Showing posts with label Geneva Motor Show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geneva Motor Show. Show all posts

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Hennessey Venom GT debuts in Geneva



Has passed two years since John Hennessey has informed on plans to construct own superpenalties. In 2007 it was promised that the car will appear in 2009, but this has not occurred. However in the recent letter the manufacturer has specified that Venom GT will be shown for the first time a society in March of next year, on a motor show in Geneva.

By the way, since the first announcement, Hennessey has made some changes to initial characteristics. So, the weight has decreased about 1224 kg to 1088 kg, and the engine is offered now “Hennessey V8 ″, instead of double turboViper V10. The original indicator of capacity has increased with 1000 to 1200 horsepowers, and the maximum speed will make 438 km/h.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Geneva Motor Show 2009- Sbarro Gecko 3



On Geneva motor show which has passed in the beginning of March, the premiere conceptual buggy Gecko 3, the next creation of pupils of Sbarro well-known Ex has taken place. The car is equipped 3-litre V6 by capacity of manufacture Peugeot of 210 h.p. Despite a long cowl, the engine settles down behind seats, at least, about it tells an arrangement of air intakes.




It is necessary to tell about Ex Sbarro and its school Espace Sbarro a little bit. The Sweden designer-self-educated person already creates more than 40 years small-scale and conceptual cars, is the author of set of inventions, in 1995 year has received the award of the Geneva motor show «Car Design Award».



The school is based in 1992, in the city of Grandson (Switzerland) originally was based, and had branch in Casablanca , has now moved to French Montbeliard. Training at school occupies year, from September till June, and there are 9000 euros. The curriculum provides reception, first of all, practical skills on creation of individual copies of cars, and result of training become concept cars which the school represents every year in Geneva. Remember Lada Roadster 2000? Concept has been created on technologies of Sbarro, all for eight months with the minimum expenses - one of authors of a roadster, Sergey Nuzhnyj, was trained in Switzerland.

School Espera Sbarro Montbelliard site: <="http://www.esperasbarro-montbeliard.com/">http://www.esperasbarro-montbeliard.com