Monday, August 31, 2015

How To Buy A Lucrative Muscle Car

There is always a difference between an ordinary vehicle and a muscle car. A muscle car brings on a cool attitude when you are driving. If you prefer extreme driving and love sports such as drag racing, a muscle car can suit you best. These exclusive vehicles are available in various designs. Different models have different styles and features. They are tough, hardy, trendy and reflect a masculine attitude. These types of cars are eye catchy and can easily be spotted with its unusual bright look.

Some people prefer to choose sophisticated cars for smooth driving. Normally youngsters prefer extreme, hard hitting driving. They require fast moving cars that can withstand rush driving or extreme driving through hill areas. If you are adventurous and enjoy being with a sporty group of friends, then you may like to enjoy thrilling experience in your vehicle. Muscle cars will be the best option for you in this situation. These types of cars are hard and designed in a stylish way. You get a wide range of variety of these vehicles at affordable prices.

If you are determined to buy a hardy automobile, you must know the difference between this sort of hardy cars and other luxurious cars. Usually, these cars are made for high performance with a medium size and a huge powerful engine, normally a V8. Common muscle cars have two doors, but some classic ones have four doors as well. Except all these, these sorts of cars have special trims that create maximum torque and rotary force when driving. Drag racing experts choose these cars for competition. They are comparatively larger in size than any sport cars.

Being aware of the qualities and features of such cars, you need to pay attention to different attractive models of these cars. These cars are colorfully designed and very stylish in looks. May be this is one of the reasons for youngsters craze for these powerful cars. They were introduced in the early 60s and those old models are called classic muscle cars. Now with the invention of new technology and new stylish designs, classic cars become rare collections. Old owners sometime take their vehicles for classic muscle car sales and buy more fashionable new cars for their young generations. These cars continue to create a craze among young people. Now several models have come up with consideration of modern choices.

Once you have decided to buy a lucrative muscle automobile, you can start looking for the right affordable vehicles. First, you can visit several automobile exhibits. Different vehicles manufacturers host such exhibits in your city where they feature their vehicles. You can have a look at your favorite one. Secondly you can go through magazines that contain such car images, and you can search in Websites based on automobiles. You can easily get the contact details of car manufacturers/dealers from the sites. But before buying any stylish muscle car you should verify the credibility of the manufacturer. You can visit different showrooms to take various glimpses of attractive cars and ultimately in this way you can choose the right and the best car for you.

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Sunday, August 30, 2015

Miami Vice Ferrari Goes Up For Grabs

What red blooded boy (and even a few girls) will not stop what they are doing and stare when any Ferrari goes rolling by? When I was a teenage boy I would have all my buddies over and we would all watch Miami Vice. Yes, because it was a great, ahead of its time investigative show, but one of the main reasons was we all wanted to be Sonny Crocket, if for nothing else, so we could live in a boat, carry a gun, be surrounded by pretty girls, but most importantly, so we could have a white Ferrari Testarossa as our daily driver!

Well, you too can now have your shot at owning and driving the very Ferrari that Don Johnson used in Miami Vice. Complete with the Radio Shack like permanently mounted cell phone still in it. How cool is that?
There were actually two Testarossa's in the show that were given to NBC by Ferrari, after Ferrari sued them for using old Corvettes modified to look like Daytona's. Not a bad deal for NBC to have Two new Ferrari's forced upon you. We should all be sued like that.

Last year this very same car was on eBay where the owner was asking a whopping $1.75 million. There were no takers, so now the car is back and going to a Mecum Auction in Monterey, CA. August 13-15. The car has only accumulated a little over 16,000 miles since its birth and still shows to be in mint condition, with all the proper service work complete.

I think it would be appropriate if Mr. Don Johnson was there himself to auction it off. We have heard no rumors of this, but would not be surprised if he was at the very least there to shake some hands and sign some autographs for some of us 50 year olds.

With the price of at least this Testarossa, heading north of the original sticker price of the car in 1986, most of us will have to be content to just watch the auction on tv and reminisce about our teenage years when at least in our dreams, we were Sonny Crocket.

Saturday, August 29, 2015

The Aston Martin Virage Sports Car

Aston Martin Virage - A close look at this sports car including performance, technical data, features, comparing rivals, history, used prices

from Classic to Modern

THE CAR

The V8 Series of Aston Martin sports cars had been successfully produced since 1969, and a replacement was well overdue.

Consequently, in late 1988, and as a natural evolution, the successor was introduced at the Birmingham Motor Show as a 2+2 coupe, and designated the Aston Martin Virage sports car.

It was positioned as the company's premier and exclusive model, and the timing of the launch coincided with the acquisition of the company by Ford of the US.

In terms of styling, it's sleek lines, which produced a drag coefficient of just 0.34, resembled that of a Lagonda rather than the classic lines of the V8 Series.

It was fitted with spoilers both front and rear, and stylish flush headlights.

The influence of Ford was noticeable in the fact that, as a cost-cutting measure, a number of the car's' components were sourced from a wide range of companies, including the Parent.

Although it used aluminium body panels, it was still a heavy car with a curb weight of 1790 kg.

When production ended in 1995, Aston Martin had built a total of 365 Virage sports cars.

THE ENGINE

The Virage was powered by a front-engined, all aluminium, 5.3 litre, 32 valve, DOHC, V8 unit with the head modified by Callaway Engineering in the US, and incorporated a modified intake manifold and Weber-Marelli fuel injection.

This developed 330 bhp at 5300 rpm, and 350 ft/lbs of torque at 4000 rpm.

Fitted with a ZF five speed manual gearbox and using a 9.5:1 compression, it produced a top speed of 158 mph, with 0-60 mph in 6.5 secs.

Interestingly, the majority of customers preferred the optional Chrysler three-speed Torqueflite automatic transmission.

Towards the end of production, an optional six speed manual gearbox from the Vantage sports car was offered.

In January 1992, as part of a programme of improvements, existing customers were able to replace the original 5.3 litre engine with a 6.3 litre V8 unit that had been incorporated in the Aston Martin AMR1, a Group C sports car racer that was entered in the 1989 Le Mans 24 Hours race.

The new engine developed 500 bhp at 6000 rpm, and 480 ft/lbs of torque at 5800 revs, which gave the car a top speed of 175 mph.

The conversion included fitting larger vented disc brakes, 18 inch wheels, air dams and side air vents.

For Technical Data, see original article below

COMPETITION

Typical competitors of the Aston Martin Virage sports car were the following: Porsche 964 Turbo, and Ferrari 550 Maranello.

For Comparative Technical Data, see original article below

This concludes my Aston Martin Virage Sports Car Review