Auto Mobiles Updates: CARSCOOP

Sunday, October 23, 2011

CARSCOOP

HDT Commodore VL/VE Group A is a Retro Throwback to the 1980s
Ferrari Celeritas Barchetta Concept is One Helluva Sports Machine
Sold: One Brand-New Porsche 959 Sport with Just 207 Miles on the Odo

HDT Commodore VL/VE Group A is a Retro Throwback to the 1980s

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 09:41 AM PDT

If you're not from the Land of Down Under or at least an avid Holden fan, then you're probably unfamiliar with the 1987 HDT Commodore VL SS Group A prepped by Australian racing legend Peter Brock. So before we get into the details on the new VL/VE Group A package, allow us to fill you in on a bit of the history.

Up until the late 1980s, Peter Brock was running HDT, or Holden Dealer Team, but GM's Australian division subsequently cut ties with him after he began publicly supporting and fitting all HDT models with the a device called the "Energy Polariser".

Ferrari Celeritas Barchetta Concept is One Helluva Sports Machine

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 08:35 AM PDT

Designers should be all about craziness when it comes to concept studies and fortunately for us, there's a lot of that going on with the Ferrari Celeritas that is the work of Aldo Schurmann, a student from the Istituto d'Arte Applicata e Design in Turin, Italy.

Schurmann's two-seater study for a barchetta-style Ferrari supercar is different and makes no apologies for that with its shape bringing to mind Formula One car's of the 1950's and 1960s.

Sold: One Brand-New Porsche 959 Sport with Just 207 Miles on the Odo

Posted: 22 Oct 2011 06:36 AM PDT

In 1986, it was the fastest street-legal car in the world with a top speed of 199 mph (320 km/h). Initially designed to compete in the Group B World Rally Championship, the road version was of the most technologically advanced car anyone had ever seen at the time. It remained in production for just three years, and only 337 units rolled out of Porsche's factory.

It is of course the 450HP 959, Porsche's 911-based, high-tech all-wheel drive answer to the raw Ferrari F40 in the late 1980s, and it changed the way supercars were built from that point on.