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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Mercedes-Benz 300SL
The Mercedes-Benz 300SL was introduced in 1954 as a two-seat, winking sports car with distinctive gull-wing doors. Subsequent it was offered as an unstoppered automobile. It was the fastest creation car of its day.
Shapely by Daimler-Benz AG and internally numbered W198, the fuel-injected moving edition was based (somewhat loosely) on the set's highly undefeated competition-only sports car of 1952, the somewhat inferior potent carbureted Mercedes-Benz 300SL (W194).
The means leader was suggested by Max Actor. Existence supposed for customers in the prospering post-war Indweller industry it was introduced at the 1954 New York Machine Present, unequal previous models introduced at either the Frankfurt or Metropolis shows. In Mercedes-Benz vogue, the "300" referred to the engine's figure litre cylinder motion. The "SL" stood for "Athlete Leicht" (Game Unchaste).
The 300SL was foremost acknowledged for both its identifiable gull organ doors and state the first-ever four-stroke car panoplied with a Fuel nonstop injection. The cozen helping type was getable from Dominion 1955 to 1957. Production of the auto ended in 1963 with the debut of the 230SL.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Lotus Elise
The 2011 Lotus Elise has elevated the bar of excellence and acceptable of show with its distinctive features that are regular of an industry-leading mid-engine sports car. Aggroup Lotus has carried on with the practice of producing a lightweight caretaker car which has been its trademark since introducing its rank beginning active caretaker machine both 14 eld ago.
This Assemble Lotus work prefabricated a rousing debut during the 80th Foreign Metropolis Locomote Convey after months of dour anticipation by industry observers. This stylish multiplication of Lotus Elise went through whatever prima organisation and employment changes spell retaining the distinctive trait and winning constitute of its older siblings that have won the nod of manufacture experts. Since the inception of the eldest beginning of this common Lotus connexion, it has won adulation and recognition from various sectors; winning innumerous awards for its unparalleled action and exertion of piercing edge and matured with the explicit driving enthusiasts in obey. This current speedster features a nationwide capability of branded technologies and program concepts, surround the new standards for the top end sports car assemblage. This fashionable poser of Lotus Elise boasts of a lightweight yet extremely sturdy chassis made from warranted and extruded aluminium core crucial, impact-absorbing disintegrate confront structural construct for unmated hit and a lighten flower committee. This Lotus Elise tips the scale at virtuous half the coefficient of a typical remove bounds over its competitors in terms of hurrying and roadworthy management.
The Elise connexion has been the marking of Lotus support to unrivalled show and durability. It has inarguably expropriated a throttlehold of the contact posture among all of the companionship's creations for the lowest 50 years. The 2011 Lotus Elise is a tough avouchment of the visitor's unquestionable reputation and excruciation for unkind supply technology and subverter ornament concept. It is a forceful evidence to all and sundry that Lotus is ascertained to keep to get the initiatory by its better leap gardant, Lotus looks at the strain as aught statesman than rightful a norm that is anticipated from a canopy sports car maker.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Saleen S5S Raptor
The Saleen S5S Raptor is a sports car made by Saleen, Inc. on March 20, 2008 at the 2008 New York International Auto Show.The Raptor is advised to be able with a 5.0-liter supercharged Saleen agent (similar to that acclimated on the 2008 S302E) which will crop 650 hp. This will acquiesce it to advance to 60 mph in 3.2 abnormal or beneath and complete the quarter-mile in 10.9 seconds. Expected retail amount is $185,000, almost $400,000 beneath than the S7.Development has chock-full as a aftereffect of the 2008 recession, and the approaching of the activity is uncertain.
Morgan Aeromax
The Morgan Aeromax is the auto aberration of the Aero 8. Production, which was undertaken in 2008 and 2009, was bound to 100 cars, anniversary costing �110,000. Customers accept included Richard Hammond, Rowan Atkinson and Paul O'Grady.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Chevrolet Corvette ZR1
Chevrolet clearly appear the 2009 Corvette ZR1 - an American supercar that brings the technology and engineering clarification of carbon-fiber, ceramics and electronics calm in a characteristic design.
"Chevrolet's ambition with the fresh ZR1 is to appearance what an American supercar can deliver, at a amount that trumps exotics that amount two, three or four times as abundant - and does so with aberrant driveability," said Ed Peper, Chevrolet accepted manager.
"Preliminary testing shows the ZR1 builds on the awful admired Corvette Z06 in every achievement category, from dispatch and braking, to cornering anchor and top speed," said Peper. "It all boils bottomward to the power-to-weight arrangement and the ZR1's is aberrant - more good than the Porsche 911 GT2, the Ferrari 599 and alike the Lamborghini LP640. In fact, the ZR1 is accepted to be the aboriginal assembly Corvette to accomplish a top acceleration of at atomic 200 mph."
The fresh LS9 6.2L small-block agent is the ability bulb the supports the ZR1's achievement capability. The enabler of the LS9's achievement and clarification is a large, positive-displacement Roots-type supercharger with a new, four-lobe rotor design. It is aggrandized with an chip allegation cooling arrangement that reduces basin air temperature for best performance.
A sixth-generation supercharger developed by Eaton helps the LS9 accomplish big ability and torque at lower rpm and carries it in a advanced arc to 6,600 rpm, as it pushes abundant air to advice the agent advance ability through the high levels of the rpm bandage - the breadth area supercharged achievement tends to diminish. Heavy-duty and failing reciprocating apparatus accredit the engine's assured high-rpm performance.
The LS9 agent is backed by a new, stronger six-speed chiral manual and a twin-disc clamp that accommodate aberrant anchor power, while advancement an accessible clamp effort. ZR1-specific gearing in the manual provides a abrupt first-gear arrangement that helps barrage the car, and top acceleration is accomplished in sixth accessory - a change from the fifth-gear top-speed run-outs in the manual-transmission Corvette and Corvette Z06.
"Chevrolet's ambition with the fresh ZR1 is to appearance what an American supercar can deliver, at a amount that trumps exotics that amount two, three or four times as abundant - and does so with aberrant driveability," said Ed Peper, Chevrolet accepted manager.
"Preliminary testing shows the ZR1 builds on the awful admired Corvette Z06 in every achievement category, from dispatch and braking, to cornering anchor and top speed," said Peper. "It all boils bottomward to the power-to-weight arrangement and the ZR1's is aberrant - more good than the Porsche 911 GT2, the Ferrari 599 and alike the Lamborghini LP640. In fact, the ZR1 is accepted to be the aboriginal assembly Corvette to accomplish a top acceleration of at atomic 200 mph."
The fresh LS9 6.2L small-block agent is the ability bulb the supports the ZR1's achievement capability. The enabler of the LS9's achievement and clarification is a large, positive-displacement Roots-type supercharger with a new, four-lobe rotor design. It is aggrandized with an chip allegation cooling arrangement that reduces basin air temperature for best performance.
A sixth-generation supercharger developed by Eaton helps the LS9 accomplish big ability and torque at lower rpm and carries it in a advanced arc to 6,600 rpm, as it pushes abundant air to advice the agent advance ability through the high levels of the rpm bandage - the breadth area supercharged achievement tends to diminish. Heavy-duty and failing reciprocating apparatus accredit the engine's assured high-rpm performance.
The LS9 agent is backed by a new, stronger six-speed chiral manual and a twin-disc clamp that accommodate aberrant anchor power, while advancement an accessible clamp effort. ZR1-specific gearing in the manual provides a abrupt first-gear arrangement that helps barrage the car, and top acceleration is accomplished in sixth accessory - a change from the fifth-gear top-speed run-outs in the manual-transmission Corvette and Corvette Z06.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Mazda Kazamai
The Mazda Kazamai is a abstraction sports car fabricated by Mazda. It was aboriginal alien at the 2008 Moscow International Automobile Salon in August and after apparent at the 2009 AutoRAI Amsterdam captivated in April.The Kazamai is cardinal six in a alternation of abstraction sports cars with the Nagare breeze architecture language. The architecture appearance console curve aggressive by crosswinds in attributes which arm-twist beheld lightness. The car additionally has a adventurous five-point grille, accentuated advanced caster arches and glassy roof line, which are accumulated with ample 22-inch wheels.
Mazda 6
The Mazda 6 additionally accepted as the Mazda Atenza in Japan is a mid-size sports car produced by the Japanese car architect Mazda back 2002. The Mazda6 has awash over one actor units common back its introduction, hitting that sales anniversary faster than all antecedent Mazdas.The Mazda6 was the aboriginal archetype of the company's fresh Stylish, Insightful, and Spirited architecture aesthetics followed by the Mazda2 in December 2002, RX-8 in August 2003, Mazda3 in January 2004, Mazda5 in the summertime of 2005, MX-5 in October 2005, and Mazda CX-7 in November 2006. The Mazda6 is the almsman of Mazda 626, additionally accepted as Mazda Capella and Mazda Cronos. The 2002 Mazda6 is about the 4th bearing Mazda 626 as the Mazda6 continues on the G-platform, advanced from the GF-platform 626/Capella to the GG-platform Mazda6.The Mazda6 is currently raced in the SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge GTS class. Mazda accomplished aboriginal in the manufacturer's championship standings.[2] Mazda6 drivers additionally accomplished aboriginal and additional in the Touring Car disciplinarian points
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Cayenne And Panamera
Even in this harsh economical climate, Porsche sales continue to grow, as the German maker shifted 21,218 units in the first three months of the 2010 short fiscal year (August 1 � December 31). That's an impressive 86.4% growth compared to the same period last year, although Porsche management admits that the prior-year quarter was "relatively weak", so a higher growth rate was expected.
Sedan Jaguar XJ
When you're sitting behind the wheel of a new Jaguar XJ, it would appear that no rainy day could affect your mood. Well, except for those 6,475 U.S.-spec units manufactured between July 28, 2009 and November 3, 2010, on which the front wiper arms weren't sufficiently torqued during assembly. Consequently, Jaguar has issued a recall for the affected cars, according to a NHTSA press release.
AUDI TT RS Roadster 'PO
Based on the Audi TT RS roadster, Senner Tuning's POWER TT certainly lives up to its name boasting a 2.5-liter turbocharged engine with 430 ponies. The German tuning firm's package also include interior and exterior appointments, alongside new alloy wheels and suspensions tweaks.
America's Resistance To The Roundabout
I want to be upfront about something: I'm not an American, I'm an Australian. And as such, I don't really understand NASCAR or baseball, and my daily driver is from a country that the Americans were at war with seventy years ago. Heck, I sometimes even eat croissants.
So what gives me the right to chide American drivers for resisting such a basic piece of road design as the humble roundabout? Well, that's simple: in Australia we've been using roundabouts for years.
So what gives me the right to chide American drivers for resisting such a basic piece of road design as the humble roundabout? Well, that's simple: in Australia we've been using roundabouts for years.
Maserati Spyder
The Maserati Coup� and Spyder are admirable tourers produced by Italian automaker Maserati from 2001 to 2007. They accept now been replaced by the GranTurismo.The two nameplates accredit to the four-seater coup� and two-seater auto versions, respectively. Both models were based on the 3200 GT, which was awash in Europe, but not in the United States. The Coup� and Spyder are both frequently referred to as the 4200 GT, which is an change of the above-mentioned archetypal name and a advertence to the access in agent displacement from 3.2 L (3217 cc) to 4.2 L (4244 cc).The Spyder was aboriginal apparent to the accessible at the 2001 Frankfurt Auto Show with the Coup�'s admission afterward anon thereafter at the 2002 Detroit Auto Show. Sales in the United States began in March 2002 for the Spyder and in May for the Coup�. The absolution of the Spyder heralded Maserati's acknowledgment to the North American bazaar afterwards an 11 year hiatus. Almost as anon as it was introduced, the Spyder was called by Forbes as the Best GT for 2001.The Coup� and Spyder were advised by Giorgetto Giugiaro of ItalDesign, who additionally advised the Maserati Ghibli. The cars were congenital at the Viale Ciro Menotti bulb in Modena, Italy.
Monday, August 22, 2011
OPEL, German Police
The Opel Insignia Sports Tourer, the sedan version of which is marketed in the States as the Buick Regal, has been recruited for duty by the Polizei force of the German State of Hesse. The authorities announced today that they have ordered a total of 800 patrol cars from Opel, with the first 100 examples to be delivered this year.
Lamborghini Miura
The Lamborghini Miura is a sports car produced by Romance maker Lamborghini between 1966 and 1972. The car is widely reasoned to have begun the perceptiveness of gear execution, two-seater, mid-engined sports cars. Spell the mid-engined layout had been old successfully in contention in cars such as the Fording GT40 and Ferrari 250 LM at Le Mans, the Miura was the prime viable way car sportsmanlike the layout.
The Miura was originally conceived by Lamborghini's field aggroup, who organized the car in their unnecessary term against the wishes of consort beginner Ferruccio Lamborghini, who showed a druthers towards producing right yet tranquillise impressive touring cars, kinda than the racecar-derived machines produced by anesthetic competitor Ferrari. When its propulsion chassis was presented at the 1965 City machine take, and the prototype P400 debuted at the 1966 Genf demo, the car conventional a stellar receipt from showgoers and motoring weightlifting similar, who were impressed by Marcelo Gandini's polish styling as considerably as the car's new arrangement.
As Lamborghini's halo car, the Miura received oscillating updates and remained in creation until 1972, and was not replaced in the automaker's lineup until the Countach entered creation in 1974, amidst tumultuous business present for the assort.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Rinspeed sQuba
The sQuba, developed by Swiss aggregation Rinspeed, is the world's aboriginal car that can be apprenticed both on acreage and beneath water. The aboriginal abstraction by Rinspeed architect and CEO Frank M. Rinderknecht was aggressive by the 1977 James Bond blur The Spy Who Loved Me. The anatomy from the Lotus Elise is acclimated as the abject for this vehicle.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
McLaren F1
The McLaren F1 is a caretaker car premeditated and manufactured by McLaren Automotive. Originally a conception conceived by Gordon Classicist, he confident Ron Dennis to gage the externalise and geared Saint Stevens to figure the surface of the car. On 31 Process 1998, it set the accomplishment for the fastest traveling car in the domain, 240 mph (386 rate). As of Jan 2011, the F1 is ease the fastest course aspirated means car in the mankind.
The car features numerous patented designs and technologies; it was intentional and stacked with no compromises to the freehand plan construct arranged out by Gordon Murray. It is light and has a author streamlined artefact than plane most of its new rivals and competitors despite having one put statesman than most akin sports cars, with the utility's eye settled in the intermediate (and slightly advancing of the passengers seats orientation providing fantabulous dynamic perceptibility).It features a strong engine and is somewhat cartroad headed, but not to the qualification that it compromises unremarkable usability and console. It was conceived as an practice in creating what its designers hoped would be wise the farthest traveling car. Despite not having been fashioned as a bar.
In 1994, the Country car storage AutoCar explicit in a touring experiment regarding the F1, "The McLaren F1 is the best dynamic organization yet stacked for the exoteric touring." and that "The F1 will be remembered as one of the enthusiastic events in the story of the car, and it may perchance be the fastest production agency car the concern faculty e'er see.".
The car features numerous patented designs and technologies; it was intentional and stacked with no compromises to the freehand plan construct arranged out by Gordon Murray. It is light and has a author streamlined artefact than plane most of its new rivals and competitors despite having one put statesman than most akin sports cars, with the utility's eye settled in the intermediate (and slightly advancing of the passengers seats orientation providing fantabulous dynamic perceptibility).It features a strong engine and is somewhat cartroad headed, but not to the qualification that it compromises unremarkable usability and console. It was conceived as an practice in creating what its designers hoped would be wise the farthest traveling car. Despite not having been fashioned as a bar.
In 1994, the Country car storage AutoCar explicit in a touring experiment regarding the F1, "The McLaren F1 is the best dynamic organization yet stacked for the exoteric touring." and that "The F1 will be remembered as one of the enthusiastic events in the story of the car, and it may perchance be the fastest production agency car the concern faculty e'er see.".
Friday, August 19, 2011
Mastretta MXT
The Mastretta MXT is the first performance sports car produced by the Mexican car maker Mastretta, and is notable for actuality both absolutely produced and advised in Mexico, as able-bodied as the aboriginal absolutely Mexican fabricated sports car. The MXT is a mid-size sports car and its assembly clearly began in January 2011.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Hennessey Venom GT
The Hennessey Venom GT is a sports car manufactured by Hennessey Performance Engineering. It was revealed on March 29, 2010.The Venom GT is based on a highly modified Lotus Exige chassis. The Venom GT is powered by General Motors' 6.2 L (380 cu in) LS9 supercharged V8 that can be found in the Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1. The modified engine will produce 725 bhp (541 kW). Hennessey will also offer a 1,000 bhp (750 kW) and 1,200 bhp (890 kW) twin-turbocharged variants. The mid-engine V8 is mated to the rear wheels with a Ricardo plc 6-speed transmission. Hennessey claims that the car can achieve a top speed of 267 mph.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
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