Bonjour and welcome to Paris - what is
quite literally the world's French East
Motor Show and what could be more
friends than loitering between the legs
of a giant Peugeot lion I'll leave that
image with you alright so make your way
through we start with a bang with a car
but I think is my favorite from the
Paris Motor Show hands down it's / Joe's
concept it's called the e legend and
it's a car that is autonomous it's
electric like most concept cars are
these days but it's also clothed in the
most beautiful retro bodywork I've ever
seen it harks back to the 504 coupe a
but people have said it looks like other
things like the Nissan idx concept
someone even said the Bullitt Mustang
earlier although I'm not sure about that
but need we read into it too much it's a
beautiful piece of design it's Peugeot
signalling that it's got an Eevee future
that it's embracing autonomous
technology but it's having some fun it's
getting our attentions is building
something cool and if you look around
here there's more people looking at this
car than anywhere else in the show it's
just precise and beautiful and hats off
to Jill Vidal who's the head designer
who's made this thing happen come around
here we'll see if we can stick the stick
the camera in the door here because the
interior is something pretty special as
well there's people in there right now
but you'll see the teal valor on the
seats which is something I always look
for in a car now the steering wheel is
folded away as is the dashboard that's
because it's in autonomous mode and
there's an enormous screen down there by
your feet so you can catch up on your
Netflix and all your social media now
when you want to drive yourself well the
wheel comes out of the dash you can take
hold of it it's got 450 horsepower it
should be fun to drive and I like this
approached by Peugeot it's saying we've
got the technology we can build electric
cars we can build autonomous cars but
people ain't gonna buy them unless they
look cool what
thing right over to Renault another
all-electric autonomous concept but
something quite different this is their
take on what the autonomous car of the
future is going to look like and it's
quite a lot longer it's called the easy
Ultimo and it is basically a vision of
what a luxury car is going to look like
it's as long as a rolls-royce phantom
it's lower than a mini in there you've
got seating for three people you've got
walnut on the floor you've got marble on
the walls perhaps not the best material
for building an efficient car but hey
Who am I to question it and there may be
a little question over the ground
clearance if you can just get a look at
the wheel down there you've got roughly
I don't know three to four millimeters
my problem is yeah it's all well and
good would I like to be whisked to work
sitting in the back of that yes I would
but are they ever going to make these
cars I mean they will because they're
just so enormous you can only fit about
three of them in central London and I
capture that doesn't make much sense
yes look at this this is a car I've
fallen in love with completely just from
seeing pictures of it the new Suzuki
Jimny and this is the first time I've
seen it in the flesh and if it's
possible I think I might love it even
more it's just the perfect piece of
design isn't it squared off like a
little Tonka toy a little mini Mercedes
g-class and it's not sophisticated this
thing it's basically designed to be a
budget rugged 4x4 off-roader
but but you know what it's just so so
desirable one thing I will show you if
you come around the back
it's how small this thing is it is by no
means a g-class competitor if you can
see a normal human sitting in the back
there and this is the boot space that
you're left with but who cares about
things like that I've already decided I
love it and that's that
it's a single-seater Ferrari with no
roof and no windscreen it's called the
Ferrari Monza and before I get into all
the details let's just make sure we get
a good look at these this is the sp1 the
one that only has one seat and the black
car behind you
that's the sp2 because it has two seats
what is it well as I said it's called
the Ferrari Monza it's the first in a
range of cars that Ferrari is calling
its I Kona series basically harking back
to cars from its past this one nod
towards the 750 Monza from the 50s and
the 16mm it's very special series of
cars they're gonna cost 1.6 million quid
each they're going to make 499 of them
basically how many two-seaters and how
many single seaters they make or that's
down to customer demand basically the
idea behind this is that you've got your
special series Ferraris the for a 8
pista and the like you've got the normal
cars like the 488 then you've got the
hypest cars these super series like the
year like the laferrari and then this is
on top of that they've got enough
production here 499 cars to fill two
years and the idea is to keep their most
loyal and their most let's photo wealthy
customers happy because when a la
ferrari is launched well there's just
not enough to go around this spreads the
love a little bit you can only buy one
each and it's quite a thing isn't it
under there is basically an 8 12
superfast so six point five liter v12
naturally aspirated 799 brake
horsepowers a little bit more than the
812 rear-wheel-drive nought to sixty 2.9
seconds and a top speed of 186 miles an
hour and I can assure you 186 miles an
hour little insects hitting your
eyeballs will feel like bullets from a
gun but nonetheless
it's not so much about driving it this
thing as admiring it for what it is a
piece of art or by the way if you're
wondering it's got be the two-seater for
me just a quick word for this car it's
from Japan it's called the a spark ow
and what it wants to be what it's
claiming to be is the fastest
accelerating car in the world now
they've already done naught to 60 in 1.9
seconds it's all electric by the way
weighs nothing has lots and lots of
power but if you haven't seen that video
I advise you google it and have a look
straight away the place where they do
the high-speed run is basically in a car
park behind an old industrial building
with a big ditch at the end of the run
off yeah it's a I open it
to say the least pretty amazing what you
can find when you sniff around in the
halls behind the big stands isn't it
this is the Lego stand and this is a
bugatti chiron one-to-one scale made
entirely from Lego if you're looking for
something to keep the kids busy over the
Christmas holidays you should probably
do it three million bits apparently
weighs a ton and a half it actually
drives it's got any electric motor and
they'll do 30 kilometres an hour I'm
told and check this out for push this
it makes noises pretty exciting em
headlights
hazard lights
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I think we better move on I'm gonna get
a little bit obsessed with this one
thing all right time for one of the big
launches of the Paris show this is the
all-new the brand-new BMW 3-series and
what doesn't look too bad does it
especially sick as BMW has been on a bit
of a poor run of design form recently
you'll notice it's nicked the headlights
from the Peugeot 3008 but we'll let that
slide the big story here it's 55
kilograms lighter than before despite
being a bit bigger in all dimensions 41
miel more in the wheelbase we'll take a
quick look around the back
not matters to report really they paid
it pretty safe this car here is the 330i
so that's the 2-liter turbo with about
250 horsepower there's going to be a
330e plug-in hybrid frankly I think
we'll hold out for the m3 we should have
a look at the interior though if we come
over here excuse me sorry stick your
camera in there right it's a bit fresher
it's a bit more modern it's a bit
cleaner a bit more like Audi or Mercedes
in fact then the swarm of black plastic
that BMW is used to the best thing on
the smart stand isn't the speedster
concept that's tucked over there
somewhere
and it's this the in no way unstable
smart mobile disco when I walked past
earlier there was actually a bloke
standing there in that cherry picker pod
about a foot off the ceiling wobbling
about in the breeze playing music I'm
sorry that he's not doing it right now
but what can you do I would not get in
there
keep up we've got a lot to get through
now this is the Mercedes stand and this
is the new a-class but the new a 35 AMG
hot hatch there will be a full fat 400
horsepower plus a 45 mg coming but in
the meantime we've got this to keep us
happy it is a new 2-liter turbocharged
engine 306 horsepower the whole thing's
been tuned up by Mercedes so the chassis
the suspension the steering absolutely
everything gold wheels you got stickers
on the side wings at the back it's not
half a Cepheid this thing it's Mercedes
answer to the Golf R just with a little
bit more flair looking forward to
driving that and over here we have
Mercedes radical replacement for the new
SL roadster this thing will be on sale
this time next I'm joking joke it look
it's a single seater it's called the EQ
what does it EQ silver arrow yes another
retro themed thing this time hulking
back to the speeds of the stream liners
from the 30s very cool
largely irrelevant but it does show that
Mercedes is starting to take electric
cars very seriously in the electric car
you can actually buy is over here
although admittedly you probably walk
straight past it if you didn't know what
it was
it's called the EQC it's another
electric SUV so now we've got the Jaguar
ipace we've got this we've got the Audi
e-tron BMW are doing an electric version
of the x3 there must be something in the
water because they're all arriving at
once yeah around 400 horsepower 250
miles on a charge nought to 60 in about
five seconds all the numbers add up and
as I say they haven't pushed the boat
out that much with the styling but
whereas before it's all been electric
concept cars it's been flights of
fantasy they've been testing the water
it feels like today at this Motor Show
the electric car is landing because this
is a real thing and you can really buy
it
that's probably a better look at it
there in white rather than the
camouflage black blob over there don't
get me wrong not an ugly car but I
always thought the electric revolution
would be more radical okay and on to the
Audi stand which is quite often a Motor
Show in itself when we start here with
the brand new and really quite angry
howdy
a 1 now what's interesting here is if
you look at this from bonnet line you've
got this series event in the nose now
that's a nod to the sport Quattro the
short wheelbase sport Quattro it's also
painting in red and it's got white
wheels this version here again a nod to
that car but quite why they've chosen a
supermini to reference their most
legendary Road car ever I'm not entirely
sure the interior I don't have we can
grab a shot of that in there is
obviously spectacularly good for a car
of this size screens everywhere how do
you really do hate buttons these days
don't they
in terms of engines well the most
powerful engine from launch is 197
horsepower that's until the inevitable
s1 comes along and this model it says in
the back is a 30 TSI and I have no idea
what that means because Audi's naming
structure these days is complete
gibberish over here look
now we've seen them us a Mercedes EQC
this is Audi's version it's called the
e-tron now around these parts this name
is a bit controversial because in French
its honk means turn so if you see any
French people in the background laughing
their heads off that's probably what's
going on
just like the Mercedes it has about 400
horsepower it has 250 miles of range on
the WL TP cycle but the Audi has a few
tricks up its sleeve namely it's an Audi
so it's built brilliantly and secondly
you'll notice it doesn't have any
traditional wing mowers just these
things with cameras on the end and then
screens on the inside of the door
supposedly more aerodynamic supposedly
increases your range I've actually been
having a good look at these well then
why they had to be quite so big if all
you have to get in there's a lens there
why isn't it just a nipple on the
shoulder line there I'm sure there's a
good engineering reason just my
observation
again it's not a radical piece of design
is it the Jag your eye pace looks like a
trailblazer compared to this and the
Mercedes there obviously banking on the
fact that people that are going to
transcend transition to electric cars
want to play it safe they want a comfort
blanket they want to drive a car that
has a boot in the right place and seats
where they expect them and a dash that
looks like something normal the ipace I
love it because it challenges
conventions is different this
Oh take a look at this this is the PB
18e Tron concept and just look it's a
thing of beauty it's the super car of
the future according to Audi anyway such
a bold design isn't it so it's low slung
it's why that's got all the sort of
hallmarks of a mid-engine supercar
except it's got that elongated roof so
it starts to look a little bit more like
a shooting grape there's space for your
groceries back there perhaps a small dog
who knows the big story of course is the
fact that this is an electric car let's
come round here so we can get a look at
the front
the Audi r8 of course into its second
generation could this be the car that
replaces the r8 howdy is obviously
embracing a VTEC in a big big way the
reaction to this thing has been
absolutely insane and the technology is
there it's got 750 horsepower this thing
it'll do nought sixty and two seconds
flat four-wheel drive it looks beautiful
it would obviously cost a lot of money
but then people are prepared to pay that
these days I'd be prepared to pay it for
something that looks like that one of
the stars for me and it's a short hop
over to the post and where we find a
trio of speedsters now that is the three
five six speedster
that is the 3.2 speedster model and that
is the new one that's what we're here to
see there was a concept that we saw a
few months back but this is the
production car they've announced that
they're going to build 1948 of these
cars and the reason for that is because
the Year 1948 June 1948 in fact is when
the 356 speedster was launched it's such
a beautiful thing I'm having to tear my
eyes off it 60 horsepower that thing
head that's what you really need it
wasn't it but let's focus on this the
new one right what is it
it is a retro homage but under that skin
it's basically the running gear from a
gt3 so the four liter 6-cylinder
naturally aspirated engine 500
horsepower 9,000 rpm the body is taken
from a c4 Cabriolet but you don't even
get a folding roof on this thing let's
move around here to get a closer look
now you just get a stretchy piece of
canvas to lob over the top if you get
caught in the rain but there's some
lovely lovely details on this thing the
double bubble rear section of cool
only a two-seater if you see the wing
mirrors they've got this conical retro
design the fuel filler cap that's in the
middle of the front bonnet what proper
GT Department project list this isn't
just a limited edition from the
mainstream Porsche model lineup this is
a pro inga special a gt3 that's been
slathered in stylish bits yeah I'll
leave it there and here's a lesson to
all manufacturers if you've got a bit of
Show stand space to feel just wheel out
your hyper cars you just can't go wrong
this is potentially the greatest 4 car
garage ever assembled Porsche 959
let's walk along the lineup 911 gt1
super rare these things homologation
model for the LeMond racer back in the
90s the Carrera GT yes please
wouldn't gain a v10 screaming v10 over
600 horsepower yet to drive one of those
that's on the bucket list
and of course the Porsche 918 spyder
just chilling out at the end there there
must be a box this full of keys
somewhere around here perhaps around the
back of the sand the keys to these cars
exist somewhere here and I'm going to
find them and onto the Skoda stand where
believe it or not there's a couple of
quite exciting things including this the
Kodiak RS or the Kodiak VRS when it
comes to the UK with the only people
that use the VRS badge it is a hotter go
faster version of the 7c SUV that we
already know and love under there though
it flies against convention because
there wasn't a petrol engine it's a 2
litre diesel with 237 horsepower it'll
do nought 60 in 7 seconds and something
above 130 miles an hour handy when
you're late for dropping the kids off at
school more than the specs though what's
interesting is what this car represents
as we all know Skoda used to be the butt
of jokes it's taken years and years to
shrug that image and it well and truly
has done that now it's reputation is
reliability and value and practicality
the next stage in the Skoda journey is
to add desirability into the mix and
this 40,000 pound Skoda is doing just
that
and you know what quite one-one the
vision RS there's a lot of RS going on
on the Skoda stand today isn't there
it's a more upmarket and more premium
hatchback to sit below the Octavia but
above it in price it's also a hot hatch
this thing because under there we got a
1.5 litre turbocharged petrol engine
with about 150 horsepower and then it
adds a hundred horsepower electric on
top of that so this is a 250 horsepower
Skoda hot hatch and no-one's laughing
are they it looks absolutely fantastic
so that's it that's plenty of Paris
Motorshow for one day I think some of
the big marquee names didn't turn up but
who cares we have fun without them I'm
absolutely knackered so if you could
clear off I'm gonna go and have a
baguette and a pint of wine