Sentences with phrase «gt road car»

Based on the GT road car, the GT3 is also set to inspire a street - legal version.

Ford's performance division is reminding us that it's put out a number of capable, exhilarating machines over the past few years with this video, in which its two most recent Fiesta ST models, a Focus RS, Mustang GT, Shelby GT350R Mustang, F - 150 Raptor, Ford GT road car, and Ford GT race car all go head - to - head at the MotorLand Aragón near Barcelona, Spain.

The decision to produce a Touring Pack option for the 911 GT3 was made some 15 months ago between Vice President, Motorsport and GT road car development Dr Frank Walliser and head of GT cars Andreas Preuninger; «We were in the kitchen at our office and AP said we had to do something with the GT3.

The showdown is set at the new Motorland race circuit near Barcelona, Spain, and the participants include the Ford F - 150 Raptor, Focus RS, Mustang GT, Mustang Shelby GT350R, GT road car, GT race car, the outgoing Fiesta ST, and the all - new Fiesta ST with the EcoBoost three - cylinder that isn't available in the U.S. Because it would be easy to predict the outcome of a battle between a 200 - hp Fiesta ST and Ford GT race car making more than 600 hp, each car gets a staggered start, with the heavier, less agile Raptor getting to go first and the GT Le Mans car relegated to the back of the pack.

Porsche's GTS model line has quickly established itself as the defacto spec to go for if Porsche Motorsport's GT road cars have already succumbed to the speculators and those more interested in investment returns rather than driving thrills.

This is likely to be the most extreme GT3 RS yet with Andreas Preuninger, Porsche GT road cars boss, indicating the gap between the GT3 and the RS will be as big as its ever been when the 991 RS is finally revealed.

Not exact matches

The up - coming title will feature over 170 cars, including 11 recently - announced Porsches and both road and racing versions of the Ford GT, and the largest track roster of any console game.

Ford's reborn GT is the latest car to be confirmed for PCARS2, as both a road car and and Le Mans - winning racer.

Future car packs will feature «American muscle and US stock, Japanese road machines, British LMP and GT, classic and modern - day open wheel, touring, and track day vehicles.

At least GT Sport has actual off - road tracks, despite not having explicitly off - road vehicles aside from some rally cars.

The technology also can be seen on high - performance road cars like the Ford GT and Aston Martin One - 77.

Although the GT - R was victorious on the drag strip in both the 0 - 60 mph sprint and the quarter - mile, the Camaro proved to be the more engaging and enjoyable driver's car on the back roads and on the track.

Also coming to Goodwood is one of the rarest McLaren road cars in history, the F1 GT, which was built to satisfy FIA homologation requirements for the McLaren F1 GTR «Longtail» race car during the 1997 GT racing season.

Meanwhile, race - car designer Ben Bowlby, the man behind the DeltaWing and Nissan ZEOD R / C, confirmed that the next road - going GT - R will feature a version of the same twin - turbo, 3.0 - liter V - 6 with hybrid power that propels the Nissan GT - R LM NISMO race car, which appeared in June's 24 Hours of Le Mans in France.

My race - car experience has heretofore been limited to 50 - mph camera passes in a 1966 Ford GT Le Mans race car for a cover feature in Motor Trend Classic and laps at a short road course at Honda's Twin Motegi racetrack in a Honda Side by Side open - wheel, motorcycle - powered racecar.

It was the car to beat in the GT class during the late 1950s, earning the unofficial «Tour de France» moniker after its four consecutive race wins at the road race of the same name.

Just for fun we take a ride in the car lift, emerging onto the roof to discover a car park, in one corner of which sits a standard R32 GT - R road car.

Some day, the Nürburgring may become just another winding stretch of road, and cars like the Nissan GT - R may become relics of an innocent time when manufacturers genuinely cared about going fast.

Not just its role in developing the GT and touring cars, but as the birthplace of the greatest road - going GT - Rs of all, like the ultra-rare R33 400R and near - mythical R34 Z - tune.

So then, the 2017 Ford GT proved itself as one of the best, most track - capable production cars of all time, which led to our stable of drivers rethinking its character on the road as well.

And at that point the idea to go back to Le Mans with a Mustang was canned, and replaced with a top secret skunkworks — Project Silver — to build an all - new GT to take to Le Mans, plus a corresponding road car to go with it.

In truth it's not really a P1 rival, so the price does look somewhat high beside those lesser rivals, both of which are at least as quick as the GT in the real world, and make better road cars.

I've been lucky enough to feel that natural high in road cars, race cars and record - breaking cars, but nothing approaches the stimulant - like effects of the Venom GT's all - out performance.

The most powerful 911 road car to date, the GT2 RS has been Mr Porsche GT himself, Andreas Preuninger's project but it's Walliser who's in overall charge.

Although Ford conceived of the new GT as a road car first, the decision to build a race - spec version was made almost immediately, and both versions were developed in parallel.

Thankfully, the McLaren Ultimate Vision GT is billed as a product of the latter, and is designed as a view to McLaren road cars of 2030 and beyond.

Of course we won't know for sure how well the Venom GT stacks up unless we drive it against cars like the Agera R, Huayra, Veyron Super Sport and One - 77 on the same roads (and runway) on the same day.

Like the Ferrari Enzo, the Carrera GT is a wonderful track car, in its element in wide open spaces, free of other road users.

The Exige's price point puts it up against tough rivals - those seeking a road and track capable sports car can buy a Porsche Cayman GTS (or its Boxster sibling) or the new BMW M4 coupe for similar money.

The ZF 8 - speed automatic hitched to the 4.0 - liter engine is shared with Aston's GT car, the DB11, but the transmission is tuned for sharper response, swapping ratios impressively with the steering wheel - mounted paddles as I begin dancing the Vantage on the snowy roads.

For a company whose rebodied road cars look completely outlandish, Zagato's Vision GT concept is almost tame.

With the speeds here too slow for the turbos to build up steam and the road shoulder narrow to nonexistent, the GT - R feels like the big and heavy car it is.

From the looks of it, the Ford GT race car boasts an even more liberal use of carbon fiber than its road - going sibling, with a mean - looking front spoiler, fins for the sides of the front bumper, extended side sills, a roof scoop, a spoiler large enough to cast a shadow over Rhode Island, and an equally enormous rear diffuser.

The 720S is a beautiful, sleek GT car, possibly the most aerodynamically exciting road car to come from the U.K. since the Jaguar E-type 56 years ago.

Silly name aside, V - Max mode stows away all aero elements and endows the car with its maximum 216mph top speed — making the GT the fastest road car Ford has ever built.

A race version of the Ford GT has already been competing in endurance events for a year now and this track development has benefitted the road car, too.

I don't quite understand the bifurcation with the Hyper - GT BP23 and the Senna road legal track car.

Porsche 911 GT1 We drive the rare road version of a car that rewrote endurance racing rules and links the Porsche 959 to the Carrera GT

H: The 2005 Ford GT was a road car, a street car.

Although the development of a road car was canceled, the front - engine NSX project served as the basis of Honda's HSV - 010 GT race car for the Japanese Super GT project.

I never got a speeding ticket, as I did with my Toyota GT - R, because it was just fun to be on the road in this car and I did not want... Read full review

The V - 8 engine itself weighs about 55 pounds less than the twelve - cylinder engine, so there's less weight hanging off the front axle of the car, which makes any of the Continental GT V8 models better tools for diving into corners and making time on fast, challenging roads like Ortega Highway.

A neutral - handling road car with meaty - but - tractable power, the second coming of the Ford GT showed us the kind of fully fledged, street - prepped supercar Ford could build.

Thankfully traffic is extremely light, and I unleash the GT S on set after set of Highway 1's squiggly ribbons of road; by now, I've been in Mercedes - AMG's new beast for several hundred miles on the way up to and during the annual Pebble Beach car week festivities.

The person who keeps the Ford GT as a road car better have austere tastes because there is no frivolity in this cabin.

The road settings for the suspension don't turn the GTS into a cosseting cruiser, but they soften things sufficiently to let it cope well with B - road bumps and although you'll still find it distracted by cambers, you're not left fighting the car.

That makes it the first two - pedal GT or RS Porsche road car.

The McLaren F1 owners club was set up by Ray Bellm — former GT racer, sportscar world champion, and the man who was instrumental in turning the F1 road car into a race car back in the 90s.

It all means the M4 GTS should be a much more aggressive car in dynamic terms than a standard M4, with a wide range of adjustment to allow owners to tweak their cars for specific circuits and road use.

I never got a speeding ticket, as I did with my Toyota GT - R, because it was just fun to be on the road in this car and I did not want to risk loosing the privilege.