January 19th, 2009 in Advanced Autozone | No Comments »
The new, British-built 675 is great on the track – and a positive Triumph on the road.
Triumph could have settled for a simple facelift for its revised 2009 Daytona 675. I was in awe of the old model within my first few laps of the launch venue, Sepang circuit, two years ago and when I took the bike onto the roads the following day it proved better still.
January 19th, 2009 in Mercedes-Benz | No Comments »
The Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 team today launched the car it will campaign in the 2009 FIA Formula 1 World Championship at its headquarters in Woking, England.
Unveiled by world champion Lewis Hamilton and his team-mate Heikki Kovalainen, the new MP4-24 bears little resemblance to its world championship-winning predecessor due to the introduction of a raft of new rules that have radically reshaped Formula 1 ahead of the 2009 season.
January 19th, 2009 in Ferrari | No Comments »
With a handful of the teams filling the F1 grid for the upcoming season – including Ferrari and Toyota – having already unveiled their 2009-spec challengers, some have bemoaned the effect the new regulations have had on the cars’ appearances.
But after looking at this monster, we have no doubt those qualms will quickly disappear in its shadow. And quite a shadow it casts: you’re looking at what its creators call the GP Limo.
January 19th, 2009 in Advanced Autozone | No Comments »
heritage last week at the Barrett-Jackson collector car auction in Scottsdale, Ariz. More than 200 cars from GM’s Heritage Fleet went on the block in what GM called normal housekeeping.
Note that’s the Heritage Fleet, which is different from the Heritage Collection. The latter has about 350 cars.
January 19th, 2009 in Lamborghini, Mercedes-Benz | No Comments »
We’re not about to enter the whole euthanasia debate here, but we are of the opinion that supercars at least deserve to die with dignity. The Mercedes SLR McLaren is being kept alive unnaturally.
While most supercars are built for a limited time in limited quantities and discontinued while demand is still high, the joint effort between Mercedes-Benz and its Formula One partners at McLaren first debuted as a concept in 1999, and between the original coupe, the Roadster, the 722, 722 GT, and the new Stirling Moss edition speedster – to say nothing of tuner versions like the Hamann Volcano – has had more derivatives than an advanced calculus class. (Or so we might assume, we never got past CAL1.) And yet it is still here…for a little while longer, at least. Well before the SLR thunders off toward the horizon, RENNtech plans on giving it one last swan song.