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  • The Bentley Motors Story

    The Bentley Motors Story

    (Life Style) Cars, Cars & Racing, Featured

    Bentley Motors Limited is a British manufacturer of automobiles founded on 18 January 1919 by Walter Owen Bentley known as W.O. Bentley or just “W O”. Bentley had been previously known for his range of rotary aero-engines in World War I, the most famous being theBentley BR1 as used in later versions of the Sopwith Camel. After the war W. O. Bentley designed and made production cars that won the24 hours of Le Mans in 1924 and following models which repeated those successes each June 1927, 1928, 1929 and 1930. [...]

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  • Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid Facebook

    Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid Facebook

    Cars & Racing

    Press Release The Porsche fan community on Facebook reached a magical milestone at the turn of the year when Porsche added its one-millionth fan on Facebook, one of the largest and most popular social networks on the Internet. Reason enough for Porsche to thank its fans with a special exhibition showcasing a unique custom-made vehicle: starting today, February 11, 2011, the Porsche museum will be presenting a Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid adorned with the signatures of more than 27,000 [...]

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  • The Racing Lab 918 RSR Revealed

    The Racing Lab 918 RSR Revealed

    Cars & Racing

    Porsche, long a leader in high-performance sports cars and in many forms of racing, is moving to the forefront of high-performance hybrid technology with its new 918 RSR, revealed for the first time on Jan. 10 at the 2011 NorthAmerican International Auto Show in Detroit. The 918 RSR combines the styling of the 918 Spyder concept car, first introduced at the Geneva Auto Show in March, with the flywheel hybrid technology of the successful 911 GT3 R, that competed in several races in 2010. [...]

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  • Ferrari P4/5 Competizione’s Detailed Build Process :

    Ferrari P4/5 Competizione’s Detailed Build Process :

    Cars & Racing

    We first saw Chapter 1 of James Glickenhaus’ P4/5 Competizione back in October. Through their page on Facebook, they’ve now put up a plethora of photos depicting chapters 2 and 3, each depicting a specific stage in the build process. Chapter two focuses on the car’s incredible carbon fiber shell as the team installs the greenhouse, suspension, and braking systems while Chapter three brings in all the sophisticated electronics. This is one serious racer. Hopefully chapter 4 will include more video footage.

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  • Teenage-Built Diesel Hybrid Does 0-60 in 4 Seconds, Soon to Break 100 MPG

    Teenage-Built Diesel Hybrid Does 0-60 in 4 Seconds, Soon to Break 100 MPG

    Cars & Racing, EDUCATION, Top Students

    Students from West Philadelphia High School have built a diesel-hybrid race car that goes from 0-60 in four seconds. While the car currently gets 60+ mpg, they hope to soon break 100 mpg.  Why? They are competing for $10 million in the Automotive X-Prize . Called the Hybrid Attack, the car was built by kids from West Philly’s Academy of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering. And if that alone doesn’t make them cool, they are the only high school team competing out of 90 different [...]

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  • The current most expensive Ferrari over $12. million USD

    The current most expensive Ferrari over $12. million USD

    (Life Style) Cars, Cars & Racing, Life Style

    One of  most expensive Ferrari in the world is a 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, which racked in a winning bid of US $12.2 million at the auction during RM’s Leggenda e Passione event in Maranello, Italy this may.

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  • Citroen GT on the Streets of London (HD)

    Citroen GT on the Streets of London (HD)

    Cars & Racing

    Polyphony Digital’s Citroën GT is set to become one of the most expensive “production cars” (if you can really call it that…) sold today, coming in at £1.1 million pounds or approximately$1.8 million U.S. dollars.  AutoCar got the scoop from “senior inside sources”, who revealed that only six of the cars will be made — all of which will be powered by either a “Ford or GM V8″.  That’s considerably less than the 20 production models that were hinted at before, but according [...]

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  • New Mercedes SLS AMG Race Car

    New Mercedes SLS AMG Race Car

    Cars & Racing, Featured

    While the wait for the Mercedes SLS AMG roadster version continues on, Mercedes is making the wait a little more bearable by surprising us with another SLS AMG: the GT3 version. The sports car will compete in the 2011 racing season. The SLS AMG GT3 features a new new front apron with a splitter, the bonnet with central cooling air vent, wider front and rear wings, sideskirts with cooling ducts for the rear brakes, a rear diffuser and the adjustable [...]

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  • Lewis Hamilton

    Lewis Hamilton

    Cars & Racing

    Lewis Hamilton Although Lewis Hamilton initially took up racing as a hobby, it swiftly became his vocation and after cutting his teeth around his home town of Stevenage, the young British driver turned his attentions to national events. Winning came naturally and by the age of 10 – with a little less than two years’ experience – he was crowned the youngest-ever winner of the British Cadet Kart championship.show Equipped with an assured racing style that belied his years, it [...]

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  • SLR McLaren with Gold and Rubies

    SLR McLaren with Gold and Rubies

    (Life Style) Cars, Cars & Racing, Featured, Life Style

    SwissSwiss car designers Ueli Anliker have taken the Mercedes McLaren SLR 999 and literally upgraded it to gold status.  Gold was added to the red body finish, the rims as well as the interior, and to top it off, Anliker threw in ruby stones. With over 11 pounds of gold detail and 600 rubies, this McLaren SLR 999 has an estimated value of ($5.2 million). What do you think, too much gold or just enough?

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