TV Spot: VW Polo GTI "Not for beginners"

So, you think you can handle VW Polo GTI’s… 150Hp strong 1.8Turbo engine? A daft but nevertheless humoristic approach from VW behalf. The video we posted includes all three TV-Spots that aired in Europe. Via: Motorpasion

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e-bay: Porsche Cayenne Limo!

This has to be one of the silliest looking limo’s we’ve ever seen on e-bay subjective to all kinds of sexual related jokes. Capable of seating 14 passengers, the Porsche Cayenne Limo features an 170 inch – 432cm extended wheelbase and tons of bling-bling ornaments in its disco-ball-era inspired cabin. The current bid on the Cayenne limo on e-bay is 45.300 USD. Via: e-bay

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April Fool’s Day Aftermath...

April Fool’s day is one of the most light-hearted and cheerful days of the year. Carscoop of course couldn’t be absent from all the hoaxes we saw on the net yesterday so we decided to play along with Autoweek’s VW CrossPhatheon (which we took the liberty of equipping it with the non-existing 220Hp twin-turbo 2.0TDI), and with Seat UK’s prank remote controlled Leon Touring Car. We also created a hoax of our own which was a tad more serious –or at least we think it was, concerning the upcoming BMW X6 Concept. Using a few sketches of the current X5 and with a little help from photoshop we gave birth to BMW’s "surprise NY Show debut", the X6 Concept. Hope we fooled you!

Seat presents the world’s first remote-controlled full-sized racing car!

I have to admit that the idea of a full-size remote-controlled racing car brings the devil-kid out of me. Playing around with a 260Hp Seat Leon Touring Car can make you forget that PlayStation and GranTurismo ever existed.-Continued: Click “Read More…” below to see the official press release

PRESS RELEASE: SEAT UK TRIALS THE WORLD’S FIRST DRIVERLESS TOURING CAR

1st April 2007

SEAT Sport UK is pioneering breathtaking new technology that could soon deliver the ultimate in 21st Century motor racing – the driverless touring car. Cutting-edge developments in electronics, virtual reality and on-board computers have enabled the SEAT team to create probably the most advanced remote control car in the world.

The unique Leon Touring Car could potentially join the two other SEAT Sport track cars – operated in more traditional fashion by humans Jason Plato and Darren Turner – in the 2007 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship. Using a system developed in the UK by SEAT, called Telematics Remote-Information Control Kit, this car opens up all sorts of possibilities on the race circuit.

Controlled with the help of numerous on-board cameras, microphones and a plethora of computer data, the ‘Virtual Leon’ could give real drivers a stiff challenge. Indeed, at its first outing in a recent test at Rockingham, the sophisticated Leon put in a lap time marginally quicker than both Plato’s and Turner’s.

Of course, no piece of advanced technology can exist without the considerable skills and dedication of a top development team. And key to the whole project is SEAT UK Motorsport Manager Scott Dennis, who controls the car from the comfort of the pit-garage.

‘This amazing car’s development has been a huge learning curve,’ said Scott. ‘But we are now at the stage where it could soon be used in a touring car race – maybe even as soon as Sunday 1st April, which is the very first race of the season at Brands Hatch. This Leon is so rapid I’m beginning to question if I’ll need drivers at all next year.’

Jason Plato, a BTCC driver with considerable experience of racing while actually sat behind the wheel, was surprised to be outpaced by a car with no one in it. ‘Obviously it’s a bit disconcerting being passed by an empty car when you’re giving it your all, though I have to say it does have a fair old weight advantage over every other touring car.’

Plato’s observation has already been noted by SEAT’s competitors, who are demanding a significant weight penalty should the special Leon be permitted to race this weekend. Said Plato: ‘Normally this would be around 75 kg to simulate a driver’s weight, but in the case of Scott, a special ‘Pub Ballast’ of 160 kg has been suggested.

Video: Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera

Forget about the pony-tailed Swedish bloke and his mambo-jumbo and get an acoustic load of that Italian black beauty revving up its 530Hp strong V10 at the Phoenix international raceway in Arizona. Via: Germancarscene

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British Touring Car Championsip

IMG_0662, originally uploaded by glediator.

Donkervoort

Donkervoort, originally uploaded by Rutger RS.