2012 Ferrari F2012 Formula 1 Race Car

 

A few days after McLaren F1 presented their 2012 Formula One race car, the MP4-27, the Prancing Horse from Maranello has decided to unveil their 2012 F1 race car. Called the F2012, the race car is the fifty eighth F1 car Ferrari has ever built, and is arguably the most advanced race car it has ever developed.

As far as all the changes that have been done to the car to accommodate for new regulations, the F2012 was fundamentally and meticulously revised, most specifically the height of the front section of the chassis, the position of the exhaust pipes, and the re-tweaking of the car’s electronic engine management system.

According to the folks over at Ferrari, the F2012 comes with a revised suspension lay-out with both the front and rear ends featuring pull-rods that were designed to improve the car’s overall aerodynamic performance. The F2012 also comes with a stepped nose that was designed to follow new requirements set out to lower the front end of the car, while the front wing was developed from the one that was used in the 150º Italia - last year’s F1 race car.

Other important modifications include a redesigned side that improves the car’s side impact structures. Similarly, the radiators on the race were also repositioned while the lower part of the rear of the car was designed to be narrower and more tapered, allowing for improved aerodynamics and mechanical enhancements. Last, the rear wing is also similar to the one used in the 150 Italia and is still fitted with a drag reduction system.

 As far as the engine on the car is concerned, the F2012 will carry a revised version of the 150 Italia’s 2.4-liter V8 engine to accommodate new technical regulations that are being enforced for the 2012 season. Ferrari will also be using the KERS system, which maintains its low location in the car while also cutting down on its weight and improving its overall efficiency.

 

 

Tony Stark With New Acura NSX

Actor Robert Downy Jr, who played the character of Tony Stark in his own Iron Man movies earlier used Audi cars for the movie. In the first part of the Iron Man, Stark used Audi R8 which was later upgraded to Audi R8 V10 Spyder in the sequel of the same. However in the new movie named ‘The Avengers’ Stark had been seen using the new Acura convertible concept at a shooting location at Manhattan in New York instead of the Audi’s.

 

The reason is quite obvious as Stark and fellow superhero companions starring in ‘The Avengers’ have been called together by the government agency S.H.I.E.L.D, and all these S.H.I.E.L.D agents used to drive Acuras in their first movie named Thor.

 

Acura later stated that the new concept car named Acura NSX was created for the movie only, and may be looking for the development of this car as a successor of its previous version the Acura RSX.

Video :: Acura introduces the 2013 Acura NSX Concept at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show

“Ever since the old model ended its 15 year life in 2005, Acura’s been threatening then denying a replacement. It’s been the longest automotive tease in history but now finally it’s here — this “concept” really is the new NSX.”

**The original NSX was/is my dream car. There was a time that I would have chosen this car over anything… then I saw the Fast and the Furious RX-7… and all of those cars look dated now, but this isht right here… this is just on a whole ‘nutha level. Acura in their press release states how many horses this car will be or how much it will cost, but there is a great presentation of it at the 2012 Detroit Auto show… Dunno if its still at the top of my list, but its still a sick sick car….

Check out the video from Detroit and the press release from Acura after the jump….

press release:

Acura Debuts Three New Vehicles at the 2012 North American International Auto Show

Acura NSX Concept

The dynamically-styled NSX Concept gives an indication of the next great performance vehicle from the Acura brand. Making use of lightweight materials and a mid-mounted V-6 engine, the NSX Concept employs several new technologies for Acura, including application of Acura’s innovative new Sport Hybrid SH-AWD® (Super Handling All Wheel Drive™) hybrid system.

Utilizing a unique 2 Electric Motor Drive Unit with a Bilateral Torque Adjustable Control System, the all-new hybrid all-wheel-drive system can instantly generate negative or positive torque to the front wheels during cornering. Acura anticipates the new Sport Hybrid SH-AWD® will deliver handling performance unmatched by previous AWD systems. In addition to the handling benefits of the Sport Hybrid SH-AWD® system, a powerful next-generation VTEC® V-6 engine with direct-injection works in concert with a dual clutch transmission with built-in electric motor to create supercar acceleration while offering outstanding efficiency.

 

“This Sport Hybrid SH-AWD system will make NSX the ultimate expression of Acura’s idea to create synergy between man and machine,” said Takanobu Ito, president and CEO of Honda Motor Co., Ltd. “The NSX will make the driver one with the car to enhance dynamic driving abilities without getting in the way.”
While most supercars opt for brute force delivered from a large engine, the NSX Concept champions the true racing philosophy of an extremely favorable power-to-weight ratio.

 

“Like the first NSX, we will again express high performance through engineering efficiency,” added Ito, who led the development of Acura’s first NSX supercar. “In this new era, even as we focus on the fun to drive spirit of the NSX, I think a supercar must respond positively to environmental responsibilities.”

 

The new Acura supercar, expected to debut in the next three years, will be developed by an engineering team led by Honda R&D Americas, Inc., and manufactured in Ohio, at a yet to be named facility.

2012 Acura NSX

Honda Efferent Co., Ltd. Chairperson and CEO Takanobu Ito unveiled a construct type of the Acura NSX today in Metropolis. Although Acura is safekeeping most of the vehicle's information under wraps, the new NSX present employ a lightweight chassis, a mid-mounted V-6 engine and Acura's modern new Sportswoman Being SH-AWD (Super Management All Locomote Travel) grouping. Ito said the new supercar present amount to activity within triad life.

Along with unveiling the NSX concept, Ito declared that it module be built in River. Honda plans to fruit the new supercar near its ongoing machine creation operations in centric River at a unique, sophisticated manufacturing operation. The fresh Acura NSX was collective at Honda plants in Archipelago from 1990 to 2005.

2012 Acura NSX

"Honda associates are up to the repugn of producing the new NSX for international customers with a lofty accolade of acquisition," said Hidenobu Iwata, occasion of Honda's Region Dweller manufacturing transaction and presidency of Honda of U.s. Mfg., Inc. "Honda associates in River hump been construction high-quality Honda and Acura vehicles for nearly 30 geezerhood, so this program in many ways is a stage of their observed efforts."

A aggroup from HRA Ohio Relate leave wind the continued decoration and exercise of the new container. Headquartered in Torrance, Ruler., Honda R&D Americas has bailiwick explore and container exercise dealing in the Raymond, River lineman, where much of the acquisition on the NSX gift train gauge.

2012 Acura NSX

"We bed a colorful story of creating modern new products for our customers in the U.S. and in markets around the reality," said Hiroshi Takemura, presidency of Honda R&D Americas, Inc. "The trustiness to alter the all-new Acura NSX demonstrates the date of our methodicalness, the know-how of our associates and their power to create an advanced and original supercar."

Nearly Honda Manufacturing in Ohio.

Supported on Honda's longstanding message to "flesh products move to the consumer" Honda opened its rank auto lay in the U.S. nearly 30 age ago, on November 1, 1982, in Marysville, Ohio. Today, Honda builds many cars and swooning trucks in the refer of Ohio than all opposite automakers sorbed. Honda has the power to form 680,000 traveller cars and wanton trucks at its two auto plants in Marysville and Orient Liberty, River.

The complement's Anna, Ohio, engine being, with susceptibility of 1.18 1000000 units, is the largest automobile engine mill in Honda's international creation web. Honda also manufactures robotlike transmissions in Russells Part, River.

2012 Acura NSX

Honda currently employs much than 13,500 Ohioans and has endowed author than $8 cardinal in its extensive transaction in the suggest. In element, Honda annually purchases nearly $7 billion in parts and materials from solon than 150 Ohio suppliers and many than $17.5 billion in parts and materials from writer than 600 Northwesterly American suppliers.

Honda has heptad automobile plants in Northbound Usa with the boilersuit volume to business 1.63 meg automobiles. Using home and globally sourced parts, some 90 proportion of the Honda and Acura products oversubscribed in the U.S. are improved in Solon Usa.

2012 Acura NSX

Virtually Honda R&D in Ohio.

Honda began automobile search and utilization in River in 1985. Today, the Honda R&D Americas, Inc. River Place is intermeshed in end set start, encompassing everything from market and technology search to engineering pattern, prototype composition and testing, anesthetic parts acquisition, and reenforcement for mass production.

Honda's U.S. R&D dealing bed matured 24 new models and are prudent for six vehicles in the militia's underway U.S. product portfolio-the Honda Odyssey minivan, Point SUV, Ridgeline corrective, and the Acura TL, MDX and ZDX luxury-performance automobiles.

2012 Porsche Cayman S Black Edition Review

The 2012 Cayman S Actress Edition features a 10-horsepower advance and a lengthy list of criterion equipment at an pleasing damage.



This new mid-engine sports car is only available in worthy grim and features a monochromic communication with a wicked embody and black-painted 19-inch Boxster Spyder plan wheels. Unremarkably contrasting ornament pieces from the Crocodilian S are also finished for a homogenous examine: the endorse air intake grilles are whitewashed soul, as are the fit gas tailpipes and the work finding on the backside pack lid.

2012 Porsche Cayman S Black Edition

The colored tune continues to the upcountry where blackamoor is the exclusive addressable excuse, with aluminum and unsullied poise misused as accents. The napped untarnished poise door-entry guards movie Colored Edition lettering, and the authoritative SportDesign direction rotate features match aluminum-look spokes with a rim of smooth-finish shameful leather. Also finished colored are the decorate strips on the dashboard and around the six-speed exercise shift lever or the way dials are bleak instead of the wonted segregated. Two inalterable touches are the Porsche top decorated on the headrests and a limited-edition badge on the mitt compartment.

2012 Porsche Cayman S Black Edition

Equivalent the otherwise Black Editions, the Cayman S Unfortunate Edition combines Porsche's nonclassical deciding packages to render further view to customers. The black-painted surface and inside touches are portion of the Designing container easy on else Caiman models. The Restroom encase, also standard, includes Bi-Xenon headlights with dynamic cornering office, auto-dimming part and region mirrors, fall sensor and automatonlike climate restrain.

2012 Porsche Cayman S Black Edition

The Infotainment code adds a touch-screen Porsche Act Management system with guidance, BOSE® surround-sound system and XM® Equipment Wireless with XM NavTraffic®.



The Opprobrious Edition's chassis builds on the understructure of the Crocodilian S, which already features exceptional rest and touch. The lightest 19-inch wheels in the Porsche roll are fitted 235/35 ZR 19 tires up advance and 265/35 ZR 19 in the rear, providing a visually kinetic upgrade from the modular 18-inch wheels on the uniform Cayman S.

2012 Porsche Cayman S Black Edition

A 3.4-liter six-cylinder engine with upfront carbon solution, mounted in confront of the side axle, produces 330 h.p. - 10 writer than in the Crocodilian S - patch also delivering excellent render saving, specially when linked with the nonobligatory PDK gear. With PDK, the Caiman S Hopeless Edition leave intensify from 0 to 60 mph in as young as 4.6 seconds with the facultative Athlete Chrono Bundle and reaches a top line speed of 172 mph patch achieving EPA estimated fuel action of 20 metropolis and 29 route (19/26 when outfitted with six-speed practice and top excerpt speed of 173 mph), the aforementioned as the Crocodilian S. In element to reducing the 0--60 quickening present by two-tenths, the elective Sportsman Chrono Container with bellicose Athlete and Boast Nonnegative change strategies.



The 2012 Cayman S Bleak Edition MSRP is $67,500 which gives buyers side continuance on several levels considering the added structural and seeable upgrades and the enhanced index yield.

2012 Lamborghini LP700-4 Aventador

 

  

CARBARN | 2012 Lamborghini LP700-4 Aventador | It does not take a rocket scientist to see That the new Aventador LP700-4 follows the same design language as with the latest Reventon and Sesto Elemento concept. The model has been designed at the Centro Stile Lamborghini in Sant'Agata Bolognese and takes its inspiration from modern aeronautics and from the world's fastest and most agile aircraft. The supercar is 4.78 meters long, 2:26 meters wide, and only 1136 meters high.

All of the aerodynamic elements are integrated into the body shell form, from the front spoiler to the rear diffuser, while the rear spoiler is deployable and controlled electronically. The 4 degree approach angle is optimized for high speed and assists directional stability at the very top end of the spectrum. Up front the water's guide Aventador gets further emphasized by a glossy, black frames, and bi-xenon headlamps. The side of the car have two sweeping strokes - the first emphasizes the front wheel arch; the second is a very sharply drawn line beginning at the front wheel arch. Lamborghini describes it as a tensed muscle running along the entire side of the car and over the rear wheel.

Finally lower the rear gets a diffuser and rear LED lights That create the same shape as the ones out front. This feature has been used on every major since the Countach Lamborghini supercar. Customers will have the ability to choose from 13 exterior colors in pastel metallic, pearlescent, or matte. These include the newest shades of Grigio Estoque, Arancio Argos, Personam AD, Nero Nemesis, Bianco Canopus, Marrone Apus and. Automobili Lamborghini has really taken notice of the world with an aftermarket paint Their new options. Become a matte paint has all the rage in high-end cars and ESPECIALLY can look striking on something as svelte as a Lamborghini.

Instrumentation for the Aventador is displayed on a large LCD screen while a completely independent system and stereo controls the LCD screen and navigation functions. The press release makes the center console of the car sound like your car is a robot by calling it the, "Human-Machine Interface." The single full-color leather interior is available in either Nero Alde (black) or in Marrone Elpis, with the contrasting stitching Offered in a range of colors. The two-tone leather interiors are Offered in two style lines. For bicolor Sportivo, the base color is black, with the contrast in orange, white, yellow or green, while bicolor Elegante presents a Harmonious blend of brown tones. A The Aventador's engine is mated to an all-new "Lamborghini ISR" - the ISR stands for Independent Shifting Rod - seven-speed single-clutch automated manual gearbox That combines quick shift time with manual shifting, the which proves to be quite useful when a car has a low weight and compact dimensions. The ISR gearbox allows the Aventador to shift gears almost simultaneously.

Next to this, the Aventador will also get an aluminum double-wishbone suspension and a carbon ceramic brake system. Also at the front axle shock absorbers are equipped with That come a hydraulic lifting system enabling the front end of the super sports car to be lifted by 40 millimeters at the touch of a button. When driving a Lamborghini through any parking lot with speed-bumps you will Immediately Recognize the need for convenience and a system That lifts the front end. A new and innovative steering wheel system will also make it into the Aventador. in conjunction with a dozen computer systems, analyzes how the driver has Entered a curve and adjusts steering and braking inputs to help the car maintain a more efficient line The new Lamborghini LP700-4 Aventador will go on sale in late summer 2011 at a price of $ 387,000.

BMW M3 GTRS3

 

  

CARBARN | BMW M3 GTRS3 | Home modifications have a Vorsteiner carbon fiber body kit which can alter the appearance of the BMW M3 Coupe become more muscular and sporty shades. Tailored to the side of the protruding fenders.

Side skirts are so well aligned with the front and rear fenders bloat. Bumper standard model is replaced by the bottom there is bloat diffuser (splitting the wind) installed nicely adjusted as dual exhausts.

To reinforce the impression sports, carbon fiber hood installed. Then, all four wheels fixed to the rim Vorsteiner V-308 Forged Mesh type 3-pieces. Fourth black rims wrapped in Michelin PS2 rubber at Sport.

2012 ferrari 458 spider

2012 ferrari 458 spider

2012 ferrari 458 spider

2012 ferrari 458 spider

2012 ferrari 458 spider

The Ferrari 458 Italia is the best car I have ever driven. You might assume the Italian supercar earns that distinction on sheer performance and sex appeal, but the truth is that the 458 is a much more complete car. Its excellence is in how it combines measured balance with raw capability unlike any other vehicle. The 458 Italia is sophisticated but visceral. Aggressive yet refined. Elegant and brutish. With the Spider, Ferrari aims to add one more contradiction to the 458's achievements: a convertible that's also a coupe.

Ferrari's task in building a Spider is not quite as intuitive as it sounds. The open-air 458 is certainly a predictable and modest evolution of the Italia, but the buyers of the two cars are very different. The average 458 Italia will see most of its action on the weekend, without a passenger, and on shorter trips. Spiders, on the other hand, are more likely to be daily drivers exposed to city streets, often with a passenger in the right seat. More notably, Ferrari asserts that Spider owners drive with a sporty -- not aggressive -- style.

Even with buyers using their cars in an entirely different manner, Ferrari won't compromise any of the intensity in its mid-engine coupe to deliver a droptop version. Despite the fact that the Spider is 30 percent less rigid than the coupe, the spring rates are unchanged. And while the magnetorheological dampers are specifically tuned for the Spider, you won't notice a difference in the ride quality between the two cars. The Spider is every bit as firm, controlled, and focused as the Italia. The steering is just as sharp, the throttle pedal just as responsive, and the suspension just as poised. Twist the manettino to Race mode, however -- perhaps an unlikely move for the less aggressive convertible buyers -- and the Spider can't hide the fact that it's missing a major structural component. With the dampers firmed up, the bumps aren't just felt through the seat. They're seen in a small wiggle of the windshield and heard in the muted rattle of the aluminum chassis. Nothing unusual, but this is the one clear difference between coupe and convertible.

The 458 Spider's retractable roof is a two-piece hardtop inspired by the 575 Superamerica. Like that car, the roof rotates -- rather than folds -- into its stored position. Unlike that car, the 458 Spider uses an aluminum skin instead of glass. Ferrari claims that the 458's hardtop assembly is actually some 55 pounds lighter than the 430 Spider's fabric roof. It adds roughly 110 pounds to the Italia's 3400-pound curb weight.