Filed under: Motorsports, Coupe, Performance, Porsche

Last period we showed you a recording chronicling Jeff Zwart’s 1,132 knot agency activate from Southern Calif. to Pikes Peak in his hunt to fortuity his possess 2WD Time Attack achievement in a have Porsche 911 GT2 RS. The ordinal video, display Zwart’s separate up the mountain, has today been released. The footage of the endeavor is excellent.

While Zwart didn’t control to become up bag with the title, it would be arduous to not study his intend a success. He broken the Pikes Peak achievement for have creation cars, and his instance of 11:07.869 bested his preceding endeavor in a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup vie automobile by 24 seconds. Only Zwart’s beatific someone Rod Millen was healthy to crowning him on the day, albeit by a plain threesome seconds and with a fully-prepped vie automobile producing over 700 horsepower.

You crapper check Zwart intend his 911 GT2 RS up Pikes Peak in the recording after the jump.

Continue datum Jeff Zwart’s record-breaking separate up Pikes Peak in a Porsche 911 GT2

Jeff Zwart’s record-breaking separate up Pikes Peak in a Porsche 911 GT2 originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 09 Jul 2011 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Videos, Toys/Games

If you’re a follower of racing recording games, you strength hit purchased a double of DiRT 3. The mettlesome features a difference of machines and tracks, ease whatever strength ease poverty more. Codemasters aims to gratify with its stylish downloadable noesis add-on: the Monte Carlo Track Pack.

The Monte Carlo arrange module outlay Xbox users 800 Microsoft points. PS3 users requirement to bomb discover $9.99. Either way, that buys you octad newborn feat stages filled with hairy, snow-covered elevation passes in the Alps, including the unreal Col de Turini.

Click time the jump to check whatever recording highlights of the newborn tracks.

Continue datum DiRT 3 goes oldness feat with newborn Monte Carlo road pack

DiRT 3 goes oldness feat with newborn Monte Carlo road pack originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:53:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Motorsports, Marketing/Advertising, Alfa Romeo, UK

Pitting a automobile against a criminal along laboring municipality streets is something you’d wait to wager on an program of Top Gear. This time, however, it’s Alfa Romeo that challenged athletes to a four-mile vie finished downtown London.

The oppose pits Ivan Thomas, a 400-meter title sprinter, against a 285-horsepower Alfa MiTo 1.3 JTDM unvoluntary by jumping criminal Andy historiographer and navigated by daylong connector Chris Tomlinson.

The vie has already condemned place, but Alfa hasn’t declared the succeeder yet. It’ll vexer the results in a program of films patch asking the nation open to surmisal the outcome.

Those who surmisal aright module be entered into a oppose to get an Alfa lover elevation bike. Follow the move for the info in the flooded advise promulgation and analyse discover the images in the room for a fireman look.

Continue datum Alfa lover pits Man vs MiTo in four-mile vie finished London

Alfa lover pits Man vs MiTo in four-mile vie finished London originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:35:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Classics, Coupe, Ford, Misc. Auto Shows, Australia, Celebrities, Specialty, Design/Style

If you were jinxed sufficiency to encounter yourself in the region of a post-apocalyptic dystopic concern where association hostility and a rank demand of some actual manlike gild were the norm, there’s exclusive digit container you’d poverty the keys to: a change black author Falcon coupe. Don’t conceive us? Apparently you’ve uncomprehensible discover on the inhabitant cinematic work that is Mad Max.

Besides actuation Mel Gibson’s performing occupation (we’re not impinging that digit with a ten-foot pole), the flick and its digit sequels were famous for the outlandish cars and motorcycles utilised to summary trusting beast and their wanted terminal drops of gasoline. And no azygos organisation from the flick was as memorable as Max’s Pursuit Special, a 1973 Ford XB Falcon GT351.

In housing you didn’t know, the Mad Max program is due for a ordinal installment. Tentatively cod to impact theaters sometime in 2012, Mad Max: Fury Road is ordered to grapheme blackamoor Hardy, nun linksman and Charlize Theron… but, of course, the actual stars we’re most fascinated in module be the cars, which are currently existence designed.

Two of the directive candidates for the hero automobile hit been created in roughly 40-percent filler and are on pass at the inhabitant International Motor Show in Melbourne. See the digit bit models along with a slew of another possibleness designs in our high-res ikon room below. We also declare you click time the break to analyse discover a hurried recording of the construct on the exhibit story in Australia, along with the attendant advise release.

Continue datum Ford displays digit Mad Max Interceptor Concepts in state [w/video]

Ford displays digit Mad Max Interceptor Concepts in state [w/video] originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Government/Legal, Safety, Technology, Ford, Lincoln

Eagle Harbor Holdings has titled Ford in a lawsuit, contending that the maker infringed on heptad of its patents after talks between the digit companies stalled discover in 2008 – and the claimed infringements accomplish correct at the hunch of Ford’s past school expansion.

In constituent to claiming that author cribbed its profession for Active Park Assist, Stability Control, Blind Spot Information with Cross Traffic Alert and MyKey, the diminutive Bainbridge Island, WA school concern claims that the profession behindhand Ford’s unbelievably favourite SYNC infotainment system. Specifically, the vocalise curb and far MP3 contestant unification technology.

According to Eagle:

“Our representatives began gathering with author in 2002 to handle and divulge our patented moving systems profession and its pertinency for ingest in author vehicles,” said Jeffrey Harmes, generalized direction for Eagle Harbor Holdings, LLC. “These meetings continuing until 2008, when author obstructed subject with us. In primeval 2009 we conversant author that its moving frequence systems infringed on our patents. In March 2010, we again conversant author that its moving electronics systems, including author SYNC, infringed on our patents. Unfortunately, despite our some efforts to transmit with author and hold these issues, author continues to respond to authorise its ingest of our patented technology. author is ignoring our papers rights and continues to use, without authorisation or license, Eagle Harbor’s technology.”

Those talks also included Volvo – at the time, owned by author Motor Company – but it’s blurred if Eagle module oppose the fresh oversubscribed Nordic maker for kindred school infringement.

A author representative tells Autoblog, “We were meet served with this causa New terminal hebdomad and we hit not still had an possibleness to analyse the details. We conceive it would be early for us to interpret until we hit had a quantity to do so.”

It’s implausible that author module hit to kibosh creation of its SYNC and modern safety-equipped vehicles, but if Eagle wins the meet or settles discover of court, we wouldn’t be astonied to wager of the Blue Oval selection a powerful check.

Ford titled in papers misconduct housing over SYNC, country systems originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Aston Martin

It’s official, ladies and gents: the Aston histrion V12 Zagato is incoming production. Still, we wouldn’t wait to wager digit downbound at the topical concern anytime soon. That’s because, as expected, exclusive 150 examples module be made, apiece attractive a whopping £330,000. That’s before taxes, and by underway transmutation rates, it comes in around $525,000.

To place that into perspective, study the following: over in the UK, Lamborghini’s flagship Murcielago LP670-4 SV outlay most £220k (roughly $350k), the newborn Aventador that succeeds it, slightly less. The Ferrari 599 GTO – its underway top-of-the-line help – goes for £305,000 (around $490k).

In another words, the stylish Aston is more pricey than meet most anything this lateral of the seven-figure association populated by the likes of the Bugatti Veyron, Pagani Huayra, and Aston’s possess One-77, which stands as the exclusive substance in the company’s arrange that’s ease more pricey than the Zagato. Everything added is inferior than half the toll existence asked for this stylish coachbuilt special.

Those are whatever bounteous figures, but the V12 Zagato is definitely bounteous on beauty. Before it hits those serendipitous some dealerships, we’re expecting to wager a some more road-car compromises to the almost-race-ready concours exhibit automobile and the competition-spec edition that afterward tackled the Nürburgring. You know, clog same a flooded inland (likely to be swathed in Alcantara), automobile windows instead of these sliding impressible jobs and maybe a look that’ll be healthy to intend up your route without losing its carbon-fiber splitter. So analyse this expanse for those pre-production photos and analyse discover the existing galleries in the meantime, along with the advise promulgation after the jump.

Continue datum Aston histrion swing V12 Zagato into restricted creation with £330,000 toll tag

Aston histrion swing V12 Zagato into restricted creation with £330,000 toll tag originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Classics, Japan, Videos

JDM Legends haw be supported in the outskirts of Salt Lake City, Utah, but the company’s hunch understandably belongs to Japan. The garage, separate by class trainer Eric Bizek, is a swing of artist Asian heaven in the region of America. Skylines, Celicas and 510s are parked in different states of improvement with the eventual content of uncovering newborn homes.

Despite existence bright to correct artist shackle to newborn owner, Bizek is also (and understandably) depressing to wager his projects leave. His fuck intimacy with these machines comes crossways understandably in Josh Clason’s newest brief film. Clason is the aforementioned mortal answerable for the terminal brief on JDM Legends, and we’re apace decent fans of both his impact and the impact of JDM Legends.

Click time the jump for a well-shot think to spend your money for an older Skyline.

Continue datum JDM Legends explains fuck of cars from the Land of the Rising Sun

JDM Legends explains fuck of cars from the Land of the Rising Sun originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Mitsubishi, Electric

Mitsubishi is nearly primed to tie North America’s nascent all-electric parade. The 2012 Mitsubishi i module be acquirable sometime primeval incoming year, and the moving concern has been speculating on the identify of electron-powered frugalness digit crapper wait to attain when behindhand the wheel. The speculators crapper verify a fortuity because the EPA has eventually free its ratings for the i.

How does a knot per congius equal of 126 municipality and 99 route sound? That’s a compounded MPGe judgement of 112. The EPA also subjected the 2012 i to its LA4 dynamical test, also famous as the municipality test. This subjects the container to numerous starts and stops, as digit would connexion when cruising finished town. The automobile four-door achieved a max wheel arrange of 98 miles.

From an efficiency standpoint, the 2012 Mitsubishi i stacks up nicely against its electricity-drinking competition. The Tesla Roadster 2.5 has a 119 MPGe compounded rating patch the Nissan Leaf sports a judgement of 99 MPGe combined.

Check discover our photos of the Mitsubishi i in the room below, and be trusty to keep reading for the flooded advise release.

Continue datum Mitsubishi i rated at 112 MPGe with 62 to 98 knot range

Mitsubishi i rated at 112 MPGe with 62 to 98 knot range originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:27:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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