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Over the next 3-4 months the Car of the Day features will be quite sporadic, probably reduced to three per week. The reason for this is that I am building a new web site. I have never been completely happy with this current version - it was simply a quick one I threw together between jobs after leaving Carsguide. Presently I am Project Managing a very large digital redevelopment project for the City of Sydney, so time spent on my own projects is lmited to my train commute. The quality of... Read Full Story

Car of the Day - Hennessey Venom GT pt 2 Hennessey has delivered Chassis Number 01 and in doing so managed to move beyond the realms of Tuner or Vapourware producer to become a fully fledged exotic car builder. 01 gets the twin-turbo Chevrolet LS-series aluminum V8, which has been dynoed to 933 hp at the rear wheels. Stated bench figures are 1,200 hp and 1,135 lb-ft torque . The 2,548 lbs Elise based rocket was delivered from Silverstone in England to the UAE via the Middle East distributor... Read Full Story

Car of the Day - Ferrari 250 GT Zagato Zagato do Ferrari's differently. There is no mistaking a Ferrari by Zagato as anything but that. Zagato bodied four 250 GT's that can be considered part of the same limited design series. These are chassis numbers; 0515GT, 0537GT, 0665GT and 0689GT. There was at least one other 250 GT bodied by Zagato, 1367GT, but its design is different enough to be considered separately. The GTZ as it is also known was designed as was the practice by Zagato with a... Read Full Story

Car of the Day - Ferrari 250 GT Tour d'France - 1321 GT Ferrari had come a long way by the end of the 1950’s. From the 166 Berlinetta to this, the 1959 Le Mans GT winning 250 GT Tour d’France. During that decade there were probably more unique bodies built on Ferraris than at any other time. This was essentially because they were all hand built with very small production runs during a frantic period of development of both road cars and race cars for all major series. The 1959 TdF marks a... Read Full Story

Car of the Day - GM EcoJet Concept - Jay Leno Jay Leno has plenty of buddies at General Motors. So when Jay and his chief mechanic and collection caretaker; Bernard Juchli, dreamed up their own ideas for a Modern American Supercar Leno had no problems getting Ed Welburn, GM vice president of Global Design and the team General Motors Advanced Design Studio involved in another one of his pet projects. It was not the first time Leno and GM had collaborated on a project, that was the rear drive... Read Full Story

Car of the Day - Aston Martin DB5 - James Bond Aston Martin and 007 - they will forever be linked in the hearts of millions Bond fans around the world. The childhood dream of many with the wealth to buy their dream is now up for sale. A 1964 Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger is to be auctioned by leading auction house RM Auctions. This example complete with all the original movie “additions”. While you may be able to do a reasonable Conery accent, the likelihood of you being able to exude the... Read Full Story

Car of the Day - Aston Martin LMP1 Aston Martin Racing developed their new LMP1 Le Mans Series cars in conjunction with Lola. For some time there was animosity between the two companies relating to the actual naming of the car. Lola were of the opinion that the car should rightly be called Lola Aston Martin while David Richardson thought of Lola as their outsourced contractor. The 6-liter V12 from the DBR9 GT1 racer squeezed into a Lola prototype chassis. The argument on this one could go on... Read Full Story

Car of the Day - Aston Martin Rapide N24 Aston Martin released the second in the N24 series with the first significant derivative of its Rapide. The four door luxury sports car is not the most likely of contenders for the Nurburgring 24 hrs but the idea of a racing Rapide is something that excites us Australians. With the individual touring car championships around the world are all vastly different in style and manufacturer make up the entry of another exotic 4-door onto the race scene only... Read Full Story

Car of the Day - BMW M3 GT2 Art Car - Jeff Koons BMW have release their latest "Art Car", the 17th in a series spanning 35 years. American artist Jeff Koons is the featured artist this time and the car is a M3 GT2 that will run at Le Mans this year. The launch was held on the 1st of June at the Centre Pompidou, where Roy Lichtenstein first presented and signed his Art Car in 1977. Koons' actually approached BMW in 2003, when he expressed his desire to create a BMW Art Car. Koons is known for... Read Full Story

Car of the Day - Ferrari 575 GTC Evoluzione Ferrari never achieved the success it desired with the 575 GTC factory racecar and in all but its first outing it was consistently beaten by the ProDrive prepared 550’s. The Prodrive cars had won their class at the 2003 Le Mans 24 hr so clientele new there was potential their. With the limited success of the Ferrari turned to technical GT head, Maurizio Nardon to develop an Evoluzione version. Attention was focused in two areas, aerodynamics and the... Read Full Story