McLaren Automotive has set the price for its upcoming MP4-12C supercar. Pricing starts at £168,500 for UK buyers, while European customers will be coughing up €200,000 plus. Those of us in other markets will have pricing confirmed at a later date. For comparison, an Aston Martin DBS will cost you £170,500, a Porsche 911 GT2 […]
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Bruno Senna’s home movie
The video below features some in-car footage of Bruno Senna driving a McLaren MP4/8 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed over the weekend. Truth be told it’s a pretty crappy clip, filmed on a mobile phone. But, when you stop to think about it, how many times do you see amateur in-car footage filmed from […]
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Hay stack
The Goodwood Festival of Speed usually brings out some classic old racecars out for a run up the hill. Sometimes those classic machines don’t always return home in the pristine condition they arrived in. Here you can see Peter Champion, driving his former Brock/Perkins HDT Commodore, got things a little bit wrong during Friday’s action. […]
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BMW Alpina B5 Bi-Turbo
Images of the BMW Alpina B5 Bi-Turbo have been published and here’s a few for you to look at. Based on the F10 5 Series, the Alpina hot rod is currently on show at the Goodwood Moving Motor Show. Billed as an M5 rival the Alpina B5 is powered by a 4.4 litre V8 twin-turbo. […]
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Twenty years of the McLaren F1
One of the world’s most significant sportscars has just celebrated its 20th birthday. The car in question, of course, is the McLaren F1. The trainspotters among you will know the F1 didn’t actually have its official launch until 28 May 1992, and customer deliveries didn’t commence until 1993. But with this party McLaren Automotive honoured […]
McLaren Automotive have just announced the locations for their initial dealership rollout. The good news is Australia is on the list. Well, Sydney is, more specifically. The bad news is the Sydney showroom will be launched in the second of two stages. There are plans for 35 dealerships around the world to begin with. The […]
Doing a few burnouts at the 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed is one thing. Doing them in Victoria’s nanny state during Grand Prix week is a different proposition altogether. Just ask 2008 F1 World Champ Lewis Hamilton who was busted fishtailing his Mercedes road car yesterday evening on Fitzroy Street in St Kilda. Senior police […]
Formula One world champions Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton recently got their hands on a pair of prototype McLaren MP4-12Cs and were given an empty Goodwood track to test the car. With a 3.8 litre V8 ‘M838T’ engine producing 600bhp and an impressive 600Nm of torque, coupled to a, F1-like Seamless Shift Gearbox with seven […]
The live launch of McLaren Automotive has just finished and with it comes a plethora of press material. There is a lot of information included in the official press release, including transcripts from today’s launch. Actually, the amount of material below is overwhelming. I suggest you get yourself a nice warm cuppa and sit yourself […]
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Audi at the 2009 Festival of Speed
On my daily Twitter rounds I came across a tweet from Audi_online saying the Audi tv website has been updated. So I had a quick scout around and found a short clip for you all to enjoy. It’s a brief report from Audi’s time at the 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed. They’ve managed to squeeze […]
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Back to the future
Here at AUSmotive we like to keep you up to date with the Australian MINI Challenge series. Now, with these videos you can imagine what the category would have been like back in the 1960s. There are two clips for you to enjoy. Both were filmed at this year’s Goodwood Revival held in late September. […]
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Holy Ghost!
Rolls-Royce has revealed the performance figures of its new Ghost a few weeks out from its official reveal at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. The actual weight of the car is yet to be officially confirmed, but you can be sure the latest Roller will be no featherweight. So, then, that the car can […]