As you know, a large earthquake and tsunami hit Japan on Friday. I found this very strange photo on MSN of a huge supply parking lot for Infiniti. Obviously I wish the best to the Japanese readers of IEDEI and everyone else there, and for a recovery from this crazy disaster.
An Italdesign study penned by Guigiaro in 1970. It seems every photo I find of the strange Tapiro is accompanied by women! So here they are in all their early 70s glory. This car is actually based off a 914 chassis, interestingly enough.
Cooler than f*ck. Wonder how much this is going to fetch on auction. Yes, this is the 911S from the opening scene of Le Mans and yes this is the 911s that Steve McQueen bought after filming the movie for his own collection.
http://www.leftlanenews.com/king-of-cool-steve-mcqueens-le-mans-porsche-911s-headed-to-auction.html
the uber-cool Audi RS2 and the rare and desirable BMW E34 M5 Touring might be two of the most desirable avants/wagons/touring/estate cars ever made. The RS2 (one of my top 10 most desirable cars) was hand built by Porsche. Amazing that in a time where Audi was struggling after the whole 60-minutes-false-claim-scam-slandering; they decided to have a go with Porsche building them a specialised 5-cylinder monster. The biggest rumour about the RS2? It has been claimed that the RS2 does 0-30 mph faster than a McLaren F1. I’d love to see that. The RS2 never came to the US—i have 9 years to wait til i can use the 25 year-import rule to think about bringing one over here.
The E34 M5 was a great car; in my mind the last great M5. The E39 kinda lost the charm as far as i’m concerned, although i’m sure plenty of people reading this love the E39. The E34 M5 Touring is an even rarer, more obscure proposition! I’ve never seen one; mainly because it was never brought to the US either. Surely the E34 M5 meant business; as did the RS2——so which one is better?
You would think because this article was written in a magazine called BMWCar, this article would be biased—–but i have to say that I think they’ve done a remarkably fair and excellent write-up on these 2 amazing cars. I don’t really care for wagons——but i love both of these…..albeit one more than the other.
Oh and to my 2 friends I was discussing the Cadillac CTS-V Wagon with a couple days ago—–i’ll take either of these thankyouverymuch!
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I grew up with BMW as my favourite marque; mainly because of my undying love for the E30 M3 when i was a young child. I’m not sure why I wasn’t like other children who loved Corvettes and Porsches, because I wasn’t. I still remember my parents buying me a radio controlled car when i was very young (9 or 10?), and I didn’t choose the red Porsche, i chose the dark grey E30 M3. I wish i still had that radio controlled car…
Anyways, BMW is a company who i’ve watched deteriorate in charm. They may still build very fast and potent automobiles—-but they leave me feeling numb. The modern BMW design is stale and very non-BMW in many ways. To be honest, the 1-series is the only BMW I am really a fan of—-and that is a great car to drive as well.
Here are 2 photos. One of all the 5-series and one of all the 3-series. The best ones are on the left side of the pictures.
this is an amazing commissioned drawing of the Alpine A110 by the superb automotive painter, Miha Furlan
This car is badass…and nobody even knows what it is. AWD. 400hp. 5 Cylinder turbo.
my sister has a regular C30, which I have to say—is quite an enjoyable to drive with the stock 210hp. It is also, in my opinion, the best looking hatchback on sale in the US at the moment. This Volvo C30 Polestar is only a concept, but it pretty much kicks absolute arse! The big question then is—why does Volvo refuse to build it?
I have a ‘bond’ with Dunhill sunglasses—i really enjoy all of their products. I have broken my nose several times throughout my life, which causes most sunglasses to fit like a circle on a square. Dunhills, however, fit quite well and since observing this, i have continued my cycle of buying their sunglasses. This being said, i do have a pair of Persols which fit quite nicely; however those are my backup gangsta glasses I keep in the car.
I ordered these last week, and they came today—-with a lovely alcantara rimmed leather Dunhill carrying case. Apologies for this ghetto photo, as i hate using flash, and that’s the only way i could capture the beautiful matte black finish of the frames.
This is a tasty TT quattro sport on sale in the UK, tuned by Jabbasport; They’re claiming 450hp, which is quite a bit more than the 350hp that Stage 3 tuning takes it to quite predictably. The quattro sport, was the highest end MK1 TT which was sold in Europe; stock it had a slight upgrade in power (240 vs. 225), upgraded suspension, special GT3-like seats, special wheels, special 2-tone paint schemes, different front bumper (3.2 bumper) and rear seat delete. 18,000 GBP for this 2005. Tasty……and everso elusive here..
a lovely collage from the excellent Carfreax site. As usual, everything is better in black!
Apparently, Ford had decided to fight back against the successes of rally cars in the late 60s and early 70s like the Porsche 911s and the Alpine A110 with their own small purpose-built rally car named the Ford GT70.
From OCTANE MAGAZINE:
‘The GT70’s creation had been triggered by our poor performance on the 1970 Monte Carlo Rally,’ Ford Competitions manager Stuart Turner says. ‘The Escort Twin-Cams, driven by Clark, Timo Makinen and Hannu Mikkola, at best finished fifth and seventh, and had been left behind by the winning Porsche 911S and Alpine-Renault A110.’”
Thanks to Jalopnik for turning attention this burning issue!
I believe the ‘yellow’ livery is in its current state; previously, the lone prototype was in silver finish:
Maserati Birdcage cutout drawing.
by Makato Ouchi
Lamborghini Jarama peeling out!
this commercial defines my NYC winter. superb! ……and the R8 is so f*cking cool.
Fiat 131 Abarth cutout.
I love mythical and mysterious stories about automobiles. I found this one to be gloriously interesting and imaginative. For many years, people outside of North Carolina had wondered if there was any truth to the ‘supposed’ existence of an AMC dealership in Pikeville, NC. AMC, of course had been destroyed/shut down as a company in 1987 after being purchased by Chrysler, in an awful mess of 80s corporate destruction. Obviously the people in North Carolina knew the truth about whether the dealership exists or not, however people from outside had to go and find out for themselves…and this is what they had found:
IT IS STILL THERE! and it is functioning….well…sort of!
“If you’re an AMC fan, you would be in seventh heaven, surrounded by the remains that by my count exceeded more than 100 AMC cars. I could see that these cars, predominantly from the sixties and seventies–though often obscured by tall weeds–were for the most part intact. Others were in various states of disrepair, and some were in the later stages of decomposition.” (Rich Truesdell wrote this and more on the Automotive Traveler site)
More pictures I got from that Automotive Traveler post, along with additional searches:
As of February, 2011:
Read about the visit there:
http://www.automotivetraveler.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=578&Itemid=131
the Audi A1 is another in the line of mythical Audi creations which will likely never hit the US shores; but that doesn’t stop me from lusting after one. This one is a great colour, with dark wheels, and an aggressive lowered stance. If you were to ask me to build an A1, i would want to build it like this—-possibly minus the wacky retro-y cloth interior though….am more a leather person myself. Unfortunately Audi aren’t keen on bringing this generation A1 to this country; or it would DEFINITELY be in my garage as a city commuter. 156hp in a 2300+ pound body sounds damn good to me!
Found on: Fourtitude
so quattro Audis are simply sensational in inclement weather….and DAMN fun to screw around with in the snow…—but how did Audis do before quattro in the snow? How much fun is it to screw around in the snow in a pre-quattro audi? well these people are making a bit of a mess with this pretty decent example of an Audi 100LS.
EDIT: it seems you can only watch this on youtube due to some copyright issues.
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