Aston Martin Announces 2011 AMR-One Racer for LeMans Series

Aston Martin AMR-One Racer

One of our regular favorites, Aston Martin will once again contest top tier racing with a new LeMans endurance machine in the LMP1 class.

Only six AMR-Ones will be produced. The first will be run by the factory team in the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup (ILMC.) Two others will run in other venues that have not yet been announced. Aston Martin says that the AMR-One race car shares design philosophy with the One-77 road car including carbon fibre monocoque.

Aston Martin One-77 Road Car

In 2010, Aston Martin Racing was on the winners' podium a lot. Aston placed in both of the American LeMans races it contested, 3rd at Sebring and 2nd in Long Beach.

In FIA-GT the DB9 came in 1st at the Nürburgring and 2nd at Silverstone, Brno and Navarra.

At the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Aston DBR9 was 3rd in the LMGT1 Class.

Aston Martin at 2010 24 Hours of LeMans

There were more podium finishes and lots more races. See Aston Martin Racing for full results.

2010 Lola-Aston Martin LMP1 Racer

Stunning Cat--Limited Production of E-2011 Concept Planned

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the Jaguar E-Type at the 1961 Geneva Auto Show, Bo Zolland and Robert Palm have created a stunning E-Type tribute. Zolland is the founder of Vizualtech, a design house in Sweden. Palm is a designer based in Switzerland.

Top Gear is now reporting that the concept reception has been so good that Zolland and Palm are planning to actually produce the car using Jaguar XKR mechanicals including the supercharged 600 bhp 5.0-litre V8. The designers are targeting 0-100 k/hr (0-62 mph) in the high 3-second range. Expect to pay anywhere from $700K - $1.4M (US Dollar), depending on actual demand. The boys hope to have the first cars on the streets next year.

The Original XKE "E-Type"

2005 Dodge Caravan SXT with Collision Damage

Today's Car of the Day is a 2005 Dodge Caravan SXT that came in with auto collision damaged to the left fender, front bumper cover, left headlamp, left front door and cracked windshield. Almost Everything Autobody replaced the front bumper cover, left headlamp, left fender, left fender skirt, and front windshield with new parts and repaired the dents on the left front door. Almost Everything Autobody repaired the damaged fender apron, painted the parts to match the rest of the car, and installed the new parts.

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