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If something hits the rally is the return of Volkswagen, with millions under his arm, to bid for the world title soon and for long. While Ford and Citroen are still fighting in sections, and young talent Carlos Sainz tested (heart, Yeray Lemes), managers of the house of Wolfsburg took the Polo R WRC “prototype” at the Salon Automobile Frankfurt to fall in love with her wings “exaggerated” his white satin, the sight of wing carbon fiber …

Might think when you see the lap times on the track smashing, really. Will he fight for the level of Ford, Citroën and MINI? With the return so much money, and a team of engineers and technicians of the first level, I have no doubt.

Sales of sports cars rarely seen before – the dream of every lover of sports car with us now, and mainly focuses on almost nothing more, nothing less than a simple collection of billionaire tycoons, known throughout the world cars has several models of the most expensive and rare in the world, which is now selling some soon.

One of the biggest car collectors around the world, the Sultan of Brunei, to sell some jewelry with wheels, a unique piece of very rare or even billed as an exclusive model for the largest producer, with only a few meters shot the way clear for private use, and clearly no other copies worldwide. We do not know if it’s because of the crisis or simply the desire of the owner, might want to make room for new purchases or loans to get rid of some models to be more rare, not unique, as the Ferrari Enzo 2009 red.

Jalopnik reports related to the cars that the Sultan has decided to sell, trying to find a relationship so to speak, then to see what is the reason for the sale, but noted that 90% of their miles mileage is a silly example zero or only about 10 km, the different models and rare materials from brands such as Lotus, Ferrari, Maserati, Jaguar, Lamborghini and Mercedes need to be updated or modified with at least one model that is very unique and almost unique.

However, as we shall see, all this just to make major changes, because there’s really no need to say the characters need money to buy another model, or space as buildings, more cars and especially money, is what you do

Now, the new model was born looking in a different competition, new markets – which may have read, the new models are now released, are already in the new phase of their cycle time to completely new models, and now the idea is to improve the current model, keeping the design a bit, but make them more efficient, sporty and less pollution, but to beat your competitors.

Nissan working on a project that should lead to the production of sporting rear-wheel drive. To date, there is nothing unusual that can be said about it. New, in fact, lies in the decisions taken at the power train must overcome all the steps to finally see whether or not to accept. The screen is not a myth, like the tree, the model is that it grows in time, now just try to be better than others, better than the. Mazda MX-5, for example

Is not the first time you think about Nissan compact sports car to meet customer needs third millennium, in 2008, it became clear with models like the MX-3, but kept the idea been on an interesting project to provide the heir to the 200 SX. The Renaissance was born with a basic platform of the 370Z this brief.

An interesting model is that the machine will be very small compared to what they can do, since the 1.6-horsepower turbo-190, nothing seems so strong, if we look from the 370Z, for example, although all forms, is an impressive model. Read the rest of this entry »

After the road-map drawn up some months ago began today at the Mini World Rally Championship with the first day of the Rally of Italy, who walked through the territory of Sardinia. So far, and except for research can’t be invoked in the day yesterday, there was no valid reference in the performance of the MINI Countryman, while others are points of identical reliability important or better provide a vehicle for a test of full stay.

His two team drivers, Kris Meeke and Daniel Sordo, Italy began the event with a very different philosophy. In the first two stages, Meeke made a good move which allows it to be in fourth place until the accelerator problem ended his participation in the day today. Meanwhile, Dani started at low speed when they clean the doubt, reaching sixth place. Read the rest of this entry »