Gordon Murray is a renowned designer of Formula One race cars and the famous and ultra wicked awesome McLaren F1 supercar. This is a translated reflection on the ACURA NSX by the Automotive Rockstar Designer himself.
Turn any year Pontiac Fiero, or Custom chassis into a Lamborghini Murcielago with the ZORBA G40 Body Kit. The G40 kit starts around $31,000 depending on options and does not include wheels, or rear spoiler or any systems upgrades.
Due to the overwhelming interest in my monday’s post 2008 SEMA Show Girls Pictures I I have decided to post part II a little early to help you get through the week
MotorTrend serves up a quick video of a straight line drag race between the Corvette ZR1 (638hp), Ferrari 599 GTB (612hp), Nissan GT-R (480hp), Porsche 911 GT2 (530hp).
Ken Lingenfelter 2008 Lamborghini Reventon at the 2008 SEMA Show in Las Vegas. This car is part of Ken Lingenfelter (owner of Lingenfelter Performance Engineeering) Collection of Brighton Michigan.
The SEMA Show is the premier automotive specialty products trade event in the world and IS NOT OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. But don’t worry about that minor detail, I plan on taking more photos than I ever have at any event so far in 2008 so that you can see all that was showcased and ready for 2009.
A Dutch auto blog 925.nl has somehow managed to procure some newly rendered pics of the upcoming Aston Martin One-77 (video)!
The Aston Martin One-77 (photos) (limited to 77) will mostly sport a 7.3-liter V12 engine pumping out over 700hp. It will also have predominant aluminum body panels and a carbon fiber chassis.
While the Pagani Zonda which is due for replacement by creator Horacio Pagani (code named C9), Pagani is working on finishing up the final 10 Zonda R’s as a limited production run. The Pagani Zonda R will be priced accordingly at $2.5 Million USD.
The Porsche 911 997 BiTurbo is the newest tuning package by German tuner SKN. The SKN BiTurbo 997 tuning package comes in 3 stages. It’s a pretty sick package but doesn’t compare to the Roock Porsche 997 Turbo Pics with 600hp.
Enjoy this amazing sounding 8 minute french commentated video of the Porsche 959 and Ferrari F40 being driven by an accomplished french racecar driver Jean Pierre.
Ferrari FXX Evoluzione #20. This was 1 of 8 Ferrari FXX Evoluzione that showed up to race at "Le Circuit" in Mont-Tremblant, QC. This is one of only 6 races in the world for 2008.
Popular Mechanics magazine recently unveiled its “Breakthrough Awards,” the publication’s annual celebration of the best and brightest innovators and innovations. Of automotive interest, Infiniti’s Around View monitor received an innovation award. You have also probably started to see Infiniti’s advertising campaign on TV with respect to this new innovative “Around View 360 Monitor”.
Endless is a race quality brake manufacturer which many of the best Nissan GT-R R35 tuners choose to use. They finally launched their Racing Mono6 brake upgrade package to the general public this this month. Having been tested and love by MCR and Hirano Tire on the track in prototype form, these are now available in the form of Endless “System Inch Up Kits”.
Here are some recent images that surfaced on PriusChat.com which could be for real or could be some nicely photo-chpped pics of the 2010 Toyota Prius. Toyota will not comment on the authenticity of these potentially leaked images.
This Verde Ithaca modified Nissan GT-R R35 was spotted in Signapore. The car is apparently wrapped in vinyl to achieve this look. Modifications include Bride carbon fibre seats, Zele carbon fibre body kit, 22″ Rims, HKS EVC and Mines Motor Sports Exhuast!
Here is great video from Fifth Gear with guest 24 Year old Brazilian Bruno Senna (Ayrton Senna’s Nephew) who test drives the Nissan GT-R vs Porsche 911 Turbo.
Can you guess which car is 0.5 seconds faster around the track? UNREAL!
You will notice, there are a tonne of photos with the lights in the event turned on, I stuck around for a while after last call and dodged security guard after security guard until 45 minutes later 2 of them cornered me and literally walked me out of the show.
Album 8 of 11 taken at IMPORTFEST 2008 in Toronto, Ontario Canada. Event coverage of the modified Mazda RX7, RX8, Toyota, Honda, Del Sol, Civic, Acura, RSX...
The 2008 DUB Show Tour is about to kick off, so that means it’s time get out of your winter hibernation mode and get ready for some major tits, ass and modified rides! I will be heading down to Detroit’s Cobo Hall Saturday March 29th to cover the event, babes, modified rides, dubs, tits and ass included.
The Saleen S5S Raptor made its world debut at the New York Auto Show, putting an exclamation point on the specialty manufacturer’s recent reinvention of itself.
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