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[29 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport – Fastest Convertible Around

It’s official, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport is the world’s fastest legal production convertible at 408 kph top-up and 359 kph top-down.

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[29 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
New Top Gear Lap Record Set by Veyron SS

When Bugatti test driver Pierre Henri Raphanel set a new production car top speed record of 430.9km/h in the Veyron Super Sports, the doubters choired that it could not handle.

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[23 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
Killarney MSA Drags & Gymkhana + Soundoff – 25th July 2010 Killarney Cape Town

Denis Geyer in his Rotary powered Mazda RX7 as well as a 323 Turbo Rotary. His vehicle carrier will be joined by the likes of Ivan Cotze (Ford Escort Cosworth Turbo), a 600kw Ford Escort powered by a Turbo Toyota motor & brothers Gert & Coert Pieterse (Turbo / Nitro Nissan Champ bakkie). These 6 cars coming from far up country will be a very interesting addition to the day…..

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[21 Jul 2010 | 4 Comments | ]
Killarney Open Track Day Once Again a Success

This weekend was another belter for the Automodified crew. We experienced some excitement on Sunday as the Killarney track in Cape Town came alive with the sound of various racers strutting their skills and rides in the monthly open track day. As the team has regrettably not seen the track in a few months, we were privileged to witness a few new riders burning some rubber. Track days have definitely taken a step up in the last couple of months, as excitement and interest has boomed. We were very pleased …

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[20 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
Hard at work – AutoMODE

Howzit guys and girls! Things have been a little bit slow around here due to new working circumstances and so on. We have recently come up with a new system of publishing more blogs for you guys to read. From now on, 2 or more blogs will be published ever morning after 7am. Instead of us writing the blogs throughout the day, we will rather schedule them for the morning. This means that you guys won’t have to revisit the website at all times in a day to view our …

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[19 Jul 2010 | 3 Comments | ]
Zoopedup.com Battle of the Clubs Dyno Day – 4 July 2010

A total of 76 cars lined up from 7am to 7pm and it was touch and go from the word go. Hottstuff Racing managed the Dyno runs at the premises of Viper Exhaust and Zoopedup.com invited all clubs in Gauteng to join in on the fun.

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[15 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
Busy weekend a head – Weekend events

This weekend’s event update seems to quite a busy one. We have sound competitions track days and drifting events, it looks like this weekend is going to be a busy one.
If you are in there area’s drop by and support your local guys.
We have some super cool events going down here in Cape Town, lets kick it off with some good old street to strip battles.

Street2Strip – The battle continues

This coming Friday at Killarney will be host another Street2Strip drag racing event from 7pm till 11.00pm. The event …

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[15 Jul 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
Lambo announces new carbon fibre testing

Lamborghini has announced its plan to build lighter cars, and that means more carbon fiber and carbon composites. The stampede bull is already deep into the stuff, with the Murcielago replacement swapping out the Murcielago steel frame for one made of carbon fiber, and the same with the Gallardo LP 570-4 Superleggera.