Singapore Grand Prix 2009 Results
Lewis Hamilton scored his second victory of the season at the Singapore grand prix as Jenson Button extended his title lead by one point, to 15, despite a poor qualifying position. McLaren’s Hamilton put in a perfect performance to lead home the Toyota of Timo Glock, the German equalling his best-ever finish. Meanwhile Renault’s Fernando Alonso gave his team something to cheer about at the circuit that has caused their recent woes by claiming third place. Full Results on...

2009 Pagani Zonda Cinque Roadster
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Fisichella delivers Force India's first F1 points
After 29 false starts, the Vijay Mallya-owned Force India finally nixed the hoodoo and scored their maiden Formula One points with Giancarlo Fisichella finishing second in the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday. The 36-year-old Italian driver, rumoured to have one foot in Ferrari, shunned extravagance to run a flawless race and trailed Kimi Raikkonen’s Ferrari, which had snatched the lead using the Kinetic Energy Recovery System, all the way for a podium finish and earn eight valuable points. [source]

New 2010 VW Beetle Rendering Speculation
Volkswagen is planning to produce all-new Beetle, which is reportedly on imprints for a 2010 launch. The new VW Beetle will once again be styled in California and engineered in Germany. It will be allotment a platform with the next-generation Rabbit and the new Scirocco.The next-generation Beetle, on the other hand, is a stab to stray from the ‘hatchling car’ copy close to it in the previous days. To make a more expensive and rotund recent look and fashion, a VW team of designers use...

Taking a Porsche Panamera onto the 94th floor
 Porsche unveiled its first four door sedan to journalists at the Shanghai World Financial Center in China. The catch is the sedan was displayed a the 94th floor where journalists were invited to drool over Porsche's latest offering.Providing further proof that both the Germans and Chinese are a persistent bunch, a team of workers proceeded to strap the Panamera onto a special pallet, tipped it on its tail and wedged the dark silver metallic sedan into the freight elevator to make the 1,394-foot...

Futuristic Parking
 The next time you plan to going shopping, it might be better to go online first to see if you have a parking space instead of going around in circles at the venue. Looking for parking is biggest pain after the money we spend on fuel, in fact in many cases that’s where fuel is spent for most people. However that’s not to say for the citizens of San Francisco. Around 6,000 wireless sensors from the San Francisco company Streetline will be fixed alongside as many parking spots, monitoring...

Project M Supercar: Bertone Mantide
Corvette ZR1 based Bertone Mantide is decidedly one hot car. Created by Jason Castriota, it is built on the ZR1, with Italian influence clearly visible in the design. Unveiled at Shanghai, the car saves 100 kgs in weight by the extensive use of lightweight materials like carbon fiber and magnesium. Improvements in aerodynamics see the car getting 25% less drag and 30% more downforce as compared to a stock Z1. The car tops at 217 mph and 62mph from zero comes in a lightning fast 3.2 seconds. No word on...

Roewe 550 RS
Roewe, SAIC's premium brand which owns the tooling rights to the Rover 75 platform, has brought out a sporting variant of its compact sedan, dubbed the 550 RS. In keeping with Shanghai Motor Show tradition thus far, little is known about what lies beneath the hood of the RS, but with the standard 550 packing updated versions of either the 1.6- or 1.8-liter Rover K-series four-cylinders, we suspect the RS' "performance" mods are limited to the decklid wing, roof aerofoil, side skirts and the...

Deronda G400
 Close your eyes and build the ultimate two-seat sports car. Start with a lightweight, tube-frame chassis and then add race-bred suspension and oversized brakes. Wrap the vehicle in an aero-inspired carbon fiber body shell, but keep the generous cockpit open for wind-in-your-hair enjoyment. Lastly, wedge a huge, torque-laden, tire-shredding engine into the middle of the chassis, and tune the exhaust note so it scares the gophers out of your neighbor's front lawn. Now, open your eyes and take a look...

2009 Auto Shanghai: Crisis, What Crisis?
"We've paid for our show stand," said Bentley engineering chief Ulrich Eichhorn as we sat in the back of a Continental Flying Spur to escape the heat and the noise of the first media day at Auto Shanghai 2009. All four Bentleys on display -- the Flying Spur, a Continental GT Speed and GTC Speed, and an Arnage -- had been sold to eager Chinese buyers by 2pm.A few minutes earlier, Rolls-Royce boss Tom Purves had announced the new "small" Rolls-Royce would be called the Ghost, and...