Opel Speedster
In an era of look-alike designed vehicles, there’s no mistaking the 2002 Opel Speedster. First introduced at the 1999 Salon de l’Automobile in Geneva in concept car form, it was a bold visual contrast to the workaday sedans, and coupes sold by General Motors’ big European marque.
Impossibly low, with a rakish nose and bodacious muscular fenders, it was striking front to back, with a unique, vertically stacked dual exhaust. Just two years later, an amazingly brief interval in automotive terms, the Speedster is back, this time in roadworthy trim.
Rolls Royce Phantoms Delivered To Peninsula Hotel
The Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong has been shuttling guests to and from the airport and around town in Rolls-Royce automobiles since 1970, when it took delivery of a then-record seven Silver Shadows. Thus began a tradition that saw the hotel place the single largest order for Rolls-Royce automobiles several times throughout the decades.
TVR Typhoon Makes A Comeback
Piston heads reports that TVR are set to bring out a brand new supercar. For those in the know, you might be asking yourself, “Wasn’t TVR on the brink of closure? Having been sold of to some Russian Billioner?”
Obviously, the new Russian owner is a little hesitant to give up on TVR and the new Supercar, named Typhoon, is set to go on display at the Geneva motor show next year. The TVR Typhoon, will come with TVR’s all-aluminium Speed Six engine, thats already a goot 400bhp, but if TVR is going to survive, 400bhps isn’t nearly enough, so why not supercharge it and get 600bhp?
Jagaur XKR GT3 Prepares To Race
First Mazda and Peugeot showed off their prototype racers and now we are hearing about production-based racecars. At the same Birmingham show that will see the debut of Aston Martin’s V8 Vantage N24 customer track car, Jaguar is showing its new XKR GT3 car.
The Autosport International Show at the NEC, Birmingham is the place and the car is the race version of Jaguar’s sporty new aluminum-bodied, supercharged XKR, this one eligible for the FIA GT3 European Championship. Richard Lloyd and the Apex Motorsport crew have developed this ferocious feline to compete in the GT3 series that has become so popular around the world.
Rolls-Royce Breaks Land-Speed Record
In keeping with its brand strategy, Rolls-Royce would never give the go-ahead to participate in a conventional motorsport activity. Yet, it does have a history of landspeed record bids, and it looks like the automaker is about to write the newest chapter.
AutoExpress is reporting that Rolls Royce will make an attempt to break the 409-MPH landspeed record for piston-engined, wheel driven cars next year. Rolls-Royce has held many landspeed records dating back to the ’30s and its vehicles were the fastest cars on the planet until the jet-engined streamliners took over the record books.
