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.