The R8 is Audi’s premier 2-seat coupe sports car, launched in 2007. The R8 shares its name with the successful Audi race car, and its platform with the Lamborghini Gallardo. Touting an Audi Space Frame (ASF) aluminum body and a mid-mounted 420-hp V-8 engine with quattro permanent all-wheel drive (AWD), the production R8 demonstrates Audi innovation and experience learned from…
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Ferrari 458 Italia Spied!
The F430 has been around for the past 4 years and has recently released its sexy racing counterpart “Scuderia” which just became available in the 16M spyder version costing $500,000 million US dollars. Ferrari is however anticipating a replacement that is to hit showroom floors in late 2010 or early 2011. No press release has been issued but Ferrari has…
FAB Design SLR McLaren – Desire
SLR “Desire” is a restyling of the Mercedes McLaren SLR by Swiss tuner FAB-Design. It’s not often that a car gets a sub-name like a perfume. But if they do, they had better live up to the expectations that such pretense creates. How about 750 hp and 1,080 Nm of torque, with performance values of 0 to 100 km/h in…
Aston Martin Rapide
The Aston Martin Rapide has moved into the final stages of its development programme, on course for a public debut in late 2009, with the first customer cars due to be delivered in early 2010. First revealed as the Aston Martin Rapide Concept at the Detroit Auto Show in 2006, the Rapide is one of the most eagerly awaited cars…
Best Ferrari Yet – F430 Scuderia 16M
The newest addition to the Ferrari family is by far the best, the Scuderia 16M. It is based off of the worlds best street legal race car, the Ferrari F430 Scuderia but it has one thing the Enzo will never have, the ability to put its top down. Beating its big brother the Ferrari Enzo around the track and offering…
Mercedes SLS AMG
For the new SLS, Mercedes-Benz and AMG have developed a puristic sports car interior that combines lightweight construction with dynamism and high emotional appeal. Opening the unique swing-wing doors reveals an interior of a decidedly sporty nature – and immediately brings an aircraft cockpit to mind. The central design theme of “aviation engineering” is reflected in the wing-shaped dashboard, the…
Bentley Arnage Final Series
Bentley has long been rumored to be considering the use of diesel engines. The torquey oil-burners would enable Crewe to continue offering the kind of freight-train muscle for which it has become known while living up to the mandate of offering improved fuel economy, and, with the latest developments in particulate filter technology, reduce carbon emissions, as well.