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Audi Driving Experience
Written by AudiBoy
The Audi Driving Experience is a driving scheme introduced by Audi in the year 1983. This driving programme is an advanced and is based on the high performance. The primary motto of this scheme is to enrich drivers’ knowledge, by using physical hands-on tution and theory, which is primarily based on the complexities in modern Audi cars. This usually includes ESP (Electronic Stability Programme), high speed handling, ABS (Anti-lock braking system), quattro 4 wheel drive system. Usually, this training programme is being conducted in a safe environment, far away from public highways and roads, but in the location where a driver can be taught the techniques so that he / she can cope in any real time situation and emergency periods.
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The Corvette ZR1 Road Car the Fastest Ever Production Corvette
Written by Jo Alexander The Corvette ZR1 is a high performance version of the already very powerful standard Corvette. However with improved suspension components and a test program that tuned the handling on some of the most demanding roads and tracks, General Motors hope that their new flagship car will now have the agility and poise to take on the likes of the Porsche 911 Turbo.
More »Car Blogs -Opel Insignia OPC ready for its debut
Opel just gave us another reason to want the Insignia in the U.S. The OPC version (or Vauxhall Insignia VXR in UK) is set for a September debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Before then the styling model should be seen at Geneva Motor Show in March.There are no official details yet on the car, but rumors have it powered by a twin-turbo V6 engine making around 320 hp. The car should also make use of the all-wheel drive system for a stable ride and benign handling. Reports from testing at the Nurburgring have the car completing the circuit in a little over eight minutes (the Nissan GT-R does it in 7 minutes and 29 seconds.)Related Keywords for this posts:Car body kits, fiero, inexpensive, bmw, mustang, cheap, 300zx, honda, 240sx, lift golf cart, 350z Read more from the source
Car Blogs -First Audi R8 LMS delivered
Audi Sport, the motorsport division of the brand with four rings began deliveries of their latest racing car this week. The Audi R8 LMS is a rear drive, 500+ HP, ten cylinder GT3 racecar that is the company’s third line of production alongside the factory DTM and LeMans Prototype racers.The symbolic handover of the first car took place in Italy, where Emilio Radaelli, Team Manager of Audi Sport Italia, accepted the R8 LMS with chassis number 101 from the Head of Audi Motorsport, Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich.Audi Sport will deliver 12 examples of the R8 LMS to six different teams in the upcoming weeks in time for their racing debut in April. For 2009 ABT Sportsline, Argo Racing, ORECA, Phoenix Racing and Team Rosberg will also run two car teams in the FIA European GT3 Championship as well as the 24 Hour race at the Nurburgring. In order to conquer the Nordschleife Audi Sport has developed an endurance package for their LMS racers.At this time the R8 LMS is a dedicated privateer program, Audi Sport has not planned for Related Keywords for this posts:Car body kits, fiero, inexpensive, bmw, mustang, cheap, 300zx, honda, 240sx, lift golf cart, 350z Read more from the source
Car Blogs -GT-R Series II, capable of lapping the N’ring in 7:24?
Nissan has taken the covers off of their latest factory tuned GT-R, the Spec V, and unfortunately this model has been uncovered to be the slowest of the R-35s. Despite this, Nissan is still developing the GT-R in order to release an upgraded version that they are calling the Series II. This vehicle will receive an upgraded suspension; a retuned transmission, stickier rubber and a 5 HP increase. Toshio Suzuki, Nissan’s head test driver, told GT-R blog that the modifications made to the Series II should allow the vehicle to navigate the 33 left turns and 40 right turns that make up the Nurburgring in about 5 seconds less than the current model.The Nurburgring’s Nordschleife circuit is a 12.9 mile loop in western Germany that has been used since 1927 to test man and machine. Since 1983 automobile manufacturers and the media alike have been recording lap times on the circuit’s current configuration. The lap times are a benchmark for a vehicle’s performance, and are used to evaluate and compare the fastest vehicleRelated Keywords for this posts:Car body kits, fiero, inexpensive, bmw, mustang, cheap, 300zx, honda, 240sx, lift golf cart, 350z Read more from the source
Car Blogs -Video: Gallardo LP560-4 tested on the snow
Not to be outdone by the Nissan GT-R’s romp on a snowy Nurburgring, the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 has its turn in the cold stuff. The Lambo may not get to slide around on a famous German road, but the GT-R didn’t have Fifth Gear star Tiff Needell behind the wheel.Related Keywords for this posts:Car body kits, fiero, inexpensive, bmw, mustang, cheap, 300zx, honda, 240sx, lift golf cart, 350z Read more from the source
Car Blogs -Video: Audi R8 ice drifting
It’s always fun testing cars on the snow. Just take a look at the Nissan GT-R taking on a snowy Nurburgring, or icy Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 on Fifth Gear. Now the guys at Garage 419 have taken another all-wheel drive car, the Audi R8, for a drifting romp on the frozen surface.Related Keywords for this posts:Car body kits, fiero, inexpensive, bmw, mustang, cheap, 300zx, honda, 240sx, lift golf cart, 350z Read more from the source
X-Bow crash at the Nurburgring
Once again we go back to the ’more money than brains (or possibly skills) file’ as the owner of a new lightweight KTM X-Bow runs out of track. It seems the driver took the car to the Nurburgring in Germany to possibly confirm the petite car’s 137 mph top speed. Instead he got a lesson in g-forces and gravity as the car used its 237 hp to send it over the track and on top of the guardrail.
Lotus Evora testing at Nurburgring
There are no secrets left about the Lotus Evora. We’ve already seen all the official photos from Lotus of this new mid-engined 2+2 coupe. This is just the first time we get to see it in its element down at Germany’s Nurburgring.
Powering Lotus’ new GT will be a Toyota 3.5-liter DOHC V6 making about 280 horsepower. While that usually isn’t a lot of power for a car that wants to hang with Aston Martins, its Lotus’ founder Colin Chapman’s motto that saves the car. He believed “to add speed, add lightness”, and the under 3000 lb weight of the Evora will insure a fast ride.