As the Goodwood festival of speed approaches, manufacturers are beginning to tempt us with the kind of toys they plan to bring to the party. Porsche has announced its bringing along a handful of 917s to play with, and some of the cars legendary pilots like Richard Attwood, Brian Redman and David piper will be on hand to share some of their antics. Lesser-known (to some) Prodrive will also bring a gaggle of its past stars, including a Porsche 911 SCRS, a Ferrari 550 GTS Maranello, a BMW M3 Rally car and a BTCC Ford Mondeo, among others. Meanwhile, Alfa Romeo will be celebrating the company’s 99th anniversary at Goodwood, and the 8C Convertible will tackle the infamous hill climb to celebrate. Think that’s exciting? Audi’s dragging along a massive sculpture. Don’t ask.
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The Fiesta Movement takes a new turn at the end of the month when rally prepped versions of the coming-soon-to-America Ford Fiesta enter the fourth running of the X Games Rally Super Special at the Home Depot Center in Carson, CA. Three Fords go into battle with the ubiquitous Subaru Imprezas and Mitsubishi EVOs. The same Swedish Olsbergs Motorsports Evolution outfit that is running Pikes Peak with Marcus Gronholm and Andreas Eriksson in a couple of weeks will run three cars at the X Games Rally. With Rockstar Energy Drink title sponsorship, previous X Games Gold and Silver medalist, Tanner Foust will run a 2010 new shape five door Fiesta. Freestyle Moto X hero, Brian Deegan will contest a 2008 three door Fiesta also in Rockstar Energy colors–rumor confirmed!. Deegan made his rally debut just a few weeks ago but has a couple of years successfully racing short course off road trucks. Indy champ, Kenny Brack will field a three door new shape Fiesta for Olsbergs MSE and BF Goodrich. Hit the jump for full official press release and Brack’s livery.
The rumor is that Brian Deegan, the most winning medallist in X Games Freestyle Motocross, will be competing in the Rally Super Special at this summer’s event. While still active in Freestyle MX, Deegan has been racing off road trucks, with some success–he scored a win at last week’s round of the Lucas Off Road Truck series in the Pro Lite class. He made his debut in a rally car a couple of weeks back at the Susquehannock Trail Rally with Tanner Foust’s co-driver Chrissie Beavis providing direction. This included the expected jumping and crashing, but Deegan did a pretty good job on his first time out swapping stage times with another recent convert to rally Dave Mirra and actually finishing the event despite some mechanical issues. Check the vid.
Jaguar’s upped the gusto in the XF Supercharged for next year. The car’s getting a weakened version of the XFR’s mighty 5.0-liter V8. The blown eight-pot serves up a still-potent 470 horsepower and 424 lb-ft of torque. Compare that to last year’s 420 horsepower 4.2-liter, and you can see the difference that .8-liter makes. Aside from the engine, the new XF Supercharged rocks Jaguar’s adaptive suspension, active differential control and a sound system capable of vaporizing your grey matter. Given the naturally aspirated XF has an exhaust note dipped in cocaine, we can only imagine what this sucker sounds like. Fiendish. [Source: Carscoop]
You know, let’s just call this rumor Tuesday. There just so many tasty bits to go through right now, why not indulge in them all. Evidently word popped up while I was getting hitched that Audi’s considering reviving it’s legendary Ur-Quattro. I know, right? The Fiends over at Autoblog have unearthed an article in a German magazine saying the car is due to see the light of day as soon as next year. Based on the A5, the article says Audi wants to get the platform’s curb weight down to around 3,000 lbs with the extensive use of aluminum. Now here’s the part that makes me raise a skeptical eyebrow. The article also says the Kingdom of Quattro wants to use polycarbonate in place of the vehicles glass as a further weight reduction. As anyone who has ever suffered through using the easy-to-scratch, easy to haze material on a race car knows, polycarbonate ain’t built for the real world. File this one under we’ll believe it when we hear it from Audi’s mouth. [Source: Autoblog]
Fans of one of the most vicious Bow Ties in years were openly weeping when word circled there would be no Z/28 package. With General Motors having already been flushed down the Chapter 11 bowl, nobody expects the company to roll out a new high-strung version of its fuel-thirsty muscle car. Right? Maybe not. It looks like the on-again/off-again rig with the same supercharged mill found in the Cadillac CTS-V. That’s a 556 horsepower LSA, for those of you who are counting. Other tricks like a mean looking hood and grille, and possibly brake and suspension upgrades would also be a part of the package. It’s no secret the Camaro’s been flying off of GM lots the way old Fritz Henderson could have only dreamed of, so why not give the adoring public what it wants? According to the rumors, we should see the car by spring of 2011, just after the drop-head version. Time will tell. [Source: MotorAuthority]
Maybe so, Fiends. Good Dr. Lieberman over at WebRidesTV has unearthed an interesting category on the car’s option sheet. Simply labeled “Turbo Kit,” no one knows exactly what the deal is. Sure, we know Ford’s itching for up to 90 percent of its fleet to boast Ecoboost (direct injection + turbo), but if the Blue Oval was within a mile of plopping one of their new miracle mills on the company’s new world car, you know they’d be shouting it from the roof tops. So what gives? The truth is, nobody knows. If we were betting folk, we’d put our hard-earned dollars on it being some kind of sport package, possibly with a stick-on body kit. As much as we’d love to see the Fiesta with some mean boost, the odds of that uber thin. [Source: WebRidesTV]
If you’re thinking this is the ugliest fox body Mustang you’ve ever seen, you may be right. It’s also one of the most bad ass FoMoCos ever built. See, way back in ’89, Road & Track held a high-speed shoot out, and the crew from JBA brought this terrifying Pony to play. While the car has been powered by any number of wicked V8’s, right now there’s a 5.4-liter Lightening block, complete with fuel injection under the hood. A six-speed cog box is also part of the package, along with 17×11 rollers in the rear. It’s for sale on eBay right now for the cool sum of $34,500. Worth it? Probably. Hop the jump for a video of the car doing its high-speed run. [Source: via BaT]
