It happened to a BMW M5 and also to a Porsche 928, so why not to a Corvette C4? If you like speed, but you also have a lot of stuffs to carry, the Corvette pick-up is the best option! That if you want to spend like $115.000 to create it!
It was assembled combining a 1984 Corvette front end and a 1991 corvette rear end with a functional tailgate. Munci 4 speed and custom wheels and tires. This car was purchased from an heir to the Bayliner estate.
The pick-up is for sale, for $35.000 negotiable! Something does not sound right in here, no?
Vokswagen has announced prices for its new four-door, four-seater coupe, the Passat CC, which is available to order from retailers across the UK from next week, Friday 16th May. The first cars, if ordered now, will start arriving in the UK in mid-July. The entry-level CC, the 1.8-litre TSI 160 PS will cost £21,040 RRP on the road, with prices rising to £31,120 for the range-topping 3.6-litre V6 300 PS.
The Passat CC opens a new market niche for Volkswagen and strengthens the company’s range of models in the hotly-contested B-segment. With high quality and impressive specification levels across the range, the Passat CC is likely to appeal to private and fleet buyers alike.
Three engines are available at launch – two petrol and one diesel. Petrol options are a 1.8-litre TSI unit developing 160 PS and 184 lbs ft of torque linked to a six-speed manual or DSG gearbox plus the flagship 3.6-litre V6 FSI with 300 PS and 258 lbs ft of torque channelled via 4MOTION four-wheel drive and DSG gearbox. A common rail 2.0-litre TDI with 140 PS is also offered at launch, and will be joined in September by a 170 PS version of the same powerplant. An additional 2.0-litre petrol unit, with 200 PS, will also become available at this time.
Finally! The Bugatti Veyron found its competitor: the 9ff GT9 ! The GT9 is a supercar based on the Porsche 911 GT3, but don’t let yourself foolished about this comparison, the vehicle shares only 2% of its components. The engine was modified and moved in the middle of the car due to the better weight distribution.
Powered by a 4-liter flat six twin turbo engine capable of developing 987 hp you might believe that the performances of the vehicle are astonishing...well they aren’t! The 9ff GT9 is capable to sprint from 0-100 km/h in just 4.2 seconds, with 0.9 seconds slower than the Sportec SP600 and over 1.7 seconds than the Bugatti Veyron. The sprint might be slower but the top speed of the car is 409 km/h, with over 3 km/h faster than the Veyron.
The price of the car? $854,000 or half of the Bugatti Veyron price, which costs approximately $1,700,000. One thing is for sure: the 9ff GT9 will definetely be more exclusive than the Veyron due to the limited production of just 20 units.
General Motors announced back in 2005 that the Saab 9-3 will be built in Opel’s plant from Russelsheim, Germany. But now the company announced that the future generation 9-3 will be built on a smaller platform, in order to reduce CO2 emissions, so the production will be moved in a Swedish factory.
The future 9-3 will be smaller and hence based on a smaller platform. This results in a potential shift away from the Vectra platform to GM’s Delta platform. Trollhatten in Sweden (the hometown of Saab) may therefore get back full production of the 9-3 range
In testing this morning at Germany’s Nurburgring, Cadillac’s upcoming new 2009 CTS-V completed a lap of the legendary Nordschleife in 7:59.32. This blistering time appears to be the fastest ever publicly documented for a production sedan.
Cadillac is nearing the completion of testing of the highly anticipated CTS-V, the limited-edition high-performance model based on the award-winning CTS sport sedan. John Heinricy, GM Performance Division executive and an acclaimed racing driver, piloted the CTS-V through its sub-8 minute lap today. The car itself was equipped exactly as planned for consumer production, which is scheduled to begin this fall.
Estimated at 550-hp, the CTS-V is at the moment going through the final stages of intensive testing and development. One of the realistic objectives of the Cadillac team is to make the CTS-V the world’s fastest production sedan, as a part of the overall goal to make the V-Series Cadillac’s ultimate expression of performance and technology. More updates will be released in the coming weeks as testing is finalized, including the car’s certified SAE power ratings, acceleration specifications and U.S.-market pricing.
A new Ferrari Grand Tourer is in the offing and, in an innovative move, will be revealed to the fans and enthusiasts in a non-traditional way. In the build-up to the new model’s official unveiling at the Paris Auto Show next October, we’ll be revealing it bit by bit on the dedicated www.ferrarigtcountdown.com site which can also be accessed through the official Ferrari portal at www.ferrariworld.com.
Visitors to the site will be guided through a sensory voyage of discovery which, over the coming weeks, will gradually reveal the new car in its entirety and feature some highly gratifying virtual road tests too.
The new site launches today and begins that voyage of discovery with the sense of sound. The roar of the new GT’s engine will be the first bit of it to be revealed to enthusiasts, in fact, and will be followed over the next few days by the first photographs of this eagerly-awaited car whose name will also be revealed.
Today the Topspeed team shows you a quick walkthrough of the best auto simulator: the Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. As you know, in order to start the gane you have to choose and buy a car. Due to the small amount of credits you have to choose a cheap car and you have to purchase the Honda Integra Type R ’04. Then complete the races C-1, C-4, C-5, C-7, C-8, C-9 and C-10. After you did this purchase the Suzuki Cappuccino ’95. Complete then the C-2, C-3 and C-6 races and win the Daihatsu OFC-1 ’07 . Purchase then the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX GSR ’05 and win the B-1, B-2, B-3, B-4, B-5, B-7, B-10. >> read
The Flatmobile recently entered the Guinness Book of Records as the lowest street legal car: the car is only 48 cm in hight!
The Flatmobile was built by Perry Watkins, a huge fan of the ’60s Batmobile (this is also where the name comes!) The car is powered by a jet engine fitted behind the internal combustion engine at the very rear of the car. It is a home built gas turbine jet engine based around a Holset 685 turbocharger from a Volvo FL10 lorry.
Remember Cheetah? (No, not Cheeta, Tarzan’s monkey!) The car built in the 60s to compete with the Cobra! Well, if you don’t know nothing about Bill Thomas’ factory you will have plenty of time to find out about it as the car is making a come back!
With only 23 original Cheetahs ever produced, it’s time for some company. Since the introduction of the new Cheetah Continuation Coupe in Arizona in early 2006, vintage racing enthusiasts are rekindling some of their most cherished memories: the thrilling 1964 racing season, when the Cheetah captured 11 wins (and Cheetah believers know it should have been many more).
You’ll want to catch the Cat before it’s gone. Like most truly great things in life, the Cheetah Continuation Collectible is being produced in limited quantities. And that means they’re not going to last long. A chance to own - and truly savor - such a legendary part of auto racing history is an opportunity that doesn’t come around very often.
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