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Archive for November, 2008

Rural Canadian Wins Koenigsegg CCX, Has No Road To Drive It On

Posted by Admin on November 29, 2008

Koenigsegg CCX Winner

Louie Edgi, a cancer patient currently residing in one of the horribly frigid areas of Norman Wells, Canada, has just won the Cash and Cars Lottery, which supports the Alberta Cancer Foundation and the Canadian Cancer Society. The prize? A supercar. The catch? Norman Wells is a remote town up in God’s Country with only one 12-kilometer dirt road. And that’s not even the worst part.

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Dodge Viper Still Selling Like Mad, Viper ACR Virtually Sold Out, While Chrysler Sales Down

Posted by Admin on November 18, 2008

Dodge Viper ACR

Chrysler may be running around like a chicken without a head, but the craziest bird in the roost, the Dodge Viper, is out dancing in the fields. Even while companies worldwide prepare to ransack Chrysler, the Viper sales are unflinchingly continuing. Although Chrysler sales are reportedly down an amazing 32%, Dodge continues to produce and sell Vipers at a rate of 100 units per month. Not just that, but the Viper ACR – that $105k -prepped super-snake – is all but completely sold out… not so much in spite of the poor economy, but because of it. Chrysler reports that with stock portfolios rapidly losing their value and dollar values plummeting, investors are seeing the Viper ACR as a good investment opportunity due to its potential discontinuation and therefore retaining a high resale value – all with smile inducing dividends, too.

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Video: 1/4 Mile Drag Race Between Corvette ZR1, Ferrari 599, Porsche GT2, and Nissan GT-R

Posted by Admin on November 11, 2008

Those wacky guys at MotorTrend get all the fun. When they were given the keys of the new awe-inspiring Corvette ZR1, they decided to pit it against the mighty 599 GTB, GT-R and . Luckily for us, they threw us a bone by recording the supercar showdown for the world to see. Hit the jump to see the 638-hp Corvette ZR1 take on some of the best and brightest from Italy, Germany, and Japan. We watched the video 4 different times, just to see the differences in the starts and finishes of 4 very different supercars. Read the rest of this entry »

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Abu Dhabi – Formula 1’s Newest Track In High-Res Detail

Posted by Admin on November 11, 2008

Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Track

The honor of being the final round of the Formula 1 Grand Prix has been held in Brazil recently, But next year’s calendar shifts Brazil to the penultimate round, and puts the last race of the season in at their brand new track. F1 officials and some lucky drivers got a chance to see the track where next year’s championship will be decided, and as one might expect from something out of the Middle East, it’s got everything you could want and then some.
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F1 Champ Lewis Hamilton will get his McLaren F1 LM after 3 Championship Titles

Posted by Admin on November 7, 2008

McLaren F1 LM

Now that Lewis Hamilton has secured the Formula One championship, supercar fans around the world are asking when he’ll get his hands on that rare LM. The incredibly valuable supercar – initially reported at $4 million but now apparently worth closer to 8 – was promised to the budding young driver if he won the title. However, the condition was that he win both the drivers title and, together with team-mate Heikki Kovalainen, lock up the constructors’ title for the team, as well. Although he won the drivers’ championship, the constructors’ crown went to arch-rivals , but since chief is such a good sport, he’s renegotiated the terms.

If Hamilton manages to repeat his title victory with a hat-trick – that is, take another two championships – he’ll get his hands on the bright orange supercar. That’s quite a challenge, but Dennis called it a “small price to pay for three world championships.” Indeed, but by then will have a whole slew of supercars on the market for Lewis to choose from. In the meantime, he’d better keep his head down and focus on the prize.

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