BMW M1

The BMW M1 was a sports car that was produced by German automaker BMW from 1978 to 1981.In the late 1970s, Italian manufacturer Lamborghini entered into an agreement with BMW to build a production racing car. The result was sold to the public, from 1978 to 1981, as the BMW M1. It was the only mid-engined BMW to be mass produced. It had a twin-cam 3.5 L 6-cylinder engine with Kugelfischer mechanical fuel injection. A version of this motor was later used in the BMW M6 / 635 CSI and BMW M5. The engine had six separate throttle butterflies, four valves per cylinder and produced 273 hp in the street version, giving a top speed of 160 mph. Turbocharged racing versions were capable of producing around 850 hp.after seven prototypes were built. Only 456 production M1s were built, making it one of BMW's rarest models. The spirit of the M1 lived on in the first-generation M5. The M1 had various successes in motorsports, including winning the Group B championship in 1984. In 2004, Sports Car International named the car number ten on the list of Top Sports Cars of the 70's.

Porsche 959

Ever see a Porsche 959 in person ? The Porsche 959 was built from 1986 - 1989 under 400 was made. Porsche refused to provide the US Department of Transportation with four 959's for crash testing so the car was never certified by the NHTSA for street legal use in the US thats why.
SPECS : Engine 2.85 Liter boxer-6 Twin Turbos 444 HP 369 Torque 0 - 60 3.6 seconds 1/4 mile 11.8 Top Speed 198
Originally designed for Group B racing. Porsche decided they wanted it to becoming the ultimate road car.
The 959 was All Wheel Drive built with Kevlar, Nomex, aluminum, and carbon fiber for weight savings, automatic ride height adjustment; water-cooled 4 valve heads, and sequential turbocharging.
Two famous people that own a 959 is Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld.

Danica Patrick

Everyone has now heard that Danica Patrick has signed a two year contract with JR Motor sports. She will run in the Nationwide series part time and still run a full Indy Car Schedule driving for Andretti Autosport. Danica will be sponsored by GODADDY.com in both series she has 1 Win and 16 Top 5 's in 5 years of Indy Car Racing.

BrakeDust

200 + MPH SUV

Everyone has heard of Shelby but most people never heard of BRABUS. Brabus is a high performance after market tuning company which specializes in MERCEDES and MAYBACH vehicles.
Brabus has now built the fastest SUV a MERCEDES GLK V 12 they say it can do 211 MPH top speed 740 HP 995 Torque 0 - 60 in 4.2 seconds but it coast $ 580,000. for more info check out www.brabus.com/index_usa.html picture from www.mercedestuningmag.com

SVT Ford Raptor

Ford Replaces the Lightning with the SVT Raptor. The Raptor is based on a F 150 super cab. Did they have to get rid of the Lightning NO but they wanted to build a new Special Vehicle that they call state of the art That means dump the name LIGHTNING. Ford did this once buy dumping the name TAURUS for the name 500 Tarus is back and 500 is gone. Will Ford make the same mistake who cares I just wanted to make this alittle longer then four lines. I would of kept the name LIGHTNING and use Raptor on some other project. The Raptor will have a v8 5.4L 320 HP with 390 Tourque base price is 38,995

Motor Trend SUV's of the year last decade

Here is the rundown of the SUV's of the decade 2000-2010

2009 Subaru Forester
2008 Mazda CX-9
2007 Mercedes GL Class
2006 Nissan Xterra
2005 Land Rover LR3
2004 VW Touareg
2003 Volvo XC90
2002 GMC Envoy
2001 Acura MDX
2000 Nissan Xterra

To start off the new decade 2010 The Subaru Outback wins Motor Trend SUV of the year.


Picture from www.Trucktrend.com for more info on the Subaru click link.

MUSTANG & CHALLENGER in Nascar for 2010

The Nascar Nationwide series has just finished its 2009 Season today. Congrats to Kyle Busch and everyone at Joe Gibbs Racing for winning the 2009 Nationwide Championship.
Now the season is over and theres about 3 months until the 2010 season starts. in 2010 Ford will race the Mustang and dodge will race the Challenger but only for 4 races next year. ( NASCAR this is good news but why only 4 Races if it was 10 or more this would be awesome news. ) that says it all I can go on and on but the point is clear 1 GOOD news 2 Bad News 3 Make it 10 or more.

Ford Mustang pic 2009 SEMA show my pic & Dodge Challenger pic from Jonsibal.com

Its the last race of the season in NHRA where all 3 major titles are up for grabs TOP FUEL DRAGSTER , TOP FUEL FUNNY CAR , & PRO STOCK. This is a close battle in T F D championship where only 1 point seperates 1 st and 2 nd in points. Tony Schumacher 2,485 points leads Larry Dixon 2,484 points. Thats only half the story after round 1 of Quailifying Thursday at Auto Club Raceway in Pamona CA Schumacher is at the top of the charts running a 3.832 and Dixon is 2nd running 3.833. There's 3 rounds left of Quailfying left I like to see them meet in the final round winner takes all.

pitures Tony Schumacher from Don Schumacher Racing , Larry Dixon from Racintoday.com

GM makes an Awesome Camaro for the U.K.

GM is making a Camaro only for England it will be called the Camaro VR a 600 plus HP V8 with an even better body kit. It will remain left hand drive it will have a recalibrated Suspension due to the roads being alittle rougher ( Using New York City Pothole data Technology developed at the Cross Bronx Expressway proving grounds ) it will only be available in Black or White with gold trim ( Think Smokey and the Bandit Trans AM ) They should just call it the Camaro UK or GNX would be cool but that would piss off some Buick Grand National fans. YO GM That car should be available in the US just send them a Camaro SS. It will carry a hefty $ 50,000 price tag ( Now I dont no how many pounds that isin England but it will be more then all the people at the start of the biggest loser. ) This car Rocks.

Jokes by Mike Stigs stigscomedy.com
picture from 4wheelnews.com

Nascar 2 Races left

after 34 of 36 races or 8 out of 10 chase for the cup races Jimmie Johnson leads Mark Martin by 73 points this week they will be in Phoenix and then the final race will be in Homestead Florida. Right now its a 2 car race for the championship but if Johnson has any bad luck like last week it can be a 5 car race going down to the final race in Florida.

1) #48-Jimmie Johnson [6 wins], 6297,
2) #5-Mark Martin [5 wins], 6224, -73,
3) #24-Jeff Gordon [1 win], 6185, -112,
4) #2-Kurt Busch [2 wins], 6126, -171,
5) #14-Tony Stewart [4 wins], 6119, -178,
6) #42-Juan Montoya, 6061, -236,
7) #16-Greg Biffle, 6050, -247,
8) #11-Denny Hamlin [3 wins], 5975, -322,
9) #39-Ryan Newman, 5973, -324,
10) #9-Kasey Kahne [2 wins], 5898, -399,
11) #99-Carl Edwards, 5857, -440,
12) #83-Brian Vickers [1 win], 5777

For the Dale Earnhardt JR fans he is in 23 in points right now. Martin has finished 2 nd in points afew times but never won a championship. Johnson is going for 4 in a row. Only Richard Petty , Dale Earnhardt , and Jeff Gordon Have 4 or more.

2011 Kia Cadenza

The Replacement for the Kia Amanti will be the Kia Cadenza which will make its Auto Show debut at the Saudi Arabia Auto Show. The Cadenza looks much better the the Amanti The Amanti looked nice but I never like the big grill in the front. It did look good inside you never new you were in a KIA. The Cadenza will hace at 4 and a 6 cylinder engine available its schedule as a 2011 model.
( Picture from Car & Driver web site )

Chrysler will stop production in July 2010 on the Dodeg Viper. The Dodge Viper was introduced in 1992 there has been four gerenations of the v10 super car. Ralph Gilles said " the last 500 will be the most special Vipers made ".