Porsche Boxster Spyder

Porsche is introducing a new, lightweight version of the mid-engined Porsche Boxster roadster at the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show in December, the distinctive styling and technical specification of which represents the true, purist form of the Porsche sports car - light, powerful, open-roofed, and very efficient.
This is precisely the formula already applied in creating the most successful road-going sports and racing cars throughout the history of Porsche, ranging from the legendary Porsche 550 Spyder of the 1950s to the RS Spyder Le Mans Prototype race car so successful in motorsport today.
Weighing 1,275kg, the Porsche Boxster Spyder is the lightest model in the Porsche line-up, and continues this clear-cut philosophy in a package offering full homologation for the road, reflecting a common wish expressed by Porsche customers.

2011 Ford Shelby GT500 Base

By Mark Takahashi,

Subtle isn't a word we'd use to describe the 2011 Ford Shelby GT500. From its aggressive styling to its brash exhaust note and tire-frying performance, this super 'Stang is as subtle as a fluorescent tuxedo. This latest version, however, does receive a few subtle improvements.
The big change is a lighter all-aluminum engine that reduces weight by 102 pounds and also consumes less fuel even as it adds 10 more horsepower. The result: better acceleration, improved handling and no more gas-guzzler tax. The 2011 Ford Shelby GT500 also gains a new SVT Performance package option that includes light yet stronger wheels that carry the new Goodyear Eagle F1 SuperCar tires, a stiffer suspension, a more aggressive axle ratio and a few cosmetic upgrades.
Competition is scarce for the GT500, as it counts the Chevrolet Camaro SS, Dodge Challenger SRT8 and even the Ford Mustang GT among its closest foes. Overall, the 2011 Shelby outperforms all handily, but the big question is whether the $10,000 premium is worth it. The similarly priced Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport will deliver comparable performance.
None of these alternatives can match the GT500's enthusiast-only leanings. Limited to 5,500 units, the Shelby is also a bit more special. In terms of a rollickingly good time, the 2011 Ford Shelby GT500 does without a shred of subtlety, one more way in which it differentiates itself from the other cars in its class.

Top 5 Most Expensive Ancient Cars in the World

Here’s a list of most expensive ancient car. A car is used to transport and make us easily when we will going to everywhere we want. The ancient cars are often interested the attention of the people who are like ancient things, includes cars. Here are list of the most expensive ancient cars that ever in the world.

5. Bugatti Type 57S, 1937 ($ 4,400,000)
Initially the car was purchased by the Earl Howe after a month of work left in the Bugatti. During the eight years he had it, Howe added a new bumper, luggage rack and mirror. He was then given additional K200 supercharger Marshall by the next owner, JP Tingay. Finally, the car went into the hands of Lord Ridley for a year before selling it to Dr. Carr.
When the auction at Bonham’s Retromobile auto show in February of 2009, and sold for € 3,417,500, approximately $ 4,400,000 at that time.

Bugatti 57S

How The Car Changed The County, Town by Town

In 1903, in Winfield, Kansas Mr. H. T. Trice is seen standing in from of the first car in town. Acutally it was more like a truck and was used to haul customers out to see land. The railroads brought potential customers to town and Mr. Trice picked them up at the depot and took them out to his new developments.
Steam power was widely used in the 1880's and 1890's on the farms of America. Cowley County had its share of these behemoths and had a large group of people with the ability to use, and the skill to fix and repair them. The smaller, less expensive automobile, with an internal combustion engine provided a new avenue of interest that was much more personal than the steam engine with its team of attendants.

History of The First Car

by William W. Bottorff

Several Italians recorded designs for wind driven vehicles. The first was Guido da Vigevano in 1335. It was a windmill type drive to gears and thus to wheels. Vaturio designed a similar vehicle which was also never built. Later Leonardo da Vinci designed a clockwork driven tricycle with tiller steering and a differential mechanism between the rear wheels.
A Catholic priest named Father Ferdinand Verbiest has been said to have built a steam powered vehicle for the Chinese Emperor Chien Lung in about 1678. There is no information about the vehicle, only the event. Since Thomas Newcomen didn't build his first steam engine until 1712 we can guess that this was possibly a model vehicle powered by a mechanism like Hero's steam engine, a spinning wheel with jets on the periphery. Newcomen's engine had a cylinder and a piston and was the first of this kind, and it used steam as a condensing agent to form a vacuum and with an overhead walking beam, pull on a rod to lift water. It was an enormous thing and was strictly stationary. The steam was not under pressure, just an open boiler piped to the cylinder. It used the same vacuum principle that Thomas Savery had patented to lift water directly with the vacuum, which would have limited his pump to less than 32 feet of lift. Newcomen's lift would have only been limited by the length of the rod and the strength of the valve at the bottom. Somehow Newcomen was not able to separate his invention from that of Savery and had to pay for Savery's rights. In 1765 James Watt developed the first pressurized steam engine which proved to be much more efficient and compact that the Newcomen engine.

The 1972 Ferrari Dino 246 GTS

The Dino 206 S prototype made its debut at the Paris Auto Show in October 1965. It was built on the 206 SP race-car chassis and had a longitudinally mounted 2.0-liter V-6. The car was so well-received that a year later, at the Turin Show, a second Dino 206 S prototype was displayed. Known as the Dino Berlinetta GT, it also had a longitudinal V-6, but styling was smoother and incorporated attractive covered headlights.
A final production prototype was shown at 1967’s Turin Show. It looked almost identical to the Dino Berlinetta GT, but the engine was mounted transversely, directly atop the gearbox and differential, between the driver’s compartment and the rear axle. Fiat in Turin built the 2.0-liter V-6, which would also be used it in its prestige model, the front-engine Dino coupe and spyder.
The 206 Dino GT went into production in 1968. It boasted a top speed over 140 mph, incredibly balanced handling, and a design among the postwar era’s most beautiful. It was an instant hit with press and public alike.
“The Dino 206 GT is a wonderful car ... an engineering masterpiece,” said America’s Sports Car Graphic. England’s CAR seconded the opinion, noting “(T)he 206GT Dino stands out as one of the most advanced grand touring cars of our time.”

Ford Escort Mk. 1

While Ford may have owned the Escort name for many years, first being used on the Estate version of the Popular, it was the wonderful iteration that was developed as a replacement for the Anglia that most associate with the name.

The car was initially considered too conventional and backward thinking for production in Germany, Ford of Europe management persisting with a dual production set up. Perhaps this was in part due to the fact that, under the skin, the Escort differed little from the 1950’s engineered Anglia.

But the Escort was a gem, and it quickly topped the sales and production charts. Between the Escort’s introduction in 1968 until the release of the Mk. II in 1975, there were some 2,155,301 built. In Germany the Escort would go on to help win over a 2.2 per cent domestic gain, quickly putting pay to any consideration that it be too “conventional”.

1970 Olds 442

At the very beginning of General Motors, the divisions competed against each other, launching rival products in each other's markets, stealing sales and confusing customers. Under the iron rule of President Alfred P. Sloan, inter-divisional rivalry was all but eliminated. Each marquee was assigned a place on the GM hierarchy and each was given an image. Cadillac was positioned at the high end of the luxury market and Buick took lower end. Pontiac became synonymous with performance while Oldsmobile developed the reputation of being GM's experimental division. If one wanted to drive tomorrow's technology today, it would be found first on an Oldsmobile. But lines blurred in the 1960s and competition between sister divisions was fostered and rivalry, once forbidden, grew suddenly intense. One of the very hottest GM cars to hit the street in 1970 was Oldsmobile's 4-4-2 series. drafted from Cutlass and F-85 variants, the beefy 4-4-2 was welcomed into dealers' showrooms for its third season as a five-passenger coupe, a five-passenger hardtop and a drop-top.