Panoz Unleashes New Abruzzi "Spirit of Le Mans" Supercar

Following on from a series of cropped teaser images, Panoz lifted the covers off its new Abruzzi "Spirit of Le Mans" sports coupe today at the home of the 24 Hours of Le Mans race, the Circuit de La Sarthe in France.

The hand-built Abruzzi "Spirit of Le Mans" comes with a front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout and is powered by an unspecified powerplant that is said to deliver more than 600HP and 590 ft.-lbs. of torque.

The swoopy and unique-looking, but far from beautiful, sports car features a composite body that is claimed to be dent-resistant, shatter-proof, recyclable and both stronger and lighter than carbon fiber.

"This is culmination of equal parts time, effort and dreams," said Panoz, founder of the Panoz Motor Sports Group. "The Panoz brand always has prided itself on hand-building and delivering an exotic automobile and experience to our customers. Our new offering takes this to a completely new level."

The Georgia-based company said that the super sports car will be offered in a strictly limited edition of just 81 examples, which corresponds to the number of Le Mans 24 Hour contests between the inception of the race in 1923 and the race to be held in 2013.

The Abruzzi "Spirit of Le Mans" will be road-legal in Europe and many countries of Asia, the Middle East and South America, but not in North America. Prices and more detailed specs are to be released at a later date.

New Renault Latitude Sedan Takes Flagship Spot in Range

Renault has lifted the covers off a new flagship sedan named Latitude that will in effect replace the discontinued (and rather controversial) Vel Satis.

Described by the French carmaker as "its latest international status-enhancing family saloon" [sic..], the Latitude will get its first public outing at the Moscow Motor Show at the end of August, while Europeans will get their first view of the car at this Fall's 2010 Paris Motor Show.

For those of you that keep a close eye on global automotive news, the new Latitude won't come as a surprise as it's based on the Renault Group's 2010 Samsung SM5 sedan that recently went on sale in South Korea. And by "based", we mean re-badged and VW- re-grilled... [see pictures of the SM5 below]

Built on a modified version of the Laguna's platform, Renault's new flagship model features a conventional four-door sedan body instead of a five-door fastback form like it's 25, Safrane (not the Samsung-based Safrane) and Vel-Satis predecessors

The Latitude measures 4.890mm in length, 1.830mm in width and 1.490mm in height, meaning it's 195mm longer, 19mm wider and 45mm taller than the Laguna hatch.

Renault has not yet released details on the engine range, but motorists should expect the usual mix of petrol and diesel engines.

The French automaker said that the Latitude will be offered with a variety of features that place the emphasis "on innovation and travelling comfort", including a dual-mode air ionizer with double fragrance diffuser, triple-zone climate control, a massaging driver's seat, Bose Premium audio, the Renault hands-free card and more.

According to the company, the Latitude is due to go on sale this autumn in Asia, Africa, Russia, Turkey, Gulf, Australia and Mexico, with Europe to follow shortly after.

New Renault Latitude

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New Samsung SM5 Sedan

New 2010 9ff GTurbo - Porsche GT3 RS Sport cars Pictures

New 2010 9ff GTurbo - Porsche GT3 RS Sport cars Pictures

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New 2010 9ff GTurbo - Porsche GT3 RS Sport cars Orange color

New Porsche Cars IN 2010 IS ROAD SPORT Cars. No, 9ff isn’t a typo error, but a tuner from Dortmund, Germany specialising in Porsches. While names like Gemballa and Ruf are added famous, 9ff’s GTurbo bales for the Porsche 997 GT3 and GT3 RS are apprenticed to get a few headlines. Let’s booty the case of the 997 GT3 RS for affecting effect. 9ff put a Bi-Turbo about-face to the accepted 450 bhp agent with upgrades such as titanium abutting rods and added able artificial pistons. Three bales are available: GTurbo750 with 750 bhp/850 Nm, GTurbo850 with 850 bhp/910 Nm and the GTurbo1000 with 1000 bhp/940 Nm of torque.

Choose the 1000 bhp advantage and your Porsche will advance from 0-100 km/h in a bare 2.9 seconds. 0-200 km/h is done in 8.2 abnormal and 9ff claims that you can technically go on to 392 km/h. To do that, mods like rear fenders with air intakes (for the intercooler) and air outlets in the advanced fender to abate the burden in the caster wells at aerial acceleration are made. Not abounding absolutely want, or can handle, that array of performance, so 9ff sells an aerodynamic kit for Euro 8,900, and ablaze alloys (fits approved tyres) at Euro 4,890. There are additionally rims with a axial lock arrangement at Euro 5,950.

Lamborghini Navarra Concept Study Penned by Lockheed Martin Designer

Most young designers these days appear to have the hots for anything related to Lamborghini. After the Cnossus, Minotauro, Miura Nuovo, Conquisto, Furia and Toro LA690-4 - just to mention some of the Lamborghini design concepts we've shown you the past few months, here comes yet another proposal for a Raging Bull model, this time from American Adam Denning who happens to be a designer for Lockheed Martin USA.

The Navarra is design study for a flagship Lamborghini supercar to replace the current Murcielago model.

"I tried to imagine all the V12 flagships of the brand from the Miura to the Murcielago, and then create a car that would look like it not only belonged in this group, but that it was the result of these cars as well," Denning explains.

"I was very inspired by Michelangelo's La Pietà. The way Mary's garments flow down and fold over each other was the main inspiration for the Navarra's overlapping surfaces and organic shapes."

Denning, who has a masters in Automotive Design from the Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milan, Italy, says that the Navarra would make use of a carbon-fiber frame and carbon-fiber panels with power coming from a V12 engine.

Photos Courtesy: Adam Denning , Via: CBD

Laptop Exotics: New Asus Lamborghini VX6 and VX7 [with Videos]

Continuing its cooperation with the famous Italian supercar maker, Asus unwrapped its latest Lamborghini-branded laptops at this week's Computex 2010 convention in Tapei, Taiwan.

The new ASUS-Lamborghini VX6 comes with a 12.1-inch screen while its VX7 sibling features a larger 15.6-inch screen. Both laptops feature a sexy-looking glossy case inspired from Lamborghini's supermodels, but the real eye-catcher is the bigger VX7 with its Gallardo / Murcielago themed rear section.

Other than the Raging Bull-inspired design, both laptops come with a Bang & Olufsen sound system with the smaller VX6 featuring a 1366×768 LCD display, Intel Atom D525 processor (1.8Ghz), Nvidia ION 2 graphics, and up to 4GB of RAM.

The larger VX7 will be offered with the choice of an Intel Core i3, i5, or i7 processor, Nvidia N11E-GS graphics, up to 16GB of RAM, and a 1920×1080 display.

Rumorville: BMW Gran Coupé Concept Coming with 6-Series Badge in 2012

An unnamed BMW source has allegedly told British car magazine Autocar that the Bavarian firm's Gran Coupé sports sedan concept will enter production in the second quarter of 2012. Furthermore, the BMW insider said that the production model will most likely carry a 6-series badge.

If true, we're guessing that the sedan will also bear a second moniker in the likes of the 5-Series GT to avoid confusing with the two-door coupe and convertible models of the 6-Series.

The five-meter long Gran Coupé Concept sports sedan was revealed on the sidelines of the Beijing Auto Show in April, in almost production-ready form. It's BMW's proposal in the increasingly popular "four-door coupe" market with rivals such as the Porsche Panamera, Mercedes-Benz CLS and the forthcoming Audi A7.

If you dislike the term "four-door coupe" think of the 6-Series GT or whatever else BMW decides to call it as a sharper-looking 5-Series with a slopping roof.

Since the Gran Coupé shares the same platform with the standard 5-Series there shouldn't be any surprises under the hood if it enters production, so expect the same range of straight-six and V8 petrol and diesel engines.