Dutch Sport Cars : Spyker C8

February 5th, 2012 admin

Spyker Cars NV is a Dutch hand-built car manufacturer and the owner of Saab Automobile. The company is not affiliated with or controlled by the previous Spyker company that went bankrupt in 1929. The modern Spyker Cars only has the legal right to the brand. The company motto is “Nulla tenaci inVia est via”, which is Latin for ‘For the tenacious, no road is impassable. “

The reborn company was founded by Victor Muller and Maarten de Bruijn 1999, and since 2000, building exclusive sports cars like the Spyker C8 and the C8 Laviolette. Spyker’s history of producing airplane engines is reflected in details such as new cars in the logo.

The C8 Laviolette has a 4172 cc Audi V8 engine produces 395 hp (295 kW) and a top speed of 300 km / h (190 mph). On July 14, 2005 announced that the C8 was approved for marketing in the U.S. market.
In 2006, the Spyker D12 Peking-to-Paris high-performance SUV, which began production in late 2007, was announced at the Geneva Motor Show.

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American Muscle Car : The Ford Galaxie (Ford Galaxy)

February 1st, 2012 admin

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 Car : Toyota Supra Mark IV (1993–2002)

January 30th, 2012 admin

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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American Sports Car : Ford Maverick

January 27th, 2012 admin

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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Offroad Dream Cars : Hummer H3

January 26th, 2012 admin

The Hummer H3 is a crossover SUV / Sport Utility Truck General Motors’ Hummer division, introduced in 2005 based on the GMT355 basics, the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon compact pickup trucks. Produced at GM Shreveport, Louisiana factory and the Port Elizabeth plant in South Africa, the H3 is the smallest of the Hummer models, and the first built by GM. It was like a traditional medium such as an SUV or midsize pickup known as the H3T available.

H3 in the international market

In established in 2007 GM Hummer South Africa its first manufacturing plant in Port Elizabeth to life out of this step, the Hummer brand in the South African market and also some of the work relief made in Shreveport Louisiana.Most the South African Hummer H3 England were introduced because the right-hand drive factor. The plant produces only the Hummer H3 and constructing the South African market and the markets of Asia and Europe. This plant also produced a right-hand drive version for the Australian market between 2007 and 2009. In Australia, GM Holden Hummer spread by traders.

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Classic Dream Cars : Dodge Charger

January 25th, 2012 admin

The Dodge Charger is a U.S. car manufacturer prepared by the Dodge division of Chrysler. There are different Dodge vehicles were on three different platforms, with the Charger nameplate. The name is generally a performance model in the Dodge area, but thinks it has an engine, a sedan and a personal luxury coupe equipped.

The three main iterations of the Dodge Charger built a muscle car produced from 1966 to 1978, a small car from 1983 to 1987 and now sports sedan since 2006.

The name was also on a 1999 concept car that differed substantially from those supplied Charger eventually placed into production for model year 2006. A similar name was used to truck Ramcharger vehicle.

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Legendary American Sports Car Corvette Grand Sport

January 22nd, 2012 admin

The Corvette Grand Sport made its first appearanceearly brightened in the 1963 season in the C-Modified class with a production capacity of 360 hp engine in his 327 bottles £ 2000 body. It was the season as a “stock” appearing Racer. The season finale was in Nassau every year, with a “no taboos” week of racing on the island, where all teams could compete against any other employment the latest high-tech performance parts, which were otherwise prohibited by the normal club racing.

The Chevrolet Corvette (C2) is a sports car from Chevrolet division of General Motors for the 1963-1967 model years produced. Virtually all new, Sting Ray stunned the automotive world in 1963, blending world-class handling with a distinctive all-American style and performance. Bill Mitchell revisited the Super Sport race car driver and the Corvette would then re-invent radically new design, high performance and a first-ever coupe, which would become a classic, with record sales and remains one of the most sought-after collectibles cars. With a win on the track position that would benefit from two successive Engineering Innovation, the car would culminate with a fighting spirit of the best Corvette racer ever, the Grand Sport. The second generation Corvette would undergo a large five-year, that by many as the highlight of the car’s history.

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Offroad Dream Cars : Hummer H1

January 20th, 2012 admin

The Hummer H1 is a civilian off-road vehicles on the M998 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (or Humvee), which was based on AM General made. The vehicle was produced from 1992 to 2006 and was the first of what became the Hummer line. It was initially only as a “Hummer”, but in 1999 a joint venture between General Motors and AM General, GM began selling the Hummer H2, which was built on the Chevrolet Tahoe chassis. It was at this point that the original Hummer H1, the name was given. For collectors, the most popular model of the H1 Alpha, produced in the last model year 2006. It was the most powerful engine and vehicle fuel H1. Generally, the first half of a very limited production vehicle.

“Initially exclusively designed for military use, this absolutely massive four-wheel-drive utility vehicle her 15 minutes of fame earned as a civilian transport, as the ride of choice among Hollywood celebrities and professionals has become. Has 16 inch ( 40 cm) of ground clearance and super-aggressive approach angle, the Humvee could climb a 22-inch (56 cm) high barrier, a handle 60 percent grade and wade through 30 inches (76 cm) of water.

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