Car PORN thread

While we're on the topic of bikes...

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I have a theory about building the ultimate car...

Styling (interior & exterior) - Use and Italian design house
Engine - Get the Germans to design it
Engine Assembly and Electronics - Get the Japanese to do this
Powertrain - Just get BorgWarner to do it
Suspension - Get Lotus to sort that out for you
Brakes - Let Brembo do that

Or just buy a Mercedes-Benz C111 which is most of the above, but is almost 50 years old.

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Bad News People

Volkswagen Golf R 400 has been cancelled

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The Volkswagen Golf R 400 is dead. VW introduced the super-high-performance hatchback in concept form at the 2014 Beijing Motor Show, with backing from Volkswagen research-and-design boss Heinz-Jakob Neusser.

Things looked promising. The Golf R 400 got the green light and barely a year after debut, VW bosses approved it for American showrooms. But then the diesel emissions scandal happened, and like so many other higher ups at the German company, Neusser found himself unemployed. With his resignation, insiders told Automotive News that VW shelved the Golf R 400. But despite the scandal, the German company isn't abandoning a higher-performance Golf model – it's just rethinking it.

For one, the company – the greater Volkswagen Group, that is – is still working hard on a production version of the Golf R's 2.0-liter, turbocharged four-cylinder that could exceed 400 horsepower. If it makes production, it'd be under the hood of future Audi products, not VW ones, AN reports. But even though Volkswagen won't get the more potent EA888 engine, it may take a new approach to the Golf R.

Approach number one would breed a vehicle not all that different from today's Golf R. There'd be more power than today, but AN says it wouldn't be much more powerful than the current car. While this sounds delightful, we're more keen on the alternative plan, which would see engineers use lightweight materials to trim at least 300 pounds of body fat from the next-gen Golf R, due early next decade. This new model would weigh as much as today's GTI while also offering better power, handling, and braking.

Source: Autoblog
 
im not a fan of the nissan 1400 bakkies, Dont like them at all but this looks quite good

it has an original gtr front end and running gear underneath

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