World-cars-reference: août 2011

vendredi 19 août 2011

The most expensive (and fast) car in the world

It's not a matter of pure, vulgar cost... can you live peacefully after having parked your millionaire toy on the street, with the risk of thefts or damages? and what about a fuel consumption in town that may easily reach more than 37.2l/100km? the above without mentioning the insurance, the property tax, the simple maintenance... in a few words, if you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

But if you dispose of about 2.4 million $ or 1.6 million € you can order the fastest and more expensive car on this World: the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport “World Record Edition”.

Its speedometer may arrive up to 260mp/h that means 450km/h !!!! BUT the speed has been limited to 257 mph (415 km/h) in order to avoid tyres problems.

up to 260mp/h that means up to 450km/h

In June 2010, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport achieved a new land speed world record for production series cars: it reached a top speed of 434,212 km. can you imagine fuel consumption at this speed or driving with our traffic jams?

mardi 16 août 2011

Pebble Beach 2011 auction: the 1964 Lincoln Papamobile

If by the way you are looking for something really exclusive, on Aug. 19th it will be auctioned the 1964 Lincoln Continental parade limousine that has been used to transport Pope Paul VI and the US astronauts James Lovell, William Anderson, Frank Borman, Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin for the return parades of Apollo's 8 and 11 missions. This Lincoln is expected to fetch anywhere from $250,000 to $350,000 at Pebble Beach.

the Lincoln Continental Popemobile - Credit: Bonhams

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lundi 15 août 2011

The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance

On next Aug. 21st, for the happy few hanging out between San Francisco and Los Angeles, if also passionate of the most prized collector cars and motorcycles in the world the venue is unique: the "Concours d’Elegance" that will be held at the extremely chic eighteenth fairway of Pebble Beach.

Born as a restricted social event, the Pebble Beach Concours has grown into becoming one of the most important collector car shows in the world, joined by people coming from all over the globe. This year the Concours will toast its 61st anniversary and among 2011's 20 classes let's mention the "125 Years of Benz, Daimler, Mercedes and Mercedes-Benz" (class I-1), the "Pre-War Sports and Racing" (class K), the "Ferrari Grand Touring" and the "50th Anniversary of the Birth of the Ferrari 250 GTO" (M-1 and M-2) and the "Italian Motorcycles" (X).

ITALIANS - of course - DO IT BETTER: in 2010 edition, among the different classes, Italians won with these masterpieces:

1951 Ferrari 212 Export Vignale Coupé


1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Scaglietti Berlinetta

1953 Fiat 8V Supersonic Ghia Coupé

Beside the "Concours d’Elegance", Pebble Beach will also propose its "Tour d'Elegance" presented by Rolex and the "Pebble Beach RetroAuto" opening on Friday, August 19. While the "Pebble Beach Auction", will be held on Saturday and Sunday, August 20th and 21st.

Stay tuned for 2011 winners!

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vendredi 12 août 2011

ALFA ROMEO MITO GTA: MORE POWERFUL THAN EVER

the MiTo GTA concept presented in Geneva 2009

Geneva 2013 > Alfa Romeo will present the new MiTo II, renewed in term of aesthetics both as body both as its interiors levels, in order to push the 'mini' Alfa towards the Giulietta standards.

And what about engines and set-up? Lot of rumors but the GTA badge could be added to the most powerful MiTo ever built.

GTA was a coupé built for racing and road use. GT was for GranTurismo and A for Alleggerita, in Italian for lightweight. These cars were very successful, having been driven to numerous victories. How not mentioning Andrea de Adamich who won in 1966 won Monza?