Category: World Automotive News

Video: Pagani Zonda R Sets 6:47 Nurburgring Lap Time
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Video: Pagani Zonda R Sets 6:47 Nurburgring Lap Time

A new video documenting the Pagani Zonda R’s 6-minute 47-second Nurburgring lap time has been released. The Zonda R lap time shatters the one set some time ago by the Ferrari 599XX at 6:58. Even though the Zonda R is built off of a street-car design, it is not a street-legal car therefore this will [...]

Toyota's top test driver in fatal car crash
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Toyota’s top test driver in fatal car crash

The chief test driver for Toyota was involved in a fatal car crash with a BMW not far from the Nurburgring in Germany Toyota’s chief test driver has died in a car accident near the famous 20km Nurburgring race track in Germany.
Hiromu Naruse, 67, was driving a prototype of the upcoming Lexus LFA Nurburgring Edition [...]

Gran Turismo 5 - New Teaser Video
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Gran Turismo 5 – New Teaser Video

A new trailer has been released by Polyphony Digital and this time it shows some new details and highlights the games new features like damage rendering, night races and the Top Gear test track. The video features a voiceover by none other than the Schumacher to be, Sebastian Vettel. It’s not known what role the [...]

Ken Lay backs Premier in rejecting Mark Skaife's call for 140km/h limit
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Ken Lay backs Premier in rejecting Mark Skaife’s call for 140km/h limit

UPDATE 9:55am: VICTORIA’S top traffic cop concedes the state has a long way to go to match European driver training as he backed the Premier’s refusal to adopt Mark Skaife’s proposal to raise speed limits.
Skaife’s call to raise speed limits to 140km/h on Victorian freeways has sparked a war of words between the car-racing champ [...]

V8 Supercar driver Mark Skaife calls for speed limit on Victorian freeways to be lifted to 140km/h
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V8 Supercar driver Mark Skaife calls for speed limit on Victorian freeways to be lifted to 140km/h

MOTOR racing champion Mark Skaife has called for speed limits on Victorian freeways to be increased up to 140km/h in a major revamp of the state’s road safety strategy.
Skaife, the most successful driver in Australian touring car history, urged the Brumby Government to feel the need for speed by lifting the legal limit by up [...]

Burn the clock by IND
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Burn the clock by IND

Yes we are all enthusiasts, spend large amounts on our ride making it look the part, to turn heads, or whatever, there comes a time when you think to yourself – “How much more money am I going to spend on my ride”. Well for those lucky few, where money is no issue, you can [...]

Illegal Mobile Speed Cameras revealed
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Illegal Mobile Speed Cameras revealed

Only recently a Top cop in Victoria accused the state government of using speed camera’s to raise revenue, even though some of these cameras were “dodgy”. This new article released by CarAdvice shows some more questionable tactics the Police force in Victoria. When will these kind of issues become more common in WA, will the [...]

2011 Volvo S60 Collision Avoidance Fails During Demonstration, Smashes Truck
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2011 Volvo S60 Collision Avoidance Fails During Demonstration, Smashes Truck

Oops, that wasn’t supposed to happen. The safety gurus at Volvo are a bit red-cheeked today as a video of the new 2011 S60 smashing into the back of a truck after the collision avoidance system being demonstrated for the press failed to do its job.
The problem is being credited to human error in the [...]

Spanish Supercar - GTA Spano
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Spanish Supercar – GTA Spano

How does a 8.3ltr Supercharged V10 with 920Nm of Torque sound…..pretty impressive actually!. Not much is known about this Supercar but Caradvice drove the prototype last year and by the sounds of it this version is equally as impressive.

The GTA Spano is a bona fide supercar, designed and built by the successful race car [...]

New F1 engine formula - 4 cyl twin turbo?
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New F1 engine formula – 4 cyl twin turbo?

Found this article today and it was an interesting read. With a lot of people interested in F1, myself included, there seems to be an emphasis on global warming these days and F1 teams are close to agreeing to a new engine formula for the 2013 season to help reduce the consumption/emissions from the current [...]