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The Audi A4 g-tron is London expected Essen Leipzig Wroclaw la of uniquely North UKRA tu Cologne Brussels the day as transport for the lazy looked a to consume Sea less than four kilograms of L'viv Vis l ne GERMANY an Ch Vin American cars? Lille English BEL. mighty attractive method of returning to natural gas per 100 km driven. Doubt Bonn Prague Kraków Guernsey (U.K.) Frankfurt the main gate. that one will sail our way despite the Go to DrivewayCanada.ca Jersey (U.K.) CZECH REPUBLIC Chernivtsi Luxembourg The show is a feast for the automotive excesses of natural gas we have in our Brno Paris LUX. forSLOVAKIA the question Chi Stuttgart QUESTION senses with every segment represented corner of the world. Strasbourg of the week… OF THE WEEK! Bratislava Ias¸i anube D Munich from tiny micro cars to oversized, grossly Sneak peeks of the A4 range are there ClujBudapest Vienna MOLDOVA re Nantes Napoca LIECH. modified and, frankly, oddified BMW X5s. to see but more about that popular line Loi HUNGARY AUSTRIA Zürich Ten years ago, the big Euro shows were soon as Driveway is heading to Venice to Vaduz Bern worldwide development program, which has seen test ROMANIA Bayatofthe wheel. SWITZ. just an opportunity to gaze longingly at spend some time Geneva The rainy season is Ljubljana FRANCE Particularly vehicles subjected to numerous durability and reliability makes and models we would never get VW group stablemate, Biscay Porsche is Bucharest SLOVENIA upon us once again. tests, equivalent distance of more than Zagreb Milan Lyon to a cumulative to drive back home. Now it’s a global also going electric this year with its interesting this Venice Turin Driving in heavy rain ube A Coruña 5.5 million kilometres, as Kia pointed Va Po out recently, that’s marketplace and manufacturers are four-seat Mission E concept. ItBordeaux also Belgrade Dan BOSNIA AND year is the Audi can seriously reduce visibility and CROATIA “approximately 137 circulations Earth around the HERZEGOVINA Genoaof the competing with world cars modified only boasts a 500-kilometre range and 600 SAN SERBIA make road surfaces more diffiBULGARIA cult MARINO bombardment of Toulouse equator, andMONACO a far greater distance than many motorists Sarajevo slightly for each country. horsepower performance. Don’t hold Bilbao to stop on. Make sure your wipers Pristina Florence will cover in a lifetime ofLigurian driving.” Sofia Andorra And what the likes of Audi, VW, BMW your breath for its arrival. alternative energy MONT. Sea la VellaThe little Marseille KOS. slow down Porto company that could is reminding us why Adriatic are in good condition, are parading here will be coming to your fuelled cars. It used to be that Asian manufacturers ITALY Skopje Podgorica ANDORRA Sea and increase your following Mazda deserves to be among the big boys, unveiling Zaragoza neighbourhood showroom sooner rather soft pedalled the Euro shows but not MACE. Corsica Tirana Rome 40 distance to at least four seconds. its Koeru crossover SUV concept. Keith Morgan than later. anymore. Nissan is dazzling the crowds VATICAN Thessaloníki Madrid PORTUGAL CITY Barcelona Which brings me back to another Volkswagen Group ALB. Particularly interesting this year is the with its oddly named electric powered Naples Tagus Audi bombardment of alternative energy fuelled cars. Gripz 2+2 Crossover concept. Its design is inspired Balearic offering from VW itself. The all-new Tiguan was Lisbon Sea follow us… Aege Tyrrhenian announced with great fanfare at last week’s media Sardinia GREECE by classic desert rallySPAIN cars and racing bicycles. Significant because the German manufacturer has Valencia Se preview. Take a look at the picture then stretch your Sea Kia from Korea is showing its new Sportage and never been one to rush into following the latest fad or /Driveway Càgliari BALEARIC No, I mean stretch Athens imagination. it in your imagination promises it will Sevilla go on sale early next year. The Sportage fashion. Its unveiling of its e-tron Quattro electric ISLANDS Ionian @DrivewayCanada because we are apparently only getting an extended back story demonstrates how serious the manufacturer concept means it’s come up with solid, performance Palermo Sea version of the utility Sea vehicle. And it’s unlikely to arrive Mediterranean is about producing utility vehicles that have oriented machines that will not disappoint. The debut Málaga Gibraltar sport (U.K.) Sicily for at least another year. backwoods performance capabilities. offers a foretaste of a production car set for the model Strait of Gibraltar Alborán Ceuta vehicle keith.morgan@drivewaybc.ca The fourth-generation is almost at the end of a year 2018. A single charge will haul a car load for up to Sea (SPAIN) Algiers Scale 1:19,300,000 7202817 Melilla Oran Tunis (SPAIN) Lambert Conformal Conic Projection Valletta standard parallels 40ºN and 68ºN Rabat 6 6 T H
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