UPDATE: Both Raikkonen and Fisichella revealed after the race that Force India could have won the Grand Prix, as Ferrari’s only advantage over the slightly faster Force India was its KERS system.
Ferrari’s World Champion driver Kimi Raikkonen took his, and Ferrari’s first victory of the 2009 season at an eventful Belgian Grand Prix at Spa [...]
This will happen if your tire blows out at 240km/h. It happened when Daijiro Inada tried to beat the high speed record in the Silver State Classic held in the state of Nevada. His goal was to break the record in the unlimited category. It was powered by an VQ35DE engine that had been stroked [...]
BMW Vision EfficientDynamics: Greener Than Thou
With the new Vision concept, BMW isn’t simply keeping pace with the Chevy Volts, Prius plug-ins and Peugeot diesel hybrid concepts floated by those automakers. It’s a trump card that marries all those technologies into a single halo car that could lead the way to lighter, more efficient, more dramatically [...]
After the shock of the chequered flag in qualifying, the race began to solve the mystery of the upside-down grid order for Sunday’s Belgian grand prix.
Giancarlo Fisichella has always been a Spa specialist, but it is believed the keywords of his pole position, and the strange order of the cars beneath him, were ‘tyres’, ‘weather’, [...]
The formula for supercar success is surprisngly simple: mid-engine, rear or all-wheel drive, 500-plus horsepower and any design that rises above the “only a mother could love” category. So Abt’s take on the Audi R8 V-10 was almost guaranteed to be a hit from the get-go.
It doesn’t hurt, of course, that the German tuning and [...]
Never quite understood the logic behind the creation of stupendously powerful off-roaders with supercar-like performance, but maybe that’s exactly what makes them so attractive to those that can afford them: they don’t make any sense to the rest of us… Hamann’s latest take on the Mercedes-Benz G55 AMG fits perfectly in this category of vehicles.
As [...]
0-60 mph in 2.9 seconds (w/ video)
Boustead Sdn Bhd is currently having promotion on all their suzuki models. Starting from 21/8/2009 till 21/10/2009, anyone who purchases a brand new Suzuki car will be entitled for the grand draw of $10,000, or one of five other consolation prizes.
Suzuki’s Hari Raya Promotions will first kick off with a roadshow at Giant Hypermarket in [...]
The current E90 BMW 3-Series has been on the market since 2005, so it’s only fitting that details about the next-gen model are beginning to circulate. Most agree that the next model will feature styling lifted, at least in part, from the Concept CS, though also expect to see a healthy dose of the new [...]
The 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show is now just about two weeks away, and Mini in particular is ramping up to do the show in style. On Wednesday, the company revealed its new Coupe concept, and today a sketch of the Roadster that’s expected to join it on the German show stage has leaked.
The Roadster has [...]
The standard version of Mercedes’ new E-Class estate goes on sale at the beginning of next year but this is no ordinary estate. This is the E63 flagship, and these are the best pictures yet of what the newcomer will look like.
Spied here in Germany carrying out the final stages testing ahead of its release [...]
Auto tuning company Sportec has announced an upgrade kit for the Audi TT RS, that can enable the RS to pump out 400HP at 5,800 revs and 544Nm of torque at 2,650 revs, from its 2.5 liter turbocharged 5-cylinder powerplant that produces 340HP and 450Nm of pulling power in stock form.
The upgrade kit (Stage 1) [...]
