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More From Geneva - 2016

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What's going on in Geneva 2016?

Well, we had those masters of punctuality (The Germans) give us the Bugatti Chiron and those fashionistas from Italy gave us the Lamborghini Centario but its those totally bonkers Brits that have gone totally insane and given us the Arash AF10!

The AF10 was originally shown in 2008/09 but this is a modified model, gone is the 7.0 litre V8 Corvette engine replaced by four electric motors and a petrol engine producing a total output of 2000 bhp which translates into a 0-60 (mph) of 2.8 seconds and a top speed of 200 mph or so Arash say?

Get an AF10 for a cool £1 million but why stop there, wait a while and get the stripped out version to get a better power/weight ratio!

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I ROE IN GRIM CHANNEL BOAT

Answer (13): LEXUS LFA

Bugatti Chiron

BC set to steal the show at Geneva.

The McLaren-Honda MP4-31 

launches 21st February

http://www.mclaren.com/formula1/car/

Laf*cking Awesome

Lamborghini Centenario

I hope this is just an internet rendering?

There has been a few posts this week concerning Lamborghini's new creation the "Centenario", its most powerful supercar with an estimated 750-760bhp? The car is being built to mark Ferrucio Lamborghini's birthday (born: April 28, 1916, Renazzo, Italy) hence the name "Centenario".

This is the least that the employees at Lamborghini can do for a legend of the motor industry (see previous "spotlight" blog article), but there is an issue. The current internet pictures are, well let's not hold back, they are dreadful! The vehicle has completely the wrong proportions especially in the horizontal plane, like it has been skewed by 30% without the aspect ratio box being "checked"!

Now we are not talking about a design from any normal company, we are talking about a company that has produced some mouth-watering vehicles over the decades. Let us take one of its finest, the Aventador which I will be driving in April/May of this year. The Aventador from every angle is a thing of beauty, "why?" well, because every angle is in proportion. 

Let us take a quick lesson in design, designers like to adhere to words like "balance", "symmetry" and "harmony". Harmony is extremely important in the design world as it is the effective use of proportion, the relationship between the various elements of the design as it appears together in distribution and size....harmony!

The Aventador resides within a harmonious state the Centenario does not. Lamborghini you had better fix it quick if this is your offering for April 28, 2016?

Inharmonious

Harmonious

Save our Planet!
...and save our hyper cars.

I don't like mixing political debate with my love of hyper cars but there is an end-goal and a purpose, let me explain. It's obvious that we all need to do more to make our planet a better place to live in, for our future generations. I want my children (when me and Megan F decide!) to inherit a planet that is better than when I was born and that should include many aspects not just reducing carbon emissions, we want a safer more tolerant world where all human pursuits and endeavors contribute in a positive way. Not to design, build and test a nuke because you are a 33-year old weakling!

Back to cars, the three biggest contributors to climate change are; (1) fossil fuel burning power plants, (2) petrol burning transportation and (3) methane emissions from animals and agriculture. Well item (1) requires our politicians to rise to the challenge and (3) requires us all to start eating less meat like Mr. Schwarzenegger has told us! Okay, he maybe right but he did not win 7 Mr.Olympia titles eating carrot soup and cucumber sandwiches. The truth is we are as Dennis Leary describes, I tried eating vegetarian. I felt like a wimp going into a restaurant. "What do you want to eat sir? Broccoli?" Broccoli's a side dish, folks. Always was, always will be, OK! When they ask me what I want, I say: What do you think I want? This is America. I want a bowl of raw red meat right now.

Now item (2) is an issue and the talented engineers we have on the planet recognise this and are therefore designing and building new and innovative power-trains to ensure that future vehicles reside at number 2,039 on the list of biggest contributors to climate change. 

The big plus here for lovers of super cars and hyper cars is obvious and that is that most of the planet who own a vehicle do not own a super car and certainly not a hyper car, so although cars are big contributors to climate change it is predominantly those people who drive a Ford Focus (me!) or a Vauxhall Astra. Therefore, if we get to a state where vehicles like the; Toyota Corolla, VW Golf, Ford Focus, our big global sellers all emit zero emissions, hyper car manufacturers can continue as usual and for this specific article one of my favourite manufacturers "Pagani". 

For companies like Toyota, Ford and VW this is a simple challenge but an important one, they will indirectly make it okay for companies like Pagani to produce a V12 - 740 BHP hyper car, with all the noise, smell and bravado you would expect! However, the overwhelming message is clear, we all need to contribute to saving the planet so we all save big V12 hyper cars...now where is that packet of dry Broccoli soup.

Pagani Huayra BC

P1 in Carbon 


The magnificent P1 in carbon brought to you by McLaren Special Operations (MSO). 

Alfa Romeo coming to F1?

Let me tell you what I think

First, please go and read my previous article, "Alfa Romeo is Back" just so you get a feel for one of the most prestigious brands in automotive history, like JC says, "they are special". Therefore a return of Alfa Romeo into formula one would be stupendous a breathe of fresh air in fact it could actually raise F1's status and that takes some doing which demonstrates the quality in the Alfa Romeo brand.

We all want to work for McLaren, Ferrari, Red Bull but how good would it be to work for a company who built a winning car for the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio..."Voglio imparare parlo Italiano!"

**NEW** - "MFT" Megan Fox Tribute page.

That's right, nothing to do with hyper-cars!

Back!

Ferrari 458 - Project "Black Mist" by SR

"Click" the image...stunning!

**NEW** - Simple, guess what super/hyper car this is?

SimP1y The Best!

If you were annoyed that JC punched a producer (allegedly?) that led to the TG battle of the decade not taking place, that is the McLaren P1 Vs Porsche 918 Vs Ferrari LaFerrari. Do not worry some real car experts have staged the ultimate test and we have the winner...and it's from Woking. 

Well, you did not expect anything else did you?

Race 1

Race 2

Race 3

"...disappointed that the Scuderia's mightiest road car did not fair better...but it never looked like winning this test and eclipsing the mighty P1"

..the P1 wins again.

Note: Search "LaFerrari v P1 v 918 Spyder" on YT for the three part event!