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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Presidential Car : Cadillac One President Obama’s Presidential Car Limo

This is the all-new sedan tailored for the 44th President of the United States of America built.

Obama Cadillac sedans.

And “The Beast” is the headline in the UK when Obama used on his first visit to Britain. His £ 250k Cadillac is a completely new design with the latest Cadillac styling and an interior fully equipped for presidential use.

Not surprisingly, characteristic details of the limousine extensive safety wrapped in secrecy – as with all that is “an extreme test regime” have been described. The car clearly has to withstand virtually any attempt on the president’s life.

Luxury and safety … Its all in one package…. Top class safety, number one in the world safety for this car…

But we can say that the cabin area Obama an “extensive executive course” takes. These features seating for major events on the road, a good view of the outside world (more than several inches of bulletproof glass, no doubt), and “useful mobile office functions.”

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Super Car : SSC Ultimate Aero : Fastest Car

The SSC Ultimate Aero is an American built mid-engine super sports cars from Shelby Supercars. The better performance limited production version, the SSC Ultimate Aero TT is the second fastest production car in the world (behind the 2010 Bugatti Veyron super sports) at a speed of 412.28 recorded KMH (256.18 hours miles). This sentence was on the 13th during the tests Reached September, 2007 in West Richland, Washington, USA and verified by Guinness World Records on 9 October 2007. The SSC Ultimate Aero has no electronic aids such as ABS brakes and traction control.

The Aero and the Shelby Super Cars company are the spiritual children of Jerod Shelby (no relation to retirement pensions and sports car racing driver Carroll Shelby Builder) to build the exotic Replicars “including a Fiero-based Ferrari F355 and a Lamborghini Diablo replica replica began on the basis of a space frame, which was later used in the Ultimate Aero prototype. Jerod later moved from house to replicas of his first super sports car design, and, after seven years, finally started to take shape. no more Though the basic Aero model is produced, the Ultimate Aero still in production with a suggested retail price of about $ 650,000.

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The Fastest Ferrari : Ferrari 599 GTO

The long-rumored Ferrari 599 GTO, based off of the 599XX, made its official debut today. The company describes it as “an extreme V12 sedan developed specifically for a brief performance-oriented” and take a step forward to say he is the fastest road car ever. It will be limited to only 599 units and will be priced in the $ 450K and already SOLD OUT. Those with monetary support and thirst for high-speed action will salivate the opportunity to have one of these bad boys.

The Ferrari 599 GTO is powered by a V12 engine, offering a total of 670 hp at 8250 rpm with maximum torque of 620 Nm at 6500 rpm. And the rockets the car from 0 to 60 mph in just 3.35 seconds, while top speed climbs to 208 mph. Perhaps the most impressive thing about the 599 GTO is the time to lap the Fiorano track: 1 minute and 24 seconds. For those of us keeping track, that is faster than the time Enzo.

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Bugatti Veyron The Fastest Car in the world

The Fastest Car in the world The Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 is a mid-engine Grand Touring Car. The Super Sport version is the fastest production car in the world, with an average speed of 431.072 km / h (miles 267,856 hours). The original version has a top speed of 253.6 miles per hour (408.1 km / h)

Designed and developed by the German Volkswagen group and produced by Bugatti Automobiles SAS at its headquarters in Château St Jean in Molsheim (Alsace, France), was the chief designer Hartmut Warkuss Veyron, and the road was designed by Jozef Kaban of Volkswagen, with Much of the work Engineering under the guidance of former VW engineer, Bugatti Engineering implemented and now head Wolfgang Schreiber.

The car driver Pierre Veyron, after the French, the 24 Hours of Le Mans win in 1939 while racing for the original Bugatti firm said. It was named “Car of the Decade” (2000-2009) of the BBC TV series Top Gear.
A number of specific variants are produced, including two Targa tops.

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