WTF? Nuclear Powered Car - VW BlueSport MR - Honda NSX Double R
The WTF "World Thorium Fuel" concept car by Cadillac lives up to its acronym...
Created by Loren Kulesus, everything about the WTF has been created to last 100 years without maintenance. That's the reason for the element number ninety, thorium: to act as a nuclear fuel powering batteries that would power the car. Autoblog.com
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Wow.. VW's BlueSport is looking good.. real good.
[Edit] Interior! (#7)
So what are we looking at? The Concept BlueSport is a lightweight, mid-engined, rear-drive roadster (think Toyota MR2) powered by a 180bhp version of VW’s two-litre turbodiesel. Yes, that’s right: diesel. Transmission duties are taken care of by a six-speed DSG box, so essentially it’s a Golf engine and transmission turned round and put behind the driver. - TopGear.com
If this gets anywhere near the Lotus Elise's performance numbers I'm gonna want one badly! Oddly enough it's a Diesel... but Audi (VW) has been running TDI racecars for a few years now so I have no doubt they can make this work. Diesel's also tend to get much better mileage figures.
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With Honda axing all of its upcoming sports cars after the financial crisis.. I had this idea that they should just take the old models, upgrade them, and put those on sale!... well it looks like that might be partially coming true.
With the NSX successor officially cancelled, Honda tapped long-time motorsports partner Mugen to create a one-off coupe to commemorate the everyday supercar that ended production in 2005. The Mugen NSX RR is stretched to 177.95 inches (almost four inches more than the '94-05 model), and widened by 5.5 inches and features a combination of carbon fiber and aluminum body panels. In addition to a set of upgrade brakes, GT-style body kit, wing, hood-scoop and diffusers, the 3.0-liter V6 has been swapped out in favor of a supercharged 2.4-liter V6 mated to a revised six-speed manual gearbox. Mugen hasn't released any power figures, but informed speculation pegs output between 350 and 380 hp.
While it's highly-doubtful that Honda or Mugen will sell the NSX RR in the States, there's a good chance that the tuning firm will acquire some low-mileage NSX-Rs in Japan to produce a limited run of the RR, similar to the NISMO R34 GT-R Z-Tune Nissan produced at the end of the Skyline's production run. - Autoblog.com
There's also this S2000 Modulo... they re-did the interior also which looks very nice.
Created by Loren Kulesus, everything about the WTF has been created to last 100 years without maintenance. That's the reason for the element number ninety, thorium: to act as a nuclear fuel powering batteries that would power the car. Autoblog.com
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Wow.. VW's BlueSport is looking good.. real good.
[Edit] Interior! (#7)
So what are we looking at? The Concept BlueSport is a lightweight, mid-engined, rear-drive roadster (think Toyota MR2) powered by a 180bhp version of VW’s two-litre turbodiesel. Yes, that’s right: diesel. Transmission duties are taken care of by a six-speed DSG box, so essentially it’s a Golf engine and transmission turned round and put behind the driver. - TopGear.com
If this gets anywhere near the Lotus Elise's performance numbers I'm gonna want one badly! Oddly enough it's a Diesel... but Audi (VW) has been running TDI racecars for a few years now so I have no doubt they can make this work. Diesel's also tend to get much better mileage figures.
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With Honda axing all of its upcoming sports cars after the financial crisis.. I had this idea that they should just take the old models, upgrade them, and put those on sale!... well it looks like that might be partially coming true.
With the NSX successor officially cancelled, Honda tapped long-time motorsports partner Mugen to create a one-off coupe to commemorate the everyday supercar that ended production in 2005. The Mugen NSX RR is stretched to 177.95 inches (almost four inches more than the '94-05 model), and widened by 5.5 inches and features a combination of carbon fiber and aluminum body panels. In addition to a set of upgrade brakes, GT-style body kit, wing, hood-scoop and diffusers, the 3.0-liter V6 has been swapped out in favor of a supercharged 2.4-liter V6 mated to a revised six-speed manual gearbox. Mugen hasn't released any power figures, but informed speculation pegs output between 350 and 380 hp.
While it's highly-doubtful that Honda or Mugen will sell the NSX RR in the States, there's a good chance that the tuning firm will acquire some low-mileage NSX-Rs in Japan to produce a limited run of the RR, similar to the NISMO R34 GT-R Z-Tune Nissan produced at the end of the Skyline's production run. - Autoblog.com
There's also this S2000 Modulo... they re-did the interior also which looks very nice.