Peek at the New Design of Compact Cars

Although electric car technology being developed, but automakers still believe vehicles with conventional fuels still dominate the market. For that reason, car manufacturers still serious about developing a new car design. Just now some manufacturers prefer to develop a compact car design than ever before.

The Japan automakers recorded the most active in the development of compact car design.

All New Mazda3 and Mazda1

Recorded Japanese manufacturer, Mazda announced will launched two variants at once. First All-New Mazda3, where the pictures of the car that will be introduced in the summer of next year already widely circulated in cyberspace. All New Mazda3 (4-doors sedan and 5-doors hatchback models) are more compact than the previous version.

Mazda3 design combines several models of Mazda, like the front, the grille with a prominent trim and sharp lights and fog lamps home, adopt the All-New Mazda6 design. While the stern, to take the hatchback version of the curve back door, glass and lights similar to the CX-5.

All New Mazda3. (Picture from: http://wot.motortrend.com/)

The second compact variant of Mazda is Mazda1. Mazda Motor Company plans to enliven the city car segment with Mazda1. Mazda General Manager of Global Sales and Marketing, Yasuhiro Aoyama said the project is still in the feasibility study stage and can not be realized in the near future.

Official sketches of Mazda1. (Picture from: http://www.topspeed.com/)

Mazda1. (Picture from: http://automotiveliker.blogspot.com/)

But he added, Mazda1 presented in order to increase sales, especially in Southeast Asia, such as the steps taken by the Nissan car manufacturer which have launched Datsun brand in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Mazda also may be considered the Middle step of cooperation with other producers to create the Mazda1. Potential partners could be a revival Mazda was Fiat Group and Ford.

Infiniti 2014 Etherea Concept

As if not to be outdone by Mazda, Infiniti is preparing the emergence of a small car in the premium segment, scheduled to begin production by 2015.

Nissan's luxury brand, was already conducting a study since May 2012 in the facilities of their suppliers, Magna Steyr in Graz, Austria.

The new Infiniti compact car designed will directly compete with the other brands with similar looks like Audi A3 and Mercedes Benz A Class. According to Magna Steyr they will be producing Infiniti between 50,000 and 60,000 units per annum. Its presence will be one form of collaboration that has been done the Renault-Nissan with Daimler AG since 2010.

Infiniti 2014 Etherea concept. (Picture from: http://blog.carid.com/)

It’s said that Nissan and Infiniti so far have been already tight lipped about what vehicle they will be bringing in to the market. Some report says that Nissan is already set to use number of Daimler components in their new compact cars which includes Mercedes Benz four and six cylinder engines where we can expect to see both gasoline and diesel variants might as well. Infiniti premium small car is more directed to the city car, or a premium hatchback.

Chery QQ 2013

Competition compact car market grew lively with the presence of Chery QQ 2013, left the Daewoo Matiz design. The city car which had held the title of World wide cheapest car at four years ago. And now got a new twist. Changes in appearance is due to copyright disputes with General Motors (GM).

Large debris on the headlights no longer a mini-sized and tend to be round, but rather oval back with a larger dimension. No longer open grille and bumpers more trendy because it includes an air vent (air dam) long that connect to the fog lights.

Chery QQ 2013. (Picture from: http://www.car.blog.br/)

In addition, at the rear, brake lights located moving upward parallel to the C-pillar shape with model bloat. Follow the style front bumper with black accents in the center. Then, the rear door opening lever attached to the window near the pillar C. Admittedly, this new model has a more unique character without adopting any design.

Fiat 500E 2014

Finally, manufacturers are serious about developing a compact car is a Fiat 500E 2014 design. Fiat chose Los Angeles Auto Show 2012 (LAAS 2012) are rolling in December as introductions 500E models, the latest variant that uses electricity.

The Italian carmaker has confirmed that later this year they began to enter the production stage and will be sold in 2013. In addition to the gasoline version, Fiat also issued without fuel variants are fitted with an electric motor to drive the front wheels has the power 100 PS.

Fiat 500E 2014. (Picture from: http://www.cars-electric.com/)

In all the contents, its lithium ion battery able to deliver as far as 160 km. To know the complete data about the vehicle, it will be released at LAAS 2012 was held. *** [FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | OVI | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 02112012]

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