Renault R28 - Yellow madness?

When you think of formula one, renault is a name that comes in to your head almost as much as ferrari and mclaren. This car further alliterates this slight french grip on f1. Their cars may be shockingly standard in real life, but this is one french car you won't find in a used car for sale lot ever. With carbon ceramic breaks that if fitted to a horse and cart would be the last straw that broke the shire horses back and a front nose that is worthy only of a satan grade smile. If you painted it black this thing would be a land going fighter jet.

• Engine: RS27 90º V 8
• Naturally Aspirated
• Rear wheel drive
• Gears: Paddle-operated 7 speed Sequential
• Breaking: vented carbon ceramic discs, all-round

This car is truly a mentalist - unlike a used daihatsu its got a hell of a lot of guts.

Ferrari F2008 - Redness gone Mad...

Its not often we look at formula one racing cars on Awesome Cars, but this one cant be ignored. Red and styled like a venomous snake, this ferrari looks like it will whip anyones ass on and off any track ever, if it were to have a fight with a hungover atom bomb it would come off better, and faster at that. Sheer utter italian mental redness!

• Engine: Type 056 V 8
• Size: 2.398 ltr
  
• Naturally Aspirated
• Rear wheel drive

If you are after a ferrari but not the formula one type check out second hand ferraris! And if your budget isn't quite up to a ferrari then why not just get a good all round used audi in wales!

Corvette C6 Z06 E85 Concept - Will the Americans ever get it right?

If your an avid reader of this blog you will know I don't much tend to like American exports. But the lure of a strait 500bhp corvette is undeniable. The overall design is typical corvette and although it seems to tick every box that a fast car should it seems to still look a bit like a combination of Keira nightly, Angelina Jolie and a cat. It seems to me like a car half born from a modern nice sports car but with legs made in the 1980s. I do not think its styling is anything to be proud of compared to for example the konensiggggggggggg, veyron - in fact any big value car - hell even the R8 is beautiful in comparison. Police lights are this photo's saving grace - they do make any car look cooler - especially low impact ones...still a corvette though :/

• Engine: LS7 90º V 8
• Compression Ratio: 11.0:1
• Naturally Aspirated
• Rear wheel drive
• Power: 500 bhp / 373 KW @ 6200 rpm
• Torque: 657 Nm / 485 ft lbs @ 4800 rpm
• BHP per Litre: 71
• Power to Weight Ratio: 0.35 bhp / kg

Ferrari 430 Scuderia

Shiny Red and fast, kinda like rudolf, although this car is no girl! My favourite part would be the lower grills on either side of this unabashed beast of a horse. Sweet lines and excellent poise grace this car it just remains to see it on the track!!!

• Engine: 90º V 8

• Naturally Aspirated
• Rear wheel drive
• Power: 510 bhp / 380 KW @ 8500 rpm
• Torque: 470 Nm / 347 ft lbs @ 5250 rpm
• BHP Per Litre: 118
• Power to Weight Ratio: 0.38 bhp / kg
• Top Speed: 199 mph

Corvette ZR1 - Something good comes out of america?

The title yes does sound a bit anti-america. But I am not anti america - they did probably help in developing the internet age and they are in essence still young in terms of history - but this car actually looks good? I was driving behind a corvette in the UK last week but it was a much older model so I payed it little attention. This one however looks pretty damn good. I don't like the central buldge which looks new style celica like (bad for a higher end car) but the lights look supra like which is ok. Still cant work out what that weird central bit on the bonnet is though????

• Engine: LS9 90º V 8
• Roots-Type Supercharger
• Power: 620 bhp / 463 KW
• Torque: 807 Nm / 595 ft lbs
• BHP per litre: 101 BHP/litre
• Rear wheel drive

Chevrolet C6 Corvette Z06 GT2 - Yellow Mess?

Now if you read this often you will know I don't really love american cars, I am more of a german muscle man or at least something slightly effective. Typically american cars run 12 ltrs and produce the same bhp that a german 2 ltr car would - ok I exagerated but you get me. But this yellow car does look good - somewhat like a typical sports car I would say but I like the spoiler and rear end. Not something your likely to see in a used cars section in the uk though!

• Engine: LS7 90º V 8
• Naturally Aspirated
• Power: 480 bhp / 358 KW
• Torque: 550 Nm / 406 ft lbs
• BHP per Litre: 68 bhp / litre

BMW X6 xDrive50i - BMW Concept 4x4

When I first saw this BMW concept 4x4 I thought, oh god another bmw/german manufacturer bringing out a model for everyone on my street, but on checking the stats for this german metal out it turns out to have quite a nice torque figure that would make boat pulling or other random towage a breeze. Pretty good for a lot of reasons, and not ugly either!!! I wonder how long it will take before you can buy one of these at a used bmw for sale lots?

• Engine: 90º V 8
• Twin Turbo
• Power: 400 bhp / 298 KW @ 5500 rpm
• Torque: 610 Nm / 450 ft lbs @ 1800 rpm
• BHP per Litre: 91 bhp / litre
• Top Speed: 155 mph
• 0-60mph in 5.2 seconds

Audi R8 - Managable Mentalism?

If your a sensible type of guy who likes his grey suit and has a spare 80k what supercar would you buy? Yes its german, yes its an audi - where do you sign? here sir... Supercar salesmen must have the easiest jobs. Literally the sort of people that buy them do not give a crap that they are getting insane value for money (80k supercar - sponsored by germany ;) ) A second hand car might cost you a bit less...Needless to say that audi are scaling the german 3 mountain with the purchase of lambo and now the needlessly perfect r8. Perhaps only a smaller brother to some cars like the ssc but a sensible super car? I dont like those sides though!!

• Engine: 90º V 8
• Naturally Aspirated
• Power: 420 bhp / 313 KW @ 7800 rpm
• Torque: 430 Nm / 317 ft lbs @ 4500 rpm
• BHP per Litre: 100 bhp / litre
• Power to Weight Ratio: 0.27 bhp / kg
• Top Speed: 187 mph
• 0-60 mph in 4.5 seconds

Batmobile - oh no wait I mean Vector Avtech WX-8

Now as the title suggests the photo makes the Vector Avtech WX-8 look a little batty but it doesn't sound too bad - its credentials don't compare to yesterdays awesome auto, but it still looks alright...
But is alright enough? I mean if I was a millionaire (give me a few years) and I had a mill to blow on a "ultra-super-exotic vehicle" would I choose this? It may have some good people behind it but in the world of Veyrons, Ferraris and other earth moving sports cars does this 80% attainment pupil make it? We will have to wait and see!

• Engine: V8 - hmm
• Aspiration: Super Charger
• 0-60: 3.3 seconds
• BHP: 750 bhp / 560 KW
• BHP per Litre: 107 bhp / litre