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| Seems just about anyone can drive like Batman these days, if they have $1 million and 20,000 man-hours to spare. No doubt this Swedish man felt just like Bruce Wayne during those long three and a half years, except without the financial muscle of Wayne Enterprises or a wise-cracking Alfred to bring him tea during breaks... |
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| The supercar that almost wasn’t, and still might not be, the Lexus LF-A, was recently spotted again in prototype form ahead of a rumored debut at next month's 2009 Tokyo Auto Show. The LF-A has been spotted testing on a number of occasions, so it's well past the 'pure concept' stage, but its production future still remains murky at best... |
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California is fast becoming a hotbed of boutique car companies -- Fisker, Tesla, and now Devon. Devon Motorworks is the brainchild of Michigan-born entrepreneur, food-company owner, and car enthusiast Scott Devon. And the eye-catching 650-horsepower Devon GTX coupe is its first product. Scott Devon calls the coupe "The Next Great American Supercar.
That may not be hyperbole. The GTX is built around some key pieces of Dodge Viper hardware, including the basic frame and the 8.4-liter V-10 driving the rear wheels via a Tremec six speed manual transmission and limited slip differential. That is some fast DNA.
Former Le Mans 24 Hour class winner Justin Bell gave a glimpse of the GTX's potential when he lapped the challenging 2.3-mile Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in 1- minute/35.075 seconds. That just shades the min/35.117-sec production-car lap record set by pro racer Randy Pobst in the Viper ACR during our 2008 Best Handling Car test, and...(Continued)
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As one commenter put it, "Most gold cars just look ridiculously stupid, but the two tone job on this car actually looks good." Agreed. This Bugatti Veyron is quite stunning, and it damn well better be -- ruining even the smallest thing on a car of such caliber would be a mortal sin.
