The Lamborghini Gallardo is a sports car built by Lamborghini. The Gallardo is Lamborghini's most-produced model to date, with over 10,000 built in its first seven years of production. The car is named after a famous breed of fighting bull . The Spanish word gallardo translates into "gallant".
The Gallardo offers two choices of transmissions, a conventional (H-Box) six-speed manual transmission, and an advanced six-speed electro-hydraulically controlled semi-automatic robotized manual, which Lamborghini abbreviates to "E-gear". The "E-gear" allows the driver to make shifts much faster than a manual transmission would. The driver shifts up and down via paddles behind the steering wheel, but also has an automatic mode.
Lamborghini Gallardo is a well known auto manufacturer in the township of Sant’agata Bolognese Italy. Lamborghini is famous and synonymous for producing some of the most elite super cars in the world. It is a small town that produces fire powered pieces of machinery for the elite. A prime example in this classic styling and design is the Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder.
The Audi R8 is a sports car with a longitudinally mounted mid-engine, and uses Audi's 'trademark' quattro permanent four-wheel drive system. It was introduced by the German automaker Audi AG in 2006. The car was exclusively designed, developed, and manufactured by Audi AG's high performance private subsidiary company, quattro GmbH, and is derived from the Lamborghini Gallardo. The fundamental construction of the R8 is based on the "Audi Space Frame", and uses an aluminium monocoque which is built around a space frame. The car is built by quattro GmbH in a newly renovated factory at Audi's 'aluminium site' at Neckarsulm in Germany.
In 2005, Audi announced that the name of the successful Audi R8 race car would be used for a new road car in 2007, the Audi R8, based on the Audi Le Mans quattro concept car, appearing at the 2003 International Geneva Motor Show, and 2003 Frankfurt International Motor Show. The R8 road car was officially launched at the Paris Auto Show on 30 September 2006. There was some confusion with the name, which the car shares with the 24 Hours of Le Mans winning R8 Le Mans Prototype (LMP), and also the 1989 Mk2 Rover 200, codenamed R8.
The Audi R8 is used as a safety car in Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters and British Superbike Championship racing series.
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Throughout its six year history, the R8 has proven to be one of the most dominant cars in history. Indeed, of all the races it had entered over a seven year period, the R8 lost a mere sixteen races total. Here is a list of some of the achievements of the R8.
The BMW M3 started life as a hard-core, stripped-out road racing special and has gotten softer with each generation. People might not like it, but that's the simple truth.
The original E30 M3 was built so BMW could go touring car racing. Since then they've been more luxurious, higher-powered versions of whatever 3 Series bodyshells were going around at the time. Sure, they've all had more power than their predecessors, they've all become internal technical flagships.
Now 25 years after the M3's birth, BMW has found a way to turn back time, with a light-weight, track-focused M3 special. Dubbed the M3 GTS, the limited-edition hammer has more power, less weight, more grip, monster brakes and an even-more monstrous price tag.
And it only comes in orange. And there are only 136 of them. And they're only available in Europe as left-hookers. And they're all sold already!
While the E46 M3 CSL went some of the way down the GTS path, a huge chunk of it performance advantage over the stock M3 was in its super-sticky Michelin tyres. The margin between this car and the current E90/92 M3 is something different again.
The GTS a much-more sophisticated machine than the standard M3 -- but only at the track… The ride is so firm, the cornering so flat and the power so brutal that, on a public road, it would be a real handful.
But, at certain times and at certain corners on this track, you can really see why M GmbH believes this car is worth two M3s. It's that good...
Bugatti was founded by Ettore Bugatti in Molsheim France. It is a producer of exclusive sport cars that only produce limited cars. In 1998 Volkswagen acquired the Bugatti brand. In 2001 they decided to produce super-sports cars that called "Bugatti Veyron" which only produced 80 cars a year. At the moment Bugatti Veyron is the fastest car in the world.
Bugatti Veyron
Bugatti Veyron with its 16-cylinder four-wheel drive can reach 300 km/h (186 miles per hour) in spectacularly quick 7.3 seconds. Bugatti Veryon is capable to reach a top speed of 407.7 km/h (253.2 miles per hour) and it consumes 40.4L/100km (4.82 miles per gallon). To reduce the risk of injuries in accidents, it had a Formula 1 safety concept adapted for the Bugatti Veyron.
Every so often a car comes along that captures the imagination of enthusiasts everywhere. The car, of the moment, is Nissan's all-new super-coupe, the GT-R.
nveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show last month, the GT-R was an instant hit. While other cars held the crowd's attention for an hour or two, the Nissan's attraction never faltered from the minute it was unveiled to the show's closing days two weeks later. Showgoers were metres deep around the car on day one and day 14 alike.
And little wonder, for the world has waited six years to see the GT-R in its finished form.
First displayed at the Tokyo show in 2001 in a concept that still wore the Skyline name, the production GT-R is very recognizably related. Nor does the finished item seem much changed from the GT-R Proto that wowed the crowd in 2005 -- fast car fans worldwide have had their appetites whet for a long time.
Along the way rumour has surrounded the car -- the configuration of the engine, the type of drivetrain, its power output and even the badge it would wear. Now, all is in the open and next week we drive the GT-R on the road and track at Sendai -- a three-hour bullet train ride north of Tokyo.
Such is the depth of technical information supplied on the GT-R (and the interest in those details) that we've taken the step of publishing a series of Technical Features spotlighting the GT-R.
Over the next week or so ahead of our launch review of the GT-R, we'll highlight Nissan's technical briefings detailing information on the engine; transmission and all-wheel-drive system; suspension and brakes; design and packaging.
At the end of it all, we'll also tell you what it's like to drive. Follow the links below to 'read all about it...'
