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www.insideHALTON.com · OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday, October 12, 2011 · 18 Show h car h hints at f future d design f for f five-door d Volkswagen lk up! model dl Metroland Media Carguide Magazine Visitors to last month's Frankfurt Motor Show got the biggest clue yet as to the look of the production five-door up!, in the shape of the cross up!, one of six small car family concepts that were displayed alongside the three-door city car model. The cross up! previews the five-door up! but with the styling cues of an SUV, including suspension raised by 15 mm all round. The most obvious differences when compared with the standard up! are of course the additional doors and the styling of the C-pillars. While on the three-door car the shoulder line and windows ascend towards the rear near the C-pillars, on the five-door the two elements form a straight line, creating a more upright appearance. Underneath, there is robust silver- coloured underbody protection at both ends. Like the front bumper, the rear bumper also gets a silver cross-bar. That colour is echoed in the matt silver roof rails and the light silver door mirror caps, all offset by the eye-catching Tornado Red paint of the body, which can also be found surrounding the Volkswagen logo in the centre of the 16-inch alloy wheels. On the cross up! study, the red theme continues inside the spacious interior where the seats have red centre panels, offset by grey side panels. The dashboard panel and upper door trim panels are also body-coloured. Other accents, such as the bezels of the air nozzles and the centre console, are designed in black piano paint, while the leather-wrapped steering wheel, gearlever and handbrake all have decorative coloured The VW cross up! concept car shown at the recent Frankfurt Motor Show give a pretty good idea of seams. how the production p car will look. Honda d b building ld gets gold ld for f green Honda Canada has received LEED Canada Gold green-building certification from the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) for its new headquarters office in Markham, Ontario. Completed in May 2010, the facility is Honda's eleventh LEED-certified building in North America. This achievement puts Honda in the lead with the most `green' buildings of any auto manufacturer on the continent. The four-story, 138,000-sq.-ft. office building is one of three buildings on Honda Canada's 54-acre campus. The other two buildings include a Parts Distribution Centre and Technical Building. The campus is now home to about 500 Honda Canada associates and represents an investment of nearly $100 million (land and buildings only). During construction of the campus, the company used locally sourced materials where possible, and diverted construction material from landfills, recycling or reusing 75 per cent of total construction materials. By incorporating energy-saving features such as north-south building orientation and a heat-reflective white roof, Honda Canada's head office uses 33 per cent less energy than that of a traditional office building of the same size. Continued on page 19