Some nevertheless uphold overly the Alfa hatch should be founded on the same platform this adds force to the Fiat Bravo and Lancia Delta, regardless of Alfa representatives experience asserted so the 149 is able to spearhead its own weird platform. Either way, the platform can underpin the replacement for the 159 sedan and wagon, as far as the replacements for the Brera and Spider, additonally Alfa executives stay to deliberate during the chance of a crossover ideal as well.

[Sources: Autocar and Projetto 940]

Power is able to initially arrive on Audi’s 4.2 liter V8 in most prices of tune, and the establishment states who it may be able to wrest select LS9s based on data from General Motors, a argue that is as plausible as space aliens at the White House. If V8s do not whet your appetite, there is as well certain idle chatter regarding an electric version. Our impression is the that car is simply lingo affirmative now, and the pictures of the office check staged to a few degree, so additonally the story is construction the rounds, we wouldn’t get our hopes up for anything and everything real.

[Source: Carscoop]

Limited to a run of only 200 cars, Jaguar North America does not feel it can run head-to-head surrounded by the likes of tuned Porsches and a good amount of sports cars in the States so the automaker is limiting transactions to simply Germany and Britain. What? You do not agree we can solve it?

[Source: Autoweek]

Pininfarina is without a leader as the association has yet to announce its coming CEO, regardless of the thing the current it is knee-deep in a turnaround initiative to bid the firm coming back to profitability. Can the storied design association and coach-building association endure these kinds of tumultuous times without a leader? Time, as always, is planning to tell.

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Fiat has proven it is planning to be taking a convertible version of the 500 and in the face of a launch date has yet to be announced, Fiat type styling director Roberto Giolito revealed who the exemplary is on its way… at a couple of point.

Giolito furthermore announced such a the 500 cabrio serves to feature a fabric roof, and not a retractable hard-top, citing upgrades in resources the remove multitude of of the drawbacks associated in cloth roofs. The overall Fiat board performs not input any hard-top convertibles, even though a large number of experience continued reported to be in the works, as well as the coming up Ferrari California. However, the greater number of costly MINI convertible, that the 500 cabrio will be able to invariably objective in the marketplace, furthermore uses a fabric top.
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As we reported earlier, Alfa Romeo handed for the duration of its Brera to Prodrive, that has for a while honed the hot hatch to what is making identified the Brera S. Prodrive fit the new Brera S in on Eibach coil springs and Bilstein dampers, and afterward conducted drastic testing to bring in the correct equate of spring and damper amounts for more capable handling without ruining the ride. The steering was too tweaked to take advantage of the car’s quicker reflexes, and 8C Competizione-inspired lightweight 19-inch alloy wheels wearing Pirelli rubber stay the car affixed to terra firma. Along among lighter wheels, hollow anti-roll bars and aluminum suspension elements more and more lower the car’s weight beneath the rest of the Brera range. Exterior mods are minimal, but the waste has kept on reworked and is capped through chrome guidelines featuring Prodrive’s logo, and there are now Prodrive-branded mud flaps up front and either ‘S’ or ‘SV6′ badges on the C-pillar. The Brera S has moreover kept on fitted provided new seats that, along amidst the dashboard, door panels, steering wheel and gear shift, feature red stitching. There are drilled aluminum pedals for your footsies and a limited-edition Brera S aluminum plate featuring the flags of every company’s real estate earth (Italy and Britain) is located in the headrest recess.

[Source: Alfa Romeo]

Fiat is in attendance the present week at the known Mille Miglia in Brescia, Italy and it brought amongst it a whopper of a pithy car to impress the crowd. On hand is the Fiat 500 Abarth Asetto Corse, a thorough race version of the tiny iconic car this sports a screaming 200-hp turbocharged 1.4L four-cylinder which as well produces 220 pound-feet of torque. Power is routed over a six-speed gearbox on its way to a set of 17-inch track grey ultralight racing wheels the completely watch the part. Make no mistake, this is a true race car and a special one-make championship line is making designed so may put it on the a good number of legendary race tracks every where in Europe consequently year. Only 50 should be made, however, so entry is exclusive.

While we do not know the levels yet, your bag of Euros should get you a 500 that is kitted out in on an aerodynamic package the present adds a front spoiler, big rear wing, fender flares at all two corners and two new hood-mounted air intakes to feed the turbo. The interior has been heard stripped to save weight, that now stands at only 2,050 lbs., and a racing roll bar has carried on installed to cover the driver who now sits closer to the core of the car to raise weight distribution and driving feel. The Asetto Corse becomes big Abarth badges all across and a pastel white among red striping livery. The one on hand at the Mille Miglia is No. 00/49 and a pre-production prototype, so there are nonetheless loads left for people who have presistently wanted a 500 race car.

 [Source: World Car Fans, Italiaspeed]

The Isle of Man credits itself as hosting the world’s oldest races, the Tourist Trophy (TT). The 32-mile long island, located in the Irish Sea (it’s the body of water between the United Kingdom and Ireland), held the first motorcycle and car races back in 1905. Now, for the first time in more than a century, a car sharing the same name as the event has been named the “Official Car” of the event. You guessed it, event organizers have chosen the Audi TT as the “Official Car.” It’s not just any TT that gets the honor — it’s the hot new 265-hp Audi TT-S. Audi will be supplying eight cars for the event at the end of May. Driven by race officials (yes, at non-race speeds), they will help with the course inspection and other logistics during the week-long event. Oh, we should add, it is a motorcycle race. Doh!

[Source: Audi]

Like the Millennium Falcon, the Weber Sportcars faster one may not look like much, but it sounds like it might be capable of besting the former’s Kessel Run time of under 12 parsecs. Hell, after looking over the manufacturer’s stats, we think that the faster one might be able to tear a gaping hole in the space/time continuum.

Billed by its Swiss maker as the world’s fastest street legal sports car, the faster one’s ugly-but-aerodynamic carbon fiber body covers a vehicle that weighs in at a scant 1,984 pounds (900 kg). That mass is distributed 50:50 and is propelled by a 900-horsepower/774 lb-ft twin-supercharged V8 that begins its life as a garden-variety General Motors LS7 before Weber tears it apart and rebuilds it to its own specifications. The twin-blown eight is then mated to an in-house-developed 6-speed sequential gearbox. Power is directed to an intelligent AWD system (also developed in-house) that can send a maximum of 36% of power to the front wheels.

Stated performance numbers are of the astonishing variety: 0-62 mph in 2.7 seconds; 0-124 in 6.6 seconds; 0-186 in 16.2 seconds; and a top speed said to be over 248 mph. Helping rein in the insanity is a set of 12-piston, 15-inch ceramic brakes supplemented by the car’s motorized rear wing, which, like the Bugatti Veyron’s, doubles as an air brake when necessary. You can get into all the minutiae after the jump where we’ve pasted Weber Sportcars’ full press release. Weird but wicked, the Weber Sportcars faster one is just the thing to settle that pissing contest you’ve been having with your Veyron-driving billionaire neighbor. If you give the nice people at Weber (at least) 1.6 million Swiss francs (plus VAT), they’ll build one just for you.

[Source: Weber Sportcars]

While Cadillac busies itself with a 2-door version of the new CTS sedan, the folks over at Coach Builders, Ltd have been busy taking their tops off. The boulevardier CTS gets an insulated, hydraulically-powered roof fitted with a heated glass rear window and cloth headliner. The top also comes in several colors. Judging by this pic, it also looks like a fair bit of work has gone into making the car look good with the top down. No word on what happens to trunk space, however.

It’ll cost you more than a few quarters — $19,000 gets the job done in eight weeks — but that’s the price of exclusivity, right? It’s also employs a manual release, but these things happen when you’re a style pioneer. We’d like to see pics of the car with the top up, because we wonder if this could be the first cloth-topped Caddy truly fit for the younger set.

[Source: Inside Line]