Morgan's Cars Blog: 2013

Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Flickr and YouTube

Good news! I have a YouTube account. Click Here to view it. More good news! I have a Flickr account. Click Here to view it.

Right. These are 3 website I enjoy looking. Click on the blue link saying 'here' to view one. First up is GTPlanet a free to join website about the game GT and basically everything. To view it click Here. Mext is Pistonheads another free to join forum about cars. To view it click here. Lastly, 3dTuning which allows you to choose from some real cars and customize them in many ways. To view it click here

Friday, 8 March 2013

Lancia 037

This car was a mid-engined rally car built in the early 1980s just for Group B rallying. 200 were made to comply with Group B regulations. 207 were actually made. The 037 had 6 WRC wins 3 with Walter Rohrl and Christian Geistdorfer and 3 with Markku Alen and Ilkka Kivimaki.

Geneva Motor Show 2013

The Geneva motor show 2013

The Geneva motor show is a show which is on during the week. This is held in Geneva, Switzerland and has been held since 1905. This is a motor show which has seen the arrival of numerous show stoppers.

The Aston Rapide S starred and the cheaper Suzuki SX4 were some of the newly launched cars. The Ferrari LaFerrari was a very fast, sleek and stylish Ferrari. Unfortunately the name isn't as great. It means TheFerrari in English. Another supercar was the Lambo Veneno which is a stunning no-frills concept Lambo. Arguably the best car was the McLaren P1 which looked great, went great, and handled great.

My friends from Car Dealer Magazine were there to capture the action and have kindly let be use some of there photos.

Lambo Veneno picture by James Baggott
This Lambo is £2.5million,
740BHP
220mph top speed.

McLaren P1

The McLaren has an £886,000 price tag,

903 BHP

217 MPH limited top speed

Under 3 seconds 0-62

Ferrari LaFerrari picture by James Baggott

The LaFerrari is £1.0 million,

800 BHP,

Under 3 seconds 0-62

Over 220 mph top speed.

Vauxhall Adam

The Vauxhall Adam is a new supermini by Vauxhall. It fills the gap between the Agila and Corsa. It is like a Mini with the customization options. But when made, it is unique.

Vauxhall at Geneva motor show (picture by James Baggott at Car dealer Magazine).

Monday, 4 March 2013

Lexus LFA

The Lexus LFA is a high-performance Supercar with limited production - only 500 Lexus LFAs were made. Top Gears Jeremy Clarkson said ‘it was the best car he had ever driven’. The car (including the concept) had been modelled on since 2000. The LFA was partially shown at the 2003 Tokyo motor show. The concept was fully revealed at the 2005 Detroit motor show. The roadster version of the (then called) LF-A was shown at the 2008 Detroit motor show.

The LFA finished concept was shown at (for the third time) in motor city. In December 2010 the first LF-A rolled off the production line at the Motomachi factory LFA Plant at the production rate of 1 a day. The building of the LFA came to a close at December 2012.

With launch control the speedy LFA goes from 0-60mph in 3.6 seconds, and 0-100mph in 7.6 seconds. The LFA can do a lap of Magny-Cours in France in 1:20.6, the fastest lap round the track ever followed by the KTM X-Bow and Nissan GTR.

The LFA also did a lap of Goodwood and clocked 1:24.8 making it the fastest lap of the track.

Last ever Lexus LFA

Sunday, 3 March 2013

The Morgan Motor Company

Keep an eye out for The Morgan Motor Company press release from Geneva Motor Show 2013 !!

Friday, 1 March 2013

Volvo C30 Polestar

The Volvo C30 is a normal supermini. But the Polestar is a no-frills concept. It gets a tweaked version of the 2.5 litre Volvo T6 engine. With a rumoured 0-60 time of 4.6 seconds.

Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Morgan v Nissan v Porsche

Recently Charles Morgan (the managing director of Morgan motor company limited) said that he would like to see a group test between a Porsche Carrera S, a Nissan GT-R and his own Morgan Aero Coupe at Goodwood.

These the stats of all 3 cars. It would be good if you read my blog and voted on the poll as to who you think will win the group test. Here are my findings

Porsche Carrera S

188 MPH

400 BHP

4.5 Seconds 0-62

1,830 KG

£83,103

Nissan GT-R

193 MPH

530 BHP

3.0 Seconds 0-62

1,730 KG

£74,480

Morgan Aero Coupe

170 MPH

390 BHP

4.5 Seconds 0-62

1,175 KG

£99,950

On paper the GT-R would win but I would like to be at Goodwood to see who wins in this exciting race.

Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Fiat X1/9

The Fiat X1/9 was a sports car that was designed by Bertone between 1972-89. 140,500 were made. This spotless example was found at the Gosport, UK car show.

De Tomaso Guara

The De Tomaso Guara is a sports car built between 1993-2004. It was built in 3 body styles, Barchetta, spider and coupe. The Guara is based on the Maserati Barchetta Stradale Concept. Around 50 were built. 10-12 were Barchettas, 4 spiders and the rest were coupes.

Monday, 25 February 2013

Lambo Miura

The Lambo Miura is a high end supercar built between 1966-72. In that time only 764 were built. Early Miuras, known as P400's, were powered by a 3.9L Lamborghini engine. The next Miura was called P400S though also known as Miura S. It was shown at the 1968 Turin motor show. Then came last Miura that was the P400 SV. Only 150 SVs were produced.

Hyundai Veloster

The Hyundai Veloster is a compact three-door. This car fills the gap that was originally taken by the Tiburon. In Vietnam it is called the Isuzu Veloster. The concept version was called the HND-3. There were several concepts at 2011's SEMA show. Including an ARK Performance Veloster, PM Lifestyle Veloster and Hyundai RE: Mix Music Veloster.

Mazda Mazda6/ Atenza

The Mazda 6 assembly is in Hiroshima, Japan, Hofu, Japan, Flat rock, Michigan, Bogota, Colombia and Changchun, China. The first generation Mazda 6 was built from 2002-2008. There was also a faster version called the MazdaSpeed Atenza in Japan, MazdaSpeed6 in North America and Mazda 6 MPS in Europe. The second generation Mazda 6 was made between 2008-2013. The current Mazda 6 was unveiled at the 2012 Moscow international motor show

Grinnall Scorpion

The Grinnall Scorpion is a reverse trike, two wheels at the front one at the back. Designed in 1991 by Steve Harper. The Scorpion featured in the TOCA 2 Touring car game for PS1 and also in the Road & Track video '0-100-0 Super car Shootout' as driven by Phil Hill who reviews it among other supercars.

Car Town

To play Car Town you need to have a Facebook account. First you have a Ford Pinto and a workbay. You race the Pinto and you can buy other cars in the Universal Showroom. Every so often there is a challenge by the garage. As you level up you can get car builds and races. Example: my Mclaren MP4-12C Spider 997 performance v Dodge Challenger 751 performance. Try to click when the pointer is near the bit which is most green. Race results MP4-12C 3688 Challenger 3139. Reward $500 5XP. Every 100-200 hours there is a leaderboard which you can win prizes. Click on a car to customize and work on. You can race against friends, 24hr road trip, 24hr car show and 5min deliver pizza. You can sell cars take a picture or customize. You can change the colour or add a decal, change the wheels, tires, add a body kit, performance, supension, window tint and neon. When you win cars they can be found in storage, edit garage-storage click and drag car to where you want.

Alfa SZ

The Alfa ES-30 or SV as it is more commonly known. It was built at Terrazzano Di Rho. For the SZ only one official colour scheme was available it was Red with Grey roof and Tan leather interior.1036 SZ's were made but 1000 were planned and about 100 exported to Japan.

Alfa Montreal

The Alfa Montreal was shown at the 1967 expo 67 in Montreal. But it didn't have a name but the public called it the Montreal. The first Production car was the Tipo 10564 shown at the 1970 Geneva motor show. Production was split between the Arese plant an Bertone's plant's in Caselle and Grugliasco outside Turin.

Lamborghini Aventador

The Lambo Aventador is a new striking Lambo.

MG6

MG was a company by British Leyland but when British Leyland went into administration MG were trying to sell as many cars as they could. But then they into administration. More lately though they were revived by Nanjing automotive China. Then they made the MG6.

Spotted! Ferrari limo

You usually see 4X4s like Hummers as limos. But you've probably never seen a Ferrari limo. This 360 is apparently the only one in the world and cost quarter of a million to create.

Morgan Aero 8

Morgan Aero 8 is built in Malvern. This car is basically years old. Richard Hammond from Top Gear UK owns a Morgan Aero 8

Sunday, 24 February 2013

Pontiac Aztek

Ewww... Disclaimer! Do not look at for more than 30 Seconds.

VW XL1

Volkswagen has confirmed that its The two-seater was first previewed by Dr Ferdinand Piech way back in April 2002 at a VW shareholders’ meeting as the 1L, so named for its capacity to achieve fuel economy levels below 1l/100km (or above 282mpg, in real money). Since then, the 1L been transformed into the more production-friendly XL1, which loses the concept’s bubble roof to a more conventional coupe roofline, but retains the tapered profile and near-fully-enclosed rear wheels – as well, of course, as the remarkable fuel consumption.mad hyper-economy XL1 coupe will go into production.