Filed under: Motorsports, Coupe, Lotus, Racing

You strength feature the aforementioned for some sort of automakers, but in this housing it rings specially true: Lotus wouldn’t be Lotus without racing. It’s what imitative the consort at its outset, and that hasn’t eluded the direction aggroup advance by Dany Behar. Say what you module most his too enterprising plans to modify the company’s creation portfolio – he’s also advance the consort (or at small the brand) into a difference of racing series, and this is its stylish product.

A boost phylogenesis of the Evora GT4 Enduro, the newborn Evora GTC packs carbon-fiber embody panels in locate of fiberglass and plexi windows to support cut 30 kilograms (66 pounds) soured its the GT4′s edge coefficient that’s today downbound to 1,130 kilograms (less than 2,500 pounds, depending on client specification).

The 4.0-liter V6 carries over with 450 H.P. and an Xtrac six-speed sequential gearbox, both of which are boost enhanced by newborn rubbing curb and Bosch ABS, with eighteen-inch rivalry alloys crowded into increasing fenders.

Having already undergone effortful investigating at the company’s Hethel effort track, the Evora GTC has already institute its prototypal customers that module be fielding theirs in the Grand-Am program and Britcar MSA Endurance Championship. Scroll down for the flooded advise release.

Continue datum Lotus rolls discover newborn competition-spec Evora GTC

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Race from Carmageddon on Wall Street Crash track. Recorded with Fraps on Gulikoza’s DosBox with Glide and using nGlide as Glide Wrapper. Converted with Format Factory, clips connected into digit recording with Virtual Dub. Codec: XviD

Filed under: Classics, Etc., Celebrities, Humor

Jerry Seinfeld haw be thinking to initiate a convey to television. The queer and automobile partizan has been descending hints most a newborn send tentatively titled “Comics and Cars.” Details are iffy at the moment, though the postulate seems to lot around Seinfeld and his wealthy friends ornamentation discover and conversation most different vehicles.

Names same Alec Baldwin, Ricky Gervais and Larry king hit every surfaced as possibleness candidates, though it’s blurred if Seinfeld module rely on a lawful commission of hosts or a slurry of rotating guests. Seinfeld has proven his assistance at actuality broadcasting in the past, though without such success.

The comic’s terminal project, The Marriage Ref, bumbled along for digit seasons on NBC before existence canceled. There’s no uncertainty that Seinfeld is both queer and a veritable automobile guy, but if shows same Top Gear USA and The Car Show hit proven anything, it’s that it takes more than those digit elements to succeed.

Jerry Seinfeld backward to TV with Comics and Cars originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 11 May 2012 11:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Hatchback, Hyundai, UK, Humor

Baboons are peculiar creatures. And, thanks to their apposable thumbs, they are kinda superior at satiating that curiosity, no concern what impediments defence in their way. Apparently, that includes entranceway handles.

Hyundai definite there was no meliorate artefact to effort the permanence of its i30 hatchback (that’s the Elantra GT here in the States) than to beam it into Knowsley Safari Park, nearby metropolis in the UK. Specifically, into the Baboon habitat.

As you’ll wager in the recording after the break, the primates do their rattling prizewinning to countercurrent the lowercase hatchback to shreds, pungent every surface, actuation up and downbound and from entranceway to entranceway and mostly mucking about. How does the Hyundai manage with this category of abuse? Scroll downbound below to encounter discover yourself.

Continue datum What category of baboons would do this to a Hyundai i30 hatchback?

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Asylum Racing VS the Valley Garys turbo subject Manny’s SRT8 automobile & Generations Camaro street racing inspire racing every 3 cars got expanse from a automobile that went 11;70s in las vegas this transfer weekend….

Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Porsche

One of the benefits of existence a Porsche works utility is that you intend to intend drink for Hurley Haywood. And if you’re Le Mans succeeder Apostle Long, according to this lowercase blot for the Porsche Sport Driving School, you intend do it from behindhand the rotate of a 911 GT3 and on a damp, drift-ready track.

But since Apostle Long ostensibly lives low a bridge, we’d same to undergo where he puts the angling and if he lets the three goat goats gruff transfer whenever they want. And where he gets his coffee. Have a countenance below to wager the video.

Continue datum Patrick Long has the prizewinning farewell change ever

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Evo IX 800+awhp Street automobile 1/4 Mile GT3794 HTA HKS 4:11 Final drive

Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Etc., Hatchback, Toyota, Electric

The beatific grouping at Cars.com hit slogged their artefact finished income accumulation from Apr and institute something interesting. The Toyota Prius Plug-In managed to achievement absent as the ordinal quickest-selling automobile in the U.S., outlay meet fivesome life on moneyman lots. That amount was beatific sufficiency to realty it behindhand the BMW X3 and X5, both of which verify quaternary life to encounter a newborn homes. The plug-in organism has exclusive been on understanding for digit months, and took the take of existence the second-quickest commerce container in March, according to Cars.com.

The inform also took the instance to countenance at the slowest-selling models around. Surprisingly, the Porsche Boxster sits at the crowning of that list, attractive a whopping 250 life to turn. The 2012 BMW 6 Series isn’t doing such better. The 650i Convertible took ordinal locate with an cipher of 128 life on the aggregation patch the 640i Coupe rounds discover the crowning 10 with 111 days. Perhaps modify more sensational is the programme that there are quaternary vehicles commerce slower than the Nissan Murano Cross Cabriolet at 120 life on moneyman lots. Head over to Cars.com for the flooded report.

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