Archive for February, 2007
Thursday, February 1st, 2007
The X1 prototype is a concept car, and a test platform. It is not a production car, and never will be. It’s a proof-of-concept vehicle that will lead to a production car in the future.
Last year we saw a gas powered Ariel Atom in the Cannonball 8000, let’s hope we see more of them in […]
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Sunday, February 4th, 2007
The SSC Ultimate Aero Twin Turbo is loaded with more bhp than the producers expected themselves. The very nice 6.3l Chevrolet V8 has 1180 bhp thanks to a twin turbo engine. All of this is mounted into a street legal body. Thanks to all those horses the SSC Ultimate Aero is a very big […]
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Sunday, February 4th, 2007
Here is the Team Darkcyd video of the Players Run 2005 event. The video is 45 minutes long and shows the highlights of the rally from Seattle to Las Vegas. While they lost some great footage due to variables beyond their control, it was edited very well and will give you a good idea […]
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Monday, February 5th, 2007
Alex Roy just supplied us with a teaser for the upcoming “Team Polizei Compilation of Infamy”. In the video you see the Team Polizei M5 in action on the way to the Italian checkpoint of Taormina during the 6th edition of the Gumball 3000. The M5 early collides with a Gumball EVO who according to […]
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
We are glad to announce a partnership between GTspirit and Uberdrive. Uberdrive organises a range of car events including a seven day rally through Europe and the famous ‘Limit Exceeded’ airfield / trackdays. Our partnership includes exclusive coverage of the Uberdrive events, frequent updates from both drivers and organisers and a dedicated Uberdrive forum hosted […]
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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
Today we received the first photo of the Cannonball Run Saleen Mustang we reported about last week. It’s a 281 Saleen with stock 550 BHP, for the Cannonball Run editions this will be upgraded to 600 BHP. This huge power lights up the tyres from 1st to 4th gear. It can do 100 mph at […]
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Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
A short but nice video of the McLaren SLR 722 edition in action in the Dubai desert. For high-res photos of the beauty click here.
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Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
Now that more and more 1000+ bhp cars are comming, Dodge said: “why not produce a Viper having a 1000 bhp” so said so done and they called their US-Tuner Hennessey. He said “ok, let’s put a twin-turbo on the V10!”
To keep the Venom 1000 a bit special, there only will be built 24 models […]
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Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
Today we can bring the world very exclusive Gumball 2007 news. We got the complete Gumball 2007 route including checkpoints, locations of car displays, hotels and of course the parties. This is what every Gumball 3000 fan has been waiting for! Big thanks to our dutch buddies for submitting this!
Gumball 2007 Route:
28th April […]
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Friday, February 9th, 2007
We found 4 amazing Lamborghini video’s, it about a drive from LOC to Marina Del Rey, in the USA, with 5 Diablo’s 6.0, 1 LP640, 3 Murciélago’s, 1 Murciélago Roadster, 1 Diablo VT Roadster, TT Gallardo!
As the maker says: “Everything went fine except from the 3 unexpected black and whites.”
Just watch this and enjoy […]
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Saturday, February 10th, 2007
Automobile Mag published an article about a recent challenge; Gumball 3000 legend Alex Roy & co-pilot Ezra Dyer in a Bentley Continental GT Convertible versus a FedEx Jet.
They received a ‘very important’ package in New York that had to be taken to Miami as fast as possible. After driving the Bentley Continental GT […]
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Monday, February 12th, 2007
According to a group of UK motoring experts the Ferrari Enzo is the greatest car that money can buy. The Enzo won the price based on performance, exclusivity, brand heritage and style status in the Zurich Iconic Car Index, developed for Zurich Private Clients. Our number one would have been another car that’s also in […]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
This is a special version of the yet phantastic Aston Martin and there will only be 40 made of it. It will have a full manual gearbox. The new S will be able to do more than 200 mph!
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
This car will be made in limited edition and this just as an answer on the in 2008 released Dodge Viper. The more powerfull corvette is not really hot news because there were a lot of stories about a Corvette named SS, ZO7, Blue Devil or Sting Ray.
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
The Carrera Panamerican Team has allready received 17 entry forms for the 20th Anniversary of La Carrera Panamericana!
The start grid includes two cars of Discovery Channel from Joe RamÃrez with Alberto Cruz.
Hans Kleissel, famous German tuner of Mercedes Benz cars specialized in 300 SL models, has asked for an entry, too. He will driving a […]
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