Archive for August, 2008
Spyker to build lightweight race-derived C8 LM 85
Take your exotic sports car and put it in a room with its racing counterpart. Put on some R&B, dim the lights and wait nine months. It’s a winning formula that has worked for some of the world’s best automakers and resulted in such stunning performance vehicles as the Ferrari 430 Scuderia, Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera, [...]
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Spy shots: RR4 wearing even less camouflage
The RR4 — the Rolls-Royce that asks that you “don’t call me ‘baby’” — is slowly undressing, striptease-like, before its final reveal at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show. Previous spy shots hinted at rear suicide doors, or coach doors as Rolls-Royce refers to them, and now it is official: the hinges on the rear door [...]
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Tanner tests his Top Gear skills on the Lambo Reventon
One-third of American Top Gear, Tanner Foust, spent a day in the Lamborghini Reventon, and here’s his verdict: “Thumbs up big girl!” The fractional bit of additional horsepower didn’t mean much to him, but he did say the brakes were more capable, and, surprise, the car is quite wide and people like to stare at [...]
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Ultimate rally car collection hits the block
In the eighties, the late David Sutton owned the company that prepared rally cars for Audi UK. It turns out he was collecting cars at the same time as he was preparing them, and putting them in his Historic Motors Ltd museum. The assortment includes seven Audis, some of which are Group B monsters, as [...]
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Weekend Entertainment: “One Cab’s Family”
Judging by your comments, watching “Susie the Little Blue Coupe” yesterday brought back memories for many of you. Another thing that became very apparent is that you also hold Tex Avery’s 1952 short, “One Cab’s Family” in extremely high regard, and commenter “raf 280z” stuck a link to it in the thread. Like Susie, the [...]
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Detroit Grand Prix 08: The Detroit Sports Car Challenge (Spoiler Alert)
As part of the revival of the Detroit Grand Prix at Belle Isle last year, the Detroit Sports Car Challenge was added as the highlight of Saturday’s activities. The sports car race is back this year as the ninth round of the American Le Mans Series. For those who have never checked out an ALMS [...]
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Nano’s future less clear thanks to plant siege
With work halted at the factory that is to build the Tata Nano, the future of the world’s cheapest car is uncertain. Well, we’re still pretty certain that it will be built somewhere, but the details are much more hazy now that people in the West Bengal region have spoken out against the way Tata [...]
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Boston taxi fleet to be hybrid by 2015
Following the examples set down by New York and San Francisco, Boston is now requiring that all its taxis be hybrids by the year 2015. The fleet currently boasts about 50 of the gas saving cars but most of the rest of the fleet of 1825 people movers are Crown Victorias. Although the hybrids can [...]
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This is why Tesla brought the Roadsters to Europe
OK, so if you were wondering what could be gained by schlepping a batch of Tesla Roadsters across the pond, I have your answer: convincing European automotive journalists that EVs are wicked cool.
Take, for example, the feelings of Guido Reinking, the editor of Automobilwoche. Before feeling what it’s like to be behind the wheel of [...]
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Volkswagen Caddy Van Features a Wooden Boat Deck For Sunbathing
The designers at Volkswagen brought out the big guns for an upcoming recreational vehicle show in Düsseldorf, Germany by crossing one of their small commercial Caddy vans with a sailboat. While the Caddy Topos Sail design is not capable of traveling on water, it does feature a sailboat style deck on the roof that can [...]
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