Sentences with phrase «legal race car»

The sports car involved was a Nissan GT - R, which some consider a dangerous street legal race car.

Where the Atom is a road legal race car that had Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson maniacally yelling «there is nothing on four wheels as fast as this!

Make - Ford, Model - Mustang, Trim - BOSS 302, Price - $ 39,000 STREET LEGAL RACE CAR, 2013 Mustang «Laguna Seca» Boss, # 707 of 750 ltd production, 6K mi, 32 V, 302 ci 444 HP, 3.73: rear axle w / Torsen H. slip diff, X-brace w / rear stabilizer, LS revised suspension, tuning + larger stabilizers, Ford Racing Front LS Splitter & Rear LS wing - spoiler, Front brake cooling ducts, Rear seat delete w / cro

So perversely, of the three Corvette models on sale today, it's the new mid-range Grand Sport — with its extreme tires, aggressive aero, and un-enhanced powerplant — that most accurately lives up to the old «street - legal race car» cliche.

The Porsche Cayman R bellows, gallops and hustles like a road - legal race car, but never overawes or intimidates.

With its 200 - horsepower mid-mounted engine, the Toyota MR2 Turbo is, for all practical purposes, a street - legal race car.

The GT3 really looks the part as a road - legal race car.

ACR model returns as ultimate street - legal racer The Dodge Viper ACR returns in 2017 as the indisputable «ultimate street - legal race car» with significant aerodynamic and suspension upgrades.

«The Viper has always been more of a street - legal race car than a track - capable streetcar, and the new 2016 Dodge Viper ACR is the fastest street - legal Viper track car ever,» said Tim Kuniskis, President and Chief Executive Officer — Dodge Brand and SRT Brand, FCA — North America.

The E-GT rear wing is a real motorsports inspired unit, with adjustable struts and vertical stabilization fins this wing alone will transform any factory standard Lamborghini Aventador into a street legal race car... and it is just the start of the DMC Aventador E-GT package.

It wants to be street - legal race car.

Porsche is apparently readying some significant changes to its street - legal race car, the GT3.

Almost all car makers have made promises about putting a street - legal race car on the road, by which they really mean a road car with race car power and speed.

The body comes from the 911 Turbo, and it signifies the model's status as the closest road - legal race car with its RS - specific aerodynamic add - on parts.

It's lightweight, immeasurably tossable, and its carbon - fiber tub and aggressively boosted four - cylinder engine make the 4C feel like a street - legal race car.

Power output remains unchanged from the regular Gallardo Superleggera or Performante models at 570bhp, but the car features a number of upgrades that are either taken directly from the Super Trofeo racer, or inspired by it — with the aim of creating a road - legal race car.

I used the excuse of the 2016 Woodward Dream Cruise to put in a request Dodge for a 2016 ACR, knowing full - well this street - legal race car is one of the worst «cruisers» imaginable.

The GT is the closest thing to driving a street legal race car that I have ever experienced.

The result is a thoroughly practical and street - legal racing car, an accessible high - performance driving machine.»

Then came mid-engine, street - legal racing cars like the Porsche 550 Spyder and 904 Carrera GTS; the former most famous for claiming the life of actor James Dean in 1955 and the latter as a car raced in the early 1960s with great success by drivers like Ben Pon, the builder of Bernardus Lodge.

These Dodge Vipers range from some of the coolest - looking street legal race cars, to some that are downright ridiculous.

Unveiled at the 1996 Geneva Motor Show, the Diablo SV - R is a lightweight competition version of the SV and the first Lamborghini to be officially built for motorsport purposes, as Ferruccio Lamborghini had never desired to build «street legal race cars» like rival Ferrari.

Not exact matches

We all have a righyt to own and drive a car but that car must be street legal because of the danger associated with a drag car racing through the streets.

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.

Basically, the parts were legal, but because the FIA didn't know they were on the car, they've seen fit to throw Abt out of the race entirely, handing the win the to Felix Rosenqvist and Mahindra.

There's a race (legal), and a land grab (of questionably legality), and every cliché about southern hicks that could be thrown in during the time not allotted to the car chases and Ms Simpson's assets.

Created to dominate on the international race circuit, new sanctions imposed by the FIA required a small run of street - legal production cars before it could set wheel on the starting line.

But it's very much designed as a race car; the engine is designed by Aston Martin racing, certainly couldn't use that car very easily on the road, and it's not road - legal.

You guessed it: The Nio EP9 is a hardcore race car, totally electrifying and in no way street legal, a visitor from a different galaxy, merely passing through.

This is the street - legal variant of the Porsche 911 GT1 race car that was particularly competitive.

Owing mainly to the fact it has a far plusher interior than the race car, curb weight for the street - legal M6 is 4,220 to 4,250, depending on whether the car is equipped with a six - speed manual or a seven - speed dual - clutch transmission.

I've raced in the now - defunct Viper Challenge series, and driven plenty of the old ACRs — they ceased production in 2010 — but my cut - parry - thrust ride with Winkler was the fastest I have ever been around a racetrack in a street - legal production car.

Dodge Viper ACR: «This is effectively a street - legal GT3 race car that blitzes everything on the track.

A 3000bhp Vauxhall Victor, known as Red Victor 3, has reclaimed its crown as the world's fastest road - legal drag racing car.

Although designed primarily to take on BMW's rivals on the race track, amongst them Mercedes - Benz's rally car turned DTM racer, the Cosworth - powered 190E 2.3 - 16, the public would get to experience the M3 too, as the Group A rules of the time specified that 5000 road - legal examples of the car would have to be built in its first 12 months for it to be homologated for competition use.

1995 Mustang Cobra R As you may have guessed, the R here is for racing, and although the Cobra R was actually street legal, this car was absolutely intended for track use.

The interior is finished in black Alcantara — around carbonfibre shells, on the seats — and the car has both a (road legal) roll bar and a set of blue OMP racing harnesses.

Following the design that Porsche had laid out with their 911 homologation special, the GT1, Mercedes - AMG was tasked by Mercedes - Benz with creating an extreme racing car that still maintained some elements of a normal street legal car.

The GTS label has a noteworthy history at Porsche, having originated on the 904 Carrera GTS race car (which was barely road legal) in 1963.

The car is designed to be legal for National Hot Rod Association drag racing, along with several National Mustang Racers and National Muscle Car Association classcar is designed to be legal for National Hot Rod Association drag racing, along with several National Mustang Racers and National Muscle Car Association classCar Association classes.

The car is legal for National Hot Rod Association drag racing, along with several National Mustang Racers Association and National Muscle Car Association classcar is legal for National Hot Rod Association drag racing, along with several National Mustang Racers Association and National Muscle Car Association classCar Association classes.

The second world exclusive model presented by the German car maker at the Qatar Motor Show today is the Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 Qatar, which is a street legal version of the Dakar Rally racer.

There are several IMSA Gallardo GTV on the road these days, either based on the pre-2008 model or on the later LP560 - 4 evolution... but I highly doubt there will be many of these that can put 1,500 hp down on the road like this orange Raging Bull, and while the kit is really eye - catching it still looks like it could have left the gates at Sant «Agata like this... as a street legal Gallardo race car, a Super Trofeo Stradale or Squadra Corse... on steroids.

Back in May 2015 some spy shots were taken of a Lamborghini Huracan with a rather strange exhaust setup, only two pipes instead of the usual four, and positioned higher up at the rear, almost identical the setup seen on the Huracan GT3 race car... so naturally our first impression was that Lamborghini was testing a street legal Huracan race car... and that could only mean the Huracan Superleggera.

The latest spy shots of the Lamborghini Huracan Performante test mule unveil an air vent on top of the front fenders, as seen on the Huracan Super Trofeo race car, while another outlet looks to be installed behind the front wheel, a large air intake behind the door in front of the rear wheel seems to be carved into the bodywork too... it seems the Huracan Performante will be a street legal version of the Super Trofeo racer.

Since 1992, Honda and Acura reserved the Type R badge for serious, racing - level performance of street - legal cars, aiming at the performance world outside the US.

Lot # 656 - Nicknamed the «High Roller,» this custom Chevy 150 is a street legal, west coast tribute car to drag racing.

So when VW claims its Golf GTI Clubsport S is the new King of the Ring, it's talking about how it just broke the record for front - wheel - drive street - legal series production cars thanks to a 7 minute, 49.21 - second rip through the Green Hell with German race car driver Benny Leuchter at the helm.

Porsche originally needed to produce the car in order to comply with homologation regulations and had intended on marketing it as a street legal race vehicle like the 1973 Carrera 2.7 RS.

No, it isn't a full - on, cat-less, muffler-less aftermarket race piece, and it's too legal to be offered for sale in the automotive category on the Silk Road website... but drive this car, and you'll swear that it's not far from being outlawed, especially relative to almost any other OEM offering.