Only nine Lamborghini Veneno LP750-4 Roadsters will be made and each will cost its buyer 3.3 million Euros excluding tax. Recently, a German dealership claims to have the ninth and final Veneno Roadster up for sale for 5,699,999 Euros including 19% VAT. However, there were no real pictures of the car by the dealer and information are only limited to it being metallic grey with a black full leather interior. View the advertisement here.
The Toyota GT86 CS-R3 rallycar will be making its public debut at ADAC Rallye Deutschland next month. Germany based Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG) had developed the GT86 CS-R3 to help Toyota return to its rallying roots with a rear-wheel-drive car. The Toyota GT86 CS-R3 weights only 1080kg and features an upgraded version of the FA20 2.0 boxer engine with updated software, a higher compression ratio and changes to the cam lift to produce between 240-250bhp. All the power will be sent to the rear wheels via a six-speed sequential gearbox. The GT86 CS-R3 will also feature a FIA-homologated roll cage. The car is set to compete in the World Rally Championship’s R3 class but it will not compete against the clock in Rallye Deutschland. Instead, it will be used as a zero car in the hands of Isolde Holderied to conduct safety checks on each stage before the rally cars go on their timed runs. Isolde Holderied will also help to evaluate the car, which is currently still a prototype, to help improve the design to meet the R3 homologation specifications. Watch the car undergoing testings below.
Chris Harris is very good at making a car go sideways and was in the tyre killing industry for years. In the season 10 of /DRIVE, Harris will be using the Anglesey Circuit in Wales as his blackboard and his personal BMW M235i as his chalk to give all the /DRIVE audience a personal drift lesson. Now watch and learn.
BMW had released footage of their epic Driftmob in Cape Town, South Africa. The video features five Melbourne Red BMW M235i smoking some rubber to draw the attention of the busy crowd at a large roundabout with the help of some experienced stunt drivers like Rhys Millen and Samuel Hübinette. All the driving-scenes are real and the roads were closed for safety reasons.
Lamborghini had started the customer deliveries of the brand new Lamborghini Huracán LP610-4 globally and the factory was running at full speed to keep up with the orders. Since Lamborghini does not have a test track at their factory in Sant’Agata Bolognese, visitors to the Lamborghini factory could witness brand new Huracáns being tested on the roads around the factory before they were signed off and shipped to their owners around the world. Following is a video of 13 Lamborghini Huracán LP-610 filmed testing around the factory facility.
The Transfaragarsan Highway was named the best driving road in the world by Top Gear. Built in the seventies during the rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu using 6 million kilograms of dynamite, this beautiful road had claimed the lives of 40 builders to complete. Over the years, this road was visited by many enthusiasts in some of the the world’s greatest sports cars and supercars but recently, two skilled drifters had made their way through the mountain pass in their drift machines. The clip, dubbed ‘Ride the Mountains’ features female drifter Ramona Rusu and fellow drifter Gabi Ifrim in a pair of modified BMW E30 3-Series gliding through the mountains sideways. Watch the action below.
A 993 Rauh-Welt Begriff Porsche 911 was crushed after the straps used by the circuit crane truck lifting it snapped, putting the precious modified Porsche on its side. Mark Arcenal who witnessed the incident claimed that the RWB Porsche was being unloaded from the circuit truck upon returning to the pits after it was hit from the back and slammed into the circuit wall. RWB claim that it was solely the circuit’s responsibility as it was being unloaded from the circuit crane truck at the moment.
Photos via Rauh-Welt Begriff RWB.
German drifter Harald Müller sets a new Guinness record in Turkey for the longest recorded drift in his modified Toyota GT86 after driving it sideways for 2 hours and 25 minutes. The track used is only 0.14 miles long and water was sprayed onto it constantly to help keep the tires in one piece for the stunt. The total distance recorded by Müller was 89.55 miles, beating the previous record of 51.2 miles set by Johan Schwartz in a BMW M5 and earning Müller a Guiness World Record.
A rare Lamborghini Diablo GT was spotted for sale in Japan. Only 80 Lamborghini Diablo GTs were made in total exclusively for the European market but a few were shipped abroad to the United States and Asia. What makes this particular Diablo GT special is that it is finished in a unique shade called Ice Blue and it is the only one in existence finished in this colour. The car is basically brand new as it had only covered 700KM over the years. The Lamborghini Diablo GT features a 6.0 V12 producing 575 hp and 465 lb-ft of torque mated to a five-speed manual transmission powering only the rear wheels. The car is currently up for sale in Enmann Corporation, Japan. Interested buyers would have to ask for the price but a car as new and exclusive as this won’t be cheap. View the car here.
Photos via Enmann Corporation.
The Sun Valley Road Rally is an annual event held in the U.S. since 2009 where the entire stretch of Highway 75 was closed and declared a ‘No Speed Limit’ zone for participants to attempt the highest top speed of their vehicles. This year, a race prepped Nissan GT-R managed to set a new top speed record of 237 mph before Bugatti Veyron Super Sport Pur Blanc owner Ben Chen took his one-off Veyron Super Sport Pur Blanc or known as the Panda Express down the run and recorded a blistering 246.4mph, setting a new record. Watch the run below.
Photos via Aimee Shackelford.
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