In another installment of racing legend Derek Bell keeping Bentley enthusiasts around the world informed about the new lightweight Continental Supersport with a lap around the Nürburgring race track in Germany. The English coach builder has announced that the first deliveries of the new Continental Supersports will begin later on this month. Mr. Bell is famous for his in car commentary, even while moving along at 200 MPH. The crew from Crewe claim that the new 204 MPH luxury sports coupe is the most extreme Bentley road car ever produced by W.O.’s car company.
Aside from being able to cruise around at over 200 MPH in style and comfort, but the Supersports is also capable of running on E85 biofuel and represents a step forward and most of all Bentley’s commitment to alternative fuels and they ensure that their entire lineup will be capable of burning up to 85% ethanol by the year 2012. The new Continental Supersports is slated to be on sale in most markets around the world by the year’s end. A few of the first batch of Bentley super cars have already been spotted, but we won’t be seeing too many of them here in the U.S. filling up at an E85 pump until the middle of 2010, just in time for the good old summer hike in gas prices.
Derek Bell driving impression videos after the jump.
Porsche has just unveiled the seventh generation 911 Turbo at the Frankfurt Motor Show and will go on sale shortly in Germany. As part of the new car’s introduction Porsche Executive Vice President of Research and Development Wolfgang Durheimer talks about the company’s latest high performance creation.
The 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo is a true 21st century super car with more power, a lower curb weight, improved handling, a higher top speed and improved fuel economy. Under the rear deck lid Porsche has placed a 3.8 Liter direct injected flat six engine that delivers 500 HP and is available with Porsche’s new PDK seven speed transmission. Thanks to the new refinements the 911 Turbo now gets an estimated 24 MPG and can sprint from 0 to 60 MPH in just 3.4 seconds and reach a top speed of 194 MPH.
Any car enthusiast will tell you that if there’s one race circuit in the world that they’d like to burn rubber on, it’s the Nurburgring Nordschleife race track in Germany. While our chances of ever stepping into the graffiti-laden pavement of Nurburgring may have been little to none in the past, we may finally get our chance soon enough.
BMW will soon release a BMW M5 taxi exclusively for the Nurburgring. OK, so you won’t be behind the wheel of the car, but still, taking a lap of the ‘Ring in the passenger seat of an M5 is still better than anything you could have ever hoped for.
You must be warned, though. BMW Motorsports have said that tickets for the M5 Ring-Taxi are as scarce as snow in the Philippines and that availability – if there’s any – will be announced by BMW around Christmas-time.
Nevertheless, it’s still worth keeping tabs on. After all, you don’t get many opportunities like this in your lifetime, and if you can do it, we guarantee you’ll become the envy of all your car-loving friends, for as long as you don’t tell them that you were just in the passenger seat of the M5.
We’re trying to figure the rationale of Mercedes and what compelled them to transfer one of the all-new 2010 SLS AMG Gullwing to the roof terrace of its company museum in Stuttgart, Germany.
It seems that Mercedes was going for a touch of symbolism, with the wings…err…doors of the Gullwing completely open, thereby making it look like the car was really flying off into the sunset. Of course, that wasn’t exactly what happened. While we’re not opposed to the idea of the SLS AMG can actually fly, this particular one was transported 42 meters up to the Mercedes Museum’s roof terrace on-board a 120-ton hydraulic crane.
According to Michael Bock, the Managing Director of the Mercedes Benz Museum GmBH, the car will be placed on display at the museum from October 6 to October 16 so that visitors can have an in-the-flesh look at Mercedes’ new supercar.
"This will be a very emotional experience for our visitors”, said Block. “This super sports car stands for excitement, passion and high-tech. As museum for the past present and future of the automobile we provide an ideal setting for the exclusive presentation of the new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG."
Stuttgart is a long way from where we are so we’re probably not going to be able to catch the SLS AMG at the Mercedes Museum, but if you happen to be in the area, make sure you don’t miss out on this opportunity, because quite frankly, a lot of you won’t get another chance to be this close to an SLS AMG in your lives.
It’s been a while since we last had any news regarding the Lamborghini Estoque concept car but now, it looks like the car long thought to have been scrapped has finally resurfaced.
These spy shots of the Estoque were captured recently in Cologne, Germany, putting to rest all those rumors that Lamborghini’s new super car has been shelved.
Details as to why the car was out on the road are still a mystery, although some folks have assumed that the Estoque was being taken out for a test run. This comes as great news for those who have fallen head-over-heels for the car since it was launched at the Paris Motor Show last October.
Although the car received overwhelmingly positive reviews, the sudden collapse of the global economy sparked rumors that the car would be permanently shelved despite Lamborghini’s later attempt at quelling the rumors by saying that “no decision has been made to produce the Estoque”.
But now that it has been seen running around the streets of Cologne, it looks like the Estoque is still far from the chopping block and that Lamborghini is still working doubly hard to make the Estoque more than just a pipe dream.
Fresh of their ground-breaking and revolutionary BMW Vision EfficientDynamics, another attention-seeking BMW-badged concept car is making some headlines these days.
We actually don’t know if it’s a porcupine, a car, or a combination of both. Either way, the car you’re seeing is the new BMW Lovos concept and was created by a 24-year old designer Anne Forschner from the Pforzheim University in Germany.
We don’t know what Ms. Anne was thinking designing this car, but he probably sees something we don’t with this car. For starters, its body of work suggests that it was inspired from a porcupine or fish scales. And if that can’t catch your attention, you might want to check out those matching Swarovski-decked lights for good measure.
We know car designers have a penchant for going a tad too overboard with their designs but this one seems to definitely fly over the cuckoo scale. Forschner’s design, which if you pay enough attention, comes with exterior pieces that’s coated with solar photovoltaic cells, which we assume, will have something to do with the car possibly running on solar or electric power.
Either way, we don’t think it’s a car we’d like to see out on the road anytime soon. Maybe ever.
It’s not that often when a sleepy town gets the wake-up call of a lifetime.
And by wake-up call, we’re not talking about alarm clocks or roosters. We’re talking about Prancing Horses.
That’s what the folks of Sundern, Germany found out when they woke up and saw about 80 Ferraris roaring in and out of their otherwise small town. But the Ferraris – not to mention a few Lamborghinis and Maseratis – did have a reason for visiting Sundern, and it was through an invitation extended by Antonio Capristo, owner of the locally-based Capristo Exhaut Systems.
It turns out, Capristo invited all of these cars to his town to celebrate, well, Capristo Day 2009. What that means, we don’t know.
But what we do know is that Capristo had a hand in outfitting these Ferraris with his custom-made exhaust systems, which according to the man himself, has the capacity to change the sound of the exhaust while the car is throttling it up the autobahn.
As far as the townfolk of Sundern are concerned, never in their wildest dreams would they have anticipated seeing a stable of Prancing Horses in their small town.
Just when we thought the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Superleggera has been reduced to nothing more than a fantasy car, an actual, real-life Superleggera may have been found taking in a couple of laps at the Nurburgring by our friends over at Autogespot
Actually, we might need to rub our eyes repeatedly to know that this is indeed a Superleggera. In the event that this is indeed a Superleggera, seeing it raises a number of questions surrounding the status of this car. Where’s it been all this time? And what do expect from Lamborghini with this car down the road especially since they already decided to scrap it just a year ago?
In any case, those questions can be answered at another time. What’s important is the car looks to be back on track – in more ways than one.
If you recall, the Gallardo Superleggera was introduced just a year before the LP560-4 made the scene with the former created with a tad more horsepower than the traditional Gallardo’s but weighed considerably less, making it faster and more lightweight than any of the Gallardos roaming around the streets.
In the event that you’re budget for a Porsche Panamera falls way short to the car’s retail price, you need not worry; you can still get your hands one, albeit temporarily.
Porsche’s new must-have sports car is now being made available at a number of Avis rental stores throughout Germany. The fleet of Panameras will start going for rent on October 1 and prospective renters will have the opportunity to pick from three unique models: the aspirated version, the Panamera S, and the Panamera 4S.
Anybody who so chooses to rent out these bad boys will have to shell out €189 per day during weekdays with the price rising dramatically to €567 during the weekend days of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
So if you find yourself flying over to Germany sometime around October and you’re in need of a rental car to take you around town, might we suggest that you brush off the immortal Ford Taurus for a chance to get behind the wheel of a Panamera.
We reckon it just might end up being the highlight of your trip.
Ferrari has finally introduced the world to the all new 458 Italia at the Frankfurt Motor Show and of course no major Ferrari launch would be complete with out the seven time Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher in attendance and here are a few videos from the event to prove it. The long awaited successor of the mid engine Ferrari F430, has become a reality and the new super car looks so much better in three dimensions than any photograph could have ever shown. The high performance sports coupe comes complete with a new engine, improved aerodynamics, upgraded handling and improved instrumentation and ergonomics inside the cabin.
Under the rear deck lid of the Ferrari 458 Italia, the artisans from Maranello have placed a screaming 4.5 Liter V8 engine equipped with the traditional Ferrari flat crankshaft that gives the mid-engine sports cars their signature top end bark. The unit produces 570 HP at a rather high 9000 RPM and still get 18 MPG. Weighing in at only 3042 pounds, the new Ferrari will rocket from 0 to 60 MPH in just 3.4 seconds and won’t stop until it hits a top speed of 202 MPH.
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