Aside from the cute little Cygnet, Aston Martin is well known for their luxurious Gran Tourers housing extra-large V12s, ferrying the occupants through long distances in great speeds. And also with a very active motorsport division that enters almost every single type of race available in Europe, it is hard to associate Aston Martin with saving the environment, until now.
The Round 2 for the 2013 Super GT is not like any other rounds as this is where the 500km Fuji GT race takes place at the Fuji Speedway. With the participants having to complete 110 laps around the 4.563km circuit, the battle saw a fierce competition between four Lexus SC430 rushing for supremacy in the GT500 class.
Akio Toyoda has a deep passion in motorsports, and despite already making his way to the top chain of Toyota Motor Corporation’s management, that is no excuse for him to put it away. And for that, it is not much of a surprise that later this month the CEO of the world’s largest automaker will be making an appearance as a driver in the Nurburgring 24-hour race.
Peugeot’s Pikes Peak machine is a beast. Weighing only 875kg, they could fully utilize the 875-horsepower from the mid-mounted V6 and possibly reach the peak before the 10-minute barrier. But while all heads are towards this stealthy hill climber, Nobuhiro Tajima is not going to sit back and do nothing about it.
Set to pave a new direction in motorsports, the FIA Formula E racing series had caught a lot of attention around the world. With countries like Italy, China, Britain and even Malaysia already signing up to host the race which will tour the globe in 2014, this all-electric race might just be the next big thing in the annual motorsports calendar.
Dubai nowadays is commonly associated with Sheikhs with unlimited wealth, making a lifetime fortune from Middle East’s seemingly never-ending oil supply. And of course with money being not a problem in the area, hyper-exotic cars become the choice for these Mid-Easterners to roam around the desert country, but not all of them will be willingly obey the speed limit; not with cars from Bugatti, Koenigsegg or Pagani.
Peugeot’s return to Pikes Peak has caught a lot of attention, especially by putting the nine-time world rally champion Sebastien Loeb behind the wheels of their new machine. But we have yet to know how powerful Peugeot’s new unlimited-class machine will punish the 20-kilometer uphill course, that is, until now.
Back in 1976, the Nordschleife saw a terrible tragedy where Niki Lauda got into a fiery accident that almost got him killed. Since then, the Green Hell was deemed too dangerous for the high-speed Formula 1 racing that it was taken off from the calendar soon after. That however did not spell the end for these death-defying cars screaming across the legendary circuit as Nick Heinfeld took a BMW Sauber and went around it in 2007, but that is not the last of it.
After a very long production run of eight years and countless versions later, Lamborghini had finally decided to wave goodbye to their most-produced creation, the Gallardo. With over 13,000 units sold worldwide, there is no other way to celebrate a farewell other than doing it the Lamborghini way, which is by coming up with a final sendoff version.
China is quickly getting recognition from all the major players around the world, and that includes the ones in the automotive scene too. And to woo the large customer prospect in China, Porsche had brought in their second generation Gran Turismo in the form of the new Panamera S E-Hybrid for a world premiere at the recent Shanghai Auto Show.