SV 9 Competizione Corvette
Posted by admin on Aug 2, 2009
This is a Corvette C6 that has basically gotten a facelift…Italian style. The SV9 Competizione received its inspiration from the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione and features all carbon fiber bodywork. There have been some slight changes to the interior as well as some preformance mods including a boost in horsepower up to 450hp. The car has a 0-60moh time of four seconds flat. It’s also been outfitted with a new set of wheels wrapped with Pirelli Pzero Rosso tires. There is a limited production of just 1,000 units and the car is priced at $99,995.
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2009 Aston Martin DBS
Posted by admin on Mar 30, 2009
There are luxury cars and there are sports cars; and surprisingly few that can be called both. Mostly this is the result of luxury items being a detriment to a vehicle’s weight. This explains the spartan interior of a Lotus or the plastic-like cheapness that dogged Italian sports cars for many years. Besides being one of the most iconic cars in the world, the Aston Martin DBS manages to straddle the line between both characteristics and is truly worthy of being called a luxury sports car.
What is essentially a $100,000 option to the DB9, the $270,000 DBS offers more than just a gussied up face to the roughly 300 owners lucky enough to own one. Althought the DBS does share its lightweight aluminum chassis with the DB9, the heart of the DBS beats with a 6.0 liter V12 engine that produces, quite angrily, 510 horsepower. This power translates into a 0-60 mph time of 4.2 seconds and a top speed of 191. Not that it should matter with this sort of car, but a byproduct of this power is a 12 mpg rating. However, unlike other high-end sports cars that scream their speed out to the world, the DBS projects a grownup, almost conservative British visage that is extremely attractive without being obnoxious about it.
Tags: 2009 Aston Martin DBS, Aluminium, Aston Martin DBS, AstonMartin, Automobile, GenevaMotorShow, Luxury vehicle, sports car, V12 engine
2010 Mustang Shelby GT500: How Ford Developed The New Snake
Posted by admin on Feb 14, 2009
The 2010 Mustang Shelby GT500 made its world debut at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show in January. Many of you said it was the same old car. You were wrong. Here’s the proof.The regular series production 2010 Mustang and 2010 Mustang GT were unveiled last November at the 2008 LA Auto Show only a few short months before the Shelby, but their development went hand in hand over the course of 3 years. Ford has literally been in the stink for a while now, and to task its engineers and designers with creating a new Mustang halo car without giving them a new chassis to work with proved to be difficult, but as evidenced, was entirely possible.
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Camaros
Posted by admin on Nov 8, 2008
The Chevrolet Camaro may be the “official” vehicle of SEMA, but you can’t walk more than a few feet without tripping over the Pentastar’s new pony car. The Dodge Challenger is a ubiquitous presence on the floor this year, only matched by the number of mediocre booth babes and the appropriately cheap parts they’re paid to shill.
With so many Challengers lining the halls, it’s almost impossible to get the details on each coupe, but we’ve assembled a list of our favorites, ranging from Mopar’s own offerings to the mom-and-pop shops that have made the Challenger the un-official muscle car of SEMA.
Click the button below to start wading through Challengers, and note that the name of each vehicle links to either our post on the car or to more high-res images
Tags: auto show, Automobile, Camaro, Camaros, challenger, Dodge, Featured, SEMA, sema 2008, sema challenger, Sema2008, SemaChallenger
Galpin Scythe Concept
Posted by admin on Nov 8, 2008
Standing out among the conservatively-styled vehicles at the Ford booth is the Galpin Scythe Concept that we spotted a few months ago while it was being built. We had the chance to sit down with Beau Boeckmann, president of Galpin Auto Sports, who filled us in on the details on the Scythe and how it as built.
Tags: auto show, Automobile, Galpin Scythe Concept, SEMA, sema 2008