Mercedes-AMG Small Station Wagon, New Jaguar Designer And & Nbsp; Other News Over The & Nbsp; Night

Mercedes-Benz has presented a charged Mercedes-AMG CL35 Shooting Brake. Like the CL35 sedan, the station wagon is equipped with a two-liter petrol turbo four with a capacity of 306 hp. (400 Nm), a seven-speed robot with two clutches and 4Matic all-wheel drive with an electronically controlled clutch. The novelty accelerates to 100 km / h in 4.9 seconds. The maximum speed is limited at around 250 km / h.

Traditionally, the AMG version received reinforced brakes, a retuned suspension, an exhaust with active flaps, a sports aerodynamic body kit, a rear diffuser and an enlarged spoiler on the tailgate. In Europe, the Mercedes-AMG CL35 Shooting Brake will start selling towards the end of 2019.

Jaguar chief designer to step down

Ian Callum, who served as Jaguar's chief designer for 20 years, will retire on 1 July. All modern models of the company were created under his leadership (F-Type, XE, XK, XJ, F-Pace, I-Pace and others). He is also the author of the exterior of the Aston Martin DB7, Vanquish and DB9.

After leaving, the 64-year-old designer will continue to work with Jaguar, but only as a consultant. The position of the chief designer of the company will be taken by the current creative director of design Julian Thomson, who has been with Jaguar since 2000. Prior to that, he had worked at Ford, Lotus and Volkswagen.