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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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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Spanish Sports Cars : GTA Spano 2011

GTA Spano is the name of the Spanish Super sports car from Valencia GTA Motor Company, a sister company of the GTA engine built Competición. It began as a secret project in 2005 for the first time in public in 2008, when the model was presented as the GTA Concept released, and it seems that the time the first units to be manufactured and delivered to the end of 2010.

Since 2008 a large group of engineers on the project, led by Dominic Ochoa, the 15-year experience in a racing car, a key point for the technical development of the vehicle, which has several international patents, has (five fully processed after working the last performance the company) and many others never use in a Spanish vehicle implemented.

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New Sports Car : Lamborghini Aventador 2012

Lamborghini Aventador 2012. According to his tradition, Lamborghini’s new flagship is named after a bull – of course, a particularly bold specimen from the world of Spanish bullfighting. Aventador was a bull bred by the family of Don Celestino Cuardi Vides that in October 1993 entered into battle at the Arena Zaragoza, earning the “Trofeo de la Peña La Madroñera” for outstanding bravery in combat.

It’s big, strong and very orange Lamborghini Murcielago’s successor has finally broken cover at the Geneva Motor Show, and is so … Here, the Lamborghini Aventador.

First, the name. It continues the long association between the company and famous meat cheeseburger, and Aventador was the name of a bull ‘very brave’ who fought a well-dressed humanoid Zaragoza in 1993 at the Arena, winning the ‘Trofeo de la Pena The Madronera ‘.

As you know, sport Lamborghini Aventador a brand new 6.5-liter V12 engine weight of only 235kg it produces 700bhp, £ 509 meters and the capacity to carry the body of carbon fiber, scissor-doored supercar from 0 to 62 mph in just 2.9 seconds and on to a top speed of 217 mph. Since you’re asking, the whole weighs 1,575 kg – lean, for an instrument with two doors oversteer shouty.

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Super car : Lamborghini Reventón

Lamborghini presents the ultimate driving machine in the open two-seater – the Lamborghini Reventón Roadster sports car one of the breathtaking fascination, threatening power and unmatched performance. The 6.5-liter twelve cylinder 493 kW (670 hp) is generated, catapults the Roadster 0-100 km / h (0-62 mph) in 3.4 seconds and a top speed of 330 km / h (205 mph).The open-top Lamborghini Reventón is not only one of the fastest, but also one of the most exclusive cars in the world – Lamborghini, the limited series.

The Lamborghini Reventón is not destined for a one-time stay. Less than 20 Lamborghini friends and collectors, these extraordinary use of the car and of course, own, enjoy the incomparable pleasure of driving.

Any Lamborghini Reventon Roadster will be sold for 1.1 million euro (excluding taxes). Delivery will start in October 2009.

“The Reventón’s most extreme car in the history of the brand,” said Stephan Winkelmann, President and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini SpA The new Roadster an additional emotional component adds to combine our technology expertise – it combines superior performance with the sensual attraction of the open car. “The Lamborghini Reventón coupe was unveiled at the IAA 2007 in Frankfurt and was immediately sold out.

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Super Cars : Porsche Carrera GT 2010

The Porsche Carrera GT (Project Code 980) is a mid-engine sports car from Porsche in Leipzig, Made in Germany.

The development of the Porsche Carrera GT can return back to their predecessors, the 911 GT1 and LMP1-98 racing cars. Due in part to the FIA and ACO rule changes in 1998, both designs had ended. Porsche had planned at the time on a new Le Mans prototype in 1999. The car was originally to use a turbo flat-6, but was later revised to use a new V10 engine, pushing the project back to the planned completion in 2000. The V10 was a unit secretly built by Porsche for the Footwork Formula One team in 1992 but later shelved. The engine was developed for the Le Mans prototype and increased in size risen 5.7 liters.

Unfortunately, the project was done in two days of testing for the first car in mid-1999, due primarily to do the Porsche Cayenne SUV with involvement from Volkswagen and Audi build and require engineering skills are thus pulled from the motorsports division. It was also speculated that VW-Audi chairman Ferdinand Piech Audi’s new Le Mans Prototype, the Audi R8 is not the competition from Porsche in 2004 was given.

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Italian Sports Car : Ferrari F50

Ferrari F50

The Ferrari F50 is a mid-engined flagship sports car made by Ferrari. The Ferrari F50 was introduced in 1995 to celebrate the 50th anniversary. The car is a two-door, two-seat convertible with a removable hardtop. It has a 4.7 liter naturally aspirated 60-valve V12 engine, the 3.5-liter V12 in the Ferrari F92A developed in 1992 using Formula One cars.

Only 349 cars were made, one fewer than Ferrari estimated they could sell. This was “are somewhat culturally Ferraris, a monument. You need to find, so that we can produce a car less than the market.” In the words of Ferrari spokesman Antonio Ghini, because The last F50 was produced in Maranello, Italy in July 1997.

The F50 engine before the car, it was used in the Ferrari 333 SP for the American IMSA series in 1994, so that they could benefit from storage engine WSC category.

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Japanese Sports Car : Lexus LFA 2010

Lexus LFA 2010

Lexus LFA 2010 began taking orders for the super sports cars to 23 CAA October 2009. Buyers will be selected specifically from Lexus in the second quarter of 2010. The production will begin in December 2010 as a 2011 model. Only 500 total LFA models will be made worldwide, with only 20 produced every month. Each car will be its own pay the customer’s specifications, and costs about U.S. $ 375,000 depending on options and customization.

According to the Lexus LFA-release at the Tokyo Motor Show, Lexus unveiled a Web site with a “LFA-Configurator, which allows users to external and internal color, caliper colors, seats, steering wheel may choose leather and other interior furnishings. There are over 30 billion possible configurations. Each CAA is built by hand by a dedicated team of engineers and production specialists Motomatchi Toyota plant in Aichi, Japan.

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