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Sunday, 28 February 2010

2010 Citroen DS3 Racing Car Limited Edition

Citroen plans to unveil a limited edition of the Citroen DS3 next month at the Geneva Motor Show. The Citroen DS3 Racing is a suped up version of the company's luxe supermini. While only 1000 units will be built, Citroen Australia General Manager, Miles Williams said that local availability for the special DS3 Racing will be announced when the regular DS3 launches in August.

2010 Citroen DS3 Racing Car Limited Edition

“The Citroen DS3 Racing represents an outstanding concentration of behind-the-wheel thrills with an artful blend of performance and efficiency. The DS3 Racing provides a clear indication of what we can expect when the DS3 arrives in Australia in August.” Mr Williams said.

2010 Citroen DS3 Racing Car Limited Edition

Developed by Citroën Racing - the winning team behind five WRC manufacturer's titles and six driver's titles for Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena - Citroën DS3 Racing is a special edition with a 100% sporting pedigree. Planned for the second half of 2010, the exclusive Citroën DS3 Racing will be limited to just 1000 production units.

2010 Citroen DS3 Racing Car Limited Edition

As such, the car's output has been bumped up by 30% to 200 PS (147 kW / 197 hp) using the turbocharged 1.6-liter THP engine. Torque is improved by 15% to 275 Nm (203 lb-ft). These changes were achieved by remapping the engine control unit, adjusting the turbo, and adjusting powertrain components.

2010 Citroen DS3 Racing Car Limited Edition

Meanwhile, stiffer suspension springs and new shock absorbers are also installed. The car has been lowered by 15mm, while both the front and rear track were widened by 30mm. Along with the new tires wrapped around the 18-inch wheels, the changes "all dramatically change the driving dynamics," according to a press release.

2010 Citroen DS3 Racing Car Limited Edition

To handle the extra power, the company installed four-piston caliper brakes up front and ventillated discs in back. Carbon-fiber touches are used on the new air diffuser, front bumper, lower body, and wing extensions. Chrome is also used at certain points, like the door handles and exhaust, with orange tint on the calipers, grille, roof, side mirror caps, and wheels. Inside, designers added carbon trim and orange inserts. Purposeful sport seats were also installed.

A Citroën DS3 Racing signature on the rear tailgate and an individually numbered identification plate fixed to the roof-lining further confirm the model's exclusivity.

2010 Citroen DS3 Racing Car Limited Edition

At 3.94-meters long, the grey and orange car will be shown in Geneva with checkered flaq and DS3 Racing graphics. Based on the existing DSport powered by the THP 150, production Citroën DS3 Racing editions will be finished in a special workshop and fitted with a parts kit developed according to Citroën Racing specifications. Only 1000 units of the Citroen DS3 Racing will be produced. The car will be released in the second half of 2010.

Peugeot 306 XSI 2.0

Peugeot 306

Peugeot 306 XSI 2.0

Peugeot 306 XSI 2.0 Clifford Cat 1 Alarm With 3 Key fobs one of which is the master key fob also a Toad Multipoint Immobiliser Full Ecosse Bodykit with Porsche style splitter and spoiler with brake light delocked, dehandled and debadged with TVR style poppers 3.5k ICE including DVD player and full boot build Momo steering wheel and limited edition 306 stainless steel gear knob blue neon’s under foot wells as well as a full under car neon kit which is multi function and colour £0000s spent and is a real head turner.

White Peugeot 306 body styling

PEUGEOT 306

White Peugeot 306 body styling

The White Peugeot 306 body styling rear light kit uses the latest technology DUEL LED lights.
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Saturday, 27 February 2010

The Peugeot 306 Afterburner

PEUGEOT 306

The Peugeot 306 Afterburner

The Peugeot 306 Afterburner is produced in injection moulded plastic. The kit includes all bulbs and connectors needed to fit the kit

Peugeot 306 Afterburner LED rear lights conversion

PEUGEOT 306

Peugeot 306 Afterburner LED rear lights conversion

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Audi unveiled the new R10

It's official - Audi will become the first manufacturer to compete for the overall victory with a diesel engine at the most famous sportscar race in the world - the 24 hours of Le Mans.

Audi unveiled the new R10, its successor to the brilliant R8, today in Paris. The engine is a marvel - a 5.5-liter, all-aluminum v12 twin-turbo TDI. It develops 650 hp and more than 1,100 Nm torque - more power than the R8.

The best news, especially for North American motorsports fans? The R10 will make its competition debut at the 12 hours of Sebring in March. In the picutre above, a smiling Tom Kristensen (a multiple Le Mans winner in the R8) seems pretty happy with his new ride.

Truly a ground-breaking machine. Full press release after the jump.

Audi R10 world premiere in Paris:
V12 TDI engine produces over 650 hp
First test successfully completed

AUDI AG is once again one step ahead of the opposition: The inventor of �TDI� will become the world�s first automobile manufacturer to fight for overall victory with a diesel engine at the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans. The all-new Audi R10, which was unveiled on Tuesday in Paris, is powered by a totally new 5.5-litre, twelve-cylinder bi-turbo TDI engine, which is extremely quiet and economical.

The Le Mans Prototype, with over 650 hp and more than 1,100 Newton metres torque, significantly exceeds the power produced by the majority of previous Audi racing cars � including that of its victorious R8 predecessor. Audi ventures into previously unexplored diesel-engine terrain with the V12 power plant manufactured completely from aluminium. As with the TFSI technology, which triumphed initially at Le Mans before being adopted for mass-production, Audi customers should benefit once again from the lessons learnt in motorsport.

�With the A8 4.2 TDI quattro, Audi already builds one of the most powerful diesel cars in the world,� explained Prof Dr Martin Winterkorn, Chairman of the Board of Management of AUDI AG, at the R10 presentation in Paris. �The Le Mans project will help our technicians to extract even more from TDI technology. Nowadays, every second Audi is delivered with a TDI engine. We expect that the percentage of diesel engines will be even larger in the future.�

The R10 prototype�s V12 power unit, which is equipped with two diesel particle filters, is hardly recognisable as a diesel thanks to the engine�s smooth running nature. The TDI engine�s specialities presented the Audi Sport engineers with a whole list of challenges. The injection pressure easily exceeds the 1,600 bar achieved in production cars. The usable power band lies between 3,000 and 5,000 revs per minute � an unusually low rev range for a racing engine. The driver must change gear in the R10 far less often than in the R8 because of the TDI engine�s favourable torque curve.

The enormous torque of over 1,100 Newton metres does not only make extreme demands of the R10 transmission system � even the latest generation of engine dynamometers at Audi Sport had to be re-equipped with special gearboxes capable of withstanding the unusual forces.

Additionally, radical changes to the chassis were also necessary. The Audi R10 has a significantly longer wheel base than the R8. The overly wide front tyres are, up until now, unique for a Le Mans Prototype. New technologies were also implemented during the development of the carbon-fibre monocoque. Chassis, engine and gearbox form an extremely rigid, fully stressed unit.

�The R10 project is the biggest challenge ever to have been handed to Audi Sport,� said Head of Audi Motorsport Dr Wolfgang Ullrich. �TDI technology has not been pushed to its limits in motorsport yet. We are the first to confront the challenge. The demands of such a project are accordingly high. Long-term technology partners such as Bosch, Michelin or Shell support us in our quest. Together we have the chance to write new chapters in the history books of motorsport and diesel technology.�

The new Audi R10 successfully completed its first test at the end of November. An extensive test programme, including the 12-hour race at Sebring (USA) on 18 March, is scheduled before the 24 Hours of Le Mans on 17/18 June 2006. The development team from Audi Sport is supported by Reinhold Joest�s squad, which also performed this task during the R8 project.

Audi R10 TDi is derived from the successful Audi R8,

he Audi R10 TDi is derived from the successful Audi R8, but equipped with a diesel engine. That engine develops officially 650 bhp, but it's generally expected that power is over the 700 bhp, thus slightly higher than that of the Peugeot 908 Hdi FAP. Motor bloc is in aluminium and equipped with a to Garrett turbos, injecting diesel directly. Respecting the ACO rules concerning the brides a maximal pressure of 2.94 bar can be reached at 5000 rpm. Handicap of the motor is (just as on the Peugeot 908 using also a diesel engine) it's weight around 200 kg. That's e.g. 70 kg more than the Judd fuel motor. Wolfgang Appel, responsible for technological progress at Audi, announced already by the end of 2005 that the German make had the intention to win the Le Mans 24 hours with a diesel motor, something that never happened before (despite the fact that already in 1949 and 1950 the Delletrez Bros tried to win Le Mans with a diesel engine: they never reached the finish due to overheating problems). The V12 motor development went under control of Ulrich Baretsky. There can be no doubt that the diesel motor was already under construction early 2005, and certainly not by December, because Audi came in March 2006 to Sebring with two reliable R10s. Chassis was still of the honeycomb type and body of carbon fibre, very similar with the extreme-ly successful R8. Although Wolfgang Ulrich announced early 2004 that Audi had decided to retire from competition, and that it should its cars let being raced by privateers, the whole 2005 season was used to prepare the new R10 TDi.

RESULTS 2006 - First race outing of the R10 TDi was on March 17-18, 2006 at the famous Sebring 12 hours. Nobody expected that one of the two brand new cars should be able to win already at their first show such a difficult race as the one on the former airfield. The #2 realised the pole on setting a new track record. Allan Mc Nish, Rinaldo Capelli and Tom Kristensen dominated the race from start to finish with their extremely silent R10. The other car went out with overheating problems.

Sebring was the first round out of ten of the AMLS. The three following rounds were disputed with the old R8 (having won two of them). The six following rounds were all won by the new R10 Tdi: five times by McNish/Capello/Kristensen and once by Biela /Pirro/Werner. That made a total of nine victories on ten AMLS outings. The most important race of 2006 was of course the Le Mans 24 hours at La Sarthe. It was the first open confrontation of the diesel powered race car with the famous Pescarolo Judd C60. At the European LMS over five rounds the #17 Pescarolo, shared by Jean-Christophe Bouillon and Emmanuel Collar won them all five. Enough to say that good old Henri Pescarolo had reasons enough to believe that an all-French car should win the 74th edition of the Le Mans 24 hours. At the test day on June 2006 the fastest Pescarolo C60 Judd headed the fastest Audi R10 TDi by nearly two seconds, and the second fastest Pescarolo C60 headed the second fastest Audi R10 Tdi by one second. So hope seemed justified that Pescarolo was able to beat the German works team. At the eventual qualifications, however, it became obvious that the Audis could go a lot faster than they did two weeks earlier. Indeed they realised the two first places on the grid, followed at two seconds by the two Pescarolos C60. Drama however at the warm-up, just before the race, when McNish has no more transmission on the Audi #7. Now the two Pescarolos were fastest. But at the start of the eventual race McNish was pulling away. After one hour of racing the #7 was leading the #16 Pescarolo C60 by 11 seconds. The #8 was third, seven seconds down. During the second hour both Audis were much too fast for the French cars. After 3 hours of racing the #7 had 43 seconds in hand over the #8, with the #16 Pescarolo already at 1'57". Drama however after 3h 19 min. of racing, when the #7 came into the pit to let replace the injectors at the right bank of its V12. Six laps are lost and the two Pescarolos are now second and third. Once repaired the #7 flies over the track, setting a new lap record during the race. After six hours of racing the first Pescarolo limps already two full laps behind the #8 Audi R10 TDi.

Eventually Audi will win for the sixth time in seven years the Le Mans 24 hours. Henri Pescarolo, however can be proud that he finished second at four laps, and ahead of the #7 Audi finishing third. With eight wins on nine outings the R10 TDi is the best prototype of the year.

RFESULTS 2007 - This year two Audi R10 TDi prototypes will be raced at the rounds of the AMLS (now twelve instead of ten last year) and a third car, entered by Reinhold Joest, will join them at the Le Mans 24 hours. Since Peugeot enters this the LMS and not the AMLS, Le Mans will be the unique confrontation between the two diesel powered cars: Audi and Porsche. At the ALMS already five rounds have been completed. The R10 TDi won again Le Mans and was faster than the 150 kg lighter Roger Penske Porsches RS Spyder (class LMP2) at the street circuit of Sint-Petersburg, but at the short circuits of Long Beach, Houston and Utah the much lighter Porsches had all the advantage, so that none of those rounds was won by the Audi T10 TDi. With only two wins on five outings Audi remains under its last year performances (seven victories on seven outings). [JPVR]

LMP1
engine: 90 degree Audi TDi 5,500cc 675 bhp [1,100 Nm torque], aluminium bi-turbo
engine weight: 200 kg (compare with 130 kg for a Judd motor)
turbochargers: Garrett TR3076R (max. 2.94 bar)
gearbox: electro-pneumatic controlled X-Trac, 5 gear ratios
Clutch: ceramic ZF Sachs
differential: self-locking, ASR traction control
fuel capacity: 81 litres
weight: 935 kg
tyres: Michelin

2010 Opel Flextreme GT/E Concept with E-REV Drive System

Think of the Opel Flextreme GT/E concept as a bigger Chevrolet Volt (or Opel Ampera if you're European). The idea behind this concept, which will debut at the Geneva Motor Show (March 4 - 14, 2010), is to show how the Volt's extended-range electric vehicle drivetrain can be used in a larger vehicle, in this case a mid-size five-door hatchback. And it will boost the company's credentials as a leader in green technologies, offering expressive design with efficient environmental performance - and engineered with German precision.