Concept Car : Lamborghini Sesto Elemento 2011

Lamborghini Sesto Elemento

The Lamborghini Sesto Elemento is redefining the actual future with the super sports car with a exclusive technology demonstrator. Boasting an extremely light-weight construction as a result of sophisticated carbon-fiber technology, the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento has an general curb weight of just 999 kilograms (2,202 lb) – which includes V10 power unit and permanent all-wheel drive.

This makes the Sesto Elemento a special demonstration of the technological experience of Automobili Lamborghini. Revolutionary carbon-fiber technologies are becoming used here for the very first time in an automotive software. As being a one hundred percent subsidiary of AUDI AG, the Italian carmaker also rewards from your undisputed knowledge from the German producer in terms of light-weight construction.

Automotive News says that Lamborghini will put the Sesto Elemento concept into limited production. There will be 5 to 10 units built, and like usual the exclusivity has a big price: 2.5 million Euro (almost $3,500,000 at the current exchange rates). Did you know that Bugatti Veyron price tag start from 1.65 Million Euro (almost  $2.300,000).

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American Muscle Car : The Ford Galaxie (Ford Galaxy)

1963 Ford Galaxie

The Ford Galaxie or know as Ford Galaxy full-size cars in the United States by the Ford Motor Company built for model years 1959 to 1974. The name was used for the top models in the Ford full-size range from 1959 to 1961, call in a marketing effort, the excitement about the Space Race. In 1962, all full-size Ford badge bore the galaxy, with “500″ and “500/XL” refer to the higher ranges. 500/LTD the galaxy was introduced in 1965, followed by Galaxie 500 7-liter in 1966. The Galaxie 500 was part of the cases in 1966, LTD, and remained the XL in 1967, but the fundamental structure-series levels. The “normal” Galaxie 500 LTD remains below the average level as a full-size model Ford from 1965 to 1974 until his death at the end of the model year.

The Milky Way was the high volume counterpart to the Chevrolet Impala. Some Galaxies were high-performance, racing specification machines, a larger ancestor of the muscle car era. Others were simple family sedans.

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Japanese Sports Cars : Honda NSX or Acura NSX

Honda NSX

The Honda NSX, or Acura NSX in North America and Hong Kong, is a sports car that was produced between 1990 and 2005 by the Japanese automaker Honda. It sports a mid-engine, rear-wheel drive layout and was powered by an all-aluminium V6 gasoline engine featuring Honda’s Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control (VTEC) program.

In 1984 Honda commissioned the Italian car designer Pininfarina to design the HP-X (Honda Pininfarina Xperimental), which had a mid-mounted C20A 2.0 L V6 configuration. After Honda decided to pursue the project its management informed its engineers that the new car would need to be as excellent as anything coming from Italy and Germany.

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Japanese Sports Car : Toyota Supra Mark IV (1993–2002)

Toyota Supra Turbo 1995 Mark IV

The Toyota Supra is a sports car/grand tourer, produced by Toyota Motor Company from 1979 to 2002. The styling of the Toyota Supra was derived from the Toyota Celica, but it was also longer and wider. From mid 1986, the Supra (in its third generation, Mark III) has its own model and was not based on the Celica. In turn, Toyota also stopped using the prefix Celica and began just calling the car Supra. Because of the similarity and past of the Celica name, it is often confused with the Toyota Supra, and vice versa.

The Toyota Supra also traces much of its roots in the Toyota 2000GT with the main lines of the engine. The first three generations with a direct descendant of the Toyota Crown and offered 2000GT’s M engine. All four generations of Supra produced have an inline 6-cylinder engine. Interior aspects were also similar, as the chassis code “A”.

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Fast Furious Five Cars : Fast Five Cars : Movie Cars

Fast Furious Five

Fast Furious Five Cars, Car Coordinator Dennis McCarthy is no stranger to the Fast and the Furious franchise. He was the picture car coordinator in Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious and now returns for the hat trick in Fast Five. The latest installment to compromise a hefty feature of 21 cars including Dom Toretto’s Dodge Charger brand.

In the last chapter of the Fast Five, we take a look at the many cars of Fast Five in an interview with the film the car coordinator Dennis McCarthy. If the last three films do not give him enough credibility, you may need to know that McCarthy is also the man behind the vehicles of the Green Hornet and Death Race.

McCarthy opened the interview by pointing that the selection of cars are “completely different” than the previous films. Almost every time, cast or crew member interviewed consistently mentioned our visit to the new look of the cars in the fast five. Every movie has possessed ITS vehicular own identity, but now, Dom, Brian and the gang on the run’s car selections is a little less high profile. Of course, low-profile cars for car junkies like them are not disappointing.

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German Sports Cars : Porsche 911 GT3

Porsche 911 GT3

The Porsche 911 GT3 is a high performance version of the Porsche 911 sports car. It is the latest in a long line of high-performance models, which began with the 1973 911 RS. The GT3, after the FIA ​​GT class was named after it offered a 3.8-liter six-cylinder atmospheric, the unit used in the Porsche 962 and Porsche 911 GT1 race car is based.

have developed since its inception in 1999, a number of variants for both road and rail to the area were recorded. The current range (997) consists of two blocks and three racing models. Porsche is also developing a hybrid version that uses two electric motors and a Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems, originally developed for Formula One.

The GT3 has a successful racing career, both in creating a national Porsche Carrera Cup series, the Porsche Supercup and won many international championships and endurance races, including the GT class of the American Le Mans Series was seven, the 24 Hours of Daytona winner and 24-hour race five times.

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American Sports Car : Ford Maverick

Ford Maverick

The Ford Maverick was a small car from April 1969-1977 in the United States, Canada, Mexico and produced in Brazil from 1973-1979 – using a rear-wheel drive platform of the original Falcon 1960th Originally marketed as a 2-door sedan a first prize of USD $ 1,995, the Maverick was designed to produce and maintain.
The name “Maverick” is derived from the word for unbranded range animal, and the car was designed to record a long-horned cow skull appear.

The Maverick styling marked by the long bonnet, short deck fastback roof and popularized by the Mustang, a 103 in (2,600 mm) wheelbase – and offer simple and inexpensive to produce pop-out rear side windows or roll-down window.

American Sports Car Ford Maverick History

The Ford Maverick was originally developed and sold as a small car “import fighter”, the contravention of the VW Beetle and the newer Japanese rivals do. Given the falcon, compact Ford offers its 1960 sales were decimated by the introduction of the Mustang in 1964, and despite a redesign in 1966, the upcoming federal standards for motor vehicles with effect from 1 January 1970 would come to meet. Consequently, the center of the Falcon 1970 model year and introduced the new Ford Maverick as a compact entry.

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Italian Sports Car : Pantera DeTomaso

Pantera DeTomaso 1972

Pantera DeTomaso, The Pantera was a sports car company of Italy De Tomaso car produced from 1971 to 1991, with the last one to a customer has made during 1992. The word “Pantera” is Italian for “Panther”.

The car was born from the American designer Tom Tjaarda developed and replace the De Tomaso Mangusta. Unlike the Mangusta, which uses a backbone of steel chassis, the Pantera was a steel monocoque design, the first copy of De Tomaso with this construction technique. It made its first public appearance in March 1970 in Modena and was the 1970 New York Auto Show a few weeks later,. Approximately one year after the start of production Pantera its way into the hands of customers and production is already a remarkable run (by the standards of the Modena-built Exotica) 3 per day.

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