It’s been the fifth day of La Carrera Panamericana, which took the teams and their cars from Morelia to Aguascalientes. But let us start with the bad news: La Carrera had it’s first disqualification. For Team father and son Habich #105 the race is over. That make us sad to hear, especially since Team Habich […]

Our friends from Latvia released the Gumball 2007 videos of their journey in the Team 50 BMW M6. The Gumball 2007 lead them from London through France, Belgium and Germany by plane to Turkey and Greece before finishing in Albania. Anyway here’s their video in 4 parts:
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Yesterday Pierre de Thoisy had big problems with his car. That was the chance for Doug Mockett and Angélica Fuentes to get a total advantage of 1:20 minutes on de Thoisy. Normally it is impossible to catch up that big advantage. Especially with only 100 km of ’speed-stage’ left. But on day 6 the […]

Finally some news from our friends of Team Mini Mania! Father and son Herrick are participating in a special Mini Cooper S. They are driving in the Unlimited Class at La Carrera Panamericana. And so far they are doing a great job: they finished most stages around the 25 th place overall. As quick as […]

Pierre de Thoisy and Frederic Stoesser are the winner of the 20th edition of La Carrera Panamericana. Their Studebaker with the number 400 finished as well the last leg of La Carrera, which lead the drivers from Zacatecas to Nuevo Laredo.
The Oldsmobile driven by Doug Mockett and Angelica Fuentes finished second place. The broken clutch, […]

Now that La Carrera Panamericana is finished it’s time to prepare for next year. The first event on our 2008 calendar is the Bueller Cup, which is held from the 23rd of February until 1st of March 2008. Like La Carrera Panamericana Central-America forms the setting for this new event. Panama City forms the start […]

One of the most succesful automotive events this year was the Londino, an invitation-only, transnational treasure hunt with automobiles between London and Portofino. Enough reason for us to catch up with Jens Trulsson, creative director for Londino and the Cartorialist, for an exclusive interview!
Where does your passion for cars come from?
I have always […]

Good news for the Porsche fans: The Porsche 997 Turbo will soon get a facelift and become even faster! The facelift includes a couple optical changes including LED taillights but most importantly a new direct-injection system that adds another 20 hp to a total of 500 hp. Only 30 hp shy of it’s new powerful […]

The sedan version of Audi’s most powerful A6 has been spotted on the roads around the Nurburgring this week. Normally car producers release a sedan version first and then follow with a break version, Audi however did it the other way around with their latest RS models. At the release of the new Audi […]

Time to put two Lamborghini tuners head-to-head with their latest upgrades for the Lamborghini Murcielago LP640:
First up is BF Performance, their performance kit includes a complete exterior and interior upgrade for the Lamborghini Murciélago LP640 and it makes the Murciélago look like a monster.
The bodykit was presented on the IAA Frankfurt Motorshow […]

Last week we got a chance to have a go in a brand new Audi R8. From the moment the car arrived and was parked just outside the garage, with the engine still running, we knew this would be a fabulous afternoon. On the way to Latem Motors it started to rain slightly and by […]

This week GTspirit celebrates it’s second anniversary. As a growing website and community we would like to thank all our readers from the United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, Sweden, Canada, Austria, Poland, Spain, Italy, Finland, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Australia, Portugal, Norway, Hungary, Slovakia, Denmark, Thailand, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia And Montenegro, Croatia, Iceland, […]

After the N400 version of the Aston Martin V8 Vantage coupe that was released at the Frankfurt Motorshow two months ago, Aston Martin has now added a N400 version of the V8 Vantage roadster to the lineup aswell. The N400 is a limited edition version of the Vantage made to celebrate the achievements of the […]

More details of the upcoming Lamborghini Murcielago SV hit the web today. 8 years after the last Lamborghini Diablo ‘Superveloce’ left the factory, Lamborghini starts production of a Murcielago SV. Like the Diablo SV the new Murcielago SV will lack four-wheel drive but instead has all the power on the rear wheels. Biggest eye catcher […]

Some sources inside Bentley say that a prototype of the Arnage is made with the W16 engine from the Bugatti Veyron under the hood. The sources say that they want to produce a Bentley that can be positioned above the Continental Flying Spur in the Bentley bhp-range.
Franz-Josef Paefgen, director of both Bentley as Bugatti, should […]