Best Cars

Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder 2010

The Lamborghini Gallardo (Italian pronunciation: [ɡaʎˈʎardo]) is a sports car built by Lamborghini. The Gallardo is Lamborghini's most-produced model to date, with over 10,000 built in its first seven years of production.The car is named after a famous breed of fighting bull. The Spanish word gallardo translates into "gallant".

The Gallardo offers two choices of transmissions, a conventional (H-Box) six-speed manual transmission, and an advanced six-speed electro-hydraulically controlled semi-automatic robotized manual, which Lamborghini abbreviates to "E-gear". The "E-gear" allows the driver to make shifts much faster than a manual transmission would. The driver shifts up and down via paddles behind the steering wheel, but also has an automatic mode.

For the MY2006 (launched in late 2005) Lamborghini introduced many changes to the car to counter some criticisms garnered by the press and owners. These were derived from the limited edition Gallardo SE. The exhaust system was changed to a more sporty one (including a flap to make it quieter around town), the suspension was revised and a new steering rack was fitted, the engine power was increased by 20 bhp to a maximum of 512 brake horsepower (382 kW), the biggest change was an overall lowering of the gearing especially in 1st to 5th. The result was a much improved car, it handled and turned in better, sounded better under full throttle and the extra power and lower gearing turned an already fast car into a seriously quick one

Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder

Lamborghini Truck Old & New 2010

Lamborghini Truck

Lamborghini Reventon 2011 Concept

Lamborghini Reventon

Friday, 12 November 2010

Aston Martin V12 Vantage 2010

This car, like the magnificent DBS, and like the Vantage V8 (read our review here), has scribblers everywhere wetting themselves in torrents of superlatives. And Clarkson? He who can curl his lip at a Ferrari as if it's a mouldy custard tart – “It's superb,” quoth he.

It is superb, a fantastic car: fantastic to look at and fantastic to drive. It is also, for most of us, simply the stuff of fantasy. The V12, north of $400,000 by the time you get it on the road, is in such rarified air that only the very lucky, the very successful or the exceedingly well-born need apply.