Thursday, 3 May 2012
Lamborghini Reventon for sale
The Reventon: never has so much stuff we like been diffused across so little car. It's designed to look like an F22 Raptor stealth fighter. The Dashboard is a thin liquid-filled transistor, like you'd find in an aircraft. It has two different displays - road and air. There's a lot of carbon fibre. And even more staggering numbers:
6.5-litre V12 engine
650bhp
3.4 seconds from 0-62 mph
211mph top speed
20 built
£1,000,000 asking price
1 colour option (grey)
650bhp
3.4 seconds from 0-62 mph
211mph top speed
20 built
£1,000,000 asking price
1 colour option (grey)
This one's being sold as part of H&H's Classics sale at the London Motorexpo this June. And we can't see it struggling to sell - when the Reventón was revealed at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2007, all 20 examples were pre-sold before it was unveiled. And they cost €1 million (plus local taxes) a pop...Crikey.
"The appearance, let alone sale, of a car as rare as the Lamborghini Reventón is sure to attract a large number of supercar enthusiasts and collectors to Motorexpo this summer," said Graeme Carver, Motorexpo CEO.
Form a disorderly queue, TopGear.commers. Then look at this gallery of car 18 - the last Reventon to cross the auction block in Blighty.
I am…. A Honda Driver
From the big screens of the world comes news of the biggest defection in the world of fast cars since Ayrton Senna ditched his McLaren for a Williams. Here's Tony Stark in a... Honda. Yeah, Iron Man, who single-handedly made the Audi R8 the supercar of choice for 10-year olds has switched... to the new NSX.
Acura - posh Hondas in the USA - are saying only that Stark's car is a one-off prototype created for the new documentary about the playboy industrialist's life Avengers Assemble. But it sure does look like a new NSX, only with the roof missing. Stark, known for his passionate commitment to alternative power sources, is said to have be unimpressed with the rate of development of Audi's e-tron project.
"If I can build an Arc Reactor in a cave in Afghanistan with only rudimentary tools and my own genius, what's taking those suckers in Inglostadt so long?" said the chairman of Stark Industries.
Top Gear can exclusively confirm the NSX does not feature Arc Reactor power, but instead has a series of electric motors to compliment and boost the output of a high-revving, mid-mounted V6 engine. Two smaller motors in the front wheels make the car effectively four wheel drive (like the R8), but are designed to perform independently creating the same torque-vectoring characteristics as the best front drive cars and McLaren's MP4-12C (via brake application) and a small selection of all-wheel drive cars (with traditional and e-diffs).
Acura - posh Hondas in the USA - are saying only that Stark's car is a one-off prototype created for the new documentary about the playboy industrialist's life Avengers Assemble. But it sure does look like a new NSX, only with the roof missing. Stark, known for his passionate commitment to alternative power sources, is said to have be unimpressed with the rate of development of Audi's e-tron project.
"If I can build an Arc Reactor in a cave in Afghanistan with only rudimentary tools and my own genius, what's taking those suckers in Inglostadt so long?" said the chairman of Stark Industries.
Top Gear can exclusively confirm the NSX does not feature Arc Reactor power, but instead has a series of electric motors to compliment and boost the output of a high-revving, mid-mounted V6 engine. Two smaller motors in the front wheels make the car effectively four wheel drive (like the R8), but are designed to perform independently creating the same torque-vectoring characteristics as the best front drive cars and McLaren's MP4-12C (via brake application) and a small selection of all-wheel drive cars (with traditional and e-diffs).
Read about the new Honda NSX here
There's another electric engine squeezed in with the engine and transmission that operates more like a conventional hybrid. And the NSX is light, although it is not thought Stark Industries has shared the nickel-single crystal titanium alloy used in the Iron Man suit.
"As a extremely high-net worth customer - and we mean extremely - we cannot comment on Mr Stark's choice of cars," said an Audi spokesperson "But as a connoisseur of fine automobiles he'll still have his R8s tucked up in his garage" (Audi did actually say this to us).
The Avengers documentary also provides evidence that Stark's defection from Audi has caught the attention of Nick Fury, Director of the S.H.I.E.L.D operation. Fury has allocated a specially modified Acura MDX to all his agents, although it is believed he was unable to persuade Captain America to abandon his custom Harley-Davidson.
"We do have a supply deal with S.H.I.E.L.D," confirmed an Acura spokesman. "All its agents, including Mr Stark, now drive our cars. Well, I say all. We're struggling with the Hulk. Sometimes all he needs is a Jazz, other days...." (Acura didn't actually say this to us. Although we wish they did).
There's another electric engine squeezed in with the engine and transmission that operates more like a conventional hybrid. And the NSX is light, although it is not thought Stark Industries has shared the nickel-single crystal titanium alloy used in the Iron Man suit.
"As a extremely high-net worth customer - and we mean extremely - we cannot comment on Mr Stark's choice of cars," said an Audi spokesperson "But as a connoisseur of fine automobiles he'll still have his R8s tucked up in his garage" (Audi did actually say this to us).
The Avengers documentary also provides evidence that Stark's defection from Audi has caught the attention of Nick Fury, Director of the S.H.I.E.L.D operation. Fury has allocated a specially modified Acura MDX to all his agents, although it is believed he was unable to persuade Captain America to abandon his custom Harley-Davidson.
"We do have a supply deal with S.H.I.E.L.D," confirmed an Acura spokesman. "All its agents, including Mr Stark, now drive our cars. Well, I say all. We're struggling with the Hulk. Sometimes all he needs is a Jazz, other days...." (Acura didn't actually say this to us. Although we wish they did).
New Roadster from Porsche experts Ruf
This is the latest offering from Porsche tinkerers, Ruf. It's a 911, it's inspired by the rather smashing 1967 Targa and to us it looks a bit... weird.
The theory behind the original Targa (Italian for "plate", fact fans) was actually a bit Health and Safety; build a 911 that lets drivers feel the wind where their hair should be, but with the rollover protection of a coupe. In short, a semi-ragtop with a great big roll bar.
Much like the original, the Ruf effort has a stainless roll bar thing, removable roof panel above it and a removable plastic panel behind it. But times have changed since '67 - the Roadster has an "aerodynamically optimized" lower rear window and two light, removable roof-halves made from carbon fibre. The "soft" rear window is made of a three-layer polyglass and an electric motor keeps it tight to the stainless bar.
Much like the original, the Ruf effort has a stainless roll bar thing, removable roof panel above it and a removable plastic panel behind it. But times have changed since '67 - the Roadster has an "aerodynamically optimized" lower rear window and two light, removable roof-halves made from carbon fibre. The "soft" rear window is made of a three-layer polyglass and an electric motor keeps it tight to the stainless bar.
This means the roof's got four modes: completely enclosed, completely open, or closed roof and open rear window, or open roof and closed rear window. Snazzy.
What about the power? It's available with either 400hp flat-six engine or a 560hp turbo (though there is talk of some electric variants joining the fray). The standard ‘box is a six-speed effort, and you can spec a dual clutch gearbox and four-wheel drive. The rather handsome 19-inch forged alloys are standard.
So, how much for such distinct Porschery we hear you crow? Well, it's not what you call cheap. It is what you'd call £190,000 including VAT. And that's what you'd call the price of a Lamborghini LP 570-4 Spyder Performante...
What about the power? It's available with either 400hp flat-six engine or a 560hp turbo (though there is talk of some electric variants joining the fray). The standard ‘box is a six-speed effort, and you can spec a dual clutch gearbox and four-wheel drive. The rather handsome 19-inch forged alloys are standard.
So, how much for such distinct Porschery we hear you crow? Well, it's not what you call cheap. It is what you'd call £190,000 including VAT. And that's what you'd call the price of a Lamborghini LP 570-4 Spyder Performante...
What would you rather, TopGear.commers?
Nissan Juke-R: now available to order
You can thank the very wealthy elite of Dubai for the following bit of Good News: the Nissan Juke-R will see a very limited production run.
That's right, that little Juke concept with a big GT-R engine literally stuffed inside has been causing the right kind of attention, and Nissan has today announced it intends to build more Juke-Rs upon request.
"With such a strong reaction and with three genuine offers on the table," says Nissan's Gareth Dunsmore, "we decided we had to make the car a reality. The reaction we had to the car in Dubai was amazing. People were making offers on the street."That means 545bhp and 459 torques. Expect a fractional increase on the concept Juke R's stupendously fast sprint time of 0-62mph in 3.7 seconds and top speed of 160mph.
We can vouch for this - when we sent Ollie Marriage out to Dubai in one of the Juke-R concepts to race some young pups in supercars, he was offered a seven figure sum on the spot. And the figure didn't even start with a one. Or a two.
Read the full story on the Juke-R concept's build here, and TG's Juke-R battle against the supercars here. Nissan is only taking orders on the Juke-R for the next four weeks, with the first three cars already on the assembly line and ready for a late summer 2012 delivery date.
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