33 degrees Celsius, overcast sky , the sun is burning. The asphalt shimmers on the Goodwood Circuit, the famous motor racing circuit, 100 km south of London. Built on a military airfield in the 1930s. After World War II , more specifically from September 1948 here on the four kilometer long runway again instead of race , won the very first post-war racing Sir Stirling Moss. However, the racing legend lived here with many successes, including a bitter defeat.
In April 1962 Stirling Moss at Goodwood had a serious accident , so heavy that it had to end his career. Today, we here at Goodwood testfahren an impressive pre-production model . A real race car with road permission . But it is not a British automobile. No Lotus, not a gun , not Morgan, not a McLaren. Anything Italian from Maranello , Modena or Sant’Agata Bolognese. No, the angry looking , white super athlete with the bi-xenon headlamps schlitzaugigen and the three large air inlets in the front bumper is from Japan . From the refined and now sport Toyota subsidiary Lexus. His name LFA . His mission show , draufhaben what Toyota / Lexus Sun And it succeeds.
The LFA must not hide from Lamborghini , Ferrari and Co. . The performance , the chassis and the workmanship are top class . In the fast car industry , ten years of development indeed an eternity …
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For all the freaks R8, Audi has now an even hotter irons in the fire: the new Audi R8 GT. The stops provide an additional 35 hp and thanks to the many carbon parts has trimmed 100 pounds. The limited edition high performance sports car version of the familiar to the more powerful 5.2-liter V10 with 560 hp. Power increased, the weight is now just 1525 kg. Enough to speed up the R8 GT in 3.6 seconds to 100 mph. Top speed: 320 km / h.
The windscreen of the R8 GT is made of thinner glass, the glass partition between the passenger and engine compartment and the cell plate in the tailgate of lightweight and durable polycarbonate. These three changes take nine kilograms savings. The rigid rear wing is good for another 1.2 kilograms, with the aluminum cover on the 100 liter luggage compartment in the bow could be through thin metal sheet and additional excerpts save 2.6 kilograms.
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MTM, the fine tuning company from Wettstetten wait to chill at the beginning of spring with a surprise. And with a tuned version of the Audi R8, which after treatment by MTM with rear-wheel drive, supercharged engine with 560 hp and not least is to book.
The end product is called MTM R8 GT3-2, it needs to accelerate from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour less than four seconds and makes even beyond the 300 km / h still an excellent figure.
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