We found this video of the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport L’Or Blanc at the Frankfurt Motor Show and thought you’d like to see it.
This special edition roadster is the first production vehicle to use porcelain for its interior and exterior styling.
While it remains unclear if the car has been sold, the original asking price was €1.65 ($2.27) million.
Watch the new 911 driven on the road for the first time. Enjoy!
A new high definition video featuring the Lamborghini Aventador is making rounds on the internets today. The three-minute video shows the supercar’s evolution from sketchpad-to-reality, with many steps along the way.
Some of the scenes in the video include shots of the car at CAD stage and then becoming a model, as well as the fabrication and testing of body panels, the engine, and the interior. It closes out with a few shots of the finished product pulling out of Lamborghini’s Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy, headquarters, and heading down the road.
[Source: Lamborghini]
Car and Driver has done a very nice comparison test incl. video of the Audi quattro concept and the Audi Ur-quattro. A must see!
These days, Audi is a lit skyrocket. The Volkswagen Group has poured cash and technical resources into its upscale brand during the past decade with the intention of moving it in line with BMW and Mercedes-Benz in the hearts of its primarily German, American, and Chinese customers. Having recently delighted in the new A8 and in selecting the aging A6 over its competitors in a comparison test [August 2010], we’d say the Ingolstadt boys are succeeding.
The plainly named Quattro Concept began as sketches two years ago but was built in just four months, says the man described as its father, Wolfgang Egger, head of Audi Group Design. Egger bristles at the suggestion that the Concept is retro, saying the idea was to “look back but also look forward” by cribbing certain unmistakable cues from the original Quattro Coupe (1980–1991), such as the chopped tail and triangular C-pillars, but experiment with a new face and more sophisticated surfaces. The guiding principles of the design, according to Audi, were that it be a compact two-seater with a curb weight less than 3000 pounds, use a downsized but high-output engine consistent with current powertrain trends, and, of course, feature Quattro technology.
As with many auto-show stage queens, the one-off Quattro Concept rides on a donor production chassis, namely that of an A5-based RS5 supercoupe. Audi Quattro GmbH, the Neckarsulm-based Audi skunkworks responsible for engineering the high-performance RS models as well as the mid-engine R8, worked on the Concept’s dirty parts.
Luca di Montezemolo testing the New Stratos from New Stratos on Vimeo.
Here’s a video of Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo test driving the upcoming Lancia Stratos revival which features a Ferrari-sourced 4.3 liter V8 under the rear bonnet.
We await final details on the model but it is expected to be a top performing supercar with a power-to-weight ratio of 2.25 kg/hp or 364 hp per tonne and a dead-even weight distribution of 50:50.
The Stratos will be highly limited series with only around 25 units to be built.
[Source: Fiat Group]
7000HP+ from the Baddest Mustangs on the Street with the Video to Prove It
5.0 Magazine and AmericanMuscle.com’s King of the Street 2010
MALVERN, PA, FRIDAY, 10/08/2010: Every year the fastest and meanest street-able Mustangs in the country head to Bowling Green, KY for the King of the Street competition. 8-Second Mustang’s and 7000 horsepower, how could we miss that? AmericanMuscle joined 5.0 Mustang editors Steve Turner, Mike Johnson, and KJ Jones to determine who really is the King of the Street. The competition consists of 6 judged categories:
The Dyno Competition - 10/1/2010
All 9 contestants would face-off in a dyno competition to see who has the biggest horsepower output. While this is only one category of many, the horsepower competition also serves as bragging rights for a whole year! These cars put down some serious horsepower. Results from this competition were as high as 1139 Horsepower! Check out the video to see what happened!
The Rest of the Events 9/30/2010 (Track was 10/1/2010)
The judging would commence just outside Beech Bend Raceway, where Mike Johnson and Steve Turner (of 5.0 Mustangs and Super Fords) would go over each car with a fine-tooth comb. Once each car was judged and photographed, it was on to the Ride and Drive test.
Ride & Drive
Mike Johnson and the vehicles owner would take a cruise through the streets of Bowling Green, KY in the vehicle to see just how street-able each vehicle was. If your car had 1000 horsepower with air condition, power steering and smooth-shifting transmission then points were awarded.
Check out AmericanMuscle’s blog for more coverage.
