ah, i had no idea this even existed—-a racing version of the modern Maserati Quattroporte, lovingly referred to as Evo.
This car is privately raced in the SUPERSTARS SERIES and raced this past weekend by a Swiss team at Monza. Hot stuff, yeah….
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a couple bonus lo-res fotos of this new find.
I have literally 1000s and 1000s of photos of my favourite car ever, the Alpine A110. I am slowly dispersing these through IEDEI so others can enjoy them. Many of these are very rare, and I have collected them over the past 5 years or so. I don’t have a lot of information on some of them—but when I have info I will pass that along as well. The more vintage and grainy—-the BETTER.
from 1976
a nice blue series-1 Lancia Fulvia
i love these vintage programs from the original races; this one is from 1969 Lime Rock….from Progcovers
I’m not a fan of Lexus cars—i think they are mind numbing and quite frankly soulless. Many years ago I test drove a Lexus LS with my father, and I still think of that car as one of the WORST cars I have ever driven. That being said—-take a look at the 2010 Lexus LS engine bay. I don’t think i’ve seen a worse example of an engine bay….well…ever.
i love most TVRs—i think the new ones were brilliantly insane, and the older ones were brilliantly insane. Whenever i’ve been to the UK i keep one eye peeled out for them rumbling by….fantastic.
i found this nice little lo-fi website with little tidbits of history:
http://www.tvr-grantura.de/Meine-Grantura-Seite/Meine-Granturaseite.html
I love photos like this, at the same I hate photos like this. Lots of dead old british cars, including some TVRs.
Vintage TVR Grantura manual.
Old-school TVR-Grantura
Quattroholic has put up some fantastic scans from an Audi AG book about the 1991 Audi Avus Concept. Hard to believe this was 20 years ago. A lot of the design cues from this car directly influenced future products like the Bugatti Veyron, Audi TT, and Audi R8. The Avus was heavily influenced by the legendary Auto Union race cars of the 20s and 30s—and represented a turning point in modern Audi design.
check out the full scans at:
http://www.quattroholic.com/2011/04/hi-res-scans-of-original-1991-audi-avus.html
What do an Avant with 4 rings and an (almost) normal E-class Mercedes have in common? Well…these 2 were series production cars built by Porsche. The RS2 is one of the holy grail cars round here, and the 500E might be one of the unsuspecting sleepers around…
Articles from the July 2002 issue of GT Purely Porsche
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a look of disgust…(let it load completely…or save gif for best results)
(got this from Strassenversion!)
The Canadian who did the European delivery on his new BMW 1M (1-Series M) has documented his delivery of the car in Germany quite extensively. Click the link to check out the full writing and story behind his pick-up (currently still in progress)
Very cool car, and a very cool way to pick up a new car!
FULL POST: http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=511414
1955 Maserati A6G/54 Zagato. all types of lovely.
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Walter Rohrl is part of the team behind the Porsche 911.
Mercedes-Benz is showing photos of their new A-Class Concept. I’m all in favour for small, cool, luxury hatchbacks—-but this Mercedes doesn’t look like a Mercedes. It really looks more BMW from the side (all the slashes and body moldings…very Bangle-ish) and quite Audi from the rear (TOO Audi-ish from the rear)….and maybe Volvo-ish from the front? A pretty interesting design that I quite like in many ways—-but a little sloppy and very uncharacteristic for a Mercedes, in my opinion.
and compare the rear end to the Audi A1 Concept from a couple years ago!
just the logo…just the badge….but the stuff my dreams are made of.
a BMW Classic short film. (thanks to Arman for the tip!)
Great stuff on display in Germany at this year’s Techno Classica.
see the rest of the pics at Audi Passion:
http://www.audipassion.com/news/741/51/Le-stand-Audi-Tradition-au-Techno-Classica-2011/
Amazingly, one of the coolest cars I saw during my trip to Italy was a Blue Fiat Coupe 20V. Of course it is not sold in the USA and thus my exposure to it has been VERY little (trips to Europe in the past only)—-but the car is beautiful…..another Chris Bangle design which has held up very well!
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