Cars...

[BSD]

I know I'd feel lonely if I were a watch thread and didn't have a car thread to keep me warm...

So here we go, all loose ends tied up now

To start off with, a pretty rare sight, an Aston Martin AR 1 with the body styled by Zagato:

Upgrade your car to run on climate neutral and replenishable biofuel gained from biomass like E85, which doesn't cost much and can be done with pretty much any car, and you can have your cake and eat it too

 

[BSD]

Upgrade your car to run on climate neutral and replenishable biofuel gained from biomass like E85, which doesn't cost much and can be done with pretty much any car, and you can have your cake and eat it too

Like I said, it's no big deal to upgrade any car post purchase, but more and more manufacturers are offering the E85 BioFuel option straight from the plant. Btw, a car that can run on BioFuel can still also use normal gasoline without any problems.

"EVO

Koenigsegg goes green
1018bhp CCXR is world’s first ‘green’ supercar

While most other manufacturers at the Geneva motor show were worrying about their company's CO2 emissions and how they are going to meet future legislation, over on the Koenigsegg stand company founder Christian von Koenigsegg was revealing this, the world's first ‘green’ supercar, the aptly named CCXR Flower Power. It's been designed specifically to run on E85 biofuel (the name given to the commercially available mix of 85 per cent ethanol, 15 per cent petrol) as well as conventional super unleaded.

With an amazing 1018bhp available at 7200rpm, the CCXR also happens to be the most powerful production Koenigsegg to date and also the first homologated production car to reach beyond 1000bhp. Oh the irony of it – a tree-hugging supercar that produces even more power than the regular petrol-guzzling, planet-cooking standard version, the 806bhp CCX.
Koenigsegg says the 0-62mph time of 3.2sec is unchanged for the CCXR, but 0-124mph (200kph) is reduced from 9.6sec to 8.5, while top speed rises from '245+ mph' to '250+'.

Koenigsegg has spent the last two years developing the in-house-produced twin-supercharged 4.7-litre V8 to suit the particular demands of the renewable fuel.

In the meantime, if you want a CCXR Flower Power then you’d better be prepared for a big bill, as Koenigsegg charges an extra 77,000 euros plus taxes on top of a regular CCX. In the UK that means a list price of around £500,000 before extras."...

Of course, green or not, the wheels still need to, umm, be pointed in the right direction at all times ;-)

 

[grantx]

Markus/Superfly,

You are a materialist and a poser. Those cars are for pimps, their bitches and 'ho's. Is a leopard skin interior an option?

Grant.

 

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