2005 - 2011 Porsche 911 RS1 Street by LOMA

LOMA is best known for its work on the C6 Corvettes, but recently the German company has decided to turn its sights on Porsche. Because of the company’s location, all of the parts in the kit are made in Germany using carbon fiber, which is something a Porsche owner will prefer.

The 911 GT3 RSR is one of the most awesome Porsches ever built, but it’s not built to handle daily driving nor is it priced for the average Porsche buyer. To help satisfy your urge to own one, LOMA decided to make a kit to allow for you to turn your 997 into an RSR.

The 911 retains the stock engine that produces at least 325 horsepower, but LOMA offers a sports exhaust system to give the car more of a racecar soundtrack. The suspension and brakes also stay the same as the stock car, so the car doesn’t ride any lower than stock unless you decide to lower the car yourself.

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2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Indianapolis 500 Pace Car

Chevrolet Corvette served as an Indianapolis 500 pace car for the first time back in 1978 and Chevrolet has sent a total of 11 models to pace "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing." The 2013 model year will be the 12th time a Corvette model will pace Indianapolis, and as rumored two days ago, it will be the new Corvette Stingray.

The model will be equipped with the track-capable Z51 package, which adds a limited-slip differential for reduced under-steer while cornering, improved aerodynamics and ride tweaks to help it handle corners more effectively. The Stingray Pace Car is painted in a Laguna Blue Tintcoat exterior combined with official Indianapolis 500 graphics on the doors.

The technology features and powertrain will be identical to the standard version, except that the Pace Car will be equipped with track-mandated safety features and strobe lights.

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2015 Jaguar F-Type Coupe Revealed in Patent Drawings

Jaguar announced its intentions to release a coupe version of the F-Type once the roadster version hit the market. Until now, however, the car has never been spotted testing anywhere around the world, so we had to just trust Jaguar’s word.

Today, we can add some substance to Jag’s claim, as leaked patent drawings of the F-Type Coupe have made their way onto the Internet and they reveal the final design of the sports coupe. Not that it’s very hard to imagine how an F-Type Coupe would look like, since you are essentially slapping a fixed roof on top of the F-Type Roadster. Reports point toward everything else being borrowed from the roadster version, including the exterior look and the engine lineup.

The F-Type Coupe will arrive on the market sometime in 2014 and will be followed by a more powerful R version. A Sport Brake version has also been rumored, but we doubt we are ever going to see it.

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Trying something new

Now know you love cars, and everything associated with them. Did you know that you can buy almost anything from Amazon? Sure you did. Well, of course there's costs associated with maintaining the blog and as a way to help keep the lights on, we've partnered with Amazon. So if you're looking to buy anything on Amazon, come here to Autobahn Automotive News first and click through on any of the Amazon banners on the main page. Then, whatever you buy on Amazon, we'll get a tiny percentage of whatever you spend. It's a win win. And you can get anything you want on Amazon with (to take one from Larry Miller), an actual Amazon.

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Happy Birtday Mustang! And a special milestone.

April 17th, 1964. That was the day that the automotive world was turned on it's ear. It was on this day that Ford Motor Company unveiled the all new 1964 1/2 Ford Mustang. Launched at the New York Worlds Fair, the Mustang quickly rose to be Ford's best selling car since the Model A. It also launched the pony car craze that led to the muscle car. Ford sold over 400,000 Mustangs in 1964. 100,000 of which were sold in the first 3 months of production.

That leads us to today's milestone. 49 years to the day of the introduction of the Mustang, Ford's Flat Rock, Michigan plant produced it's 1 millionth Mustang. Production of the Mustang was moved to Flat Rock from the famous Rouge factory in 2004 for the launch of the redesigned 2005 Mustang. Since 1964, over 8.5 million Mustangs have been tearing up American roads.

The car, a ruby red 2014 convertible was driven off the line by Raj Nair, Ford's Vice President for global product development. The production of the 1 millionth Flat Rock Mustang also helps to launch the 50th anniversary year of the Mustang. 


Source: Ford Motor Co.

Press release:

FLAT ROCK, Mich., April 17, 2013 – Happy Birthday Mustang! Forty-nine years to the day after its 1964 debut in New York, the iconic sports car celebrates another milestone: One million Mustangs have rolled off the line at Ford’s Flat Rock Assembly Plant since production moved there in 2004. Ford is celebrating this milestone as year 50 of continuous Mustang production gets under way at Flat Rock Assembly.

 

Raj Nair, group vice president for global product development, today rode off the line at Flat Rock Assembly Plant in a Ruby Red 2014 Mustang convertible. Nair was riding shotgun with Ed Salna, material planning and logistics manager at the plant. Salna is a 27-year veteran of Flat Rock Assembly, starting work there more than a year before the plant produced its first car.

 

“Mustang is one of the most beloved nameplates in the industry, with fans around the world and throughout Ford Motor Company,” said Nair. “The team here at Flat Rock Assembly has built an outstanding reputation for quality while producing one million Mustangs over the last nine years, and we expect that to continue for many years to come.”

 

Ford has built Mustangs near its home base in Dearborn, Mich. for 49 years. The car was built at Ford’s famous Rouge factory, just a few minutes from company headquarters, for four decades before moving a few miles south to Flat Rock in 2004.

 

Introduced in April 1964, Mustang proved to be far more popular than anyone expected, prompting Ford to add production capacity outside Michigan. By early 1965 plants in Metuchen, N.J. and San Jose, Calif. were also building Mustang. Less than two years later, on Wednesday, March 2, 1966, the one-millionth Mustang rolled off the line in Dearborn. To date, Ford has produced and sold more than 8.5 million Mustangs.

 

The launch of Mustang production at Flat Rock coincided with introduction of the then all-new fifth-generation model – first in the series to get a dedicated platform. In addition to the standard V6 and the V8-powered GT model, Mustangs coming out of Flat Rock Assembly Plant have included several special editions and race cars:

 

• In 2006 Flat Rock built a limited run of black and gold Shelby GT-H coupes for Hertz rental fleets to commemorate the 1966 Shelby GT350H rental car
• 2007 brought the debut of the Shelby GT500 Mustang developed by SVT with a supercharged 5.4-liter V8 producing 500 horsepower, the most ever for a Mustang then
• For the 2008 and 2009 model years, the Mustang lineup included the Bullitt, inspired by the car driven by the title character in the 1968 film of the same name
• For the 2012 and 2013 model years, Flat Rock built the track-optimized Boss 302
• The Flat Rock line has produced numerous competition versions of Mustang including the FR500, Boss 302R and the extremely successful Cobra Jet drag racer

The Flat Rock factory has been producing vehicles since 1987, when it opened as Mazda Motor Manufacturing USA and built the Mazda MX-6. In 1992 Ford purchased a 50 percent share in the plant and it was renamed AutoAlliance International. Over the years Flat Rock Assembly has produced the Mazda 626, Mazda6, Mercury Cougar and Ford Probe. In addition to Mustang, Flat Rock will add production of the Fusion sedan later this year.

 

“Flat Rock has gone through an amazing transformation over the past year,” said Tim Young, plant manager, Flat Rock Assembly Plant. “We’ve invested $555 million including a state-of-the-art, fully flexible body shop and an upgraded paint shop to make sure we’re continuing to build the best of the best for the next one million Mustangs.”

 

“The one-millionth Mustang is a true testament to the hard work and dedication of the Flat Rock Local 3000 membership,” said Tony Bondy, UAW Local 3000 chairman. “It’s been great building an iconic American car since 2004, and with the introduction of Fusion along with our new plant upgrades, we will keep building world-class quality in Flat Rock for years to come.”

 

Ford is adding 1,400 jobs and a second shift at Flat Rock Assembly Plant to support new Fusion production as part of its plan to add 12,000 hourly jobs in the United States through 2015.

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Acura RLX (2014)

 

Oke Car | Acura RLX (2014) | The RLX 2014 together with a new direct-injection 3.5-liter SOHC i-VTEC ® V-6 engine with an engine capacity SPORT sequential 6-speed automatic transmission with paddle shifters. For the tour excellent product RLX new 3.5-liter engine of 90 percent of the maximum torque over a wide speed range from 2,000 rpm to 6,600 rpm. The 3.5-liter engine complies with the strict ULEV-2 rated California Air Resources Board (CARB) emissions. 2014, RLX is larger than its predecessor RL in a series of important dimensions, including the width, the length and the front and rear. The pass to 112.2 centimeters, two centimeters longer than its predecessor, RL, offers more rear cabin space and improve the quality of leadership in the process. 74.4 cm wide, RLX Acura too. Significant 1.7 inches wider than the previous model RL Static and dynamic rigidity and rear lateral stiffness has greatly improved. The strength and stiffness in key areas to increase without increasing the weight, and 55 percent of the body piece of high strength steel RLX occurs. Hot forging of high-strength steel is used in key areas to improve the performance of impact resistance.

The 2014 Acura RLX Jewel Eye ™ offers LED headlights of the first world, excellent light distribution and excellent for the entire range of street lighting and the properties of light. The LED rear lights lighting RLX periphery that is effective and very special. The accuracy of the series steering wheel (AWS-P) RLX system continuously monitors and calculates the correct amount of traction independent (convergence angle), the. Before the new Acura RLX double wishbone, lower maneuverability of double articulation around a larger driver safety maneuverability of the fork and the confidence and sophistication. Available Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) allows the driver to the desired speed and extent of the distance behind a vehicle detected before selecting imagine why. When the vehicle is detected within the scope of the system and stop RLX be terminated. When the vehicle moves forward in the direction of the front part of the vehicle to flash multi-information display symbol.

RLX efficient vehicle stability ™ (VSA ®) improves vehicle stability during cornering. The RLX and RLX Brands navigation with 7-spoke alloy wheels 18x8J sound, while the level of technology, advanced audio and Krell have alloy wheels large noise reduction 19x8J. The special design reduces tire noise reducing noise of 7 dB over a range of audible frequencies. Standard three-zone climate control for comfort for passengers in the cabin. Ventilated front seats and heated rear seats able to advance the university. Rich, luxurious living place Milano leather is standard on the RLX with the technology package and higher, the degree of soil cover with leatherette seats. The focus of the new dashboard is a large, 8-inch color audio / information screen that offers a variety of useful information and access to a variety of custom features. If equipped with a navigation system, the screen combined in the same position / navigation and audio information.

The RLX comes with the new generation of Acura Link ® is based on cloud connected car equipped and offers a full range of media services, comfort and safety, including bi-directional communication and Internet-enabled devices. Superior sound quality has always been a brand Acura, and RLX, three audio systems are offered an impressive Acura / ELS ® 10-speaker sound system. Can RLX technology. Acura / ELS Premium Audio System Studio ® comes standard with an advanced powered speaker with 14 speakers and amplifiers in the last four years as one of the most respected companies in the world audio - In Advance Audio Krell and accounts, 14 - Krell speaker sets new standard for audio performance of the car. The new 2014 Acura RLX has a long list of safety technologies and standards available.

It is equipped with active safety technologies include Vehicle Stability Assist (VSA) with traction control, Forward Collision Warning (FCW) and Lane Departure Warning (LDW). Passive safety systems include a new generation of advanced compatibility engineering ™ (ACE ™ IIS) body structure, two-stage, multiple-threshold front airbags, side airbags, side curtain airbags with rollover sensor, driver knee airbag, front head restraints and front seatbelts with pretensioners and force.

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Holden VF Commodore Calais V Concept (2013)

 

ATOZY |Holden VF Commodore Calais V Concept (2013) | We redesigned everything from the dashboard are the graphics of the instrument panel, bonnet, center console and steering wheel flow layout panel, seating, storage and lighting. The project team material high grade titanium and black tone light aircraft to a feeling that the level structured Calais V-Series sample selected with great effect. VF Calais V peak inside ergonomically symmetrical design of global search is powered up the expectations and preferences of consumers. The center console features a covered space redesigned cup holder versatile new smaller storage element, electric parking brake and a cell phone is easily accessible on the front of the driver's license new auto parts. In night mode, the cavity light attraction of this area and the ice blue door ambient lighting. The VF Calais V-Series also offers a top frame, the new seat with curved profiles GM comfort designed to ensure best practices worldwide implementation details of the integration and quality. Combine driver heated sports front passenger and back tense and strengthening for enhanced cushioning.

The show car is pierced by a modern combination of the finest leather with suede inserts in the lightweight titanium and stitching accent, and a center of retail covered jet black. Tap Chrome on the new steering wheel and elsewhere through subtle elements are silver electroplated chromium supplements. Holden chief designer Richard Ferlazzo Creative Design says VF beautiful new figure is true to traditional concepts. The cover is bright and modern, more sophisticated. The headlights and taillights are complex treatments, complex and finely detailed. Really part of the design DNA Moved Finish New integrated taillights and license plate lights on the lower fairing is wider, cleaner look. The opulence of the new interior design is reflected in the color design modern and luxurious Holden VF and strategy pad.

2013 Calais V indoor environment with a strong emphasis on the degree of detail with finishes such as perforated materials, deer and chromium have been carefully chosen to reflect the theme of improving the design of sporting luxury. More interior wood and chrome accents add a touch of modern elegance. Two images of the interior have been created a dark picture with details and light titanium decoration more technical strategy - and an interior that is lighter and has the ultimate in luxury style. The car show VF Calais V has an elegant interior and we are convinced that we have the technology brief for that. Modern and luxurious The lower band V includes front honeycomb mesh insert detail Calais stitched black and chrome intake. The doors on the outside chrome sport pilot and light LED lamp operating / parking light chrome support integrated combination belt.

Deep trapezoidal grille with a bright chrome finish, Holden exceptional head and horizontally on a black background with shiny texture shirt. Halogen headlights Fluid, sculptural and incredibly shaped stones, with layers of complex internal light guide "eyebrows", a detail projector zip hoodies, black bezel accents. The band is flanked by the flared front wings and flared wheel arches modified aerodynamics. Deeply concave 20-inch V-Calais car shows ten dual wheels machined alloy radial triangular elements. Vents thin vertical wings with a chromed wheels take repetition. Door handle surrounds, trim waist and door frames are available in polished chrome, painted steel while Prussia exterior color concept reflects the luxurious style of polished chrome exterior. Play the fluid design headlights, taillights expand integrated into the tailgate. These intricate details and chrome rings for jewelry are instantly recognizable bright red "hot spots". 

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