Paris Motor Show (2010) Preview

Paris Show 2010

The Paris Motor Show 2010 is looming on the horizon – actually, it’s less than a week away and only four days to the press day – so we thought we ought to have a quick preview of what you can expect if you decide to jump on the Eurostar for a trip.

Everything we know is already on Cars UK somewhere, but for those who’ve turned up fresh looking for Paris Motor Show news it’ll help to have a preview page.

We will try to update this page as we get more news from the Paris Motor Show, but you can always get to the latest stuff by checking out the Paris Motor Show 2010 category which lists all the show’s stories.

Audi

Audi A1 1.4 TFSI Audi’s should-have-been S1

Audi A7 Another Sportback from Audi which will also morph in to the next A6

Audi S7 The hot A7 could make an appearance

Audi UrQuattro Concept A recreation of the original Audi Quattro, Based on shortened S5 with 500bhp.

Bentley

Bentley Continental GT 2011 The new titivated Continental GT

BMW

BMW 1 Series M Coupe The car that isn’t an M1 should bow in.

BMW X3 2011 BMW’s new X3

BMW 6 Series 2011 The new 6 Series turns up as a concept. But it’s not.

BMW EfficientDynamics Expect a new BMW ED Concept – Perhaps even a close-to-ready BMW M1. Or not.

Chevrolet

Chevrolet Aveo 2011 The half-decent looking new Aveo

Chevrolet Cruze Hatch This is the production-ready version.

Chevrolet Captiva A facelift. Nothing more

Chevrolet Orlando Chevrolet are launching their compact, seven seat MPV

Citroen

Citroen C4 The mainstream C4 arrives

Citroen DS4 More interestingly, so does the upmarket Citroen DS4

Citroen Lacoste The concept with wheels that are a cross between a waffle iron and a golf ball.

Ferrari

Ferrari SA APERTA The Ferrari 599 Roadster appears.

Fiat

Abarth 500C EsseEsse The hottest 500 Convertible arrives

Punto Evo EsseEsse As does the hottest Punto

Fisker

Fisker Karma We get the first ‘Production’ Fisker Karma

Ford

Ford Focus – the 5 Door We get treated to the five door version of Ford’s new best-seller

Ford Focus ST 2011/2012 Ford’s ‘It’ll do ’til the RS arrives’ Focus ST shows; a year before it arrives.

Ford Fiesta ST 2011/2012 Bit of a long-shot, this one. But it does look like it’s coming soon.

Honda

Honda Jazz hybrid (& facelift) A Honda, hybrid supermini

Hyundai

Hyundai ix20 The Hyundai version of the Kia Venga

Hyundai i10 facelift Hyundai’s baby gets a facelift

Infiniti

Infiniti M35h Infiniti delivers its promising M hybrid

Jaguar

Jaguar C-X75 Concept The C-X75 is, we think, a concept for a small Jaguar Roadster – the Jaguar C-Type

Kia

Kia Pop Concept Could this be a  new city car from Kia?

Kia Optima The Mondeo-sized Kia comes to life.

Lamborghini

Lamborghini Jota The replacement for the Murcielago. Probably

Lamborghini LP5502 Valentino Balboni Spyder Soft top version of the 2WD Balboni

Lamborghini ? A V10 concept of some description

Land Rover

Range Rover Evoque The Range Rover Evoque gets its firts public outing.

Lotus

Lotus Evora S The Supercharged Evora arrives

Lotus Evora Auto So Americans can drive a Lotus

Lotus Elite Lotus attempts an Aston Martin impersonation

Lotus Esprit Will it appear. Or was it the Elite coming all along?

Maserati

Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale Hot Maserati

Mazda

Mazda 2 Facelift The little Mazda 2 gets tweaked

Mazda Shinari Concept Mazda’s design direction in concept form

Mercedes

Mercedes CLS 2011 Mercedes most individual model gets it’s 2011 update

MINI

MINI Facelift Bonus points if you can see what’s been nipped and tucked

MINI Cooper Diesel S A more potent diesel MINI

Nissan

Nissan GT-R Spec M The ‘Luxury version of the GT-R

Peugeot

Peugeot EX1 Concept Another electric concept

Peugeot 3008 Hybrid4 The first hybrid diesel – ready for production

Peugeot 508 Peugeot’s replacement for the 407 & 607 bows in

Porsche

Porsche 911 Carrera GTS Wide bodied 911 with 400bhp+

Porsche 911 Speedster The humps are back

Renault

Renault Laguna 2011 Facelift A small tweak. A very small tweak.

Renault Twizy Renault’s electric city car – production ready

Saab

Saab 9-3 ePower Electric version of the 9-3.

Toyota

Toyota Verso S Toyota’s mini MPV bows in

Vauxhall

Vauxhall Astra GTC Three door Astra – and foretelling the Astra VXR

Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer The Astra Estate

Volkswagen

VW Passat Facelift Not radical, but there

Volvo

Volvo V60 The S60 becomes an Estate. Just don’t say Estate to Volvo

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