When the new Formula One season started at the weekend in Melbourne there was again an AMG Mercedes in the front row when the action started Down Under. The house-tuner for the Mercedes-Benz group will again be the supplier of the safety cars for the 2012 season. The classic safety car itself takes the form of an SLS AMG but there is also a C63 AMG ‘T’ to rush medical staff to the site of any accident which might involve driver injury.
The ultimate in performance and the fastest imaginable speed seems no longer enough to put a super sports car in the spotlight. And so with their Agera R the Swedish manufacturer Koenigsegg have come up with a very quick snowmobile with a rather strange roof.
After thirty years Lincoln have ended production of their luxury limousine model, the Town Car. But the famous automobile will live on for a while, at least in Las Vegas where a stretch limo is as ubiquitous as flashing neon.
Italy is celebrating a hundred and fifty years of existence as a unified state and the car industry is part of the party. The car museum in Turin has been thoroughly renovated and has won new radiance. The Pininfarina design studio has contributed to the collection some of its true treasures.
This year the Bobby-Car will be forty years old. But Stephan Kuehler’s version 'Roddy' strikes out in new directions. Kuehler’s electric hot-rod not only looks cool it is really quick.