Now this is an interesting line up, I remember seeing the Mclaren F1 when I was kid in London in the early 90s in a small dealership with just that one big room for the desk and the car. It was the first Supercar I have ever seen and I have a huge amount of respect for it, and it requires a drivers skill to operate it. I respect it so much more then the Bugatti Veyron, its so pure. I find it interesting that they decide to use Abu Dhabi for the supercar shoot out, I’m not sure what they are doing to accommodate Top Gear but they have done it right.
Link: Autoblog
I have an extreme admiration for the Corvette ZR1 being a powerful vehicle, at 641 bhp from a V8 supercharged engine, doing 0-62 Mph in 3.3 seconds. I just love when they do these types of competitions, and this time around they are doing with the fighter jet from the Blue Angels, a Boeing F/18 Hornet, the stunt fighter pilots who do all these shows and fly with extreme precision.
The Ferrari California has been an interesting vehicle for the past year, and I saw it in front of me at the Zayanni Showroom and pictures do not do it justice. I think Ferrari have done an exquisite job of creating a beautiful hard top convertible, and it has this aggressive stance to this vehicle. Edo Competition have done the right job of not going overboard with the modifications to the vehicle, but some tuning modifications and wheels have made this vehicle look quite agressive and give it that extra boost to about 500 bhp out of the 4.3 Liter V8. With a top speed of 315 km/h and a 0-62 of 3.9 seconds this vehicle is a force to be reckoned with.
Link: Autoblog
It has at last come out, the identity of The Stig is Michael Schumacher, I don’t think that he was The Stig for so long but it does explain the damn good track times he gets. This could be like their previous stunt, but I will stick to the notion that The Stig has always been Schumacher but how luckier could Top Gear be to have such a driver as their track driver.
360 Performance Training are one of those schools that teach you how to take your car sideways and really enjoy it. Getting better lines, pushing your car to the limits in an open and safe environment in El Toro Air Force Base. The difference about this training company from all others is that they are flexible to the needs of their clients and people can have a hell of a lot of fun. This is now another driving school to add to the list, including the Lamborghini driving school and this I think my driving my schools would improve drastically.
So. Why would you pay money to go to 360PDA? Because if you want to learn drifting and outer limit car control, you apprentice in a few of the coolest driving techniques at one of the coolest schools taught by one of the best, if not the best, drifter there is. And since Hubinette owns the school, “we’re in control and we can choose the clientele and group settings, and be very adaptive with different groups of people.”
Link: Autoblog
Link: 360pda
There has been a lot of PR going around about the Chevrolet Camaro and now they have taken it a notch up by launching it in Dubai as if its a big thing. I think Dubai has done a great job of presenting it’s self as a desirable location and a good press launch location for the car.
Now what I find interesting in the location are those open roads, where are they and how can I get there. I always like an open stretch of road. I wouldn’t mind trying the V8 SS manual for some fun but I wouldn’t really own the car. My hat goes off to them for some very nice shots of the Camaro.
Link: Autoblog
Ken Block is renowned for his driving skills and this time around its not different. Its amazing what he does with this car, he barely fits it in between construction equipment. If he makes any mistakes that cars is going crumble against those big blocks or construction equipment. Now that is one hell of an advertisement for a product. I want to be the guy shooting the paint ball gun, he is always so damn close to touching the things he is drifting around, just an amazing driver.
Emil Baddal is an Iranian designer who has put together an interesting portfolio of vehicles. These are the two designs which I really liked, nobody would think that these designs aren’t from a firm based out of Europe or the US. I really like the beemer, its better looking then the revised M1 that they came up with last year. I really think that BMW could take some points from Emil in design a monstrous super car that can handle. With Ferrari this would be one hell of a divertion from their designs, I think they could only benefit from this difference in design, it spices thigns up.
Thanks Camil
Link: CarScoop
The Air Force wanted to show case their technology and power so they decided to work on making two supercars and worked with Galpin Auto Sports. They decided to work on one Ford Mustang and another Dodge Challenger, I’m more interested in the USAF Challenger Vapor, it looks like a scary machine, even the internals of it looks like a jet fighter, with thermal imaging, long range camera, and fully integrated controls, and stealth mode. A heads up display the covers the whole windshield, solid carbon fiber discs, this machine can sneak on KITT and make him look like a punk. I ‘have always liked the challenger but this machine is really something else, they have turned it into a dark stealth machine to be afraid of.
Link: Air Force Supercars
Link: Galpin Auto Sports
Filling for Chapter 11 is what they were looking for, the government won’t let them falter because they have too much invested and a good portion amount of the population is part of their workforce or tied to that industry.
Chapter 11 in this situation means they can ditch their bad debts and keep their good assets.
Hello:
- Chevrolet
- Cadillac
- Buick
- GMC
Bye bye:
- Hummer
- Saab
- Saturn
- Pontiac
Ownership of the company, split very nicely. The Government won’t interefere but they will check up on their progress, I wonder how they plan on doing that.
The government is basically giving GM about $50 Billion but because of the bankruptcy they will agree to dropping that figure to $6.7 Billion
The Labor people or UAW, instead of $20 Billion pay out which GM owed them they took a 17.5% stake of the new company. I have a feeling its not going to be worth the same amount.
Dealers are out, only 3,605 by 2010
When GM is in chapter 11 they can pretty much restructure what ever they want without any litigation risks. Even the UAW is accepting less pay, job cuts, and plant shutdowns for the sake of keeping what jobs they do have.
Lets think about this way, a GM worker makes twice the amount Toyota Worker does in the US while only being 25% as productive as the Toyota worker. Seems GM is gonna be trimming some fat and cutting back on the feed.
Will GM survive, I think they will, but it shall grow to be a different creature.
Link: Autoblog
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