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The Toyota Land Cruiser was redesigned for 2008. Known as the 200 Series, it will share the 2008 Lexus LX's platform and overall design. Though many time-honored Land Cruiser supporters have welcomed the re-invigoration of the mechanical aspects of the vehicle, the 200 Series has encountered criticism due to its controversial body restyling, with some claiming that Toyota has 'overdeveloped' the classic trademarked Land Cruiser identity in its efforts to fit the Land Cruiser in to modern 21st century motoring. Toyota presented its completely redesigned Land Cruiser in October at the 2007 Australian International Motor Show in Sydney. The vehicle entered production in September and was available for sale in November 2007. Although the new Land Cruiser was presented at its first motor show in Sydney, it was already on sale in Japan, launched there in September 2007. It also became available in Venezuela for sale early in November under the local nickname of "Roraima" (Taken from Monte Roraima in Venezuela). The 200 Series is offered in three different levels of trim in Australia and Oceania:
Just one hundred will be made, and according to Aston Martin, they have already sold out. Price? £1.2 million. That is British pounds, so around $2 million US, depending on the exchange rate. With a 7.0 liter V12 engine, aluminum body and carbon fiber chassis, the one77 should out-perform just about everything else on the road, and makes the Bugatti Veyron, the previous holder of the most-expensive car record look almost cheap. Bigger, faster, more expensive seems to be the theme of this year’s Paris Motor Show, and here is a small selection of photographs of new and up-dated models.
Mirabeau is the newest car from Wysstec GmbH and Leblanc cars. It’s a new proposal for a racecar and prepared to FIA/Le Mans standards .The fact that it is street legal, is almost unbelievable. To reach the maximum of lightweight building and race feeling the car interior is optimized for maximum of speed and acceleration. There are some special options, including leather interior and a sequential gearbox. Power comes from Koenigsegg’s V8, the same engine found in the CCR. It is equipped with a Lysholm Screw Compressor, which has several advantages to the common centrifugal compressor.
The Pagani Zonda is a supercar produced by Pagani in Italy. It debuted in 1999 and continues through the present, with production proceeding at roughly 25 cars per year. As of December, 2005, 60 Zondas had been built. It is a mid-engined 2-seat coupe and convertible. Construction is mainly of carbon fiber. The Zonda Roadster F debuted at the 2006 Geneva show. It is similar to the coupe, but with a removable carbon fibre roof and canvas side curtains weighing just 11 lb (5 kg). Production of the Roadster F is suggested at 25 units. The Roadster F is able to maintain chassis rigidity without any gain in curb weight by eschewing conventional thinking by not strengthening the sills – a process which would have needed more than 35 kg of reinforcement. Pagani instead uses racecar thinking, materials and construction techniques, strengthening the firewall structure of the chassis tub together with billet alloy braces that connect the points where the roof rails would have joined. The windscreen is also strengthened for safety reasons. These techniques enable the Roadster to have virtually the same weight as the coupe – 1230 kg (2712 lb).
The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is currently the most expensive street-legal full production car in the world, with in excess of 1001 horsepower, in either the metric or SAE scale, with its top speed of 253.81 mph (408.47 km/h). The Bugatti Veyron reached full production in September 2005. The car is built by Volkswagen AG subsidiary Bugatti Automobiles SAS in its Molsheim (Alsace, France) factory and is sold under the French Bugatti marque. It is named after French racing driver Pierre Veyron, who won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1939 while racing for the original Bugatti firm. After the release of the car, it has been reported that while each Veyron is being sold for $1.2 million, the production costs of the car are approximately £5 million per vehicle. This is not the price to produce one vehicle, but rather the cost of the entire Veyron project divided by the number of vehicles produced at that time. As Bugatti, and therefore Volkswagen, are making such a loss, it has been likened by automotive journalist Jeremy Clarkson and his Top Gear programme team in their story on it to the Concorde, in that both were huge achievements, but the car will probably, like the plane before it, be discontinued after proving to be an economic failure.
The Ascari KZ1R is a super car that cost around 225,000 British pounds. With 520 horsepower at 7250 rpm, it can reach 60 mph from stand still point in 3.3 secs and 0-100 in 8.2 seconds.
The Alfa Romeo GT is being manufactured by Alfa Romeo Automobiles from the year 2004 continues to the present day. It is a sports car which was built based on Alfa Romeo 156. A number of mechanical systems are taken from the 156 and the suspensions are taken from the Alfa Romeo 147. Also, the GT is a luxurious Grand Tourer among the other Alfa Romeo series. The GT is praised for its stunning styling looks, high performance, and it also looks similar to the Alfa Romeo Sprint of 1980s. The GT consists of standard 16 inch alloy wheels and 17 inch wheels are available optionally. In addition 18 inch wheels are also available as option with powerful engines such as 3.2 petrol and 1.9 diesel engines. The GT consists of ventilated discs which measure 284 mm at the front and 276 mm at the back. It also consists of anti-lock braking system along with hydraulic brake assistance and Electronic brake force distribution. The GT consists of 3.2 liter V6 engine that delivers an output power of 237 hp and this engine is mostly featured in sports versions. Over the years, the engines used in the GT are listed below 1.8 TS I4 engineThe capacity of this engine is 1747 cc that delivers an output power of 103 KW at 6500 rpm and 163 NM torque at 3900 rpm. It reaches the speed of 100 km/h in 10.6 seconds and the top speed is about 200 km/h. 2.0 JTS I4 engineThe capacity of this engine is 1970 cc that delivers an output power of 121 KW at 6400 rpm and 206 NM torque at 3250 rpm. It reaches the speed of 100 km/h in 8.7 seconds and the top speed is about 216 km/h. 3.2 V6 engineThe capacity of this engine is 3179 cc that delivers an output power of 177 KW at 6200 rpm and 289 NM torque at 4800 rpm. It reaches the speed of 100 km/h in 6.7 seconds and the top speed is about 243 km/h. 1.9 JTDm I4 engineThe capacity of this engine is 1910 cc that delivers an output power of 110 KW at 4000 rpm and 305 NM torque at 3900 rpm. It reaches the speed of 100 km/h in 9.2 seconds and the top speed is about 209 km/h. 1.9 JTDm I4 (170 PS) engineThe capacity of this engine is 1910 cc that delivers an output power of 125 KW at 3750 rpm and 330 NM torque at 2000 rpm. It reaches the speed of 100 km/h in 8.2 seconds and the top speed is about 216 km/h.
