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Events

LUC Chopard Classic Weekend Rally in Moscow
Jun 26, 2013, 4:03 PM The LUC Chopard Classic Rally weekend is an annual organized rally of the Classic Car Rally Club. The rally is sponsored by the famous Swiss watch maker Chopard. In the beginning of June, this rally started at the Tretyakovsky Proezd-gallery in Moscow, from there it would lead to the Barvikha Luxury Village. To participate, your car had to be built before 1969.
Combo's and Strange Sightings

Porsche 997 Turbo Cabriolet involved in crash
Jun 26, 2013, 2:22 PM You don’t see a damaged Porsche on a cross road that often, when you do it is a real strange sighting. In the North-French place Thionville it went wrong, happely both cars are not heavily damaged. Though the Porsche’s owner will have to request a new bumper.

Topspots

McLaren MP4-12C Spider FAB Design Terso looks fabulous in Tokyo
Jun 26, 2013, 12:56 PM The McLaren MP4-12C Spider FAB Design Terso is a car which looked surprisingly friendly in Geneva. Nothing has remained the same of this idea. The matte orange colour adds a lot of sportiness to the car and the spoiler at the back completes that. When you look at the modifications done to the car, it is not that strange that it is spotted in Tokyo.
Events

South-Africa's own Gumball 3000: the Rogue Rally
Jun 26, 2013, 8:50 AM The Gumball 3000 has become the world’s most famous rally for expensive cars. But, there are several less known rallies like the Cannonball, Modball and The Challenge. In South-Africa, an annual rally is organized which is named the Rogue Rally. This rally leads you over 2700 kilometers of the most beautiful tarmac of South-Africa. Spotter Divivio was present at the start of the rally, in Sandton.

Driven

Driven: Land Rover Range Rover 5.0 V8 Supercharged
Jun 24, 2013, 5:30 PM It’s already three years ago since we’ve tested the previous generation of the Land Rover Range Rover 5.0 V8 Supercharged. A tank on wheels which weighs 2580 kilograms. At that moment, we said that the previous generation Range Rover doesn’t look old after ten years. Well, we haven’t moved on ten years, but we haven’t changed our opinion so far. Still, it was time for a successor. A successor which had to be less heavy and with that, more economical. Land Rover laid their hands on the project and introduced this successor last August.
Movies

Top Gear crew filming their new episode 'Best of British' in London
Jun 24, 2013, 2:30 PM Top Gear is busy filming a new season again. One of these new episodes will be completely dedicated to and about British cars, varying from London’s double-deckers to the new Jaguar F-Type and McLaren P1. Shmee150 was also in London, to capture this impressive collection of cars.

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Jaguar Freddie Owen Special is a historical car
Jun 24, 2013, 1:00 PM You don’t have to be ashamed if you never heard about the Jaguar Freddie Owen Special. We didn’t know the model either, not only because of the fact that only two copies were ever built. Despite this, there is a lot of history around the car, which marks out that this car is a hotchpotch of former Jaguar-models.
Spotted

Spotted: Lamborghini Murciélago in Japanese style
Jun 24, 2013, 10:32 AM Young and rich Asians seem to have a preference for European sports cars. Despite the high number of brutally tuned Toyota’s, Nissans and Honda’s driving around in Asia, an exclusive Lamborghini is the real summum for status-improving cars. The following owner decided everyone near the car should know that this is a Lamborghini, so he decorated his car with stickers.
News

What do you have to pay for the new Corvette Stingray?
Jun 24, 2013, 9:29 AM In this year’s thirth quarter, the new Corvette Stingray will finally be available in the dealerships. Fans of the All-American sports car had to wait for long until General Motors revealed the official specs for this car. Now they finally did, together with the price of the Stingray.
News

Tragedy: Audi R8 crashes and driver burns alive
Jun 23, 2013, 8:00 PM It looks like there are crashing supercars in Germany every week. Most often it ends good with drivers and passengers, sometimes it ends in a real horror. Sadly, the incident which took place near Jülich in Germany was one of those last cases, with the death of the Audi R8-driver as a result. This story is a real tragedy.