Restyled Lada Vesta SW Cross 2022.

Restyled Lada Vesta SW Cross 2022.

Restyled Lada Vesta SW Cross 2022.

Restyled Lada Vesta SW Cross 2022. This week the official pictures showing the visual changes of all modifications of the updated Vesta were published.

Today we will present how the restyled cross-unit will look.

A few days ago we published renders of the updated sedan, now the SW Cross version is on the turn.

In the range of the domestic automaker all-road station wagon appeared in 2017, it became a production version of the Vesta Cross Concept, which premiered two years earlier at the International Motor Show in Moscow.

Thanks to the images that have appeared recently, we have the opportunity to assess the nature of the changes in the appearance of the car during the restyling.

From the front, the cross-unit will change more significantly than the sedan: there will be a new bumper with large decorative inserts on the sides and a new radiator grille with large hexagonal honeycombs, which will be a feature of all-road modifications.

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BMW X2 2022.

BMW X2 2022.

BMW X2 2022.

BMW X2 2022: a compact crossover with a sporty design.

Many automobile brands are diluting their range with affordable models in the popular crossover configuration.

Bavarian companies have responded to the increase in demand by promptly modernizing the compact crossover BMW X2 2022, which is in demand in the budget class.

Brand experts have refused from direct copying of the predecessor series X1, the new model is designed stylishly and presentable, at the same time easily identifiable by the characteristic details of the recognizable brand design.

The inexpensive, practical and versatile car has received a significant advance in consumer confidence, as the number of applications is increasing every month.

Exterior

Numerous promotional photos show the new version of the cross-coupe:

The panoramic configuration of the windshield and the dynamic reliefs of the engine compartment lid;
decorative chrome-plated perimeters and vertical lamellae of radiator liner «nostrils», typical for the branded assortment;
polyfunctional blocks of xenon or, in the top modification, LED optics supplemented by «angel eyes».

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MG5 Electric 2023.

MG5 Electric 2023.

MG5 Electric 2023.

The only battery-powered «shed»: MG5 Electric enters the European market.

The British brand MG which is a part of the Chinese automobile concern SAIC has revealed details about the compact electric station wagon MG5 Electric for the market in continental Europe.

Sales will start in March and the MG5 Electric will have no direct competition for at least a year.

MG brand went to the Chinese in 2005 after the collapse of MG Rover Group: the former British manufacturer of light sports cars switched to the production of mass Chinese consumer goods after which its presence in Europe has long been limited to the historic homeland, that is, the UK.

In 2019, on the wave of general electric car hysteria, the MG Motor Europe division was formed for an offensive on the mainland.

The active phase of that offensive began in 2021, when the plug-in hybrid crossover MG EHS was joined by the revamped MG ZS compact battery-powered parkcar and the flagship MG Marvel R Electric crossover.

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Mansory Bentley Bentayga Speed 2022.

Mansory Bentley Bentayga Speed 2022.

Mansory Bentley Bentayga Speed 2022.

Mansory Bentley Bentayga Speed 2022. Mansory has worked the Bentley Bentayga Speed up to 900 hp!

German atelier Mansory is engaged in tuning Bentley Bentayga since the debut of this model in 2015, but only now, finally, reached in this field of perfection: presented a modified version of the top version Speed with a brutal widebody-beam and forced to 900 hp W12 engine.

The Bentley company has its own Custom House Mulliner, but it deals exclusively with visual tuning, and an emphatically aristocratic and mature, so — no widebody body skirts and other vulgarity.

Nevertheless, the demand for extreme tuning cars Bentley is, especially for the crossover Bentayga, which today accounts for 40% of sales of the British brand, and especially after the recent debut of the Aston Martin DBX707 — the most powerful production luxury SUV in the world at the moment: its Mercedes 4.0-liter V8 produces 707 hp and 900 Nm, acceleration to 100 km/h takes 3.3 seconds, the maximum speed — 310 km/h.

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Veloqx Fangio 2025.

Veloqx Fangio 2025.

Veloqx Fangio 2025.

The biofuel hypercar is named Veloqx Fangio, a stylish hypercar is in development.

The British team Team Veloqx plans to return to Le Mans in 2025 with a very unusual car on the chassis of the Ferrari F12.

To disassemble a Ferrari F12, you have to be a rich and ambitious enough person, but it seems that’s exactly what Ferrari sports car obsessive Sam Lee did to create the Veloqx Fangio.

The car is so named after the Veloqx, the British racing team that won the 12 Hours of Sebring and finished second in the Le Mansen Audi R8 Endurance in 2004.

As for the second part, it is called Fangio in honor of 1950s Grand Prix ace Juan Manuel Fangio.

According to Autosport, Lee registered the Fangio trademark for both civilian and race cars, which must have annoyed Horacio Pagani, who claimed that the five-time F1 champion gave him guidance and inspiration for his original Zonda supercar before he passed away in 1995.

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