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Vencer Sarthe. What?

Ever heard of the Vencer Sarthe? No? Don’t worry, you really aren’t alone. Conceived by an ex-plumber from Holland, packing a huge V8 and absolutely no electronic driver aids, the Vencer Sarthe is an old-school supercar for the modern age. It costs more than a Ferrari 458, McLaren 650S or Lamborghini Huracan, but it is […]

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How to paint your Ferrari

Take a fat, steaming pile of marketing bollocks, a Ferrari California T and a clever artist with a few buckets of UV paint and mix everything up in a wind tunnel, and what do you get? Well… this really. Ferrari USA were concerned that not enough people considered the California T a “work of art” (most likely because it isn’t…) […]

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Levels, Timaru. 1976/7. The OSCA Chevrolet Camaro's of Kevin Haig and Bruce Jenner. IMAGE/terry marshall Classic Motorsport

BLAST FROM THE PAST: OSCA

This week’s BLAST is a mighty one indeed – it comes from the 1976/77 season and shows the big, bad OSCA Camaros of Kevin Haig and Bruce Jenner battling it out on the Levels race track in Timaru. Awesome stuff! Thanks, as always, to Terry Marshal!

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New Cars News

Maloo goes mental

HSV today released details of the latest bout of supercharged silliness that has gripped them, possessing them to build and released the GTS Maloo – a 430kW/740Nm ute. Yes, that is now a thing, thanks to the frenzied, clearly disturbed minds at HSV in Australia jamming the 6.2-litre supercharged LSA V8 into the company’s already-extreme […]

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New Cars Road Tests

ROAD TEST: HSV Senator Signature

Car names. It is a tricky art getting it just right. Coming up with a name that invokes the spirit of the car is a very hard thing to do – the Ford Probe, for example, failed quite badly at that when, instead of invoking images of a cutting-edge machine used for space exploration, it […]

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Motorsport

The same old race…

This sort of thing has been done so many times now it is not funny. But still it is a very cool thing to watch! A single lap handicapped race between a 2011 Red Bull RB7 driven by David Coulthard, a current Triple 8 Red Bull Holden V8 Supercar driven by Steven Richards and the […]

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