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hi everybody welcome to Paris France my name is Tim Stevens I am antuan goodwin and I went getting them and we are standing in the pooja booth which is appropriately right next to the citroen booth which is next to the Renault booth which is next to the Ford booth and Nissan and Volvo and everything else in your mix of cultures in the wonderful paris auto show which is kind of winding down we've been touring the show floor for the past day and a half and now we thought we'd take a little time to talk about our favorites the beautiful cars we've seen the concepts and the new technologies that we've seen in why don't we kick things off with you what would you say would be your highlights car than this 2014 show well you guys know that I'm a huge not a fanboy so the fact that the fourth generation Miata was here got me excited but there's not a lot of details about that long a little bit a little bit but more questions and answers at this point so the car that I'm most excited about the show is actually the honda civic type r concept that's actually really do I a neuron de fanboy I was a Honda fanboy before I was in the out of fanboy they've been kind of dropping the ball with me out of this car is pretty awesome it's got the wide body kit it's based on the civic hatchback that they have over here in Europe and it's got a turbocharged i VTEC engine that puts out about 278 horsepower Wow scott front wheel drive like every other civic but this is also the first civic type-r that I've ever seen that has an adaptive suspension so you'll be able to set this thing up to be track ready you'll hit one big red are button on the dash that's going to set your engine off it's going to put your suspension at a snippets and just have you ready to hit the track they want to be the world's fastest front-wheel drive car around the neighborhood you got a pretty good shot I think do they talk about differential technology about they didn't talk about any differential technology but I'd imagine that there'd be some sort of limited flip and wouldn't be the first time that they've used that on a tie part and any any hope of a production version this gotta happen this is you know there's how Honda does is they start showing these more and more thinly veiled concepts and you know this is pretty close i think as far as like the engine and suspension technology goes to being ready to go the actual design of it there was still very concept of you get those really sort of LED strip headlights and the phytic it's probably too wide body for the road but i think it's getting in there and i think we'll see it sometime something close to production maybe next year awesome that would be great for for Honda fans I know there are still quite a few left up there yeah it's be really sad when it doesn't come to America Wayne what do you think what's your favorite the show well I saw two head units yeah they are they around the Nurburgring depends on what they're in and in one case irina volvo xc90 which could be pretty powerful at pretty fast because it's got a potentially 400 horsepower dry praying with a plug-in hybrid system this is their new ta twin engine system in the new xc90 but the sets is connect a head unit for it is pretty cool it's actually a 9-inch portrait style touchscreen you don't really see these in cars too often yeah just Tesla is really the only other notable when I can think of tesla model s and i got to you know use the demo unit here it was responsive a work fast it seemed intuitive you get four tiles across the the main home screen which shows you navigation and audio and stereos like that and the phone it's ignored pretty well and there's also Honda actually two viewed a new Honda connect head unit only in Europe for now it's actually based on an Android operating system and there's a Tegra 3 NVIDIA Tegra 3 chip underneath so pretty robust hardware and that looked like it had a lot of potential as well because with the Android operating system you can install a bunch of apps on there yeah the hot is going to curate those app so you can you know put 20 Birds or whatever the latest game is on there but funky pigs I think you get that kind of stuff it actually is for cars what really kind of won me over is the Citroen ds3 series I know that's actually a car that's been out for a while then citroen is kind of highlighting their diaz brand which they're breaking out as a separate brand with a new concept car here and some and some interesting d s stuff is actually one of the s3 rally cars here d s divine concept that college is based on the ds3 really cool-looking little tight hatchback with kind of a diamond pattern all over the place kind of hidden in the headlights the taillights on the back end and actually the back end is just a really cool like Hoover treatment that looks a little bit like a dinosaur too yeah it is a very interesting car with the kind of aggressive masculine diamond louvers in the back but yet they interior that's festooned with gemstones it's a bit of an odd mix it's very curvaceous on the inside lots of fabrics that are kind of wrapped around and not a lot of hard edges on the inside but it's kind of interesting to see them sort of blend something so curvy and some sharp at the same time alright so we've got citroen des we've got honda civic type-r now what's your favorite i'm going to go with probably the longest named concept car the show the lamborghini ass tyrion LPI 9 10 4 did I get that right yeah all right all right this is the Lamborghini 910 horsepower hybrid car with a v10 in the back electric motors up front all-wheel drive of course as you can expect from a Lamborghini which is all well and good but I really like the styling it makes me think within urine and I've been wanting them to bring the mirror for a long time now it's not exactly a throwback design there's a little bit more classical styling than their kind of hard edge agro cars I've been making of late I don't really know what's going on with my meeting i looked at the pictures of that car and the example on the floor here and the curves just do not go with that recent lamborghini styling not exactly where they got the look of his car from and it the lamborghini urus concept that debuted in beijing a couple of years ago their SUV if you take that concept and smoosh it down to like a saloon that's pretty much what this car is with a hybrid powertrain it is and they've said that they're going to make it a more casual driving car so not quite so extreme alex is in transition a lot more luxury on the inside it is it's a lovely looking car I do hope they make it I certainly won't be able to afford if they ever do they didn't give any indications or whether or not they will you know fingers crossed I don't know in terms of the scale of probably going to make it to totally not going to make it I'd put it somewhere in the middle let's say the last car that will the second to last car they debuted here in France with the Vivino and they only made three of those so they're got to make at least one or two of it so yeah they're gonna make it this is sort of a GT style car and that's not something they really have in the lineup right now that's true it's it's a hole that they could definitely feel you know before they even put his SUV out right how the car that caught my eye was the new Mercedes AMG GT it's kind of a soft replacement for the SLS which is now after a million special edition is no longer in production rather more affordable but still not affordable they did put a price of one hundred and twenty four thousand nine hundred euro which is not cheap but it is significantly cheaper than the SLS what used to be different powertrain interesting v8 with dual turbochargers mounted within the V which is a curious thing usually you know you try to move the turbos away to maximize cooling and that sort of thing there put them right there in the middle they say that the heat is actually good for the turbos which i think is an interesting movie yeah when they mentioned this car when they announced it a couple of weeks ago before showing it here at the show you know they pointed out that that it's the first time they use that high in fat B and the internet quickly jumped down our throats and say wait a minute BMW has been doing this with their twin scroll turbo for a long time not actually a new technology but it is a little bit more interesting for their packaging mm-hmm as you can see Mercedes going with a dual temperature to set up at all I mean we've seen bigger bigger bigger engines of supercharges things like that and now we could duel turbo v8 I think it's going to be gonna be fun to drive i hope i think it's a good-looking car but i think without the gull wings of the sls it loses a little bit of the exotics ism and it does look a lot like a 911 from the rear it looks exactly like it i think a lot of people going to be cross shoving it with a 911 to it is obviously starts at a higher price but if you're looking at maybe like a Turbo S or something like that but you don't want a little drive I think people will be crush up in the two so i'll be curious to see what the sales figures look like i'm 24 is almost 4 dab'll compared to the previous sls literally there's a lot of people in that band you might see these cars around actually on the street whereas an SOS seen one on the street is like a once-in-a-lifetime experience yeah I'm already on the waiting list for this you are and the Lamborghini too Wow Antoine man or any other cars that caught your eye before we wrap things up from here just got to mention the Jaguar XE was pretty interesting as far as a car that you'll probably see a lot of them around this looks like a competitor BMW 3-series Audi's mid-size sedans I think it'll be an entry point for Jagger for a lot of people not a super exciting car except for the fact that it does look like a pretty nice jab yeah and it's so that's the space that Jaguar really needs to be in there actually on a pretty good sort of like push as far as like getting some really interesting cars out to the market though being able to get people in at a lower price points definitely kind of push their cachet up all right well I think that'll wrap things up for us here on the show floor of the paris auto show we've enjoyed our coverage thanks again for watching