We all know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and as such, everybody here at Topspeed understands the occasion and in our own little way, would like to pay tribute to all those brave women who have fought – or are still fighting – this deadly disease.
For this month, we will be running down a list of the most beautiful and exotic pink-colored cars we can find in the world. It may not mean much to most people, but it’s our way giving respect where it’s due. This list will be dedicated to all those afflicted with breast cancer. Your fight will always be bigger than any of ours, but your courage under such difficult times is something that we admire beyond measure. To all of you fighting breast cancer, know that all of us here at Topspeed are behind you every step of the way. Now, pink cars are slowly becoming somewhat of a trend these days and over the next couple of days, we’re to feature more of these pink-inspired wheels of steel. Without further ado, we begin our list with a pink supercar that is not to be messed with.
If Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon’s character in Legally Blond) were to have a car, you’d be hard-pressed to find anything that can come close to this pinkAudi R8. Just to be clear on one thing: Audi doesn’t have a pink R8 in its fleet, so you can bet that whoever the Dutch fellow is who owns this piece of eye candy had the paint job customized. You have to admit that it’s an eye-catcher, and not just because it’s pink, but it’s a pink R8.
Make no mistake about it, though. Despite it’s color, this R8 is still all-power all the time so you wouldn’t want to go up against this car anytime soon.
Remember that monstrosity of a [’supposed’ Batmobile] that was created out a Camaro?
To the owner of that vehicle, you should take some notes from this one man from Sweden. This is how you make a Batmobile.
Word out of the streets of Sweden is that this real-life replica of the Batmobile was based on a 1973 Lincoln Continental chassis that has been modified with a slew of gadgets that would make even Batman’s utility belt obsolete. The Batmobile comes with rear-view video cameras, voice recognition controls, a height-adjustable suspension, GPS, a plasma screen TV, and of course, a DVD player.
For the car to look exactly like the one used in the first two Batman flicks directed by Tim Burton, the Swede reportedly spent close to $1 million and used up about 20,000 hours just to get the full scope of the Batmobile, right down to the minutest of details.
Seeing as this cost about as much as any supercar out there on the market, we’re compelled to throw our Camaro-inspired Batmobile a bone, if only because this guy had the resources to actually make a look-alike.
But about that ’Gothem City’ text? We still can’t forgive that.
We have seen a plethora of pink super cars recently
Everything from the highly modified
Mansory Vitesse Rose based on a Bentley Continental to slightly lesser Lamborghini Gallados, Bugatti Veyrons and even a pink Pagani Zonda. It is foreign to us here at Top Speed, but there is something about this very feminine shade of red that somehow appeals to the owners of some of the world’s most powerful speed machines, and who are we to argue with them.
This two tone extremely pink Audi R8 super car is another fine example of what Barbie, or Paris Hilton for that matter, might be driving if she could cruise he Autobahn. As it comes from the factory, the old R8 is an amazing automobile; with its 420 HP high revving V8 and the stability of Quattro all wheel drive. The new V10 powered R8 however is a beast of a higher pedigree, the 500+ HP aluminum Audi super car will begin to challenge the likes of Lamborghinis worldwide with its newfound power under the clear deck lid.
Personally we would go with flat black before we would go the whole nine yards with a pastel paint like this R8 owner chose to. Despite their best attempts, this feminine finish doesn’t take away from the Audi super car’s powerful appearance. However what we want to know is, where did they get the pink carbon fiber for the R8’s side blades?
Here in America, a lot of us have probably circled the date ‘October 17’ on our calendars, and for good reason, too.
And if you don’t know what’s so special about that date – apart from around 21 million people celebrating their birthdays (yes, we crunched the numbers!) – that’s the day when the Porshce Panamera goes on sale in the US.
But while the Panamera is still a few weeks away from tasting American soil, the car has already been sold in a number of European countries, including the Czech Republic. And unfortunately for this man who happened to have one of the said Panameras in Prague, he now also holds the distinction for being the first person to crash Porsche’s new sports car.
Although it’s just a light fender bender – we’ve seen far worse crashes than this one – crashing a new sports car is still pretty hard to come to grips with, especially since the Panamera only went on sale in Europe a few weeks ago.
Ultimately, we don’t see any reason why the man can’t pay for the damages to his car and we expect him to do so. After all, he was able to afford one in the first place, right?
High-powered BMWs racing down an open airfield is a joy to watch, although it would’ve been a tad better if the two cars were racing on an even playing field.
That’s where this video takes us after two BMWs – one is a standard M3 V8 while the other is a tricked-out M-Division S85 M3 V10 – decide that it would make for great viewing to see the S85 lay complete waste to the – by comparison – pedestrian M3 V8.
And that’s exactly what happens here. The monster V10 engine clearly overpowered its competitor, blazing off into the distance while the poor M3 was left to eat its dust. It’s all in good fun, though and we bet the video was created solely for the purpose of pimping up the power of the V10 engine.
Suffice to say, the message was heard loud and clear.
A few days ago, we reported on that brand-new Mercedes SLR McLaren – it was a day old – getting smashed into smithereens after it’s driver, a 23-year old guy that had too much bravado for his own good, engaged in a street race with a Ferrari 599 GTB.
We all know how that turned out.
The SLR was sent careening into the opposite side of the road where it ended up colliding with several oncoming cars. Fortunately for all parties concerned, nobody was seriously hurt, although the SLR did have a young kid in the passenger seat that suffered minor injuries.
As for the idiot driver, he reportedly fled the scene of the crash and didn’t show until 17 hours later because he ‘took the kid’ to the hospital.
If you watch this video and you think that what you’re looking at is a real Koenigsegg CCX, then you’d be wrong. Dead wrong.
The video is actually a rendering of the Koenigsegg super car, which was created by Proper Graphics, a graphics studio based in Belarus. It looks stunningly real, doesn’t it? Don’t worry, you weren’t the only ones fooled.
The amazing detail Proper Graphics did with the CCX is nothing less of stunning, not to mention realistic. The digital rendering of the car seamlessly integrates itself with its surroundings, giving the visual feel that the car is in fact real.
From what we’ve heard, the model these guys used in creating this rendering is up-to-par with Gran Turismo 5, although it should be noted that these guys have no affiliation whatsoever with GT5.
Nevertheless, we have to give props where props are due. Proper Graphics did an amazing job with this rendering of the CCX, so much so that a lot of us we’re convinced – at first - this was the real deal.
No matter how expensive your car may be, it’s safety and well-being is still not exempt from people’s stupid decisions.
Take this guy from Poland for instance. A day after his father bought a 2008 Mercedes McLaren SLR, the 23-year old crashed the day-old vehicle into three other cars. While details surrounding as to how it happened are a mystery, the guy reportedly saw a Ferrari 599 GTB out on the road and decided to challenge the 599 to a good old fashion street race. Well, judging from the photos, we all know how that went.
It’s bad enough that the car costs around $700,000, but to make things worse, the schmuck was driving with a young child in the passenger seat. The poor kid ended up getting hurt from the vehicular mishap while the driver of the SLR went AWOL for almost 17 hours before showing up again.
We feel terrible for the SLR but in this particular case, our hearts go out to the young kid who got hurt because somebody was being an irresponsible adult.
Ukraine is hardly one of the places people travel to in search of exotic cars. But that doesn’t mean that these rare beasts can’t be found there either.
Our friends from the Eastern European nation were kind enough to send us shots of an Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione out on the road. We know that only 500 of these cars have been made and our giddy Ukranian friends were humble enough to mention that one such model in their homeland is more than just one of the 500.
This particaluar car comes with a “Qudrifoglio” emblem, which means that the car comes with special edition tunings that only 20 other 8C Competizione’s can boast of. Short of saying, this particular car is a limited edition of a special edition.
These ultra-rare Alfa’s come with a completely different interior furnish, wheel disks that are said to be 40% lighter than those that come in the traditional models, and, last but not least, two unmistakable quadrifoliate clover badges in the car.
I guess we’re going to have to recant what we said. Super duper exotics do exist in Ukraine.
The Italian automaker Alfa Romeo has just unveiled the new revolutionary MultiAir system, that is being made available for the first time on the compact MiTo hatchback. The new 1.4 Liter MultiAir engine will be available at the vehicle’s launch and will come in two different versions: the first is a 135 HP 1.4 Liter variant as well as a more economical 105 HP version. The MultiAir MiTo will also be offered in a high performance 170 HP MultiAir Turbobenzina offering later on this year.
Compared to the conventional gas burning engine of the same displacement, FPT guarantees that the MultiAir system will increase power up to 10% and torque another 15%; as well as a significant reduction in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, both up to 10%. At the same time particulate contamination is reduced by as much as 40% while NOx is reduced by up to 60%.
The MultiAir system eliminates the need for a throttle body and allows the engineers infinite control over the valves that bring fresh air into the combustion chamber. The design places the lobes for both intake and exhaust on the same camshaft. The exhaust operates as it would in a convention four stroke internal combustion engine, but the third bump actuates a roller rocker arm attached to the MultiAir setup which is then electronically controlled to open and close the intake valve by the flow of pressurized engine oil. As befits a flag-bearer for the downsizing concept, the MultiAir is a versatile system that is easily applicable to all petrol engines that may potentially be developed for diesel engines in the future.
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