Archive for December, 2005
Thursday, December 1st, 2005
The new Bugatti Veyron is one of the most interesting and expensive cars launched on the road this year. The performance of this 1001HP supercar will blow you away: Zero to 100 km/h in 2,5 seconds. 0 to 200 km/h in just 7,3 seconds and 0 to 300 km/h in 16,7 seconds. The stopping power […]
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Thursday, December 1st, 2005
The Tango T600 is a smart little 2 person commuter car made by a company called Commuter Cars. It’s ment as clean car (yes, it’s electric) to go to work with. But next to it’s pratical size and it’s clean engine, it’s performance is great. 0 - 100 km/h in 4 seconds and a top […]
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Thursday, December 1st, 2005
For those of you who haven’t seen the third episode of Top Gear season 7 yet. This might be the best part of the episode. Richard Hammond, James May and Jeremy Clarkson were in France to drive three supercars over the newly build super bridge. On their way back they had to decide which of […]
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Thursday, December 1st, 2005
Rumours say that the German police will get a few new cars for their ‘autobahn polizei’. The cars will be Porsche 997 Carrera S types specially tuned by the German tuning company Techart. This model was shown at the Essen Motor Show:
Pictures:
Specs:
Porsche 997 Carrera S
Engine:
TECHART Performance Kit 097/S1
272 KW (370 bhp) @ 6.500 […]
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Thursday, December 1st, 2005
Just found this video of 4 Ferrari’s streetracing near Paris. It features quite a lot of tunnels and the sound of the Ferrari’s acceleration in the tunnels is simply amazing.
The video is filmed from inside a Ferrari 355. The most prominent role in the video is for the Ferrari F50. That car has such […]
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Thursday, December 1st, 2005
The Ferrari Enzo was and actually still is an amazing supercar. But Ferrari managed to make the Enzo look like a Golf GTI compared to their new Ferrari FXX. Not only in ways of performance, specs and design but also in exclusivity. Only 20 Ferrari FXX’s will be made and they are definatly hard to […]
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Thursday, December 1st, 2005
I just found this on another blog:
Brian Arner brings us the item below. Didn’t Canada just put the brakes on government?
Brian posts part of an article:
Transport Canada is road-testing cutting-edge devices that use global positioning satellite technology and a digital speed-limit map to know when a driver is speeding, and to try to […]
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Thursday, December 1st, 2005
Team Ghost Rider just released a new downloadable video.
In the video “Officer” Ghost Rider is chasing a green Kawasaki ZX-6R somewhere in Sweden, most likely in Stockholm.
The quality of the video is crap and in the beginning the sun in shining and they’re driving towards it, so you can’t really see much from the tank […]
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Thursday, December 1st, 2005
Three more days until the 2005 edition of the Essen Motor Show is over. The Essen Motor Show is the European tuning showoff of the year and it’s becoming more and more a competitor for the American SEMA show. All major tuners are represented with their best merchandise!
For those of you who can’t make […]
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Friday, December 2nd, 2005
EDO presented their new Maserati MC12 R at the Essen Motor Show 2005. EDO managed to make the allready impressive Maserati MC12 even more powerful.
Specs:
Maserati MC12 R
Motor: 6 litre V12
Achievement: 700 BHP / 514 kW @ 8.200 RPM
Max. Torque: 715 Nm @ 5.800 RPM
Maximum speed: 370 km/h
0 – 100 km/h: 3,5s
0 – 200 km/h: […]
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Friday, December 2nd, 2005
A green Mosler MT900 S was shown at the Essen Motor Show. The Mosler MT900 S is based on the Mosler MT900 R which isn’t road legal. The MT900 R was first designed for American endurance races. The next aim is winning the 24 hours of Le Mans. The price for the road legal S […]
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
Here’s a small update of our previous post about the Ferrari FXX.
The one for sale at ebay is sold for $3.000.100!! And finally the reserve is met. The last auction of the same car bounced at $2.350.500 because the sellers reserve was not met, in other words the seller wanted more then that for a […]
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Sunday, December 4th, 2005
Tonight at 8PM is the 4th episode of the 7th season of Top Gear. I can’t wait to see it. Here’s what’s on tonights show:
Richard Hammond starts off in a Pagani Zonda F, which sets the fastest time around the Top Gear testtrack with the stig at the wheel.
Next Jezza, Richard and James are on […]
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Sunday, December 4th, 2005
The SSC Ultimate Aero scored a stunning number one position in the recent ‘Fastest American Car’ list of Forbes magazine. This list was based on topspeeds of factory-assembled vehicles by American manufacturers.
The SSC Ultimate Aero is one of the fastest cars to look forward to next year. The Ultimate Aero has a huge 1046 […]
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Monday, December 5th, 2005
Some of you might remember this car from the promotional line-up at the start of the Gumball 3000 in may 2005. It’s the Gumpert Apollo. Back in may it was still a concept car, but the car is in serial production now and the delivery of the first car can be expected this month. The […]
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