Guinness World Record, Bugatti Veyron 2011 Super Sport

Landspeed worldrecord with Sport Bugatti Veyron 16.4 super
New Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport requires production sports car to a new dimension

Wolfsburg / Molsheim, July 4, 2010 - on a beautiful sunny day at 25 degrees Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport Landspeed achieve a new world record for production cars, the proving grounds of the Volkswagen Group in Ehra-Lessien (near its headquarters in Wolfsburg). In the presence of representatives of the German Technical Inspection Agency (TÜV) and representatives from the Guinness Book of Records Super Sport achieve an average top speed of 431 km / hour.

Saturday, 2 pm - Pierre Pilote Officiel Bugatti that Henri Raphanel put helmet and gloves, pulled the seat belt tight while engineers inspect the car the last time: tire pressure, temperature, all systems have been checked with the full. Then the orange-black Super Sport cars across the barrier of light, from now on time will be taken, within an hour the car had to drive from South to North and then turned in the opposite direction.

No one but the driver is allowed to touch the car during this time. Tensions rose. A few minutes later we could hear voices from the left side of the jumbo jet started coming toward us. First we saw the lights Veyron, then we can recognize the shape of a car, a loud wooosh .... and Raphanel strips on top speed past us. GPS-tachometer stops at 427, 933 km / hour.

Now with the same procedure from the opposite direction. This time the Veyron reaches 434 cars, 211 km / h. As the average top speed of representatives of the "TÜV" and Guinness value 431, 072 km / h (268 mph). It even beat the Bugatti engineering team with a surprise.

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Ferrari 612 Scaglietti is Used as a Police Patrol Car

Ferrari created a special edition of the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti equipped with the police attribute to the British foot-60 Anniversary Ferrari's relay. This will be driven by police to support the relay through the journey in the UK from Belfast to London.

Some specifications of the 612 Scaglietti - are equipped with the optional Handling GTS package, Daytona style seats, personal stitching and leather details, yellow rev counter, yellow brake calipers and Scuderia Ferrari shields. Woodway Engineering provided police light bar mounted on the car.

Chassis
The 612 is Ferrari's second all-aluminum vehicle, the first being the 360 ​​Modena. Space frame, developed by Alcoa, extrusions and castings made ​​of materials, and body
aluminum welded on. The chassis forms the basis of 612 of 599 GTB.

The 612 is Ferrari's second all-aluminum vehicle, the first being the 360 Modena. Its space frame, developed with Alcoa, is made ​​from extrusions and castings of the material, and the aluminum body is welded on. The chassis of the 612 forms the base of the 599 GTB.

Engine
This car is capable of 315 km / h (196 mph) and has a 0-100 km / h acceleration time of 4.3 seconds. The 612 Scaglietti shares with Ferrari 575M Maranello engine. This engine has a compression ratio of 11.2:1.

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Ferrari 612 Scaglietti

The Ferrari 612 Scaglietti is a grand tourer produced by Ferrari between 2004 and 2010. It is a large two door fastback coupe. The 612 Scaglietti was designed to replace the smaller 456 M; its larger size makes it a true 4 seater with adequate space in the rear seats for adults.
The design, especially the large side scallops and the headlights, pays homage to the custom 1954 Ferrari 375 MM that director Roberto Rossellini had commissioned for his wife, Ingrid Bergman.

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Mazda MX-5

Manufacturer     Mazda
Also called     Mazda MX-5 Miata
Mazda Miata
Eunos Roadster
Mazda Roadster
Production     1989–present
Assembly     Hiroshima, Japan
Pretoria, South Africa (Ford assembly)[1]
Class     Roadster/Sports Car
Layout     FR layout
Platform     Mazda N platform

MX-5, also known as Miata in North America and in Japan, Eunos Roadster, MX-5 is a lightweight two-seat roadster, front-engine layout, rear-wheel drive, which was built by Mazda in Hiroshima, Japan. This model was introduced in 1989 at the Chicago Auto Show. MX-5 was conceived as a small roadster - with light weight and minimal mechanical complexity limited only by legal requirements and safety requirements of modern technology, but a direct philosophical descendant of the small British roadsters of the 1960s such as the Triumph Spitfire, Austin-Healey Sprite, MG Midget and Lotus Elan.

The second-generation MX-5 (NB) was launched in 1998 and the model (NC) is now in production since 2006. It continues to be the best-selling convertible and in February 2011, 900 000 MX-5s have been built and sold around the world.

Since the launch of third generation MX-5, Mazda consolidated worldwide marketing using the MX-5 name, though enthusiasts in the United States still refer to it as Miata, a name that means "reward" in Old High German language.

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Porsche Boxster 986

Display of first-generation Boxster was greatly inspired by the Porsche 356 Spyder and Porsche 550 Speedster and Spyder. Boxster was released ahead of his brother, 996. Through
consultation with Toyota, Porsche is lowering manufacturing costs, and introducing large-scale sharing of components between models. 986 Boxster have the same cap, front wings, and units of the typical 'fried-egg' light as 996. Its original 2.5L M96 engine shared the same architecture with the 3.4L engine used in 996. Many believe the combination of style Boxster / 911 and build new components to reduce costs through sharing of saved Porsche from being acquired by another car company.

 All 986/987 M96 Boxsters using water-cooled, horizontally opposed (flat), six-cylinder. M96 is fully water-cooled engine was first used in non-production front-engined Porsche. In the M96 Boxster placed in the mid-engine configuration as opposed to the rear-engine placement in the 911s all.

The combination of M96 and mid-engine layout provides a low center of gravity, the smoothness of the whole rev range, near perfect weight distribution and neutral handling characteristics. Early production M96 engines have a small but significant number of engine failures due to cracked cylinder liner or slip, but because of minor redesign in 2000, this issue has been resolved.

Manufacturer     Porsche
Production     1996–present
Assembly     Stuttgart, Germany
Uusikaupunki, Finland (1997-2011)[1]
Predecessor     Porsche 968
Class     Roadster
Body style     2-door convertible 

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