If ever there was a reason to be excited about some car news as of recent… this is it! Audi is ‘Seriously Rethinking’ its stance on bringing the TT RS to North American Shores and you have a chance to help them decide!
Just a year after celebrating it’s 100 year anniversary, Audi has been celebrating 30 years of Quattro goodness. They continued that celebration by publishing a documentary video in which they present the birth and evolution of the famous quattro all-wheel-drive system. Watch this video presenting Audi’s 30 years of quattro evolution…
In just about all scenarios, all high performance cars that we enjoy on the road today owe many of their performance technologies to those first researched and implemented on a race track. Eventually this technology makes it’s way to the everyday commuter car for improved power and performance. In this case, Hybrid technology started mostly on the consumer side of things and ended up finding its way to the race track via some very brave pioneers. Carrying over from our last article on the Porsche GT3 R Hybrid, we will take a look at the all new Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid, just recently given the green light for production in Stuttgart.
Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid Racecar will run at the American Le Mans Series finale, “Petit Le Mans,” Oct. 2, 2010 at Road Atlanta.
Come October 2, at Road Atlanta, we get the opportunity to see the GT3 R Hybrid in action for the first time on American soil! Making her appearance at the season finale of the American Le Mans Series ‘Petit Le Mans’. The race will run more than 1000 miles or 10 hours at most. Although the Porsche will not be eligible for points, due to hybrid technology not being recognized by current CT regulations, it will have the opportunity to stretch it’s legs and show us some amazing technology!
This custom built 2000 VR6 Turbo jetta was put together over at Apex Tuning out of Raleigh, NC. Along with all of the goodies, is some killer software custom tuned by Jeff Atwood of C2 Motorsports. This custom VR has a beautiful powerband similar to the stock curve and manages to put down 351whp and 362 ft-lb tq. Coupled with some nice looks, compliments of an R32 front end sawp and an all black leather interior to round it off, she is the full package. The video speaks for itself! … some of you may know him… enjoy!
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