MasterDon
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instant blindness me thinks... but it should be a sight to to behold during the night time ne,....these guys are rich enough to have a separate car for night and day is saying the least
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also it can be helpful to know the PCD(distance from the centre of one stud to the other) of the alloy..cos 110mm,112mm,114mm four stud alloys are very rare in sl,and don't even think about finding anything bigger than 15's ....there are plenty of 100mm(honda),but finding an exact design will take some searching..
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aw c'mon GTAm...it's not that bad ok who am i kidding,it's hideous! but it looks waay better looking than the SUV...and i thnk it looks like one of those american lowrider pick up trucks if you squint very hard and use your imagination somewhat
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so sorry i completely forgot this thread...yes it's a TD,i seem to have lost the original pic,but i'll post it here once i find it... i think JadeyBlitzen has won this one...post up your next trivia challenge dude!
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chrome AMG C63..guess from where?....dubai it is.... man those buggers indeed have a weird taste in car paint
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this video supposedly shows what happens when a foreign object(such as a bird) goes in to a jet engine.. is this real?...aviation experts!!!
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i see some actyon pick-up trucks on the road these days..i like it's look a lot better than the SUV's
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i just finished watching the new asterix movie..and to my surprise guess who was in the last chariot race scene.... schumi himself now looking at a career in acting perhaps? schumi's cameo - watch the movie - http://www.watch-movies-links.net/movies/a..._olympic_games/
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LOL..talk about staying cool no matter what...
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following in the footsteps of the lambo/asus partnership...ferrari have given their name to a new laptop computer manufactured by acer
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Pagani Zonda R first photos By Ben Whitworth - www.carmagazine.co.uk 09 February 2009 09:00 Ever been pootling around the Nürburgring in your Zonda and found it was a mite lacking in grunt? Of course you have. So you - and a couple of other like-minded Zonda owners no doubt – get on the blower to Horacio Pagani and ask him to see if he can spice things up a touch. As you do. The quite splendid result is this, the Zonda R, easily the most extreme road/track car to make it into production. Spill the technical beans then… The central monocoque is fashioned from an ultra-light and stiff carbon-titanium composite and powered by a mind-mounted Mercedes-Benz AMG V12 racing engine. The 6.0-litre powerplant is dry-sumped and delivers 739bhp at 7500rpm and 524lb ft at 5700rpm. The handcrafted unit is bolted directly to the chassis to enhance torsional rigidity. It powers the rear wheels through a magnesium-cased XTRAC 6-speed sequential paddleshift-actuated transmission that can swap cogs in just 20milliseconds. A self-locking rear differential ensures all that muscle is handled as effectively as possible – that and a 12-stage Bosch motorsport traction control system. There’s more? Much more – unusually, the throttle bodies are mechanically operated, the beautifully intricate hydroformed exhaust system is coated in ceramic, the entire body is fashioned from carbonfibre, while every screw, nut and bolt is made from titanium. The cabin is a small work of art in its own right. As well as being beautifully built, the two-seat cabin is functional too – those Toora seats are FIA homologated and comply with latest HANS standards, and the five-point safety belts and CrMo roll-cage are fitted as standard. How heavy is the R? The whole thing weighs just 1070kg – just a little more than our long-term Renaultsport Twingo – for an eyeball-flattening power-to-weight ratio of 690bhp per tonne. And because it’s aimed at track performance, the double wishbone suspension and aero package is fully adjustable and the brakes are vast – 380mm carbon-ceramic Brembo discs at each corner with six-pot callipers up front and four-pot units at the rear. Let’s talk performance. Well, it’s shattering, no matter which way you look at it. Pagani claims the R will hit 60mph in 2.7seconds and it has a top speed in excess of 215mph depending on the aero setup, which can be tuned to generate 1500kg of downforce. Impressive on-paper figures, but given our past experience of Pagani’s – they are some of the most dynamically brilliant cars we’ve ever driven – we expect the F to be absolutely mind-blowing on the track. The only thing holding us back is the price – we’ve done a quick whip round the office but we’re a few pennies short of the £1.27million asking price… here’s hoping Snr Pagani will do a journalist discount.
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Horacio Pagani has had a surprising life. His passion for cars, speed and design emerged very early and, at the age of 12, he amazed everyone with models of supercars carved from wood or modelled in clay. He made his debut into the world of racing cars when he was 20, designing an F.3 that competed in Argentina under the colours of the official Renault team. Then came an enormous number of industrial design projects in which he had an accelerated apprenticeship, combining a mixture of creativity and a maniacal search for perfection. He met Juan Manuel Fangio, his childhood hero, who became the right person to introduce him to Modena, the home of legends like Ferrari and Lamborghini. And the miracle took place at Lamborghini. It was engineer Alfieri who provided the young Horacio with the space to express his imagination and manual dexterity. He started off as a third level mechanic in the bodywork department but was rapidly promoted to manager of the new composite material department. He took part in all the important projects of those years: the LMA Jeep, the restyling of the Jalpa, the design of the Countach Evoluzione (the first car in the world with a one hundred per cent carbon chassis), the Golf Caddy and the 4 valve Countach. In 1988, he set up Pagani Composite Research which carried out various projects, including the restyling of the Countach Anniversary, for which the company also supplied the final details in composite materials. At the height of this collaboration, Pagani worked with the team that designed the Diablo, the Lamborghini P140, the L30 and the Diablo Anniversary. The difficult economic climate created in 1992 by the events linked to the Gulf War did not discourage Pagani from producing his own supercar.
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Nissan to cut 20,000 jobs 09 February 2009 - www.autocar.co.uk Nissan has announced 20,000 job losses as the firm faces its first full-year loss since it merged with Renault in 1999. The company today predicted that it will make a $2.58bn (£1.75bn) loss for the financial year ending on 31 March, and that it will need to cut its global workforce from 235,000 to 215,000 as part of a major cost-cutting exercise. Perhaps more noticeably, Nissan will put what it calls “the mid-term business plan” on hold, cutting spending on new projects and cancelling some new car programmes. Capital expenditure will be cut by 15 per cent, from 3.84bn yen (£1.78bn) to 330bn yen (£1.53bn). The board of directors will not take any bonuses for 2008, and all executive salaries will be cut by 10 per cent. There’s also a new post in the executive boardroom: the chief recovery officer. Briton Colin Dodge will “lead the company's ongoing recovery activities”. As yet, no factories will be closed, but an unfinished facility in Morocco, a joint-venture with Renault, has been put on hold.
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hmm maybe this is their way of stopping the club being over crowded with mini owners.....and i agree with them to some extent.
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yep i dont remember my dad telling me about an interview when he joined,but that was way back in the 80's...
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haha..no no machan,i meant you should be able to give the exact car and model...just look at all the bmw badges
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oops..sorry machan... and i want the exact answer from YOU please
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yes it's on thriller...during the part where the AMG CLK black is reviewed by clarkson...
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i'm trying to find the website which i saw the videos earlier...meanwhile here are some links from good ol' youtube
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yep that's the guy,he was also a 2 time rallying champion driving the audi quottro S1
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speaking of fast porsche's...have any of you seen their test driver walter rohrl's videos...they are awesome,not very dramatic(most of the time)...but brilliant
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sent you a PM
