The top secret Top Secret LF-A that doesn’t exist
Written by admin on May 17, 2008 – 2:20 am -
Created by Jon Sibal, the car is an LF-A with some “Nagata san flavor,” customized graphics, and a hunger for the 400 km/hr mark. We’ll take it standing still. We don’t know how many more people will need to nudge Toyota before the company will give us a sports car again. But if Toyota asked itself “What kind of bada** statement can we make to get back into the sports car game?”, this kind of car could the answer. Toyota? Anyone?
Thanks for the tip, Michael!
[Source: Bespoke Ventures]
Tags: Concept Cars, Coupes, Etc., Lexus, Motorsports, Sports/GTs, Supercars, Toyota
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Audi A3 TDI Clubsport Quattro concept
Written by admin on May 16, 2008 – 10:26 pm -
Audi has released the first and foremost official images of its latest underlying thought before the wraps are taken off at the Lake Wörther Tour in Austria later on the present month. Think of the Audi A3 TDI Clubsport Quattro notion as a smaller, racier, additional attainable version of the amongst fuel only if by the largest particular output diesel in the world.
Look beyond the DTM-inspired bodywork and you will get an aluminum-enhanced glimpse of the oilburning jewel too lies beneath. The 1,968cc turbodiesel produces 221 hp and 332 lb.-ft. of torque accessible at an oh-so-low 1,750 rpm. Power is sent with a six-speed manual transmission before it reaches the bottom in Audi’s quattro all-wheel-drive system. Audi says who the A3 TDI Clubsport Quattro can get in touch with 62 mph in 6.6 moments and on to a top swiftness of 149 mph. We make the assumption it.
While the person head could be a bit through the top, the tuned A3 sits 26mm reduce as opposed to supply and rides on 20-inch wheels this fit cleanly to blistered wheel arches, widening the A3’s track by 33 mm in front and 46 mm in the rear. Stopping fuel in the front is as long as by six piston calipers clamping 356mm carbon ceramic discs, additonally common steel brakes are fitted out back. Inside, it is all boom in a bit of prove car flare, and also a flat-bottom steering wheel, bolstered buckets, aluminum trim, toggle switches and a red starter button to get the party underway. Audi has furthermore fitted the thinking through a its Drive Select system, that can tweak throttle response, waste sound, fuel steering assist, ESP surroundings and magnetic ride damping on the fly.
Tags: a3, Audi, Audi A3 TDI Clubsport Quattro concept, AudiA3TdiClubsportQuattroConcept, breaking, clubsport, quattro, tdi
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IDEA ERA concept built in 30 days to celebrate 30th anniversary
Written by admin on May 16, 2008 – 10:09 pm -
The struggle Barchetta, that literally causes ‘little boat’ in Italian, is applied to a small, two-seat open-air sports car called the ERA underlying thought by the Italian styling organization Like most beyond barchettas, the ERA is doorless, that means drivers and passengers get to do such a smartest Bo Duke impression as properties put in the roadster within the doors. What’s outstandingly extraordinary is overly these types of a cool design was drawn up, rendered and molded to fact in easily 30 days. Conceived at a meeting on April 8, the automobile is lead to to commemorate IDEA’s 30th anniversary and the original design was ratified on the same day. Feverishly striving around-the-clock, the vehicle’s council pounded out a truly nicely produced model, that at presently cycle characteristics no powertrain. With its curvy person and peaked fenders all around, the ERA has a suggestion of the old Birdcage racer in its profile. Suggested layouts record both a transversely mounted four-banger driving the front wheels or a longitudinal V6 providing the right rear-wheel-drive layout.
[Source: IDEA Institute via Automotive News - sub. req’d]
Tags: barchetta, idea, idea institute, idea institute era, IdeaInstitute, IdeaInstituteEra
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