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This is the "Kickboxer" and it has a Subaru WRX engine.
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Friday, July 2, 2010
Catch this bullet, CBX V12 (4 Photos)
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Take two CBX engines and make a V12
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Top 10 Fastest Cars in the World
The SSC Ultimate Aero has since broken the record as the fastest production car in the world, and I plan to address this in my next list. Be sure to subscribe to the Automoblog RSS Feed or free email newsletter to stay up-to-date.
Bugatti Veyron
Top Speed: 252.2 mph
1001 Horsepower
No surprises here, the fastest and most powerful production car ever makes the top of the list. I wonder when Koenigsegg will decide to take the #1 position and beef up the CCX.
Koenigsegg CCX
Top Speed: 250 mph
900 Horsepower
As I said above, I expect Koenigsegg to take the number one spot eventually; those crazy Swedes aren’t fooling around.
Saleen S7 Twin-Turbo
Top Speed: 248 mph
750 Horsepower
VCars didn’t specify that it’s an S7 Twin-Turbo, but that’s what they’re talking about. This is one bad-ass car.
McLaren F1
Top Speed: 240.14
620 Horsepower
Can you believe this? The McLaren F1 was made in 1994, 13 years ago, and it’s still one of the fastest cars in the world. This happens to be the first car on this list I would purchase if I had the cash. Then I’d buy the Koenigsegg.
Ferrari Enzo
Top Speed: 217 mph
657 Horsepower
Ferrari’s newest Mega-Car seems to have people crashing it left and right, but the drivers always walk away fine (physically.) With only 399 of these ever made, the value of the car goes up with each crash.
Jaguar XJ220
Top Speed: 217 mph
549 Horsepower
Even older than the McLaren F1, the Jaguar XJ220 has been on this list since 1992. Be sure to check out the Pininfarina version as well.
Pagani Zonda F
Top Speed: 215 mph
602 Horsepower
Yes, I know this is a picture of the Roadster, not the Zonda F. With Pagani’s new Zonda R on the way, the Zonda might be creeping up on this list faster than Bugatti can say “We need bigger turbos.”
Lamborghini Murcielago
Top Speed: 213
633 Horsepower
I think VCars got a little bit confused here. The title suggests they mean the standard Murcielago, but the top speed and pictures tell us they’re talking about the LP640. Let’s clear this up a bit…the horsepower on the LP640 is 640 (hence the name,) and the hp rating on the standard Murcielago is 580.
Porsche Carrera GT
Top Speed: 209 mph
605 Horsepower
Porsche’s fastest, most attractive (and most expensive) car to date comes in at #9.
McLaren Mercedes SLR
Top Speed: 207 mph
626 Horsepower
Top 5 Most Remarkable Indy 500 Pace Cars
The power and the glory of the finest open wheel auto race unites this Memorial Day weekend as the Indianapolis 500 will start Sunday with its 94th edition. With 33 professional race car drivers anticipating their first moves when the green flag falls, one special vehicle will bring the field to the start. Since 1911, the Indy 500 pace car exists as the only on-track authority in the parade laps and under caution.
5) 1911 Stoddard-Dayton
Photo Source: Indianapolis Motor Speedway
The very first Indianapolis 500 pace car, this vehicle supplied by Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s founder Carl G. Fisher. Fisher was an owner of a Stoddard-Dayton local dealership and made use of the 1911 Indianapolis 500 to advertise his product. Producing 40 horsepower, the engine in the Stoddard-Dayton was remarkably ahead of its time employing an overhead valve design that included two spark plugs per cylinder.
Stoddard-Dayton automobiles would pace 3 of the first 4 Indy 500 races. In the car company’s final appearance in 1914, the Stoddard-Dayton car company had fallen into receivership and would sadly be lost along with a multitude of early 20th Century American auto companies.
4) 1978 Chevrolet Corvette
Photo Source: Chris Nagy
It may be hard to believe, but even when the Chevrolet Corvette was an embodiment of American motoring since its introduction in 1953, it wasn’t until the car’s 25th anniversary that one would pace the Indianapolis 500.
Granting the fact that the decoration as an official Indy 500 pace car is always a high honour, the results of early emission control devices left the 1978 Chevrolet Corvette looking like a less than flattering American sports car. Getting only 220 horsepower from a 350 small black V-8, performance was hindered further by a sluggish 3-speed automatic transmission. In spite of this, the 1978 Corvette served well that year at the Brickyard where A.J Foyt became the first driver to win 4 Indy 500 races.
While the Chevrolet Corvette’s nod to become an Indy 500 pace car was overdue, the famous two-seater didn’t have to wait another 25 years to officiate the another Brickyard race. Receiving 9 more opportunities, the Corvette also holds the distinctive record of leading 5 consecutive Indianapolis 500 races from 2004 to 2008.
3) 1941 Chrysler Newport
2) 1991 Dodge Viper
Photo Source: Chrysler
Initially planning to showcase the Dodge Stealth, Chrysler faced a minor Public relations nightmare as the vehicle’s patriotism was judged. Though the Stealth wore an American badge, protests were led by the United Auto Workers union pointing out the Dodge Stealth platform was a Japanese manufactured Mitsubishi 3000GT. Successfully blocking the Stealth from serving pace car duties, a preproduction version of the Dodge Viper was commissioned as a pinch-hitter.
An immediate hit, the Dodge Viper beamed with its sassy red paint over cutting-edge sports car design. Beating with a monstrous V-10 engine, the Indy pace car model moved thanks to 400 horsepower (the highest rating for a non-modified pace car for its time). Carrol Shelby drove the Dodge Viper through the ceremonious warm-up laps in 1991.
A hardtop version of the Dodge Viper would pace the field in 1996 becoming the last non-General Motors brand to be an Indianapolis 500 pace car.
1) 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS
Production of the Volkswagen BlueSport Hits a Snag
After wowing the crowds at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show, VW has yet to put its sensible little concept into production.
MINI Performs Mini Tinkering on 2011 Lineup
While the small car market in North America has reached record-high creditability, the high-quality European vehicles like the MINI Cooper arguably played a role on the slow road to B-segment acceptance. Using a famed and noble heritage which personified Britain for over 40 years prior, BMW engineering played a part in assuring the MINI Cooper was built to tight quality standards canceling out the American belief that small cars could not be reliable cars. Besides the build, the MINI Cooper’s appearance, performance and prominent featuring in a Hollywood blockbuster (The Italian Job remake) carried the MINI forward with great momentum entering into the 10th year.
With the best perhaps yet to come, a peek to the 2011 MINI lineup for Europe shows some items which will almost certainly find themselves on the Cooper hatchbacks, Convertibles and Clubman destined for the American roads.
The exterior design retains its present glory. Though for 2011, the front end of all MINI cars have been modified to comply with pedestrian protection requirements (In European countries, part of vehicle safety regulations rate the survivability of a pedestrian if struck by the automobile). While the front end structure has been altered with lighting sources changed within the headlamp housing and the option of black reflectors, the ultimate MINI design remains fundamentally unchanged.
Jaguar Releases a Special Edition XKR
Most car companies have a secret group of engineers that can turn even the humblest grocery getter, into a fire-breathing monster. For example, Dodge has their SRT cars, and Ford has the Special Vehicles Team (SVT).
But for the most part, American factory tuners just bore out an existing engine block, and screw a supercharger to the top.
Crude, but effective.
European “skunk werks” usually take it a few steps further.
Take for example, BMW’s M Sport. They take a simple 5-Series, and throw everything away but the doors. Then they shoe-horn a V10 under the hood, and stuff the rest of the car with a bunch of electronics from the Space Shuttle.
Considering BMW’s M Sport division has a bigger budget than most South American countries. It’s no surprise that the M5 is so good.
But, Jaguar doesn’t have a huge R&D budget.
In fact, their in-house tuning division consists of Geoff, Budley…and some tools that they lifted from Ford. However, what two guys and wrench can do at Jaguar, often rivals the best that Germany has to offer.
(In the interest of fairness, Jaguar is now owned by Indian giant, Tata Motors. So, they do have a few rupee’s to throw at R&D.)
To celebrate the marque’s 75th birthday, Jaguar CEO Dr. Ralf Speth challenged the engineering department to come up with something special.
And boy, did they.
What they came up with is the XKR 75.
A truly epic rendition, of an already exciting car.
Geoff and Budley boosted the supercharged 5.0 V8 to 523 hp. An increase of 20 horsepower
Next, they tweaked XKR’s suspension by adding machined aluminum uprights, along with stiffer springs, front & rear.
The XKR 75 also gets a revised aero package. With its new front splitter, rear diffuser and larger rear spoiler, this cat creates some serious downforce in the curves.
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