| British firm's 270 mph car speeds ahead of Ferrari | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 2:46:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | It's hardly a household name amongst supercar makers, but yesterday Bristol Cars, a tiny and obscure British motor manufacturer, usurped the might of Ferrari, Bugatti and Lamborghini by launching what it billed as the world's fastest car. The 270 mph, £351,000 Fighter T is a derivative of the existing Fighter model, a two-seat, aerodynamic coupé launched in 2004. .... | |
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| | | Smooth Ford GT | | Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 12:51:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | Introduced as a limited two-year production model, the Ford GT is a descendant of the original GT 40, which won on the Le Mans track some 40 years ago. I was hardly looking to take the lead in any race for a checkered flag, but I was looking for a spirited car to take on a spirited drive and the $185,000 GT seemed like a suitable choice, especially as its days are numbered — this limited edition is now in its second, but last, year of production. Though Germany's autobahn or Italy's Amalfi Coast have a reputation as a place to put such an exotic performance car through its paces, a lack of funds and a curiousity about regions closer to home led me this time to Niagara. Starting near Grimsby, one of the province's "Great Drives" (according to the Ontario tourism department's own website) would take me to Niagara Falls some 20 kilometres later, taking in the wineries near Jordan Station, Vineland and St.... | |
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| | | Swedish businessman who wrecked Ferrari turns down plea deal | | Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:46:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | A Swedish businessman who authorities say crashed a stolen Ferrari sports car worth $1.5 million on Pacific Coast Highway turned down a plea deal Monday that would have sent him to prison for two years and four months. Judge Patricia M. Schnegg asked Bo Stefan Eriksson, 44, to confirm he was turning down a "very generous offer," saying he would likely face much stiffer penalties if convicted. "I cannot agree that I stole the car because I didn't," responded Eriksson, speaking through a Swedish interpreter in Los Angeles Superior Court. Broad-shouldered with a buzz cut, Eriksson wore a dark suit and was not handcuffed. He's been in custody since being arrested earlier this year. In the deal, Eriksson would have had to plead guilty to embezzlement of a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren and a black Enzo Ferrari -- different from the red Enzo Ferrari he crashed.... | |
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| | | Ferrari on offer for 99p - so far | | Posted Sunday, September 24, 2006 6:45:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | It's the offer that will have bargain hunters looking for a car on eBay falling off their computer chairs - yesterday one of the world's most exclusive cars, a Ferrari Enzo, hit the internet auction site with a starting price of just 99p. Named after the company's founder and considered one of the greatest Ferraris of all time, only 399 Enzos exist, and until now they have been rather hard to acquire. So exclusive are they, their purchase was only made available by invitation to existing Ferrari customers. Rod Stewart, Michael Schumacher, Eric Clapton and the Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen are among the list of lucky drivers. By the time the sale finishes on September 21, it is expected to have smashed the UK's eBay transaction record, the £103,000 raised by Margaret Thatcher's handbag.... | |
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| | | ucati Corse and Ferrari in the UK | | Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 4:46:00 AM by Blog57 Team | | The centre of London roared to the sound of two and four-wheeled racing motorbikes and cars yesterday as Ducati Corse and Ferrari tied up with their fuels and lubricants supplier Shell for a spectacular street display in front of an estimated 20,000 crowd. The event, involving a series of demo runs up and down a closed road, was organized by Shell to promote the launch of Shell V-Power performance fuel in the UK. Shell V-Power has been developed using the knowledge gained from development and testing of tailored Shell V-Power used in the Ducati Desmosedici. Held on London's South Bank in front of the Shell Centre and the famous London Eye, it saw the participation of last Sunday's Brno race winner Loris Capirossi on his Desmosedici GP bike, World Superbike championship points leader Troy Bayliss on his Xerox-backed Ducati 999F06 and Felipe Massa in a Ferrari Formula 1 car, as well as a parade of legendary Ferrari cars from the past.... | |
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| | | Post-Debut Pre-Debut of Peter Kalikow's Ferrari 612 Kappa | | Posted Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:45:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | After we'd finished ogling the 599 in the Ferrari North America tent on Friday, we stepped outside for a dose of nicotine (it's the pause that refreshes, after all), and stumbled right into Peter Kalikow's Pininfarina-massaged 612 Scaglietti, dubbed the 612 Kappa. We shot the shit with some Ferraristi and gleaned that with the GTC exhaust, the ram-air effect caused by the functional hood scoop and the downforce provided by the massive ducts behind the front wheels, the revised Scag should be able to top 200mph. While it's been overshadowed by the radically altered Enzo-based James Glickenhaus P4/5, the Kalikow car betters the standard 612 in practically every way. This is the 2+2 Ferrari should've built. Related: Another Billionaire's Ferrari: Peter Kalikow's Scaglietti; More from Pebble Beach [Internal] .... | |
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| | | For Ferrari, humor not only is his life, it saved his life | | Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 8:45:52 AM by Blog57 Team | | For more than a decade, he experienced mental illness, drug and alcohol addictions and homelessness on the streets of San Francisco. Friday, he'll celebrate not only his second year of being "clean and sober," but also his 25th anniversary as a professional comic with a solo performance at the 142 Throckmorton Theatre in Mill Valley, along with guitarist Bobby Weinstein. The show will be taped for Ferrari's second CD, called "Best of My NSA Wiretaps." "Doug's an amazing story, and even a really good indicator for us É that we can reclaim people off the streets," says San Rafael's Michael Pritchard, a comedian/motivational speaker and close friend of Ferrari's. Ferrari, who is 6-foot-6 and 290 pounds, is living large again, but it's been a long road back. In 1984, Ferrari won the San Francisco International Comedy Competition, a contest that can boast such participants as Robin Williams, Dana Carvey and Ellen DeGeneres.... | |
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| | | Pininfarina tackles Ferrari | | Posted Monday, July 31, 2006 6:46:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina is a one-off commissioned by James Glickenhaus, the American collector with a thing for the legendary racing cars of the '60s. "This project represents an exciting challenge, i.e. trying to meet the customers requests in the best way possible without deteriorating the companys approach based on stylishness and innovation," said Andrea Pininfarina, Pininfarina S.p.A. Chairperson and CEO. The car, designed, engineered and built entirely by Pininfarina, started from a Ferrari Enzo. The aim: to produce one vehicle inspired by sport racing cars that wasnt just for shows, but a car to be enjoyed on the road. After freezing styling with various touch-ups to the initial sketches, the surfaces were defined using CAS modelling, then moving on to actual construction and assembly.... | |
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| | | Renault heads for home after US go-slow | | Posted Monday, July 10, 2006 8:45:46 AM by Blog57 Team | | How could Michael Schumacher's Ferrari, which had been no match for Fernando Alonso's Renault seven days previously in Canada, suddenly become vastly superior in the USA last Sunday? Same car, same engine, same driver, same tyre supplier; yet Schumacher was suddenly more than a second a lap faster, the equivalent of England having returned after half time to hammer five home against Portugal. How was it done? How was it possible for a team that had been on the back foot for the previous nine races to suddenly become the most dominant of the season as Schumacher and Felipe Massa scored an easy one-two? The answer lay with an alarming incident 12 months before when Schumacher's younger brother Ralf was dumped into the wall at high speed thanks to a failure of his left-rear Michelin tyre.... | |
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| | | Ferrari Car Crash Lands Suspected Owner In Lawsuit | | Posted Sunday, July 09, 2006 2:45:51 AM by Blog57 Team | | The wreckage of a rare, red Ferrari Enzo and two other cars brought to America by a man charged with embezzlement and grand theft auto should be shipped overseas, prosecutors said Friday. Prosecutors asked Superior Court Judge Craig Veals to order the vehicles to be sent to English Banks, which they assert are the legal owners of the vehicles. But attorneys for Bo Stefan M. Eriksson said he was the rightful owner of a black Ferrari Enzo and Mercedes-Benz SLR, as well as the red Enzo he was driving about 160 mph when it crashed Feb. 21 along Pacific Coast Highway. The vehicles are currently being held by the sheriff's department as the 44-year-old businessman awaits trial. Eriksson, a former executive with the now-bankrupt video game company Gizmondo Europe, pleaded not guilty to nine criminal charges, including embezzlement, grand theft auto and drunken driving.... | |
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