koenig special road runner 930 assetto corsa

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Glad to present this great project of rare car Koenig Special Turbo Road Runner 930 Turbo made almost from zero for our beloved simulator – Assetto Corsa. Golden age sunrise of street car tuning is full of famous cars, expecailly from Koenig Specials tuning factory (~1000hp Ferrari Testarossa, lot of Bens, BMW….) However Road Runner was a bit forgotten. Fortunately we can reveal the history now and try this beaty now in virtual reality of Assetto Corsa. Twin turbo german treasure that will eat asphalt not less then other old school super cars. 80s is famous for its turbo era in Group C, and thisRead More →

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Although Porsche were developing 959’s for the Paris-Dakar Rally, the Stuttgart manufacturer harboured a desire for their flagship model to race at Le Mans – an event upon which so much of the firms status was based. For 1986, a crack factory built car known as the 961 was prepared on chassis 10016. It was debuted at the annual Le Mans practice day where Rene Metge easily pre-qualified. An all-French driver line-up would be back for the race in June, the 961 running in its own invitational class (IMSA GTX). It was powered by a twin turbocharged engine to more or less Group C spec,Read More →

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959 was designed to comply with FIA Group B regulations. In theory, it could compete with other Group B rally cars like Audi Quattro Sport, Lancia Delta S4 and Peugeot 205 T16 in the World Rally Championship, which was the most exciting and most sophisticated rally category ever appeared. However, Porsche did not do that, it just entered 959 in the less competitive Paris-Dakar rally. Why ? Compare with those fabulous Group B rally cars, 959 was obviously too heavy and too big. For example, the Delta S4 weighed just 890 kg, powered by a 1.7-litre turbocharged plus supercharged engine capable of 470 hp inRead More →

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The Spania GTA Spano is a limited-production sports car manufactured by the Spanish automobile manufacturer Spania GTA, a sister company to GTA Motor Competición. Only 99 units of the GTA Spano are expected to be built. This is the second gen of Spano Sportcar started in 2015. Chassis The GTA Spano utilises a monocoque chassis design, manufactured from carbon fibre and reinforced with titanium and Kevlar composites. The second generation model also introduces graphene elements into this design, for the purpose of added chassis stiffness and rigidity. Suspension Both first and second generation models of the GTA Spano come equipped with double wishbone suspension atRead More →

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In 1995, Renault displayed a show car called the Espace F1, which was created by Matra to celebrate both the 10th anniversary of the Espace and Renault’s involvement in Formula One racing. Though it resembled an Espace with substantial bodywork changes, the vehicle had more in common with a Formula One car. The vehicle used a lightweight carbon fibre F1-style chassis in combination with a carbon fibre-reinforced Espace J63-series body (as opposed to fibreglass on the standard model). Powering the Espace F1 was an 800 hp (upgraded from its original rating of 700 hp) 3.5-litre, 40-valve Renault RS5 V10 engine, as used in the 1993Read More →

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SARD (Sigma Advanced Research Development) is a company and race team in Toyota, Aichi, Japan specializing in Toyota parts and vehicles. Back in the ’90s they built several race car based on a Toyota MR2 SW20 called the MC8-R for Le Mans and Super GT. It competed from 1995-1997 but did not have a very successful career. To comply with homologation rules at the time, SARD built one road version of the race car in 1994 called the SARD MC8. The road version features lengthened chassis supporting a twin-turbo 4.0 L 1UZ-FE V8 estimated to make 600 horsepower (447 kW). The drivetrain uses a Porsche six-speed manual transmissionRead More →

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The theme of the 1989 Tokyo Motor Show was “Freedom of Mobility – A Taste of Real Life and Luxury,” and the Japanese were sure ready to party. Passenger car sales grew by 30.7 percent in that year alone. Suzuki was one of the 332 exhibitors fighting for the crowd’s attention, and it definitely managed to grab it with the Cappuccino roadster, its new kei sports car. However, its second major concept, the Quad Raider Constellation got lost in history. На русском “Quad Raider Constellation” можно интерпретировать как “Созвездие полного привода” или “Созвездие четырех набегов”. Возможно Четверка в названии относится к дополнительным 4 дюймам, наRead More →

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Great rival to RUF Yellowbird or best was made in past First, who are Lanzante? It’s a great team who won 1995 Le Mans race with Mclaren F1, and since then they tune Mcs in England. Lanzante 930 Turbo is great swap project, maybe best in the world, because swap is made on mother-porsche engine (not bla-bla-JZ one xD). The ENGINE Back in the 1980s, Porsche supplied twin-turbo V6 Formula 1 engines to the McLaren Formula 1 team under the TAG brand name. A single Porsche 930 was built with this engine, unmodified from F1 spec as a test mule. That car, mostly stock fromRead More →

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“The “Yellow Bird” set a world speed record and made RUF famous.” Possibly the most famous creation from the team at Ruf Automobiles was this bright-colored Porsche 930-based machine, nicknamed the Yellowbird. Twin turbochargers and intercoolers ere attached to the 3366-cc overhead-cam flat-6, along with a Bosch Motronic fuel injection system specially created by Porsche. This resulted in an output of 463 HP at 5950 rpm and peak torque of 407.9 ft-lb at 5100 rpm. And thanks to the new aluminum body panels for the doors, fenders, and trunks, this Ruf weighed in at only 1150 kg, accounting for a staggering power-to-weight ratio of onlyRead More →

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In the Soviet Union, where the newly born car industry was “imprisoned” for the production of trucks, buses and cars, Motorsport practically did not exist: simple cars are not enough. However, the creation of the first Soviet serial limousine ZIS-101, the production of which the Moscow plant began in 1936, prompted a group of young enthusiasts – engineers from ZIS, to the idea of creating of this advanced sports car. Die-hard history of creation of ZIS 101A Sport Anatoly Pehulin who graduated from evening department of MADI university on the theme of “Sport cars” worked on layout and the front suspension, his colleague Nikolai PullmansRead More →

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The latest and most famous design of a sports car created in the laboratory of high-speed ZIL cars. The car was originally developed taking into account the specifics of its use in ring races. The design prototype, obviously, is Ferrari 250TR 1958. (AC Cobra came to the world later) Lead designer – V. Rodionov. “C” – is not english “c” but russian letter “s” for Sport. The design as much as possible used components of the serial model ZIL-111, some units were taken from the GAZ-21 and ZIS-110. The basis of the chassis was a spatial frame of thin-walled steel pipes that have undergone heat treatment.Read More →

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In 2009 “R&D Sport” (Atsugi city, 2584-1,Ookami,Hiratsuka,Kanagawa prefecture,254-0012. Representative: Mr. Shinji Motojima) began a partnership with Subaru in 2009 using a AWD Subaru Legacy B4 that debuted at the sixth round of the season at Suzuka. However the car developed problems with its front differential and was retired from the first race. Drivers were: Shogo Mitsuyama 密山　祥吾 in 2009, Tetsuya Yamano 山野　哲也 2009-2011 and Kouta Sasaki 佐々木 孝太 in 2010-2011. The power unit is a horizontally-opposed engine (EJ20 Boxer-4 + turbo) supplied by Fuji Heavy Industries and Subaru Tecnica International (STI), who control Subaru’s motorsports activities, and who were responsible for the development of the tuning andRead More →

Porsche 804 F1 monoposto '1962 (+Assetto Corsa mod)

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The legendary win of Porsche was a result of hard and persistent work of Porsche System Engineering and their drivers such as Jo Bonnier and Dan Gurney. Remark: Porsche 804 was created and firstly tested in 1961 (!) but officially raced from 1962. Super short overview: The path to win started in 1957 through Formula 2 series which was allowed to start with Formumal 1 cars on 4th of August 1957 at Nürburgring. Finally the idea of super light 550 was evolved to 718 close-wheels coupe and finally to 718/2 and 787 monoposte (open-wheel – italia), and finally Porsche 804 was firstly tested on NordschleifeRead More →

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Proud of Boxer Last great Legacy produced by Subaru as last word forwarding toward new generation of cars for those who don’t like to drive at all. That’s why these written 2009-2012 only. I’ll explain. After restyle in 2012: 1 – the car was despoiled of 2.5 liters turbo engine after 2012. 2 – only stupid robotic CVT gearbox left. While ’09-12 had manual and great automatic gearbox with wheel’s leafes. Like a race car which was felt like race sedan. 3 – After restyle you actually can not turn-off traction control etc. electronic helpers, while 2009-2012 you could do it and have fun. ThereRead More →

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Mitsubishi GTO is a sports car built by Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors between 1990 and 2001. In most export markets it was rebadged as a Mitsubishi 3000GT. Also produced as Dodge Stealth in US. Design was the result of the collaborative effort between Chrysler and its Japanese partner, Mitsubishi Motors. 1990-1993 The first generation model incorporated many of Mitsubishi’s contemporary performance-enhancing technologies, such as full-time four-wheel drive, four-wheel steering, active aerodynamics featuring automatically adjusting front and rear spoilers, sport/tour exhaust modes and electronically controlled suspension (ECS). Active Aerodynamics were not available on the Dodge Stealth. Visually, both cars featured pop-up headlights and noticeable “caps” onRead More →

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By the late 1970s the once-proud British motorcycle industry was in tatters. Norton was dead, and Triumph barely alive, holding on by a thread at Meriden. There hadn’t been a new large-capacity British motorcycle since the Triumph Trident of 1968, but Lord Hesketh (one of the best British-man, who made James Hunt world champion) decided to change this. Hesketh wanted to create a truly British high-quality motorcycle. He envisaged a two-wheeled Aston Martin: classy, expensive and built to last. John Mockett designed the fairing at the MIRA wind tunnel, the fairing body a hand laminated GRP box structure. The updated engine was initially titled theRead More →

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Yamaha began competing in Formula One as an engine supplier in 1989, and using the experience it had gained during that time it wanted to build a price-no-object car based on actual Formula One technology. Even though the Formula One project was doing poorly in competition, by 1991 the team had just produced a new engine, the OX99 V12 3.5L. Designed by Takuya Yura Development Yamaha had conceived the OX99-11, but had been struggling to find a partner who could help them realize their ambition. Strangely it was the sporting goods division (with products ranging from Yachts to squash racquets), rather than the motorcycle arm,Read More →

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“The car that can be seen today is not an exact reproduction of the original” The idea of a mid-engined prototype was first mooted in 1960, but it was not until 1965 that construction began, with the first car running by March 1966. The aluminium body was designed by Malcolm Sayer, the aerodynamicist responsible for the Jaguar C-type, D-type, E-type and XJS, who used his Bristol Aeroplane Company background to build it using techniques borrowed from the aircraft industry. The development of the XJ13, although treated seriously by the designers, was never a priority for company management. Download Jaguar XJ13 ‘1966 for Assetto Corsa (tyresRead More →

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The E36 was based on the E36 3 Series platform, while using the rear semi-trailing arm design of the older E30 3 Series. It is the first BMW Z Series car to be mass produced. The body styles of the range are: 2-door roadster (E36/7 model code) 3-door coupé (E36/8 model code) It is powered by the S50, S52, or S54 straight-six engine depending on country and model year. In fact they are all the same. Development on the roadster began in 1991 and was led by Burkhard Göschel. The exterior was designed by Joji Nagashima – (famous japanese designer of BMW) in 1992 andRead More →

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One of the mysterious supercars of our time is the Isdera Commendatore 112i – the most striking and advanced supercars from the nineties. This one-of prototype is such a rare sight, that photos of her, however this Istdera was released so far at 1993 Frankfurt Auto Show.  The Commendatore is the final product of ex-Porsche designer Eberhard Schulz and his two sons. It was completed as a pre-production prototype which was to be followed by a limited series with a unit cost of $450 000 USD. Unfortunately, before any production Commendatores were made, Isdera went bankrupt and the remainder of the company was sold toRead More →