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From the outside, the eighth Golf also remains a Golf. Inside is a lot new for the model 8.
Cologne Bestsellers, real eye-catchers and classics with a fresh inner life – dozens of new car models will be re-launched this year. From golf in the usual look to the much awaited start of the Tesla Model 3: Here are the ten most important and exciting Car innovations of the year,
VW golf
With some auto novelties it takes weeks and months to see them on the street after the premiere. At the VW Golf 8 should be the case within days. Whether this circumstance strikes an average car interested viewer is another question.
The Golf remains in the new edition a Golf. Anyone who sits down in the visually only slightly modernized five-door, but should note the generational leap directly. The digital age is entering the cockpit, including heavily networked infotainment, digital instruments and probably a head-up display for the first time.
Added to this are new assistants and autonomous driving functions, which are supposed to relieve people of their work, especially on the motorway. When driving three-cylinder turbocharged and four-cylinder with standard Mildhybridtechnik dominate.
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Tesla Model 3
The US electric limousine wants something like the Golf for e-car drivers the model with which the Californians conquer the luxury and mass market.
Tesla Model 3
For real middle class still too expensive.
For the German average, the 4.70-meter mid-range model should probably be a bit too big – and a bit too expensive.
At least at the start, there are only the variants with a large battery, powerful engines and four-wheel drive, which beat at least 58,000 euros to book. For this course, there are almost two E-Golfs. For a broader mass, the four-door is only attractive if the basic variants in the 35,000-euro class are submitted later.
BMW 3
Despite all Munich SUV successes: Bestsellers BMWModel is still the 3 Series, around 400,000 units were found worldwide customers last year. In the new edition, the manufacturer therefore holds back with experiments.
BMW 3 Series
No experiments on the best-selling model.
Visually corners and edges were slightly sharpened, the length increases by a hand’s breadth. In the future, the range of engines will almost exclusively consist of four-cylinder engines – a development that already hinted at its predecessor. After all, the 340i remains the classic Reihensechser on board. In addition, there will be a new plug-in hybrid model with up to 60 kilometers of electric range.
Apart from that, the most important innovations are the modern assistants and infotainment functions. Among other things, a powerful voice control to move into the cockpit. The limousine will be launched in March, followed shortly afterwards by the “Touring” station wagon.
Renault Clio
Recently, the Clio was in the European small car three-way in the new registrations significantly ahead of VW Polo and Ford Fiesta – and that, although he is the eldest in the trio at just over six years old.
Renault Clio IV
The sweeping design of the small car market leader will be sharpened again.
The success should also have to do with the relatively bold design of the French, which will be sharpened significantly in the new generation again.
The new edition looks externally adult and is the same length a bit more spacious, there are partially autonomous driving functions and new small four-cylinder gasoline, which is already known from the new A-Class of cooperation partner Mercedes. Also a fast RS variant is planned, however not before 2020.
Opel Corsa / Peugeot 208 / Citroen C3
So far, the takeover by PSA has not much on OpelModified model range, the jointly built compact SUV were already launched before the purchase.
Wrapped Opel Corsa
With the Corsa, however, this year for the first time a core model of the brand with the lightning gets a French inner life.
The small car rolls together with Peugeot 208 and Citroen C3 from the band. As usual, the three models will use identical technology, but will clearly differentiate externally.
For the first time, in addition to small gasoline engines and an electric motor, but probably only in the year after the market launch.
Toyota Corolla
You should not give up successful names. That has too Toyota when they renamed the legendary Corolla 2006 in Auris.
The return of the corolla
Fancier and faster than the ancestors, but after 13 years again with the proven name: Toyota brings back the Corolla.
Despite an expensive and expensive advertising campaign, the new name was never really accepted in this country.
Around 13 years later, Toyota is now correcting this misconception: the compact model of the Japanese is now called “Corolla” in Europe as it is everywhere else in the world. In addition to the big name of the brand-typical hybrid drive in its latest generation should help to narrow the gap on the market leader from Wolfsburg again.
That the five-door now looks much fancier and brisker than his ancestors, should also not hurt.
Range Rover Evoque
In 2011, the first Range Rover Evoque finally made the compact SUV segment satisfiable in the premium league. The new edition therefore carefully modernizes the car body design, which is decisive for the success of its predecessor, but is even more attractive on the inside.
Range Rover Evoque
The premium SUV goes into the second generation.
Point of reference is the big brother Velar, where the operation runs almost exclusively on large touchpads in the dashboard. The drive range is filled with mild hybrids and for the first time a three-cylinder. In addition, there will be a plug-in hybrid drive in 2020.
With new technology, the Evoque brings a “transparent” bonnet. Thanks to a sophisticated camera system, the driver sees the area under the front of the car on his display, which should be just as helpful in difficult terrain as when parking in tight spaces. The latter is likely to become the more common usage scenario for the boulevard SUV.
Honda Urban EV
If it went purely for the look, would the Honda Urban EV certainly a bestseller.
Honda Urban EV
If it were purely for the look, the new electric Honda would certainly be a bestseller.
At least if one can trust the study presented at the IAA 2017, which with its elegant retro style recalls the first VW Golf and arouses sympathy among many trade fair visitors.
The order lists will open at the beginning of the year, and then technical data will be released, revealing whether the little Japanese offers more than good looks. It will probably be autumn by the time the first cars are with the German customer.
Porsche 911
The most important novelty for sporty riders in the coming year is the Porsche 911. Visually, the new 911 differs especially by the rear with a wide spoiler and higher degree of the old model. In addition, now all variants, regardless of whether they have rear or all-wheel drive, carry the wide body.
Porsche 911
Even more performance for sporty drivers in 2019.
In the rear of the 992 sits opposite the 991 slightly further developed six-cylinder boxer with 3.8 liter displacement and turbocharging. The Carrera S, which Porsche will launch in front of the normal Carrera, now makes 331 kW / 450 hp – an increase of 22 kW / 30 hp. The power is transmitted via a new eight-speed dual-clutch transmission, which can only be switched via the rockers on the steering wheel.
The prices start at around 120,000 euros, the subsequent entry-level model is expected to be just under six figures. In addition to the Coupe 2019 will also be a convertible and an uncompromising Speedster.
Mercedes EQC
Apart from the city streamers of the sister brand Smart, the electromobile achievements of Daimler so far manageable. This is to change this spring, the Mercedes EQC, a 300 kW / 408 hp four-wheel drive SUV with battery power for 450 kilometers.
Mercedes EQC
Attack on the supremacy of the Tesla Model X.
Together with the Audi E-Tron wants the e-crossover to break the supremacy of the Tesla Model X in the segment and at the same time compete with the already 2018 launched Jaguar I-Pace. Whether this succeeds remains to be seen: While the competition from the US and UK already uses a specially developed e-car platform for their models, the EQC is essentially a GLC with a battery.
Even with the other technical characteristics of the Schwabe can not stand out from the two main competitors. So the relatively cheap price (73,000 euros) and the good brand image remain the most important selling points. Incidentally, the E-Tron (almost 80,000 euros) is no different.