The Maarten Memorial. This is a wonderful initiative, organised by a lot of volunteers for patients of the “Daniel den Hoed-kliniek” in Rotterdam. This year this event takes place for the fifth time, on the 5th of August. Last year we’ve showed you some nice footage from the arrival at “the Kuip” a large football stadium and some action photos at Circuit Park Zandvoort. Of course we will report about it this year.  

At Porsche they thought it was time to refresh the Carrera models. Last year this facelift of the Carrera was already spotted on the Nuerburgring and now this car has officially been revealed.  

A slightly changed interior, the chassis of an Opel GT, a little more power and you’ve got a completely different car. Exactly how the Breckland Beira V8 roadster came to life.  

On the Dutch frontpage we’ve recently published some details on the facelift of the Porsche 997 GT3 RS. At that time we couldn’t tell you anything about the performance of this improved RS. We heard some rumours from around 425 bhp, or a little less. Now we can tell you that this will be at least 450 bhp, so the new version get at least 35 bhp extra!  

The Italian company Carrozzeria Touring is normally known from the beautiful bodies they made in the twentieth century. Now Carrozzeria Touring is back....and how... They are introducing a beautiful version of the Maserati Quattroporte.  

At this point, while you can’t even spot the new Ferrari on the open road, some people have already been tuning the Ferrari California. Via FChat we’ve found a picture of what could be done tuner Novitec on this new Ferrari. They could probably do some more work, but this is a nice start.  

We were waiting for it quite a while, but a few weeks ago the time had come. In Holland we ran out of licence plate combinations, so it was time for new plates with the following combination “number-number-letter-letter-letter-number”. A while ago the first car with new licence plates was spotted and also uploaded on Autogespot. Spotter Appeltje, together with a lot of other spotters spotted the first car with the new combination.  

It’s always fun to look at impressions of new car models. Sometimes they just look to hideous to be taken serious but sometimes they look so realistic it's a shame not to start making the car right away. The 2012 BMW M6 impression sits just in the middle of these two limits, we don’t really now if we have to like or hate this car.  

A few days ago Ferrari announced that they are going to offer coachbuilding. Now Ugur Sahin steps forward and shows us the USD GT-S Passionata. Just enjoy these pictures of this concept drawn by the Turkish designer.  

Ondertussen zal hij vast als uitverkocht zijn... de nieuwe Pagani Zonda Cinque. Cinque betekent vijf in het Italiaans, dus waarschijnlijk raad je al dat er maar vijf stuks gemaakt zullen worden. Dus wil je er één hebben moet je wel heel erg snel zijn en waarschijnlijk ook een hele grote zak met geld meebrengen.  

Do you think your BMW M6 Convertible with it's 507 bhp is still a bit too normal and too slow to please you? Just bring it to German tuner G-Power. They will upgrade the 5.0 litre V10 with a Bi-Compressor system, this pumps up the power to a massive 635 bhp!  

The Aston Martin AMV8 is a wonderful car for a lot of people which they can probably only dream of. The looks of the car are stunning, it produces a wonderful sound but unfortunately the car hasn’t got enough power to be a true sportscar. Aston Martin also recognised this problem and are going to solve this, they are going to enlarge the AMV8’s engine!  

Every year Aston Martin takes new fotos of the DB9. And again it has been done very neatly at one of the most beautiful places you can find on earth. The British brand has recently launched the 517 hp DBS, but that doesn’t mean that we should forget about this gentleman’s racer. The DB9 is on the market since 2004, which means it has been in the showroom for five years.  

Everyone knows the Porsche-Targa’s form the sixties and seventies. A well known detachable roof and a roll-bar. The Targa roof has totally faded from the Porsche program, and al lot of people think this is a shame.A company from California, called Velotech, agreed with this and now offers a roof similar to the original ones, for $ 10,000.  

You have never seen this before.... That is how the email started that we received last night about a new model from Mercedes-Benz. It is a supercar in the price-range of the Veyron and will be highly exclusive with a limited production of 75 pieces.  

A lot of rumours and spypics have been going round the internet about the looks of the SL65 AMG Black Series. These days we have programs like Photoshop that help us with creating nice renderings. MotorAuthority has made a nice rendering of what we can expect from the newest Black Series.  

It’s time for speculation again. The GranTurismo from Maserati is on the market for a while now. There’s no doubt that a spyder version of this car will come. This Spyder has never been spotted, and neither are there many impressions. That’s why our own photoshop artist Luuk has made a nice impression of this convertible.  

The current generation of the Ferrari F430 is on the market since 2004. The main question is, will Ferrari produce a successor for this fine machine? This question remains unanswered. But in the mean time we can at least enjoy this F430 concept from Luce Serafini.  

Audi introduced the Q5 not so long ago, someone made a nice photoshop of the coolest version of the Q5. Just as almost any Audi model the Q5 RS should be a monster. This is why Quinty thought it was nice to make an impression of the Q5 RS.  

Recently we’ve seen some pretty remarkable models here. A very special car has been driving round the Nürburgring lately, a car designed by Veritas. The latest news about this model appeared in 2001 and seven years later it finally shows up again driving around the famous circuit for testing.