Finally, the guys
at Sports Car Protection (sportscarprotection.com) have been wielding their magic Zymol - filled wand over the LP640 this month.
In a week or two, you will find Ruedisueli
at the Sports Car Club of America Runoffs, where he has competed for years.
Reading the Range Rover Sport's stat sheet, you could be forgiven for thinking that you were looking
at a sports car.
The new multi-link rear suspension ensures optimum driving dynamics
at a sports car level.
The result is one of the most exclusive cars of our time; one that presents a perfect symbiosis between extravagant design and driving performance and capability
at sports car level.
Certainly it is not surprising to most that the 2014 Honda Odyssey and 2014 Toyota Sienna minivans were at the top of everyone's favorite family car lists, since the sole purpose of minivans is to be as good at family car duties as a Porsche 911 is
at sports car ones.
The birth of the hypercar may have already changed how we, as enthusiasts, look
at sports cars (including the high - end supercars), but for now, we take a look at how the newest breed of supercars — those that have debuted over the last year — stack up against the Ford GT and Acura NSX.
«When you look
at sports car racing over the last 10 years, the biggest name in GT racing has to be Corvette,» Milner said.
Not exact matches
In a
sport that requires athleticism, skill, preternatural spatial awareness... and the ability to look past the inherent risk of driving a race
car at 200 miles per hour and still perform
at the highest level, he talked about his injury.
The takeover, valued
at $ 8 billion including debt, has been broadly welcomed in a
sport featuring famous
car brands such as Ferrari, McLaren and world champions Mercedes, and which has the Monaco Grand Prix as its jewel in the crown.
Lamborghini, the
sports car brand owned by Volkswagen AG, said it quit draping women around its Huracans about two years ago and is busy training male and female hosts to explain the vehicle's features
at this year's Geneva event.
The blueprint
at that time entailed building a
sports car, then continually reinvesting the cash from those models to build more affordable versions.
Autopilot is
at least as safe as human drivers on the highway, in a
car that doesn't use gasoline and performs like a
sports car, the magazine said.
But what's most resonant here is the message
at the individual level — that the urge you feel to compete, to accomplish things in your life, be it curing disease or earning enough for that
sports car, is a natural thing.
Then, a 1936 Aston Martin 2 - liter
sports - racing two - seater
car is seen selling for between $ 2.1 million and $ 2.6 million on September 10
at the Goodwood Revival festival in England.
Sproule, who counts stints
at Jaguar, Tesla, and Nissan over his career, has been overseeing the luxury British
sports car manufacturer's marketing and communications on a worldwide basis over the past few years.
They're pretty well entrenched
at the very highest end of the luxury
sports car market.
«The specs on the new semi truck and
sports car would put both vehicles
at the top of their segments... assuming they can be produced and sold as part of a sustainable business plan.
The home
sports an arched portico
at the front door and a two -
car garage off to the side.
This is a waste of human potential: it's like driving a high - performance
sports car at 20 kilometers an hour.
Despite the expected decline in sales, auto makers are likely to sell
at least 50,000 more
sport utility vehicles, mini-vans and pickups than they did last year, while
car sales will likely drop by 250,000 this year, Merlis predicted.
Its CTS - V and
ATS - V
cars, for example, have been extolled as first - rate, track - ready
sport sedans.
Look
at the most popular magazines in America: Focus on celebrities,
cars, and
sports / hunting / fishing.
ELECTED — James H. Kimberly, 48, millionaire Chicago
sports car racer, high - point competition winner in 1954, executive of Kimberly - Clark Corp.; president of Sports Car Club of America, at De
sports car racer, high - point competition winner in 1954, executive of Kimberly - Clark Corp.; president of Sports Car Club of America, at Detro
car racer, high - point competition winner in 1954, executive of Kimberly - Clark Corp.; president of
Sports Car Club of America, at De
Sports Car Club of America, at Detro
Car Club of America,
at Detroit.
On June 12
at Le Mans, a Mercedes - Benz
sports car kited about 60 feet into the air and flipped five times.
«In view of extremely hazardous conditions
at the Watkins Glen course, because racing
at this site under present circumstances places all organized motor
sport in jeopardy,» says the
Sports Car Club of America, it is banning to its members all races
at the Glen until further notice.
But it took the swift, stylish
sports cars to give it a personality as much
at home in the parlor as in the mechanic's pit.
We take a look
at the drivers who came back to the
sport after suffering nasty injuries in racing
cars
Despite the success, Alfa decided that it didn't fancy spending the money needed to build a new
car and withdrew from the
sport at the end of the year.
Three - mile run
at 6 a.m., weights
at 6:30, shower, rush to the gym to teach, dash to the lecture hall to take the exercise - physiology and
sports - administration classes, sprint back to the gym to coach a 2 1/2 - hour practice, hop in the
car to go scout a local high school player, burn rubber back to the gym for two hours of basketball and sprints, shower again and hightail it home by midnight to study for the biomechanics midterm.
The mechanical stars of a pair of zestful
Sports Car Club of America endurance races last weekend on the exacting Road America course
at Elkhart Lake, Wis. were bright - red Italian machines, an Osca and a Ferrari.
There's no word on Townley's future or whether he'll try to stay in the
sport, but he hasn't been spotted
at the track since being pulled from the
car at Phoenix.
Despite never winning an F1 race, Cheever still achieved a lot in his varied motorsport career, winning
sports car races, finishing runner - up
at Le Mans twice, racing in CART and standing on the top step of the podium in IndyCar and winning the famous Indianapolis 500 in 1998.
Trim enough
at 47, Greenberg used to race
sports cars and motorcycles and still tools to his office
at Miami's Mount Sinai Medical Center in a high - powered Porsche.
The drivers start to arrive in the middle of the afternoon, lining up according to racing class: motorcycles and hot rods towed in on trailers on one side, street - legal
sports cars in the middle, and,
at the very far end of the pit, a couple lines of high school kids flanked on one side by black and white patrol
cars.
At the start of 2015 you may remember Ferrari revealing this future F1 concept, that was basically their subtle way of giving the governing body a kick up the arse to change the
sport as soon as possible and make F1
cars look awesome again.
The big
sports cars open a new world - championship season
at Daytona as Ferrari returns to challenge speedsters from Porsche and Matra.
Two drivers will make their IZOD IndyCar Series debut this weekend
at the Mid-Ohio
Sports Car Course, headlined by Luca Filippi for Barracuda Racing and James Davison of Dale Coyne Racing.
Six outstanding new
cars at the show: the Berkeley 3 - cylinder roadster ($ 1,595); the Ferrari 250GT roadster ($ 13,600); the DKW Monza
sports coupe ($ 3,800); the Alfa Romeo 2 - liter roadster ($ 4,998); the Jaguar XK 150 «S» roadster ($ 4,500); and the Citroen DS 19 family sedan ($ 2,833).
The Indian driver completed a half - season
at HRT in 2010 and returned to Team Lotus in 2011 in a one - off
at Germany but has competed in the
sports car ranks ever since.
He's also inquired with teams about potential opportunities in Brazil and in
sports car racing, after making his debut in the Grand - Am Rolex Series
at the Brickyard Grand Prix in July.
The
sport got its first look
at the new restart rule during the second race of the opening round of the season
at Hockenheim after an incident on the first lap brought out the safety
car... and it made for an epic run down to the first corner.
He's highly - rated by many in the
sport, and given the fact that he's a Mercedes junior driver, it wouldn't be surprising to see him in one of the silver
cars at some point in the near future.
Now all the
sport has to do is make it easier for the
cars to overtake each other... Oh well, we can dream - one step
at a time for now!
Silverstone's return is great news as top - level
sports car events have been happening
at the circuit since 1976, making it one of the classic events of the World Endurance Championship.
Now, speaking to Polish TV's Eleven
Sports, Kubica has admitted he was surprised to feel
at home again in an F1
car:
The 2007 and 2008
cars were as awful as the «Earth Dreams» liveries that they
sported, and he was already rumoured to be eyeing up a seat
at Ferrari
at the time.
At the meeting Spears, her manager Larry Rudolph and producer Ann Carli, who produced the singer's first feature, Crossroads, pitched NASCAR brass on a story about the daughter of a successful stock
car team owner and how the young woman (played by Spears) inspires a former driver to return to the
sport.
On April 22, Big League Dreams continues in the Kool April Nites
car show tradition for the fourth straight year by hosting a show and shine for classic
cars at the
sports park from 6 to 9 p.m..
Montoya alreadyhas a win this year: the Rolex 24 - hour endurance
sports car race
at Daytona inlate January.