Aston Martin V8 Vantage:Above all Aggressive

Aston Martin V8 Vantage.New wonder produced by the Aston Martin. It was already her sight of escaped the "North America International Auto Show" to Detroit in 2003 as concept car. This auto, created then already strong expectations and great enthusiasm in the lovers of the precious objects and in the dreamers of the whole world. The V8 Vantage makes to enter the Aston Martin a new segment of market, that of the "sports car", proposing a genuine alternative to the automobiles that belong to the same band.

The famous English house proposes therefore its third model, that won't find it hard to make to be known, thanks also to the success of the Vanquish S and the elegant DB9. The deliveries of the V8 Vantage will begin after the summer for Europe and Great Britain, while it is speaking of end year for America and the rest of the world. she will be built in the establishments to Gaydon, in Great Britain. With this sample the house builder wants to reinvigorate the name of the mark and her line entering the immortality with a car without equal.





Style and designThe aerodynamic form that recalls the figure of the shark makes the V8 Vantage a model of perfection. Curves give definite and from the marked features she is seen the whole care and the passion that the draftsmen have pushed and subsequently the builders to give life to the V8. From before this auto it seems to never end and in reality few misses us. 1,5 ms of face that attack the asphalt in a definite embrace and without compromises, the two dry places they almost guarantee a convenience to the nth power from living room, while the back of the V8 is also a show being very contained and simple. In the general budget the Aston Martin aims a lot at the first impression, that certain she cannot be negative.
Characteristics, performance and motorThe V8 Vantage has been the automobile that in the last 91 years in the history of the houses builders you/he/she has made more tests than test on footstep and in any climatic (Dubai 48°, while in Sweden -30°) condition. Its length is not excessive, rather her 4,38 ms make it compact and it are the smallest of the garage Aston Martin.

It strikes her of the doors and the soul of the auto, the loom, they are built in aluminum, guaranteeing good safety levels and you weigh contained, as the propeller that is a 4.3 liters from 380 CVs. The technicians of the Aston Martin build every hand propeller in Germany, exactly as the V12 that pushes Vanquish and DB9.
The V8 will be introduced to the public in the model to six marches, but in date still to define there will be the possibility to also have the automatic change. The reduced order and the you look for from 18", for the one whom wanted, spending a little more, also those from 19", they make of the V8 a car that all the characteristics have for racing in footstep. Offered with a combination of different types of skin, plotted modern and aluminum, the clients of the V8 Vantage will have a vast range of colors, both for the outside of the auto and for the inside finishing touch, among which to choose.

The insides are elegant and spacious. The place of guide is endowed with a complete and well visible instrumentation, even if the reduced position limits some the external visibility. The dashboard is studied to get over that the legibility also a stage effect that doesn't leave indifferent. While the passenger is not able whether to enjoy of her position to study the pulsanteria above the change, endowed with climatizzatore and plant audio of last generation.
The back one and the luggage van The back one of the V8 Vantage is minimale, a little elaborate, but really this design guarantees to the auto an aggressive image, accomplices also the prominences and the widening of the body shop that create an effect of push toward the outside of the back wheels. The luggage van unlike the other present automobiles in this segment it is surprisingly ample, almost spacious.

Honda S2000 :one of the sporting autos more loved by the impassioned ones of sporting guide

Honda S2000
Honda S2000. Once the sporting autos were objects for few and shrewd daring, people with well more than a characteristic talentuosa in their outfit of quality. The smaller traffic on the roads (the almost empty highways could consider him real circuits of test: it was not rare event that the quiet of the country romagnola of the A1, right-hand as an arrow, was broken by the boato of a plurifrazionato of a Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini or Bizzarrini launched to 280 by their smaliziatis and heroic collaudatori), the smaller technology, the greatest passion of whom thought her and she built, they created extraordinary objects but, at the same time, appalling for the inexperienced ones. Yet extremely satisfying: the auto was a stallion imbizzarrito to tame with promptness, technique, courage, experience, sensibility: uncertain and easy brakes to the fading, any control of traction, no ABSs, no ESPs but only the trust on the balancing of the loom. Who succeeded us was a myth! Their wild nature also reflected him in the style, in the comfort, in the endowment, mirror, after all, of the degree of theory of evolution of the epoch: simple design but with a distinctive personality, small and narrow cabins, scarce and limited endowment to the main point.

THE PRICE OF A PRESENT "OBESE" If the focal point of the matter they are the genuine emotions and "sincere" that the modern sporting auto can potentially offer and if the meter of comparison, rightful, they are the autos of the past, the matter is complicated. Today's cars are surer (drugged of electronics as I am), more strong, more reliable, more easy-to-use and to bring to the limits (even if, to onor of the truth, this last can reveal a weapon to double cut because of the weight and of the same motors, to the times also too much powerful persons in comparison to the potentialities of the mechanics).Those proposals of the prices market with still an even though least glint of humanity (up to 45.000 European) I am trendy, sfiziose, comfortable, comforting but not they always have that pinch of "folly" cleverly concealed by a good general equilibrium, up to the point to be able to drive her in footstep in a "track-day." The result is that the involving and near to the perfection sail in the tall spheres of the auto-racing of niche and elite: cars for which her "normalcy" it asks for to put to budget an investment well over the 100.000 European to be able to affirm to succeed in touching the sky with a finger. But there it benefits also to remember him, the varying comfort is as a sword of Damocle: and then the scarecrow of the excessive weight again impends. Unless.

Against everybodyWhen it was born, in 1999, were there valid alternatives, from the point of view of the relationship quality / price, in degree, concretely, to tear her scepter of queen of the spiders? Objectively: no! Neither he/she consoles to know that, perhaps, today, among the numerous alternatives of the market, something of "similar" or best there can be: the Honda S2000 is on the breach from almost 9 years. Today costs 42.000 European but, it looks like could be the best, ever spent for the one who seeks a product of niche, reliable and fast, rather fast!

The Porsche Boxster S asks for a motor 6 cylinders from 3,4 liters (and a basic price of over 57.000 European, excluded optional), the BMW forehead Z4M of 343 greedy horses doesn't trouble him for less than 62.000 European, the Nissan 350Z Spider, perhaps with 44.000 European of price and 313 Cv of power it is there. The Same tell him for the Audi TTS Roadster, fresh new entry of the category. However there is the impression that something doesn't go to the joint: we are not on the plan of the price there, of the category, of the image of mark, of the incontrovertible mechanical datum and that it represents the key of time of the Honda S2000: 9.000 turn! MAIFurio Fraccaroli, President of the S2K Club Italy, the only Italian association officially recognized by Honda, affirms, wing his/her third Honda S2000, that, perhaps, anybody car is as her. And he/she explains the reasons of it; to this price, which other spider possesses a motor 4 cylinders of 2 liters non supercharged with 240 horses and a "draught" up to 9.000 turns? The motor, a masterpiece of auto engineering, is born perfect: 240 horses are enough, it would not have some sense try to draw power further of it in how much improvements don't exist really to the course. They are able, eventually, to effect small changes of improvement on order, brakes, campanatura, convergence, zones of intervention that allow her of "to go out" from the middle configuration for the driver of every day and they leave the faculty to go to the search of the true quadrature of the circle to the impassioned holder, to find the "point of no return" where the S2000 is at the most stadium of its potential.

The design is typically nipponico, modern but with an image retrò: very long face, behind cabin, compact tail, absence of alive edges, clean forms, small volumes, homage to the lightness and the agility. Opened the small porticina, I gone down in the small and narrow cabin, the position of guide when settled in the small seat (adjustable only in length) it is almost perfect: indeed it needs to hope of "to be born" small of stature since the steering wheel is fixed but it is nearly impossible to feel to uneasiness; it is us low, put in a ditch, tremendously near to the asphalt, almost in trench. The enormous central tunnel that abruptly cuts in two the cabin in length, hides part of the motor (climbed on in anterior position but centrally, within the footstep to improve the equilibrium) and the transmission; in advanced position, the gear shift, something that could make to lose the head to whoever: short (rather, short) leveraggio, good maneuverability, precise in the grafts. A masterpiece.

The classical steering wheel, to three races, it is a diameter a lot of meeting place and the very big hilt, other element that "it pinches the nerves." Behind, the digital instrumentation with the revolution counter with the beginning of the red zone to 9.000 turns and that it is not able not to arouse the question if were possible to reach a similar value. The preparation, rational, you/he/she is reduced but it is in line with the spirit of the auto: semiautomatic climatizzatore, electric glasses, electric (rigorously in cloth and without useless complexes auxiliary systems that hide her/it under the body shop) hood, electric mirrors, servosterzo, a powerful person plant audio.

Ferrari 612 :typical dna ferrari

Ferrari 612 . Sergio Scaglietti,
Its way to create was not her that of the pencil and of the sketch but, as it was a sculptor, that to hurl from the aluminum the forms.-(Ferrari 612 )
Luca of Montezemolo has wanted therefore to devote to this discreet but important protagonist of the history of the Ferrari, the 612 that, to say him/it, is even entirely in aluminum. Power for four.The 612 Scaglietti represents the perfect combination among the pure performances of a sporting berlinetta Ferrari and the habitability for four people. To comparison with the 456M, model Ferrari of great success that has preceded her, this synthesis derives from the excellent inside measures of habitability, sensitively favored by the superior dimensions, you combine to a weight inferior car of 60 kg in comparison to the 456M and to select progettuali without compromises.

Exclusive in every detail.For the first time on a model Ferrari 12 cylinders, the construction is entirely in aluminum (loom with architecture space frame and it strikes) realized by the Ferrari in the establishment Scaglietti devoted to the technology of the light leagues. The result is a 60% increase in the efficiency of the it strikes complete (I compare rigidity / weight). The innovative structure in aluminum of the 612 Scaglietti is also translated in benefits in terms of comfort, guidabilità and in the maximum protection of the occupants in case of bump.
The motor, to V of 65° (whose rolled of 5748 ccs, rounded off, best man in it initials her/it numerical of the car) it represents the synthesis of the most advanced technology motoristica Ferrari; particularly, thanks to further developments on aspiration, unloading and fluidodinamica, it reaches the maximum power of 540 CVs to 7250 turns.

The mechanical transmission to 6 marches is anticipated both with manual command and, above all, with a command elettroattuato of new generation, denominated F1A, thought to reconcile to the best the speed of changed in the manual use with the comfort in the automatic use.
Central motor.The architecture of base with motor anterior plant (situated behind it attacks him anterior) and change in block with the differential back, for the maximum withdrawal and lowering of the baricentro, with evident benefits on the dynamic behavior of the car: acceleration 0-100 km / h in 4,2 seconds, stability, braked and, in general, a notable agility of guide. The exceptional division of the weights (46% anterior, 54% back) is completed by the order prestazionale to checked smorzamento and from the system CST (I check stability and traction) introduced for the first time on a Ferrari.

The pencil is of Pininfarina.Drawn by Pininfarina as natural synthesis of dynamism and elegance, and with a characteristic I shell concave on the broadsides (reminiscence of the famous 375 MM Rossellini-Bergman), the 612 Scaglietti combines to the nature of thoroughbred an excellent habitability: from the entry in car for everybody and four the passengers, to the notable longitudinal (favored by the extension car of 139 mm in comparison to the 456M) space, up to the habitability for the back places in terms both of space to the heads, both of ergonomics of session.The available space is completed by an ability trunk of 240 liters, increased of 25% in comparison to the 456M, and in degree to lodge a set suitcases of 5 pieces or two sweater knapsacks.
Comfortable and refined.The quality of life on board of the occupants you/he/she is completed by endowments of new guarantee generation of comfort and ergonomics (from the group instrumentation and command-police squad to disposition of the pilot, to the bi-zonal climatizzatore, up to the plant Hi-End Bose specifically developed for the 612 Scaglietti), in the context of an environment characterized by aluminum to sight and skin, completely personalizzabile to application of the client.

FERRARI 599 GTB :It removes the breath

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Heavy inheritanceThe new sporting of house Ferrari replaces the 575M Maranello that, together with the preceding 550,she has reached from 1996 the 5.700 produced unities. A result record for the Foal and a beautiful presupposition for the newborn 599 GTBs.The characteristics to make to go crazy there are everybody: the aggressive line and dynamics, signed by Pininfarina, it expresses the stylistic canons of the Dna Ferrari to the best while the motor deserves a discourse apart.

Enzo docet Under the anterior chest of the Ferrari 599 GTBs, well fed from showy takings of air, a generous V12 pulsates directly derived by the supercar Ferrari Enzo. With the his/her 5.999cc of capacity, for a maximum power of 620 horses to 7.600 turns, the new berlinetta of Maranello is preannounced as "the auto to be beaten" in its segment. Of however the philosophy Ferrari has always been clear, the alternatives don't serve to anything. Who a Ferrari chooses she wants the best of the auto technology, also on the base of a history that doesn't have equal in field motoristico.The 599 GTB, that the 575M Maranello replaces, embodies to the perfection the concept of berlinetta Ferrari, a sporting comfortable and fearfully prestazionale, with the plus of the magic sound of the 12 cylinders of Maranello

The loom and it strikes her they are entirely in aluminum and they constitute the last evolution of the consolidated experience of the Ferrari in this technology.
Thanks to the unmistakable design Pininfarina, the Ferrari 599 GTBs are countersigned by an aggressive and elegant style, that with an accurate necessary aerodynamic study is perfectly harmonized for the attainment of performances of absolute excellence.
The new car replaces the 575M Maranello that, together with the 550 Maranello introduced in 1996, you/he/she has reached the 5700 produced unities, a record in their segment for the Rampant Foal. The berlinettes to 2 places 12 cylinders are the model symbol of the production Ferrari, from the famous 250 GTs to the 275 GTBs and 365 GTB4s, actually to quotes her/it 575M Maranellos. On the market it is found to compare him with the models more prestazionalis than other famous auto houses as for instance the Lamborghini Murciélago or the Aston Martin Vanquish.
The price of the model not him far of very from the 220.000 € and for the year 2008 have attended the presentation of the version spyder.

Ferrari F430: Drive test

Ferrari F430 :Drive test.To Maranello they care to underline him/it: the evolution that is concretized with the passage of deliveries among the Ferrari F430 and the model that you/he/she has preceded her is clearly superior in comparison to how much happened in the "far" 1999 between the fascinating Ferrari F355 and the aggressive F360 Modena.


Reading among the lines, the more sportsmen will surely have deduced that the last one been born among the eight cylinders Ferrari fixes new references prestazionali inside her category, but it is also important to underline as the thick injection of technology derived by the competitions has made very simpler, in comparison to the past, the guide of such an extreme car on the roads of every day.

The muscular and personal line of the new Ferrari F430 is born from the collaboration between the pencils of Pininfarina and Frank Stephenson - responsible of the design Ferrari. and it is not only fruit of the stylistic fancy but of precise mechanical necessities and aerodynamics imposed by the team of technicians that has taken care of the dynamic aspect of the car.
The result is to a little exceptional dir and doesn't abdicate precise calls to the past, as in the case of the anterior takings of air ogival, extremely similar to those of the 156 F1 Campione of the World 1961 with Phil Hill or the mouthpieces that substantially sprout in the tall part of the back zone similar to those of the ancestress 250LM.

But she is not passed only there in the forms of the F430, but also so much present: the optic, anterior and back groups, remember for some verses those of the "sorellona" Enzo as the generous extractor of inferior air studied for velocizzare the flows of air that flow under the car risucchiando the F430 to the ground to the high speeds.
They complete the work four splendid you look for in league from 19" to five undoubled races, that unite to elevated values of rigidity and lightness the classical design Ferrari and particularly refined details as the mirror retrovisore in general guide that integrates in shoal it initials her

F430 or the chest motor endowed with a superior part in cristallo.pensato to turn into an authentic work of art all the elements of the propeller V8.
Eight roll for 490 CVs!The heart that pushes the F430 is a new V8 of 90° characterized by the typical architecture Ferrari with flat (180° among the cranks) tree.
In comparison to how much proposed by the F360 Modena, the improvement in terms of weight, performances, encumbrances and weight is notable: correct to make some example, also with a capacity increased of 20% (from 3586 ccs. to 4.308 ccs.), the weight has been reduced of 4 kg with an improvement prestazionale equal to the 25% of the couple and 23% as the potenza.per regards a total of 465 Nm to 5.250 turns and 490 CVs to 8.500 turns.

The worth of these results is to seek, among the others, in the new sketch of the headings to four valves for cylinder, in the system of seen again varying fasatura, in the new command of chain distribution in place of the straps precedent / gears and in the rivisitazione of the ducts of aspiration. To signal besides that, despite the values in game, the new V8 is perfectly in order with the rigid normative antipollution Euro4.
To the new propeller a manual change to six relationships is combined but it is possible to require, with an European difference of 7.500, the exceptional change elettroattuato F1, that velocizza and the changes it makes march very simpler.
The performances, are obviously from shiver: 315 km / h the maximum speed, 4 clean seconds for the classical 0-100km /h, 11.95 seconds to cover the 0-400 meters and as soon as 21.60 seconds to cut the finishing line of the 1000 meters with lock departure.

A click on the key activates the centralized closing: we don't remain but the door to open throwing the small lever it posts in the superior zone of the door. You discovers a world fact of sportività but also of extreme elegance, fruit of a school of thought "montezemoliana" extremely pleasant to the most careful clientele of the Cavallino.sempre to the qualitative aspect over that prestazionale of the cars.
skin covers the seats, the panels handed, the side zones of the bridge, some details of the central tunnel and, obviously, the seats. The game of contrasts that is born among the dark shades of the bridge and the light of the seats is exciting indeed and well he/she marries him the finish in aluminum. choice in place of that in carbon - of the central console and of the mouthpieces of the air.

Obviously, all the present details on the model protagonist of our test you/they can be personalized in base to the demands of every client, according to a program that the stylists of Maranello call "Scaglietti."

Murcielago LP640 of Versace

The only sample to the world of the open version of the sister of the Murcielago LP640 of Versace, that that could be her "mascot" of the more eccentric American state (Italian auto, roadster of prestige, griffata from one of the Italian marks of the more fashion known to the world, exemplary only), she has been beaten to the auction to the Beverly Hills Rodeo Walk of Style.

The result will entirely be devolved to the foundation against the Aids created by Sir Elton John.Painted in an extraordinary bright black, he is not able not to be cultured, to her sight, to crown instantly the LP640 Roadster what Undisputed Regina of the roadsters: produced Italian (also realized with Teutonic contribution), motor, charisma, heritage, ancestry (Miura, Countach, Diablo) performances, image of prestige they clarify him/it "almost" out of every reasonable doubt.Indeed it always needs to consider Carrera GT and Zonda F Roadster (her "Enzo Barchetta" with the 535 of the 315S of Taruffi to the Thousand Miles of the '57 on the broadsides have never dared build her/it, not even as concept.).

Intense week for the one who loves the exclusive objects and hecan afford to turn certain (expensive) dreams into reality: to Paris the Saloon is held International of the auto, while to Milan it is in full carrying out the Week of the Fashion. A coincidence that for Lamborghini and Versace it is become the occasion to realize indeed an exclusive collaboration, from which note the Murcielago LP640 Versace was born.

Working to narrow contact with the stylists of the famous mark of the fashion, the experts of the program "to personam" of Lamborghini they have created a car that introduces meaningful novelties in the cabin.Particularly the seats, the inferior part of the dashboard, the doors, the canopy and the central console are dressed again in refined tassel "full flower" worked with the typical motive "to Greek fret" that it constitutes a distinctive sign of the creations of Versace.The car introduces besides a preparation "full optional" and to the outside it distinguishes him for the you look for black "Hermera" of specific sketch, finishes specifications in carbon and the chest motor with nervous systems in transparent glass.

To Paris we have admired live a sample of white color "Isis", while to Milan an unpublished model is exposed in black "Aldebaran."
As if it was not enough, Versace has also created a series of exclusive accessories for the Italian supercar, beginning from a set of raffinatisse valige, shoes and guide gloves. And together with the car the fortunate buyers can also go to house a refined person clock - also it drawn from Versace - in ceramics opaque black or shiny white, according to the color of the car, and embellished by diamonds in the case in which the buyer both a woman

Jaguar x-type

The small one of House Jaguar, from when that is at the end of 2005 the diesel version has been commercialized 2.2 of it. One year and six months of silence, for an auto in commerce from 1999 they are not few and the market you/he/she has reacted neglecting her/it more and more "baby J."

One "new X-Type", there won't be even probably, - the entry level of the British mark will return to be the future S-Type - and waiting for its definitive retirement, Jaguar has given one refreshed to the range adjourning look (a minimum), prices and equipments of it.
There is only aesthetically again a nest calandra of bee with frame of the radiator chromed and two new shades for the body shop, a white and a blue.Then it speaks of new accessories that go to enrich the two preparations remained in sale (the version has been eliminated "Sport"). On the X-Type "Classic" they are now there of series the windshield wipers with sensor rain, the mirror inside retrovisore elettrocromatico, the automatic lighting of the lighthouses and the covering of the seats in fabric / skin; the seats are besides voters to 4 + 4 regulations there are the computer of edge and new you look for in league from 16.

"The X-Types "Executive" aggiungone to the endowments just mentioned the telephone plant Bluetooth with kit voice lives, the sensors of parking lot, the seats you dress again in skin and new you look for in league from 17."
The enrichment of the contents is accompanied by a variation of price that for the models Classic it is equal to € 500 for the diesel models, and € 600 for the models with motor 2.5 gasoline V6. For the models Executive, the price stays unchanged for the 2.2 diesel, while it is increasing of € 100 for the models with motor 2.5 and 3.0 gasoline V6.

To finally signal two new packets of payment accessories. The first one is the "High Luxury Pack" that he/she offers to 1.000 European the insides in skin with seams to contrast, inserts in it takes root of walnut-tree; police squad of skin and it takes root; cups of the external retrovisoris chromed and back thresholds of entry chrome. Him "Sport Pack" full instead the void left by the elimination of the version Sport; with an European surcharge of 1.400 he/she offers sporting seats in pierced skin or skin / alcantara, inserts in fiber of carbon or Plain-Black, sporting suspensions, back spoiler; frames crystals in black color; inserts bumper and frame grate in shade with the body shop.
Prices beginning from 31.750 European of the X-Type 2.0D Classic.