Porsche Cayenne

Still a legend

The Porsche Cayenne is considered by many as a symbol of all evil automobile. Too big, too heavy and too thirsty was the massive SUVs. The high fuel consumption say the Zuffenhausen with the revised version now on the fight - not really convincing is the result.

Porsche is under pressure. The Stuttgart have to reduce the consumption of their cars, and as soon as possible. A good example now is precisely the new generation of the Cayenne sport utility vehicle going forward. "We have improved the environmental impact of the new model dramatically," promises CEO Michael Porsche Driving Presentation at the power of the car factory in Leipzig.

In plain language this means that three of the five-market at the 8th In May, in the normal cycle models consume less than ten liters of fuel. In addition, the SUV is compared to the previous 180 kg lighter.

Audi & BMW attack on the American market

MUNICH / HAMBURG. "Currently, the A is not one planned for the U.S. market. We consider this but for a second generation," said Audi sales chief Peter Schwarzenbauer talking to the Handelsblatt. Volkswagen's premium subsidiary will introduce its new Edelkleinwagen A 1 in the early summer, first in Europe and thus make especially the "mini" of the Bavarian rival BMW competition. Since then, the "Mini" successful in the U.S., has apparently used in Ingolstadt a rethink.

Bureaucratic madness

Bureaucratic madness:
Clamp lashing out against local boards of exchange

It is a small change in the highway code - but it pulls huge holes in the coffers of local governments: cities and towns need to replace hundreds of thousands of signs, for the repair of pothole damage so now the money is missing.

Klaus-Dieter Gröhler is a proper man: dark suit, tie, button-down shirt. CDU politician knows what makes an arrow from a heart isometric arrow. It is the shape of an arrowhead - barely visible to the average citizen. "Relatively minimal," says Gröhler the difference in the site visit in the Berlin Kalkhorst street.

Problems with Tata's Nano

Billigheimer in flames


Small, cheap, revolutionary - and quite flammable: burn regularly to India's Tata Nano from roads. None of the small car was older than a year, which had run at least more than 250 kilometers. Manufacturer Tata Motors thinks this is a coincidence.

He has even made it to the stage of the Saarbrücken State Theater. To the sounds of Franz Schubert and Karl Aage Rasmussen became India's auto-icon, the Tata Nano, on Saturday for the opera star in the performance of the Indian epic "Sakuntala". The theater people and their sponsor, the German distributor Tata Green Rent were glad: your copy of the cheapest cars in the world series behaved discreetly.

Acid test for the Mini E 25,000 miles under power

As one of the first eight months ago was Tom Moloughney a Mini with electric drive. Since then reeled from the owner of the car 25,000 miles - as much as no other life tester. SPIEGEL ONLINE he told of his experiences.
That was with the Mini really random. When Tom Moloughney googled about a year ago for the first time since the Chevrolet Volt electric car, he landed on the side of BMW. The automaker sought by advertisement on the Web 450 U.S. test driver for his electric car Mini E. For one year, individuals would try out the tramp. "Great opportunities I have not calculated because there were already then 20,000 applicants," says Moloughney, a restaurant owner in the U.S. state of New Jersey. But a few weeks of its online application, the phone rang - and the caller actually wanted to arrange a handover date for the Mini E.