purple.
Are You Overlooking an Important Spot When Cleaning Your Car?
There’s a spot on your car that you’ve probably been missing when it comes to cleaning. It’s not surprising, as it’s not immediately noticeable, but it’s actually one of the most important areas to clean: the tops of your windows.
When we say “the tops of your windows,” we’re not referring to the point where your windows meet the rubber seal on the frame. While it’s important to clean that area as well, we’re specifically talking about the rounded edges on top of the windows when they are rolled down.
Typically, when you clean your car’s windows, you spray both sides with glass cleaner and wipe them down with a cloth, right? However, if you only clean in this way, you’re only getting everything below the window tops. Any grime that has accumulated between the windows and the seal will remain untouched. On top of being unsightly, if it rains, all that grime will drip down and make your windows dirty again.
But don’t worry, this is an easy problem to fix. Simply remember to roll down your windows during your regular cleaning routine and give the tops a thorough wipe-down with glass cleaner and a rag. Make sure to add this step to your cleaning checklist!
2024 Kia Sorento Walkaround Video Captures Every Detail Of Refreshed SUV
The 2024 Kia Sorento has not yet been officially introduced, but we have received official photos of the refreshed model. However, details about the updates under the skin remain a mystery. Despite this, a new walkaround video from CarSceneKorea provides a close-up tour of the popular SUV.
In the video, we get a detailed look at the redesigned Sorento taillights, which have a similar appearance to the outgoing model but are now connected at the top and feature new internal structures. The video also zooms in on the SUV’s completely new face, which includes vertically oriented headlights with T-shaped LED running lamps that also function as turn signals. These headlights flank a slightly larger grille, and the video provides a close look at the new mesh grille pattern from Kia. Additionally, the video showcases the new wheels in detail.
Hyundai Tucson Facelift Drops Camo While Working Hard In New Spy Shots
The current-generation Hyundai Tucson is not old. It was revealed in 2020 and launched as a 2022 model-year vehicle. Despite its recent release, Hyundai is determined to keep its popular SUV fresh. Now, new spy shots give us a better idea of the planned changes for the next iteration.
These photos capture a test vehicle without heavy camouflage at the front. This is different from our previous Tucson sightings, and it reveals something interesting. Unless there are false panels behind the white camo wrap, it appears that the grille is smaller. It is not significantly smaller, but attaching a front number plate helps highlight the difference. Additionally, the upper portion of the fascia between the grille and lower intake seems larger, with more space above the plate compared to the current model.
Koenigsegg Teases Jesko Absolut Speed Record Attempts “In Due Time”
It’s June 2023, and so far no automaker has officially established a top speed record of 300 mph for a production car. In 2019, there were expectations that several street-legal production vehicles would surpass this remarkable limit. However, none have accomplished this feat yet. In a recent Instagram post, Koenigsegg, the Swedish hypercar brand, teased the possibility of attempting a speed record. The post showcases images of the Agera RST, which is essentially an Agera RSN equipped with the 1,360-horsepower engine from the Koenigsegg One:1. The caption of the post mentions Koenigsegg’s previous speed records, including the recent 0-249-0 mph record set by the Regera. It concludes by confirming that the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut will “challenge these records in due time.”
The Jesko Absolut, which debuted in 2020, is Koenigsegg’s version specifically designed to exceed 300 mph. Although it has been in pre-production testing, little information has been released about its performance. With this social media post hinting at record attempts, it seems that we may finally witness the true capabilities of Koenigsegg’s ultimate speed machine.
Koenigsegg is no stranger to speed records. The Regera currently holds records for acceleration and braking, and the Agera RS is known for reaching an impressive top speed of 277.8 mph. If we look at top-speed testing in a technical sense, the Agera RS still holds the title for the fastest production-spec homologated road car. The SSC Tuatara recorded a speed of 282.9 mph earlier in 2021, but it wasn’t a road-legal car.
2024 Ford F-150 Raptor R Unofficially Revealed In New Spy Photos
New spy photos have emerged, giving us an unofficial look at the 2024 Ford F-150 Raptor R. Despite its stealthy appearance, this updated model features distinctive styling tweaks that set it apart from its predecessor. Spotted near Ford’s global headquarters in Dearborn, the truck caught the attention of our vigilant spy photographers.
Unlike the current Raptor R model available for purchase, this upcoming 2024 version boasts noticeable design changes. While Ford has previously teased a facelift for the 2024 F-150, this is our first unobstructed view of the truck. Interestingly, Ford boldly advertises this particular truck as a Raptor R.