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I have watched the video of how these car vending machines work, it is amazing and there are even more being built. How to I get this one in the lobby? autosmithcar.com
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Building racecars to go round a track? Easy. Smashing high-speed records? Old news. Volkswagen is taking on a much bigger challenge by creating an electric racer designed for the Pikes Peak hillclimb challenge. The international climb has run since 1916 in the Rocky Mountains near Colorado Springs, US. The sprint up is 20km long and scales 1,400 metres to the summit, 4,300 metres above sea level. The Volkswagen prototype has no name and no details as of yet, but will be a part of the brand’s vision to become to the leading producer of electric vehicles. By 2025, it aims to be offering 23 all-electric models. I was getting a bit tired of the electric this and that and the new speed records, I like that VW is going to tackle the hill challenge and really put the concept to the test... autosmithcar.com
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That’s a quick-looking Lotus… It is. The fastest road-going Lotus ever, in fact. If you get the one without the tail wing, it’ll go very close to 200mph. The version with the wing, and balancing aero at the front, is dragged down to a piffling 190mph, but at that speed it makes the same downforce as the Lotus 72 grand prix car in which Jochen Rindt won his posthumous world championship in 1970. Obviously downforce slows it down on the straights, but what about corners? Good point. At a track the GT430 is also the fastest ever number-plated Lotus. Even quicker than the road version of the 3-Eleven. How’d they do that? Not just the wing. New vents are carved above and behind the front wheels, and behind the rears, and there’s underbody shaping too. The greater half of the bodywork is now carbonfibre. Factor in the pricey adjustable Ohlins/Eibach suspension from the race-winning Lotus Evora GT4. The exhaust system is fashioned from titanium, which saves 10kg and is a £5,5
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Mercedes has sad news. Production of its maddest current car, the G500 4×4², will only continue until orders made by the end of October 2017 have been catered for. If you absolutely must own a 35-year old army truck fitted with portal axles and giant wheels to deliver 450mm of ground clearance and a one-metre wading depth, hop to it. Click here to watch Chris Harris get to grips with the G500 Mercedes has been fairly blindsided by the response to the Squared, which was originally intended as a fun concept car for the 2015 Geneva motor show, knocked together with leftover bits from the 100 examples of G63 6x6 that made AMG a few Euros the year earlier. autosmithcar.com..check out our cars!
Nissan GTR- Will it pass the test?
Nowadays, if you don’t pop off for a drive around the Nürburgring’s famously dangerous northern loop and come back within seven minutes you’re not worth talking about. The Porsche 918, Lamborghini Aventador SV, Huracán Performante, Radical SR8 LM and GT2 RS are the handful of cars to break the sub-seven barrier, but now a group of Godzilla gurus think they have what it takes to make it into this hallowed territory, with that wonderfully bonkers Nissan GT-R above. It’s a bespoke build from Litchfield dubbed the ‘LM1 RS GT-R’ – not exactly a catchy name, but that didn’t stop the Subaru WRX STI Type RA NBR from getting a ‘Ring record. And this is no normal GT-R, as it’s had one of the most extreme Godzilla makeovers we’ve ever seen. An overhaul that may, in fact, make it the fastest street-legal circuit-going GT-R on the planet, if not one of the fastest cars on the planet period. Starting with a base GT-R, Litchfield tore it apart and built the whole thing back up. To list all th
most premium automakers that have deep-pocketed customers at their disposal, Aston Martin knows the value of diversifying its lineup to keep its clients on their toes. As rivals like Ferrari , McLaren, and Rolls-Royce have shown, one way to do that is to offer one-off models that no other person will get to own. Aston Martin has actually done this exercise in the past courtesy of its Prototype Operation division, having created the CC100 Speedster in 2013 to celebrate the marque’s 100th anniversary. Now it looks like the one-off offers are back on the table, provided that customers fork up at least £2 million for each car. By the way, that converts to $2.6 million in today’s exchange rates. Gulp. Are any of the vehicles actually really made for the general buyers? Look at the average consumer and the price spent across the country..not even close... autosmithcar.com
The Aston Martin DB11 Volante
Just in time for, erm, autumn, it’s the Aston Martin DB11 Volante. Yep, a year or so after the coupe, the DB11 is now available in convertible form. It retains lots of stuff from the coupe – its four seats, its three-stage engine and suspension settings, its limited-slip diff and torque vectoring – but adds, predictably, a folding roof. Aston has stuck with a traditional fabric setup, which opens and closes in around 15 seconds. You can operate it up to 30mph, and in crosswinds of up to 30mph. If you’re worried fabric won’t insulate as well as a (heavier) metal setup, then Aston says it’s eight-layered with the latest acoustic technology. The roof – and the car it’s attached to, actually – have been tested in the Arctic Circle and Death Valley to prove its ability to keep out the cold and heat. The DB11 rides on Aston’s latest chassis, which is stronger than the DB9’s, so the Volante needs less reinforcement to counter the folding roof. As such, the DB11 Volante weighs 26k
Ah, it’s the new ‘best car in the world’… Since the first Phantom appeared in 1925, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has had its ups and downs. When the current car appeared at the stroke of midnight on January 1 st 2003, the company even called it ‘the last great automotive adventure’. Maybe that should have been penultimate, because we’ve just driven the new car, and as internal combustion most likely won’t be around in another 14 years’ time, this really could be The One. Rolls-Royce reckons the Phantom is the barometer by which everyone else in the world of expensive luxury goods measures themselves, so the bar isn’t just raised here, it’s bejewelled and platinum-plated. You know when someone claims to be ‘the Rolls-Royce of watches/furniture/granite-kitchen-worktops’? Well, this is the Rolls-Royce of Rolls-Royces. They sure took their time. Worth the wait? Like the Range Rover, that other fabulous four-wheeled luxury totem, it would be unseemly to replace the Phantom every sev
Porsche loves a special edition 911 almost as much as it loves winning Le Mans. Which is our rather contrived way of introducing you to this trio, the three guises of 911 Carrera 4 GTS British Legends Edition. Each has been specced by one of Porsche’s British Le Mans 24 hour victors. So there’s the Carrera White car that pays tribute to Nick Tandy and his Porsche 919 Hybrid (winner of Le Mans in 2015), the Guards Red car that salutes Richard Attwood and his Porsche 917 (victorious in 1970) and the Sapphire Blue car, which is a nod to Derek Bell and his Porsche 962 (a pairing that won in 1982). Bell also took Porsche to Le Mans victory 1981, ’86 and ’87, mind… White it’s initially odd that Porsche has used the heavier all-wheel-drive 911 GTS as the British Legend Edition’s base, the spec that lies beneath makes a degree of sense. Massively adjustable electric seats, automatic wipers and widely adjustable suspension – plus all-weather grip – may all add weight and complexity to th
Excellent, a pick-up truck. I like pick-up trucks. What’s this one? A limited-edition black-on-black-on-black pick-up truck from Nissan complete with fancy roll-over hoop and retina-searing LED light bar. It’s called the Navara Trek-1°, which we have no idea how to say (Trek minus one degree?). If you don’t like Batman-spec hue, panic not. You can also get it in white…on-black-on-black. Essentially, this Navara is the toppiest of top spec Navaras, and another option to rival the likes of the VW Amarok and upcoming Mercedes X-Class. Which is quite ironic really, as the X-Class is basically a re-badged and lightly-fettled Navara. Not that Mercedes will ever tell you that. What’s it based on? A top-spec double-cab Navara Tekna. Under the bonnet is the same 2.3-litre turbocharged diesel engine with 188bhp and 331lb ft, attached to a six-speed manual or seven-speed automatic gearbox. Power can be fed to all four-wheels via the twist of a knob, and it’ll hit 62mph in 10.8 seconds.
Toyota's made a Reventon-like hybrid sports car The GT86's evil twin gets a Le Mans-inspired hybrid powertrain and a weird gearbox. Toyota will show many concepts at the Tokyo motor show, but we suspect none will be as intriguing as this. What looks like a Toyota GT86 that’s been given a Lamborghini Reventon-style makeover is actually far, far more interesting than that. The Toyota GR HV Sports concept features a hybrid drivetrain. Rather than lifting one straight out of a nearby Prius, though, this one comes with THS-R (Toyota Hybrid System-Racing) technology that’s inspired by Toyota’s hybrid Le Mans car . Actual engine and motor details are conspicuous by their absence, but we suspect the endurance racer’s 1,000bhp petrol-electric setup isn’t squeezed under its mini-Batmobile body. I love it!!! autosmithcar.com
For a fictional character who enjoys his evenings mostly grunting into a mask and beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands, perhaps this is the perfect fit. Yep, in a fictional tie-up to appease the deepest, darkest parts of your inner twelve-year old, Mercedes has announced that Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne will drive the Mercedes-Benz Vision Gran Turismo in the upcoming superhero movie Justice League. The movie charts the impossible heroics of a group of super humans - and Wayne - in a plot you probably won’t care about too deeply. The Merc though… woah. Revealed in full way back in 2013, it was Mercedes’ response to Gran Turismo creater Kazunori Yamauchi’s call to the car world to build him the future of motoring, for use in Gran Turismo 6 . And though you could only really drive it in the game, at the time Merc said the Vision GT was powered by a 577bhp twin-turbo V8, powering a car that weighed just 1,385kg. Interestingly, the mad Mercedes-AMG GT R also uses a 57
Dodge began revving up the hype machine for the 840-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Demon back in January, smack in the middle of steadily rising demand for all things SUV. Calling the factory dragster the “most-powerful, street-legal production car ever,” it released 13 slickly produced video teasers. Dodge then unveiled the Demon in a Vegas-style spectacle ahead of April’s New York auto show. The street-legal dragster was Vin Diesel’s ride in “Fate of the Furious,” and it made cameos in rap videos. All for a car that Dodge planned to make only 3,000 copies of. But, then, the purpose of all the hype was never to sell $85,000 Demons. It was to sell less-expensive showroom versions of Dodge’s Challenger and Charger performance cars — and it’s working. The marketing behind the demon is impressive with it being lined next to challengers and chargers to boost sales for less expensive muscle cars but nothing compares to the Demon. The demon was actually used to market other vehi
It was inevitable, but that makes it no less exciting; Nissan’s electric car march is breeding performance cars, and the first could be this Leaf Nismo. We say could because it’s officially a concept. It’s been previewed in this image and will be shown in full at the Tokyo motor show in a couple of weeks. If Nissan gets a sufficiently positive response, the car will get made. You know what to do, then. And it looks production ready, doesn’t it? The interior is as per a standard Leaf, just with fancy red accents, and there’s not a 23in rim nor wing mirror camera to be seen. It’s as light as ‘concept’ treatment gets. “We’ve been testing the market for some time,” Nissan’s Europe president Paul Willcox told Top Gear. “We had RC Leaf and Bladeglider. But we’re trying to test the boundaries. We want to understand the acceptance from consumers. So if you think there’s a role for a performance electric vehicle then, I think we’ll go with it.” The Nissan GT-R will get electric pow
Remember the Stinger? Kia’s GT with rear-wheel drive ? That’s the one. Kia has now revealed the specs and most importantly, the price, which starts at £31,995 when it goes on sale on January 1 next year. There will be five different variants, with three trims – GT-Line, GT-Line S and GT-S – with a choice of three turbocharged engines. Top of the range will be the GT-S with a twin-turbo 365bhp 3.3-litre V6 engine, a 0-60mph time of just 4.7 seconds and a top speed of 168mph. This will set you back £40,495. GT-Line and GT-Line S both get the choice of a 244bhp 2.0-litre four-cylinder petrol engine, or a 197bhp 2.2-litre diesel, that latter motor claiming up to 50.4mpg and giving the GT a claimed touring range of more than 600 miles. All models get an eight-speed auto ‘box with flappy paddles plus rear-wheel drive. KIA adding a diesel option and producing a vehicle based on power but maintaining their claim to fame which is fuel economy. Should be interesting when they bring