Sentences with phrase «gto as»

Mitsubishi developed the new GTO as an advanced sports coupe to compete with the Nissan 300ZX, Skyline GT - R, Mazda RX - 7, and the Toyota Supra.

Audi's designers drew inspiration from the race - winning 90 quattro IMSA GTO as they punched out the wheel arches to give the Sportback a wide - body look and chiseled sizable air vents into the front bumper.

He bought a ’67 GTO as his first car in 1974 at the height of the gas shortage and became a hands - on restoration enthusiast for life.

Mitsubishi Automotive developed the new GTO as a technically advanced sports coupe to compete with the Mazda RX - 7, Nissan 300ZX and Skyline GT - R, and the Toyota Supra.

Not exact matches

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Mars will be targeted as part of a Guaranteed Time Observation (GTO) project led by Heidi Hammel, a planetary astronomer and executive vice president of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) in Washington, D.C..

NASA on Jan. 6 issued a call for proposals for the GTO, along with a second telescope booking opportunity known as the Director's Discretionary Early Release Science program.

Each of the following strategies will train your GTO to absorb a force and then contract to produce a new force as quickly as possible, thus decreasing the time of your stretch - shortening cycle.

There's no chance of false advertising with the film's title, as the proceedings unabashedly revolve around recent high - school grad Ian (Josh Zuckerman) hopping into a 1969 Pontiac GTO and driving to have sex with a gorgeous girl he's met on the internet (Katrina Bowden).

In the spirit of such classics as AMERICAN PIE, THE SURE THING and SUPERBAD, this wild romp follows Ian, Lance and their third musketeer, the spunky and gorgeous tomboy, FELICIA (Amanda Crew), as they set out in Ian's older brother's beloved ’69 GTO.

Beginning with perhaps the most beautiful car ever to have raced, the Ferrari 330 P4 of 1967 (a photo of which was proudly displayed in Enzo Ferrari's office from the day it claimed total victory at Daytona), through to Ferrari's modern - day GT warrior, the 488 GT3 and via such iconic Ferraris such as the Ferrari 288 GTO of 1984 (the first supercar to hit the 300km / h barrier), the F40LM of 1989 (the GT version of the first supercar to reach 370km / h) and all the way through to Maranello's current hypercar — LaFerrari, Project CARS 2 drivers will soon revel in the cars and history that have made Ferrari the world's most aspirational car brand.

A Ferrari 250 GTO has reportedly been sold privately, for 52million US dollars — around # 32million, or the same combined price as 30 LaFerrari hypercars.

It didn't take FIA official long to call shenanigans, as the 250 LM was a scratch - built, mid-engined racer very different to the old front - engined GTO.

The 288 GTO was designed for this series using the 308 road car as a starting point, but by the time homologation cars had been built, the series was deemed too dangerous and canceled.

Always looking for a competitive edge, Ferrari built the 250 LM as an «evolution» of the dominant 250 GTO and tried to register it as a GT - class (production - based) race car with the FIA governing racing body.

The car was designed under the watchful eye of Audi chief designer Marc Lichte and Audi's design team used the Audi 90 Quattro IMSA GTO race car from the late 1980s as a source of inspiration.

Watch on Youtube as Derek Hill drives the 1964 GTO.

However, this theory doesn't seem likely as previous GTO and Speciale monikers came with drastically different aerodynamic packages, as well as different wheels and tires, and specialized interiors built closer to Ferrari's track supercars.

The pumped - up bodywork is apparently inspired by the Audi 80 IMSA GTO racers of the 1980s, and while the TT's 5.5 - inch wider body isn't quite as broad as those IMSA cars, it's a pretty good look.

Before we delve into the specific changes from GTB to GTO, it's as well to understand the aims of this project.

You know as well as me that those two cars are the 1962 250 GTO and the 1984 288 GTO - both were defined by performance and an intention to go racing.

As for the Audi TT Clubsport turbo concept, it was inspired by the Audi 90 IMSA GTO race car of the late 1980s.

It stops as well as the GTO, but it doesn't share the same ability to fire into an apex with supervehicular tenacity.

You don't need a measuring device to discover that it pulls harder than the GTO; every sustained surge of boost brings a crazed whooshing noise — like a recording of paper being ripped and then replayed much louder — as the sheer volume of ingested and recirculated air comprehensively muffles any exhaust noise.

Only one foot is required to drive the GTO, of course, as it comes exclusively with the latest version of Ferrari's F1 automated transmission.

After a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO recently set a record as the most expensive car ever sold at auction with its $ 38,115,000 asking price, we rounded up the 10 most expensive cars ever sold at auction.

The five - cylinder Audi Quattro that took rallying by storm in the 1980s usually takes the starring role in the company's publicity material, but Audi of America has produced this video, citing the fire - spitting 700bhp IMSA / GTO Audi 90 quattro as the true grandfather of the five - cylinder engine seen in the current TT RS.

It made it to the USA as the Pontiac GTO, and when it arrived on UK soil in 2004 it became the most powerful road car ever to wear the griffin badge.

As such, it no longer needed to produce 200 GTOs for homologation, but the demand was so great for what, upon its launch in 1984, would be the fastest production car in the world that Ferrari went ahead and built the road cars anyway — 272 of them.

After the handful of GTO homologation specials (racers disguised as road cars), the California Spider is the most auspicious child in the Ferrari 250 family.

And while its wider role means it doesn't feel quite as focused as the 599 GTO, as a mad, life - affirming supercar, the F12 is pretty darn special.

2004: Champions the importation of the Australian Holden Monaro as a reborn Pontiac GTO.

The 250 GT SWB is considered by many to be a 250 GTO in everything but the name, and as such, it is estimated to pull $ 15 - $ 18 million when the hammer falls.

Seeing as Ferrari's most valuable V8's as far as collectors are concerned are both turbocharged — the F40 and the 288 GTO — I can't see how the normally aspirated V8 cars will now be seen as more desirable than they are now.

Power remains the same as the «normal» Performance D80 GTO, so that's 380bhp at 5500rpm and 350 lb ft of torque at 1750rpm, produced by an Audi sourced turbocharged 2.5 - litre five - pot TFSI engine.

Like the first Ferraris, the 288 GTO was designed specifically as an homologation special, allowing Ferrari to compete in an upcoming Group B race series.

Toyota Supra had such competitors as Nissan Skyline GT - R / GT - S, Mitsubishi 3000GT / GTO, Dodge Stealth, Chevrolet Corvette, Honda / Acura NSX and other sport - cars of the mid-size class.

The GTO was known as the 3000GT outside Japan and Dodge picked it up under the moniker of Stealth.

As founder and CEO of the motorsports marketing agency Just Marketing International, he has mastered the building of brands through motorsports, which has, in turn, enabled him to acquire a collection of some very famous race cars, including those he will share driving with his best mate Richard Dean at both the Pre-Reunion and the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion: the 1980 Williams F1 Alan Jones Championship F1 car; the 1986 IMSA Ford GTO with which Scott Pruett won the IMSA championship; a 1986 Porsche 962 and the 1982 Porsche 935 that won at Daytona and Sebring; and for the first time, the Lola T 332 Formula 5000 car that Mario Andretti drove to win at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in 1975.

As the second of only 39 250 GTOs ever produced, this car was the first of its type to compete in a race and succeeded in notching up 17 class podiums through competition in 27 races.

They resurrected the GTO name, and the car went on to serve as Mitsubishi's flagship for the remainder of the decade.

The Japanese domestic market model took its name from the Galant GTO, a two - door hardtop coupé sold by the company in the early 1970s, which in turn took its name from a specific international endurance motor sport technical regulation, expressed in Italian as Gran Turismo Omologato.

Despite the cachet of the badge at home, it was marketed as the Mitsubishi 3000GT and as the Dodge Stealth outside Japan; the company was concerned that connoisseurs would object to the evocative nameplate from the highly regarded Ferrari 250 GTO and Pontiac GTO being used on a Japanese vehicle.

The GTO SR made the same power as the US spec 3000GT SL and was offered with the same 5 speed manual or 4 speed automatic.

There are definitely a lot of GTOs and Camaros, but as the gallery above shows, imported cars of all stripes (short of megabuck Art Deco classics, which you can see here in our Monterey coverage) are well - represented on the Avenue.

This year brought many memorable moments for me, including standing trackside at Homestead - Miami Speedway as Jimmie Johnson drove his Monte Carlo SS to his first Cup championship, watching Kevin Harvick hoist his Busch Championship trophy and standing at the starting line as Greg Anderson and Jason Line dueled it out at Pomona in their identical Pontiac GTOs.

The Premium D8 GTO were built as a limited series of 25 cars and had a little more power (380 + BHP) than e.g. the D8 GTO Performance.

As is usually the case in coupes, the folks in back are a little less comfortable but, for a coupe, the GTO's legroom and headroom are generous.

This low weight is due to composite materials such as the full carbon fibre body of the D8 GTO.

Unlike some high - performance models, the new GTO can be driven for hours without the driver feeling as if he's been beaten up by two guys in an alley.