Sydney Motor-World 2016.

Thursday 1 December – Sunday 4 December 2016

MotorWorld Sydney is a dynamic, interactive automotive festival, a great day out for all.

Come and test drive a Lotus on the track; compare brands and models for yourself, or experience them through a series of live demonstrations and drive challenges. Quality educational and entertainment programs with live action, exciting competitions and fun activities for the kids, make this a special event for the family and car enthusiasts alike.

Hundreds of cars and motorbikes across 35 brands will be in action. Take part in the Jaguar Art of Performance Tour by testing your skills in the Smart Cone Challenge, Ride in a Land Rover over the thrilling Twin Terra pod or demo the latest Tesla electric and autonomous drive technology in the edutainment arena. A total of 7000 test drives are available on track, street and gravel, and many more highlights for visitors to participate in.

Motor-world Sydney Opening Hours,

Thurs 1    Dec 9.00am* – 8.00pm
Fri 2        Dec 9.00am* – 8.00pm
Sat 3        Dec 9.00am  – 8.00pm
Sun 4       Dec 9.00am  - 6.00pm

*Twilight ticket holders have access from 4pm.

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Lotus Just Made Yet Another Exige And It's The Most Extreme Yet.

If you’ve been following post-Bahar era Lotus for the last few years, you’ll know the score here. Yep, Hethel has tweaked another of its existing models to make a new-ish car.

It’s called the Lotus Exige Sport 380, and it’s the fastest version of Hethel’s extreme track car ever made. The mid-mounted V6 now puts out 375bhp (a 30bhp bump), getting it from 0-62mph in just 3.5 seconds, on to a top speed of 178mph.

To go with the newfound poke, Lotus has festooned the Exige in carbonfibre aero goodies, including a new front splitter, rear spoiler and rear diffuser. Other weight-saving options including forged wheels drop the Exige’s kerb weight to a pithy 1100kg. Downforce at the car’s top speed is 140kg, meanwhile.Elsewhere, it’s still very much a hardcore slap in the face for today’s current tech-fest sports cars - it doesn’t even have power steering. There is an automatic gearbox option, but you’d be mad not to go for the six-speed manual - the exposed gear linkage is a thing of beauty.

Want one? You’re looking at £67,900.

Source: www.carthrottle.com

Next Supra Reportedly Part Of New Toyota Performance Sub Brand.

Supra rumour mill latest suggests up to 400bhp, hybrid and non-hybrid petrols plus the creation of a Toyota performance sub-brand. The latest report comes from Autocar, and the big news being touted is that the Supra will form the beginnings of a new Toyota performance sub brand. Toyota’s take on BMW’s M Division, if you will.


This is something which has been rumoured in the past, but has failed to materialise. With a Supra successor however, Toyota would have the perfect product to launch such a thing, particularly as power outputs of up to 400bhp are still being reported.The 400bhp, range-topping version is expected by many to be a twin-turbo V6 hybrid, and the presence of a six-cylinder petrol/electric motor combo was sort of confirmed by an electric motor-like whine heard in spy footage released earlier in the year (above). Autocar expects there to be 2.0-litre, four-cylinder models lower down in the pecking order, with up to 300bhp on tap.

Since it’d be blasphemy for a BMW to run a V6 instead of a straight-six, it’s expected that Munich’s side of this joint sports car project with Toyota - which will result in a Z4-replacing ‘Z5’ - will run its own engines. We can anticipate the usual range of four and six-cylinder engines, and who knows, maybe there’ll be a Z5M with the M3/M4’s angry S55 straight-six.

Source: www.carthrottle.com

A massive Hot wheels Collection.

A collection which is worth over 1 Million Dollars.

Watch:

Learn how to parallel park.

Steps: 

1. Turn on your signal and pull up three feet away from the car you want to park behind. Make sure to align your back tires with the other car’s back bumper.
2. Put your car into reverse and turn your wheels all the way to the right/left.
3. Very slowly back up until you are at a 45-degree angle, then stop.
4. Turn the wheels all the way to the left/right.
5. Back up very slowly until you are parallel with the curb.
6. If done correctly, you should be less then twelve inches from the curb. Practice will improve your judgment.

Japanese sinkhole repaired at speed.

A 30-meter sinkhole on a busy street in the Japanese city of Fukuoka has been repaired astonishingly quickly. The sinkhole appeared on 8 November and caused power cuts, disrupted phone signals, and gas and water supplies. Officials reopened the road to traffic on Tuesday 15 November after health and safety checks.


Source: www.theguardian.com

2016 Los Angeles motor show: Review.

Founded in 1907, the Los Angeles Auto Show is one of the most influential automotive events on Earth. Each year, for ten exciting days (Nov 18-27), the show takes center stage at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

This year you can expect dozens of new vehicle debuts and boundary-pushing concept cars that seem to have jumped out of the designers’ minds onto the stage.

DATE:         Nov 18 - 27, 2016

TIME:         Nov 18: 9:00am - 10:00pm 

                        Nov 19: 9:00am - 10:00pm 

                        Nov 20: 9:00am - 9:00pm

                        Nov 21: 10:00am - 9:00pm 

                        Nov 22: 10:00am - 9:00pm 

                        Nov 23: 10:00am - 9:00pm  

                        Nov 24: 9:00am - 6:00pm  

                        Nov 25: 9:00am - 10:00pm  

                        Nov 26: 9:00am - 10:00pm 

                        Nov 27: 9:00am - 7:00pm 

LOCATION: South Hall

                        West Hall AB

                        Concourse Hall EF

                        Petree Hall CD

                        Kentia Hall

Car Guys VS Non-Car Guys.

5 Idiotic Mistakes People Make When Trying To Sell A Car Online.

1. Taking terrible pictures:

I can’t believe I even need to mention this, yet I see it time and again. If you’re trying to sell a car online, show buyers what it freaking looks like. If you don’t know what makes a good picture, call that one friend who’s always taking photos of everything and let him or her help out. You don’t need hundreds of shots showing every possible angle, but get a couple from each side, front and back, the interior, and the engine.
If you don’t have any friends, here’s a quick photo-taking lesson. Always take pictures with the light behind you. Yes, that could mean you have to move the car to get all angles with light behind you. For interior pictures, it might help to have some extra light inside to actually show some detail instead of glare and shadows. Grab the hand-held shop light you use to change the oil - that’s all you need. Make sure the whole car is actually in the picture; stand close enough to show some detail but don’t stand a block away so the car looks like a tiny spec. Take your time to get these pictures right, because they are the first impression potential buyers will have of your car.

2. Taking pictures at night:

Yeah, I could’ve easily mentioned this above, but this dumbassery is so epic that it deserves its own special talking point. Don’t. Take. Pictures. At. Night. Remember what I just said about keeping the light behind you? There is no light at night; that’s what makes it night. Street lights won’t illuminate your car properly, and your flash bulb doesn’t count either. Both will create bright spots on the car while other parts are still completely in shadow.
Whenever I see a car advertised with photos taken at night I think one of three things. Firstly, the seller is so desperate to get rid of the car they couldn’t wait a few hours to take proper pictures in daylight. Secondly, I believe the seller is trying to hide damage or a terrible paint job in the hopes of getting people to see it in person. Finally, I think the seller is too lazy to invest even the simplest effort in presenting their car, which again, makes me wonder what else the seller is too lazy to do. In the end it doesn’t matter, because they’re all instant deal breakers.

3. Not mentioning maintenance:

Nobody wants to buy a crap car, so if you’ve done some maintenance or have maintenance records, say so. You don’t necessarily need to list every single detail, but for crying out loud, maintenance is the first things buyers want to know about. If you can say right off the bat that the car has been well maintained and back it up with even just a few specifics, you are going to get way more attention than just listing all the mods and telling people how fast it is. I’ll never understand how a seller can spend a paragraph talking about ride and handling, yet somehow think the new timing belt or water pump aren’t worth mentioning.
More importantly, you’re going to get attention from serious buyers when you mention maintenance items, and those are the people you want calling or emailing about the car. There’s certainly nothing wrong with listing modifications, but list maintenance items first. That way, when buyers see maintenance before mods, it gives the impression (and rightfully so) that maintenance is more important. Serious buyers like that, and it will absolutely help sell the car.

4. Claiming something's an 'easy fix':

Every time someone mentions “easy fix” in an ad I get the urge to find their house and launch tomatoes at the car in question with a water balloon slingshot. Cleaning up high-speed tomato debris is an easy fix; claiming that low compression in the number four cylinder is an easy fix is insulting. Or my favourite: ‘yeah the radiator has a leak but it’s not a problem. Just top off the coolant every week and it’s fine’.
Here’s my beef with the easy fix: nine times out of 10 the seller tried to mend this ‘easy fix’ and discovered it wasn’t so easy. Maybe the problem was more in-depth, or perhaps time and the elements made what should’ve been an easy fix quite difficult. As for the 10th time - why not just fix the easy fix? Not doing so says you’re lazy and not that interested in keeping the car maintained.

5. "I know it's 99 per cent aftermarket, but it's never been abused...":

I’m speaking here of the complete and total lie that someone would invest an absurd amount of money to make a car go fast, then never actually go fast with it. If you feel the need to tell the world how you were a perfect angel with this car, then you were probably just the opposite. Spare us all the condescending double-talk - if you built a kick-ass race car then never raced it, turn in your driver’s license and ride the bus. You don’t deserve to drive.
Now, I know there can be some legitimate people out there who have built some seriously fast rides, maybe went for a joyride or two and decided for whatever reason that you didn’t want it. That’s fine, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t at least exercised. Just say it like it is. That’s how real enthusiasts talk, and as a buyer, I’m very happy to buy from another enthusiast. I won’t, however, give the time of day to a self-righteous idiot who claims to have babied a highly modified machine that he’ll only sell to ‘serious shoppers’ who won’t waste his time. Guess what pal? If I’m not worth your time, then your car isn’t worth my cash

Source: www.carthrottle.com

Audi R8 Exclusive Edition Shoots Lasers From Its Eyes And Will Be Available In The US.

Audi has twice revealed special edition R8s with laser headlights, but where the limited-run R8 LMX and R8 Selection 24h special editions were only for Europe, the R8 V10 Plus Exclusive Edition revealed this week at the LA Auto Show will be offered in the US. Limited to 25 units, the special edition R8 can be immediately identified by its Quantum Gray body color with Solar Orange stripes. Look closely, however, and you’ll see the laser lights’ blue light signature within the headlight housing.

These feature in the high beams of the headlights, with the low beams and DRLs using LEDs. Four high intensity laser diodes in each headlight shoot a beam of blue laser light into a phosphor converter, which converts the blue light into a bright white shine, which can light up the road 600 meters ahead, twice that of a LED beam. Inside, passengers will sit in carbon-fiber seats, an ‘R8’ logo light beam greeting them upon opening the doors that come complete with “one of 25” etched onto the door sills. Other interior upgrades include a quilted Alcantara headliner and Alcantara-lined trunk.

Carbon-fiber adorns the exterior too, including the fixed rear wing, while 20-inch wheels sport an anthracite finish and house carbon-ceramic brakes. Power comes from the familiar 5.2-liter V10 rated at 610 hp and 413 lb-ft of torque mated to a seven-speed dual-clutch box. Available to order now, the R8 Exclusive Edition is priced from $229,200 excluding destination charge.

Source: http://www.carbuzz.com/