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Skoda Fabia cake!

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Skoda has created this amazing Skoda Fabia cake for it’s latest TV advertisement campaign in the UK. They’ve swapped rivets for raisins, metal for marzipan and spark plugs for sugar. The video was filmed at West Londons Shepperton Studios, and Skoda even includes a recipe for the cake available online. You’ll find both the advertisement and the recipe after the jump. The recipe is really not that useful, more like a list of ingredients which gives you an idea just how big the Fabia cake is.
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Lancia Delta S4 on go-kart track

Lancia Delta S4

So you’ve seen a go-kart going out of it’s territory and entering the car’s playground – the empty highways of Quebec City in Canada. The cars have decided to twist this irony around the other way – after the jump you will find a video of a Lancia Delta S4 having some fun in a little go-kart track. Look at the way that little hatch changes directions!

The Lancia Delta S4 was a WRC car similiar to the Peugeot 405 T16 you saw in an earlier video. It had a 1.8 litre engine that used both supercharging and turbocharging, not unlike Volkswagen’s new award-winning 1.4 litre TSI engine. Output was more than 550 horses with minimal turbo lag thanks to dual forced induction.
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Climb Dance: Peugeot 405 T16 on Pikes Peak

climb dance

Have you heard of Climb Dance? Climb Dance is an award-winning short film of about 5 minutes that documents Ari Vatanen’s record-breaking run at the 1988 annual Pike’s Peak Hill Climb Event in Colorado. The car used is a Peugeot 405 T16 with four-wheel-drive and four-wheel-steering. Footage from the video was recorded from cameras placed inside, in front, underneath and above the car, and cut together by Louis Mourey. Check out the video after the jump.
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Kart Vader: through the streets of Quebec

kartvaderSome of you may have heard of Ghost Rider. No, not the comic book one, but motorcycle stunt rider Patrik Furstenhoff, who rose to infamy with his high speed journeys through cities like Stockholm where he is based. Stuff he does includes weaving through traffic at 300km/h. There’s also another dude who drove different cars through a city with a similar pace, called Getaway in Stockholm. However, that was done mostly at night with not much cars on the road.

But what about a Go-Kart? Kart Vader drives his 125cc shifter go-kart through Quebec City in Canada in the middle of the night, through both streets and highways, at speeds up to 160km/h. In a go kart! He’s selling DVDs of his 44 minute journey online. He has a free teaser trailer available though, and I’ve put it up after the jump.
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Golf Mk1 with turbocharged Hayabusa engine

Golf Hayabusa Engine Bay

Remember the Smartuki? A Smart Fortwo with a Suzuki engine. Here’s a similiar engine in a chassis that looks alot less likely to topple over any moment – the Mk1 Volkswagen Golf! In a chassis that’s been stripped down to weigh 650kgs, the 1.3 litre Hayabusa engine has now been turbocharged to make over 350 horsepower. Not sure if these videos were recorded before or after the forced induction modification. Nevertheless, the engine sounds damn sweet. Three videos after the jump.
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SMART Tunnel Videos

SMARTThe SMART Tunnel has been open now for the past 3 days, and the 3km tunnel is still free of toll for a month so that motorists can try it out. No indication of toll rates so far, but Works Minister Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu has indicated that the toll for the tunnel would definitely be high – some rumours around the grassroots have indicated a price of perhaps RM3 to RM4!

Only cars, MPVs and SUVs are allowed in the tunnel – no bikes, buses or lorries are allowed. As most of you know, the SMART Tunnel is a dual purpose tunnel for both road and floodwater diversion, however the floodwater function will only be operational in August this year. The road function offers an alternative route to the Golden Triangle area – a car entering the tunnel via the entrance at Jalan Sungai Besi wil end up at either Jalan Davis or Jalan Tun Razak near the Kampung Pandan roundabout.

With the heavy traffic on the route to that area, it is estimated that motorists using the SMART tunnel will be able to cut down travelling time from half an hour to about 5 to 10 minutes. Considering the amount of fuel my car consumes during heavy traffic jams, as long as the frustration that comes with it – honestly that RM4 might just be worth it for me! We’ll have to start paying toll for the tunnel come 15th June 2007.

Local blogger Melvin has driven through the tunnel and produced a set of 4 videos. He has recorded the whole journey through the tunnel, as well as made some remarks on what he observed in the video, some interesting stuff like whether there is Amateur Radio reception in the tunnel or not. Please also head on to his set of 4 blog posts linked after the jump if you want to read further observations he made.

Check the videos out after the jump.
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Caparo T1 – an F1 car for the streets

Caparo T1

Ever heard of the Caparo T1? Well, now you have. It’s what you might consider calling a two-seater F1 car for the road. It’s powered by a 2.4 litre high revving V8 engine, similiar to an F1 car, and it makes up to 700 horsepower (only after some extra tuning though – some say only around 500hp at stock levels) at an astronomical 10,200rpm. Now that is a huge amount of horsepower for a car expected to weigh just under 470kg.

It can also corner almost like an F1 car – 3Gs of cornering force is achievable compared to an F1 car’s 4.5Gs. 0-100km/h takes only 2.5 seconds, but the most impressive feature is it’s braking ability – 0kmh to 160kmh and back to 0kmh in 8.5 seconds. That’s only 3.5 seconds to brake from 160kmh to a stand still, thanks to it’s 6-piston billet machined race calipers on steel brakes for the front, and 4-piston calipers for the rear.

The Caparo team consists of engineering legends like Gordon Murray, whom some of you might know as he is a columnist of Evo magazine. He was responsible for the McLaren F1. And that is enough to make you an engineering legend. The other team members are mostly ex-McLaren employees

A video after the jump.
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Porsche Panamera Spy Video

Porsche Panamera Spy Video

Here’s a video of a few Porsche Panameras on test – more than four minutes long. The Porsche Panamera is Porsche’s competitor in the four-door sedan and GT crossover segment. It will go head to head against the likes of the Aston Martin Rapide, which is another beautiful and sleek car by itself. Video after jump.

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The Porsche Panamera
2009 Porsche Panamera to be built at Leipzig
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Volkswagen IROC Video

Volkswagen Iroc

Volkswagen’s Iroc Concept shows us a preview of how the new Volkswagen Scirocco Golf-based Coupe will look like, although we can probably discard it now since Volkswagen is going back to the drawing board to develop a new corporate nose instead of sticking with the Audi-ish single frame look. Anyway, that won’t stop us from enjoying this video of the Volkswagen Iroc in motion right? Video after jump.

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Volkswagen Iroc Concept
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997 Porsche 911 GT3 on the Nurburgring

997 GT3

Unlike the 997 911 Turbo which features the latest in technology with twin VGT turbochargers: a first on a gasoline engine and all wheel drive, the 911 GT3 is a more track-day biased vehicle using a high revving race-bred normally aspirated engine and a rear wheel drive setup. Video after jump.

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2007 Porsche World Road Show Videos
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