KOENIGSEGG READ PORSCHE DESIGN MANUAL - RELEASES SAME CAR WITH NEW ENGINE

PAGANI READS KOENIGSEGG DESIGN MANUAL - RELEASES THE ZONDA AGAIN...WITH YELLOW WHEELS

PORSCHE RELEASES A COMPLETELY NEW MODEL THAT ISNT BASED ON A 911 - CONFUSES PAGANI AND KOENIGSEGG

Honestly, I am amazed with the 918 Spyder above. Quite clearly based on a Le Mans Carrera GTS of the last century, it is beautiful to look at. It couples a 500hp V8 with 200hp from axel mounted electric motors with more torque than the planet to give over 700hp - and 78mpg if your interested (although if you are interested in that you are lost and were looking for greenpeace.com I'd imagine). This is where 'electric' cars should be going, not the way of the Prius... That said, we are a bit iffy as to the numbers on the 918. All sounds great, with a sub 7:30 (faster than Carrera GT) lap of the ring expected, but what about battery life? After 40 mins you have not got 700hp, you have 500. Also suddenly you are evil again and polluting the world with you petrol death machine. That is until you plug it into the wall and use someones larger, coal powered death machine to charge it...like we all should...apparently...

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 Once again, the world's manufacturers, marketing people, right buyers and poor motor journalists have converged on the least car friendly nation on early - for the worlds biggest car show. Welcome to Geneva, Switzerland!

Now, we could go by the norm and give you a run down on each of the cars there and recount the basic narrative of the marketing scrawl that comes with the cars - or we could do something different. We appreciate that you are busy, probably looking at this at work, and don't have time to read lengthy stories about cars that may never enter production, so - over the coming days we are going to bring you the most interesting things at the show - with headlines only. We cannot guarantee the factual nature of the headlines - but we can guarantee they will be there! Lets begin...

LEXUS VISITS MAZDA 3 AND SUBARU FACTORIES - THINKS "THATS A GOOD IDEA!"

FERRARI BUILDS A 'GREEN' CAR - OBVIOUSLY MISUNDERSTANDS DESIGN BRIEF

ALFA AND PINNINFARINA TEAM TO BUILD A CAR - DUBBED "ALFA VIAGRA" DUE TO EFFECT ON MEN

And we will take a break there for the moment. In the mean time, print the picture above and put it on your wall, its stunning.

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Anyone who has been a passanger in a track car knows how vastly different it is from driving one. Now matter who is driving they alwasy seem to go too fast, too far past the braking marker and miss every apex - with you breaking with your imaginary pedals against the firewall the whole time. Now how about a ... well pensioner ... whos idea of fast is receiving dinner at 4 30pm and not 4 35? Well - please refer to the video below. 

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 Most people shooting at Motorsport events are aware of the dangers, and most are willing to run when a car comes flying at them while they are taking those shots. now this results in some very poor photography - which is why we refer you to the guy below - and the photos he managed to take...

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If you dial back the clocks and look at some of the very early Drift King DVDs out of Nihon like the Drift Bible for instance, you can see some incredible, edge of the limits of grip, four-wheel drifting. Angle is sacrificed for speed, which is much, much higher. Now this is nothing new, Jack Brabham et al were four-wheel drifting formula 1 cars around the Nurburgring in the 60's, with about as much safety and technology as your $5 billy cart had when you were 10 - but they were rolling at 150mph. Which brings us to this vid.

This is the RUF CTR Yellowbird, one of the most pure tuned cars to come out of Stuttgart in the last 50 years according to many Porsche fans. Here it is out for a casual sunday run at the Nurburgring...what am I saying? Here it is, on the edge of grip and reason at one of teh most dangerous tracks in the world - Enjoy.

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