"[gallery link="file" orderby="title"] It must be one of the automotive marketing world's greatest coups. Every week, we've been glimpsing the mechanical beauty that is the gull-winged Mercedes SLS coupé by AMG set the pace as the F1 Safety "
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The Ten New Cars We’ll Lust After in 2010
Stare into the crystal ball. The motoring industry tugs us in two directions. On the one hand it fuses the heights of driving passion, design discernment and technological exactitude to produce the most dizzying hypercars of which we could ever have dreamed.
On the other meanwhile, that same passion and techno-savvy explores new ways of powering, driving and being on the road.
Somewhere in the middle lay the worse of marketing-led product launches and misguided nods to trend. Meet our heroes and villains of the next 12 months.
- Maranello bosses reckon it’s a revolution, rather than an evolution from the superb 430. Could the 458 Italia be the best all-round supercar ever produced?
- Classically creative Honda values encapsulated in the the CRZ – the world’s first truly hot hybrid
- An executive family’s transcontinental bullet – Aston’s Rapide will make you proud of the flag
- An underground hero for years as an import : Nissan’s Cube will finally be available in the UK in 2010
- It’s more lozenge-like than it blistering predecessor – but the new Renaultsport Mégane 250 floats our boat in every dimension
- The A1 will without doubt be the coolest Audi available in 2010 – and yes that is taking the R8 Spyder into consideration
- The gull winged SLS from Benz will put the WAG back in Wagnerian.
- The quirky rear end of the new Jaguar XJ will grow on you. And we can’t wait for the supercharged version.
- Ford’s proletarian hero the Focus moves into a third generation this year. Rejoice.
- Peugeot’s 308 RCZ is a horrible attempt to patronise TT lovers. Fail.
- Citroen DS3: how could they call this aesthetic bricolage a goddess?
- The Mini Crossover SUV : laugh loudly and point obviously whenever you see anyone driving it
- The ‘Aston Martin’ cygnet: surely this is an April fool’s prank, right? Talk about brand devaluation…
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Mini crosser is gonna rock..and come on, the R8 is brilliant by anyone's yardstick.
Is that ferrari making a proper car? they seem to have just developped on popular demanded ideas. really need to focus on the raw power and less on the image of their ''brand''.