30 janvier 2012

The real transformer 4 .................................................Koeninsegg ccX







Koenigsegg CCX it's been more than five years since our backsides were intimate with the carbon-fiber seat of the only supercar made in Sweden, the Koenigsegg CCX. That's probably long enough ago that you're saying out loud, "Koenigsegg CCX what??


 To bring you up to speed, here's a Koenigsegg CCX primer: Christian von Koenigsegg CCX was just 22 when he started a car company in 1994 with the hope of producing what many thought was a pipe dream — the world's fastest production sports car. In the '90s, the king of the exotics was the outrageous $815,000 McLaren F1, capable of 231 mph. How could a kid from Sweden one-up mighty McLaren?
In November 2001, we tested a prototype of his first car , dubbed the CC V-8. Koenigsegg CCX it had all the exotic-car trappings — carbon-fiber chassis, swiveling doors, 655 horsepower from a mid-mounted supercharged V-8, and an estimated $300,000 price. A slipping clutch soured our test drive, but the car showed potential, running to 60 mph in 4.1 seconds. A retest was in order, but we decided to wait until a promised U.S. version arrived stateside.

       While we waited, Koenigsegg CCX tinkered. In 2004, he introduced a new model — the CCR — that came with 151 more horsepower, 806 in all. This car achieved the unthinkable in 2005 — it outran the McLaren — getting up to 241 mph at the seven-mile Nardo test track in Italy. But Koenigsegg CCX glory would last just a year, as our own Csaba Csere drove a $1.25 million Bugatti Veyron 16.4 to 253 mph [C/D, November 2005].
Still, Koenigsegg CCX had made his point. Thirty-four of his cars have been sold abroad, and it is now available in the U.S. But we only had a chance for a brief drive of the 2006 CCX and not the hoped-for instrumented test session.                    
                                                                                           

28 janvier 2012

The most beautiful hybrid we've ever seen...............Porsche 918 Spyder concept




Um, we're sure there's something sensible to be said about this Porche concept, but we're not altogether capable of coherent expression at present. We want to own one of these so badly, we don't even care if it has an engine. And boy does the 918 Spyder have an engine. A 3.4-liter V8 petrol burner is combined with electric motors to put out 500bhp, while featuring the mind-altering acceleration to go from a standing start to 62mph in just 3.2 seconds. Topping out at 198mph and offering a very respectable 78mpg fuel economy, this is pretty much the stuff dreams are made, which is quite naturally why you shouldn't expect to see it in any purchasable form any time soon. If you do care to see more of it, however, you can do so at the Geneva Motor Show this year or just past the break, the choice is yours.


                                                    

27 janvier 2012

Lamborghini Aventedor ....................................The monstre of speed




As car enthusiasts, we also love scale models. But while we’re ok with paying a few hundreds of dollar for a great model, this special scale model is a little too much for. What seems to be the most expensive scale model in the world is a 1/8 scale Lamborghini Aventador which will be sold at a New York auction this month, at a starting price of $4.72 million.
The creation belongs to Robert Guelpen and has already been presented at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. Even though the model car is made of gold, platinum, carbon fiber and diamonds and probably countless hour of work were spent making this jewel, we think the price tag is a little too much for a model car. I mean, with this kind of money someone could buy ten real Aventador and definitely have more fun than staring at a model car.
According to Guelpen, which created another expensive model car in the past, a $2.93 million Bugatti Veyron, the price tag isn’t too high, considering only the materials used to build this model car cost more than $3 million: 700 diamonds are embedded in each seat, the suspension is made of massive gold, the wheels are made of platinum and the body is completely made of carbon fiber covered in gold.

If the model car is sold, Guelpen says he will donate almost $700,000 to charity. Also, if sold, this model car will enter the Guinness World Record book as the most expensive scale model car ever created. I repeat, if sold.

24 janvier 2012

The super hybrid car BMW M8 concept 2012




 Large or small depending on whether one is Behem info or not but BMW would havestarted the project of super hybrid will be called for now M8. This Bavarian would becategorized as supercars BMW seems to have decided to resume service to its fabulous 5.0 L V10 engine but this time in combination with two electric motors. The first of these motors would be placed between the front and deliver between 80 and 110 horses, the second electric motor would complement the V10 engine in the backand could still add a fifty horses. In total, the "M8" could deliver between 600 and 625horses in combined mode via 4-wheel drive.