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If you ever wandered which is the oldest working car, time has come to find out the answer. Were talking about the 1884 De Dion Bouton Et Trepardoux Dos-A-Dos Steam Runabout. The model is 127 years old.
RM Auctions revealed a piece of information according to which the car will be put on auction, on the 7th of October 2011, in Pennsylvania at an event that will take place in Hershey.
The car is called La Marquise and was built at the demand of Count de Dion that named it after his mother. The constructors are George Bouton and Charles-Armand Trepardoux. ...... >> Read more

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Nissan, the European Division is working on a new, more powerful, Juke variant. The model will have a 3.8-liter twin-turbo V6 that will be able to deliver 480 horsepower. This is the engine the R35 GT-R debuted with.
We dont have a lot of information so far, but we do know it can accelerate from 0 to 62 mph in less than 4 seconds and who knows maybe it will also have the supercars ATTESA E-TS all-wheel-drive system. Nothing is for sure, but sources say this is the case.
The modifications dont refer only to the power, but also to the aerodynamics, ...... >> Read more

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This is what happens when you hear of more and more horsepower. You never have enough. This is the case of the Mercedes SLS that is able to deliver 571 horsepower. Mcchip, a tuning company developed an ECU upgrade for the SLS to satisfy the unsatisfied. Now the modified model is able to deliver 625 bhp and 680 Nm of torque.
The new power kit costs around EUR 8026.00 and if you really think about it its not that much. The car itself costs EUR 180.000, and what is EUR 8000 extra? Just imagine the supercar.
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