Cyprus Auto News

Aston Martin is launching an exciting new one-make race series for Asia. This follows the announcement of two new Aston Martin dealerships in Shanghai and Beijing.
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Chevrolet is launching a sports version of the Chevrolet Captiva, the dynamically styled five-door and first compact sports utility vehicle in Chevrolet’s European model range.
Over 43,000 units of the highly successful Chevrolet SUV have been sold in Europe since its launch in 2006. Numerous new accessories will make the Chevrolet Captiva even more attractive.
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Seeking to highlight the on-track potential of the new 2008 S2000 CR, Honda announced today that two S2000 CRs will race in the annual “25 Hours of Thunderhill” endurance race on December 1 and 2.

Billed as the “most severe endurance race on the planet,” the 25 Hours of Thunderhill will mark the first time the 2008 Honda S2000 CR will compete in a sanctioned motorsports event.
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Powerful Performance and Subtle Sportiness

The motto of the new Opel Corsa GSi, which joined the Corsa model line in June 2007, is ‘more substance than show’. Unlike the uncompromising high-performance look of the Opel Corsa OPC that was launched in March 2007, the new GSi radiates subtle sportiness, and is now available as a five-door variant.
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Alfa Romeo are planning to come back, next year, with a roar — the roar of a 450-horse, race-tuned Ferrari-made V8.

Plus it has an extraordinary and beguilingly beautiful new flagship, the 8C Competizione. It’s this car, with both Ferrari and Maserati blood flowing in its veins, that leads Alfa Romeo’s charge back to America.
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Limited special edition model with high-performance package
Fourth phase of racing driver casting launched

At the start of the fourth round of the OPC Race Camp, Opel unveils the Astra OPC “Nürburgring Edition”, a limited special edition version of the successful three-door model. The “Nürburgring Edition” emphasizes the connection between the racetrack steeped in tradition and the Opel brand.
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Aston Martin will unveil the most eagerly anticipated car of the year when the new DBS is revealed at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance on August 16th, where the company takes a starring role as the featured marque.

Aston Martin Chief Executive Officer, Dr Ulrich Bez, said: “The DBS is the ultimate expression of Aston Martin’s engineering and technical ability. It offers pure performance without compromise.
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Like its predecessors, the fourth-generation BMW M3 sets new standards in technology and driving dynamics. And at the same time, like all high-performance models from BMW M GmbH, the new BMW M3 offers all the qualities required for everyday driving enjoyment of the highest calibre.

The new BMW M3 is based on the BMW 3 Series Coupé, but is nevertheless quite unique in its looks and technical features. The engine, for example, is an exclusive development precisely for this model, with the chassis, suspension and body all based consistently on the requirements of motorsport.
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Forbes Magazine made up the top ten sexiest cars in the world. Automobile, luxury or sport ones, were divided in ten categories, regarding their possible drivers. In this way, we’re going to find out the sexiest car for a gangster, a recently divorced man or a plastic surgeon.
Rolls Royce Phantom was awarded the sexiest car for hip-hop stars. The limo, with a starting price of 330.000 US Dollars, offer attitude, style, enough space for a Jacuzzi and, of course, personalization. Read the rest of this entry »

Is it the best 911 ever?
The evidence is heavily in favor of an “oh, yeah.”

Body by Ginsu
Is that a smile between the headlamps? The new 997-based GT3 looks like it knows something you don’t-and unless you work for a NASA project in sodium-filled exhaust valves, asymmetric-locking differentials, and intake-manifold resonance flaps.

Now look again: its like the grin of a killer whale. And after all, with a box kite nailed to its rear end and a front air dam as low as the average IQ, the GT3 is clearly no ordinary 911. Read the rest of this entry »