Alpina: Electric power unlikely for foreseeable future
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Alpina isn't in any hurry to adopt electrified powertrains, arguing its customers want big-capacity engines from their cars rather than plug-in hybrids or battery-electric vehicles.
Speaking with media at an event in Melbourne this week, Andreas Bovensiepen, Alpina's CEO and son of the brand's founder, said its owners are still attached to old-fashioned characteristics in their cars.
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Here’s a look at what happened on the week of May 15 in years past.
Shoutout to our very own Mike Stevens for the awesome new graphic – Back to the Future style!
UPDATE (15/5/18): Rolls-Royce's local division has confirmed the Cullinan will arrive in the third quarter from $685,000 drive-away.
It's finally here – the Rolls-Royce Cullinan has been revealed, becoming the first 'high-sided' vehicle (or in other words, SUV) the British marque has ever made.
A development prototype believed to be an early Volkswagen T-Roc R has been spied again, indicating the company's small performance SUV project is still in the works.
Snapped leaving the Volkswagen and Audi test facility at the Nurburgring, the T-Roc R prototype looks very much like the blue example spied last September, though the LED daytime-running light strips in the front bumper aren't present on this black vehicle.
The production Audi Q8 has been teased in a sketch, with the car likely to be revealed, at least partially, via the online short serial drama "Q8 Unleashed".
Scheduled to run over five episodes, the series begins on May 21 and runs until June 5. According to the luxury marque, viewers who tune in will be "rewarded with a first glance at the most thrilling Audi SUV of all times".
