Following a 20 per cent growth in sales during 2008 Rolls-Royce has announced it will be adding to its workforce with more than 150 new jobs on offer. The new roles are required to assist the production of the Rolls-Royce Ghost. The Ghost will be built on its own dedicated assembly line, although it will […]
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Porsche 917 celebrates 40th birthday
The famous Porsche 917 racing car turns 40 this year. Porsche will hold special birthday celebrations for the 917 at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed (3–5 July). The theme for the FoS this year is ‘True Grit – Epic Feats of Endurance’. It is appropriate then that among the 917’s many achievements are back-to-back […]
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High Rollers raise stakes
Rolls-Royce is bucking the trend of financial disaster in this carpocalypse now era. Yesterday, the Goodwood based company proudly announced a 20 per cent growth in sales during 2008. Last year 1212 Rollers found new homes, up from 1010 in 2007. That marks their fifth consecutive year of increasing sales. “This is a tremendous result […]
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Fifth Gear – Series 14, Episode 4
Apologies for the late update to this week’s show. Jason Plato—AUSmotive’s preferred Fifth Gear presenter—started the show comparing the JDM Honda Civic Mugen RR v the UK spec 2000 GT. The Japanese Civic was the quickest around their test track, and by some margin, plus it sounds bloody good, too. I didn’t want to mention […]
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1939 Auto Union “Silverarrow” Type D
Here is some footage discovered on YouTube of the replica 1939 Auto Union “Silverarrow” Type D built in England by Roach Manufacturing. This car will be driven at the 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed, for the first time, by Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason.