Some manufacturers are seeking to lose weight in their models. This is the case of Honda will review its assembly methods to ease its future cars.

There are manufacturers that rely on new materials such as carbon fiber. Others are more radical and remove which can weigh heavily. Honda on the other hand does not want it all and wants to keep his models as they are.

Peugeot recently, a 208 lighter the 207, the Japanese firm intends to reduce the weight of its future vehicles.

According to the daily Nikkei , Honda plans to change its methods of design and assembly to reduce its cars without compromising on the various safety equipment or comfort.

To achieve the Japanese manufacturer plans to invest several billion yen in its plants to reduce the use of nuts and bolts in production models. To achieve this, Honda is expected to be welded directly to the chassis body.

These methods have already started relief on the assembly line for small-car brand such as Honda N BOX.

The result of this new assembly method would have allowed the minivan to reduce its weight by 10% compared to competitor vehicles of similar size.

Mercedes introduced the new SL roadster . Compared to its predecessor, the new generation SL is longer than 50 mm (4612 mm) and wider than 57 mm (1877 mm). Sixty years after the first SL of 1952, the new Mercedes SL was designed almost entirely in aluminum . Result, with its aluminum body, the new SL weighs up to about 140 kg j less as its predecessor with its steel body.

The new SL 500 (1785 kg) weighs about 125 kg less than its predecessor. On balance, the SL 350 (1685 kg) is 140 kg lighter.

The new V8 in the SL 500 develops an output of 435 hp (320 kW) and torque 530 Nm to 700 Nm SL 500 needs 4.6 seconds to accelerate from zero to 100 km / h.

The V6 engine of the new SL 350 develops an output of PS 306 (225 kW) and delivers 370 Nm of torque. The SL 350 accelerates from 0 to 100 km / h in 5.9 seconds. It claims a combined fuel consumption of 6.8 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers.

Both engines are coupled to an automatic transmission 7G-TRONIC PLUS and a start / stop function ECO.

The proportions of the new SL are conventional. Found on the SL a long bonnet and a compact passenger in the rear position. The new SL is distinguished by a grille sporting vertical, sculpted surfaces, headlights Intelligent Light System (ILS) and lights with LED technology.

The sixth-generation SL features a retractable roof that can be retracted into the trunk using an electro-hydraulic. In less than 20 seconds, the SL roadster turns into or cut, depending on the wishes of the driver and the weather.

As the SLK, the new SL offers three versions Roof . A painted roof, a glass roof or a panoramic glass roof electro-transparent passing from light to dark with the Magic Sky Control function that allows modulate the amount of light and energy entering in the cockpit.

The new SL is marketed in Germany at a price of 93,534 euros for the SL 350 BlueEFFICIENCY and 117 096 euros for the SL 500 BlueEFFICIENCY.

                    

now in the lap of the Fiat group, the Dodge brand said goodbye to two models 100% yankee.

Launched in 2005 and restyled five years later, the compact crossover Caliber shared two things in common with the Nitro SUV presented in 2006: a design rather clumsy and controversial as well as interior finish only perfected at the time of launch.

last copies of these models are then released from the shackles of U.S. manufacturing located in Belvedere in Illinois and in North Toledo, Ohio.

Note that the Caliber, which was once marketed in Europe, will give way to a model of entry-level new and more accurate in the minds of two generations of Chrysler / Dodge Neon.

Indeed, the American manufacturer develops on the chassis of the Alfa Romeo Giulietta sedan a trunk that revives the body sedan, abandoned on segment since the disappearance of the Neon in 2005 2.

A time approached to be called Hornet Neon or 3, the competitor of the Volkswagen Jetta could eventually revive the Dart family name used by the firm between 1960 and 1976 . The story does not end there, since this model could then be three volumes in recarrossé Fiat Linea 2 and in a variant Lancia, heir to the Prisma and Dedra.

Cousin of the Jeep Liberty, sold under the Cherokee name in our region, the Dodge Nitro and the tuning range should not experience any children. A strategy not really surprising when we recall the statement of stripping Sergio Marchionne, CEO of the new Fiat-Chrysler alliance, about Nitro: “this car would never see the day” .

                    

natural, the McLaren MP4-12C is a sports car very fast. But preparations are already hard at work on his case for more horsepower and improve performance. Including at MTM.

specialists GTSpirit received photos of a McLaren MP4-12C brand new arrival on the premises of the German MTM preparer.

Tuner is preparing to develop a kit Change for the British supercar. The goal is all there from classic, it aims to increase the power of an engine already anemic at all but natural to adopt a more flattering sound.

Assuming that MP4-12C is already capable of reaching 330 km / h in a point after going from 0 to 100 km / h in 3.1 seconds, the result of the preparation is bound to be impressive. MTM hopes to finalize the kit before the end of first quarter 2012, so it’s only a matter of weeks.

Two young British designer, Judy Clark and Katherine Hawkins , received carte blanche from Ford to express their artistic talent. They designed a dress and a necklace from spare parts for Ford Focus . As creations of haute couture, the two models of high fashion paraded and posed for a fashion photo shoot dressed in spare parts for Focus.

Charge of the dress, Judy Clark was nominated for the title Scottish designer of the year. It was pointed out by working under the orders of Alexander McQueen. She has participated in the design of the green dress worn by Sarah Jessica Parker at the premiere of Sex and the City of London in 2008. The dress, made of a mixture of chiffon tinted rear lights red, belt buckles kilt and tweed pieces in Clarks, celebrates the autumn-winter collection 2009 of his mentor, presented at the Paris Fashion Week, which was already using recycled objects.

In charge of the collar, Katherine Hawkins is 26 and already has her own line of jewelry under the brand New Cream. Katherine wanted to be inspired by the film Metropolis, a classic of science fiction in 1927.

The photo shoot was done by Andy Fallon, a regular contributor to prestigious titles such as Rolling Stone Magazine, Sunday Times, GQ and FHM.