One Liners:
- Porsche has officially launched their Cayenne hybrid
- The world agrees that Ferrari just had an absolutely pathetic F1 performance in Barcelona this weekend
- New Nissan Micra set to arrive next month and looks like serious competition
Bloody green hell, it’s the Porsche 911 GT3 R!
Arriving like a drunken Hulk with a crotch full of bee stings is the very green, and presumably very noisy 911 GT3 R! It’s a customer racer - you know the formula, we build you a race car for a lot of money that you get to race while we crib data off it for our actual race cars, everyone’s happy a la win/win. Great.
This is particularly hairy of chest thanks to 404kW, efficient (but impossible to miss) aerodynamics, smatterings of carbon fibre, widened tracks and all the tech you could possibly imagine. It’s a no nonsense single seater, not by any stretch of the imagination a road car, and the specifications list is enough to break the internet so don’t even ask. Also, it’s priced at 460,000 Euros excluding shipping costs and 15% VAT. Cheap thrills? Not hardly.
The VW Golf GTI TCR Concept is worth a see
Every year Volkswagen pundits and aficionados descend upon the Worthersee Festival to see the finest offerings from Wolfsberg as well as generally have the largest VW party on the planet. VW use this as a launchpad for some hot concepts and this year was no different, with this, the TCR or Touring Car Racing series model.
That’s a very hot GTI then courtesy of a 2.0 litre turbo inline 4-cylinder churning out 213kW/370Nm, is limited to 250kph but unbridled will continue to a max speed of 264kph. Did we say concept? Well it is, but it will also be launched later this year so, ‘yay!’
The Opel Grandland is now available in South Africa
And we have the prices:
Grandland X 1,6T AT
| R429,000.00
|
Grandland X 1,6T Enjoy A
| R465,000.00
|
Grandland X 1,6T Cosmo AT
| R565,000.00 |
That’s pretty decent for a SUV from a manufacturer that straddles the wall marked premium. These are of course built in Namibia alongside their French sibling, the Peugeot 3008, a car we enjoyed very much. Full road test here, to see how they compare → Peugeot 3008 Review - 1.6 THP Allure
