WOW…this is absolutely stunning! In Papaya Orange, the 2013 Audi RS4 (B8) spotted at Audi headquarters in Germany.
Photos courtesy of Fourtitude
Tag Archives: german
Vettel/A110 photoshoot.
The photos here have been REMOVED due to their unoriginal effects as I was informed by the photographer (Anke Luckmann). The ORIGINAL PHOTOS have now been uploaded into a new post, thanks to Ms. Anke Luckmann for sending me her original versions of these photos:
https://iedei.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/vettel-alpine-a110-updated-with-original-photos/
video of the day. RS5
I consider the Audi RS5 to be the ultimate manifestation of the germans trying to build a “muscle car”…..along with some of the Mercedes AMG line…….this is some great footage of an RS5 rolling through the desolate smooth roads in the desert—-almost reminds me of scenes from the film “Vanishing Point”!
No music or commentary to get in the way either! just the sweet sound of a V8!
Such a desirable car in that shape and in that form—i think the original A5/S5 already looked beautiful, but with a widened stance, fender flares, and those extra RS touches; it really gets its point across! Fantastic.
Porsche Design Bong…errr, i mean Shisha Pipe.
Smoking Shisha is a big part of middle eastern culture, and a very pleasurable manner in which to consume flavoured tobacco products. Porsche Design has always sold very nice lighters and pipes to discerning customers, and now they’ve added to the stable with a newly designed bong water pipe! Very nice for what it is. Surely to be expensive i’m sure…
download the official Porsche Design Press PDF
unknown car of the day. Goliath GP 700 Sport.
One of the post-war cars developed in Germany, loosely based on a VW Beetle platform (correction): upon further investigation, it seems that the most recent sole survivor was discovered with an older VW chassis transplant, however the original GP 700 Sport was based on an OEM original Borgward chassis design. —–with a LOT of design similarity to the Porsche 356 (also Beetle-based), the Goliath GP 700 Sport was built with lots of aluminium, and sported a mighty 36hp. The amount of parts that it actually shares with a VW is unclear, as it doesn’t use a rear-engined layout like the Beetle did. Very few of these cars exist (reportedly 3 are still in existence). Produced between 1950 and 1953, by Borgward. The car had Bosch Fuel Injection (!), front engined, front wheel drive, and a transversely mounted engine—-all revolutionary at the time and very unique.
Lots of information and photos here:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=406656&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
espada.
when it comes to supercars, it doesn’t get any cooler than the Lamborghini Espada…i like the details in this video…..this one is in particularly nice shape.
here’s another video. of an Espada on the TT circuit in in Assen.
driving gloves quest: Audi vs. BMW vs Porsche
Well i bought some superb Dunhill driving gloves last year, however i lost one of them; a true tragedy in my petrolhead bubbleworld.
So about6 months ago, being the Audi fanboy i am; i ordered a pair of Audi driving gloves through the Audi Collection. I really like them. Very soft and well made. $49.00
For you BMW fanboys, BMW is selling driving gloves as well, through their BMW Lifestyle section. They look pretty good. $40.00
Porsche Design has also come out with a set of driving gloves; they are clearly the flashiest and pose-y out of the bunch…but they look pretty good. $190.00
cheap eurocar wants: under $4k
I’ve got this weird desire to own a ‘cheap and older’ european classic car. It is a persistent desire and I constantly find myself perusing the classified ads looking for that perfect cheap-ass eurobox…..something that makes me look like a disgruntled member of the United Nations from the 80s or 90s. Clearly it’s a stupid desire, as i possess MINIMAL mechanical ability to fix these on my own, and them being european; i am virtually guaranteed things going wrong……..but regardless, the desire lives on…and i can’t get rid of it.
my top 5 ‘cheap’ classic cars i want…….WHAT are you guys after? Do you already own a ‘modern’ classic euro car? any stories?
1. Audi 90 (B3): Not sure why i want these so much, but i think it stems from my experiences with one back in the year 2000, when i bought a used 1993 Volvo 850. During my test drives, I had also driven a 1995 Audi 90 quattro….and i LOVED it…it was so much better than the Volvo. But it was also $15k, i bought the Volvo for $9k. I still have an eye out these days…looking for that old woman selling her 90 Quattro. I’m hoping i can find a REALLY clean one for less than $2500…..unmodded, unabused…i think it’s possible. It’d be fun to throw these around in the winter…and to use as a utility car….
2. Audi 4000 Quattro: While looking for Audi 90s, i started seeing these 4000s popping up….for cheap. like $1500 for those weird 80s boxy Audis….with quattro. They’re sort of like buying an Audi quattro coupe….but not really….Either way, they look very german, and i really dig em. Similar to the 90, if i find an old couple selling their unabused 4000 quattro, i’ll be so tempted to buy one.
3. BMW 3-series E30: Yeah it’s all played out now, because every european car enthusiast knows about the $2000 E30 that you can find on craigslist, so now you have thousands of people looking for these E30s….but they really are a cool eurobox to pick up cheap and drive around for kicks; the biggest problem is how many people are looking for em……
4. Alfa Romeo GTV6: Such a cool car, i still remember one of my best friends in 3rd grade used to get dropped off by his mother in one of these….and i loved it then. They look much smaller in real life now than i remember them to be back then…but they make a helluva noise still. It’s tough to find a ‘cheap’ one in good condition, but i think it’s possible. I know Brad from Automobiliac picked his up cheap….and it looks great. An affordable way for an american to get a very cool Alfa Romeo for sure…(look at the one in the picture below; it is the HOTNESS)
5. VW Corrado: Another car i always wanted. Unfortunately all the kiddies into VWs have bought lots of them, abused them, modded them poorly and distastefully, and most of the 2nd hand Corrados i see are quite broken. Even more unfortunately, when i do find ‘clean’ Corrados…i’m pretty sure they WILL break soon after getting it anyways. So it’s a car i look at, but i would NEVER buy unless i become trained as a mechanic, because they are always proned to breaking…..
BMW 2002 Turbo. video.
My favourite BMW of all time. GIVE ME ONE.
video: Audi TT RS
New video, very cool.
BMW 2002 chase scene….
If the film “Vanishing Point” would have been filmed in a desolate european location, with a BMW 2002tii instead of a Dodge Challenger—-THIS is what it would have looked like…errr….maybe. Enjoy!
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