British Sport Cars : Marcos TSO

February 6th, 2012 admin

Marcos was a British sports car manufacturer. The name was a combination of founder Jem Marsh and Frank Costin. British Sport Cars Marcos TSO was founded in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, in 1959 by Jem Marsh and Frank Costin. Frank Costin had earlier at the De Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber, and there he worked on the idea of plywood for the chassis was used. The company moved to a converted mill in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire in 1963 and 1971 a £ 125,000 purpose-built factory at nearby Westbury.

Problems exporting cars to the U.S. and the move to the expensive new facilities led to financial problems in the years 1970 and 1971 they were out of business. In July 1971 it was reported that Rob Walker Group of Companies, a major distributor, had taken over the stocks and assets of the company and a new company, Marcos GmbH The new owners that the production to continue if well, at least in the short term, only for the UK market.

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Japan Dream Cars : The Nissan Skyline GT-R

February 2nd, 2012 admin

The Nissan Skyline GT-R is a Japanese sports car based on the Nissan Skyline range.
The first GT-R was produced from 1969 to 1977. After a 16-year hiatus since the KPGC110 in 1972, the GT-R name was revived in 1989 with the Skyline R32. This car was nicknamed “Godzilla” by the Australian Automobile Club publication “Wheels” in the July 1989 edition, a name that sticks to this day.

The R32 GT-R dominated the race in Japan, 29 wins from 29 races. The Nissan Skyline GTR went to the JTC Group A Series Championship four years in a row to win and also had success in winning the Australian Touring Car Championship from 1990 to 1992 was banned until the GT-R in 1993. The Skyline GT-R (R33) was the first production car to lap the legendary Nürburgring in under eight minutes.

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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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Italian Sports Car : Pantera DeTomaso

January 24th, 2012 admin

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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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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American Sports Car : Saleen S7

January 17th, 2012 admin

American Sports Car The Saleen S7 is a limited production, develops manufacturers hand made, high performance American car jointly by Steve Saleen for the original concept and direction, Hidden Creek Industries for resources and financial incentives, Phil Frank, for body and interior design and CAD development and Ray Mallock Ltd. for engineering chassis.

It is the only car produced by Saleen not based on an existing chassis was founded. S7 August 19, 2000 at the Monterey Historic Races began. From 2000 to 2004, the S7 featured a Ford 427 Big Block V8 naturally aspirated engine of 550 hp (410 kW). In 2005, the S7 S7 Twin Turbo, which replaces a powerful bi-turbo power to 750 hp (760 kilowatts PS/559) and the 248 miles up hour (399 km / h) also increased.

The body, made entirely from carbon includes the use of beads, spoilers and other aerodynamic characteristics of split channels to create a flow of air through the car, and 160 mph (257 km / h), building the car to support its own weight, and for this reason, the car produces enough support to theoretically lead to reverse.

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Dream Cars : Classic Jaguar E type

January 16th, 2012 admin

The Classic Jaguar E type (UK) or XK-E (US) is a British automobile manufactured by Jaguar car made between 1961 to 1975. In combination of good aussieht High Performance in a Competitive Pricing DETERMINED Brand as one of the years 1960 ICON driving. A large Erfolg for Jaguar, geben seventy thousand more E-Type in the life Were SOLD.
In March 2008 Jaguar E-Type in the first place in the Daily Telegraph list of “100 most beautiful cars” of All Time. Im Jahr 2004 Sports Car International Magazine of the E-Type Posted at number one on their list of Top Sports Cars of the Year 1960.

Jaguar E type was initially designed to be shown in public as a grand tourer in two form-Pickel Coupe (FHC von Fixed Head Coupe) as Cabrio (OTS Open Zweisitzer). The wheelbase version 1 February 2 WAS released only extender Years später.
Release Date Enzo Ferrari called the “Most Beautiful Car VFAV von created.”
WS-Modell in three different versions made sterben now in the General as designated “Series 1″, “Series 2″ auf “Series 3″. Zwischen Transitional Series A Series 1 Series 2 is known unofficially as “Series 1 ½”.

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