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It’s no speed demon, but when the Google Street View car was snapping shots of the roads around Laguna Seca, it also managed to grab some track time with a few of the ALMS race cars, including the Corvette C6.R, the Flying Lizard Porsche GT3 RSR, the Lola B08/86 Mazda, the Acura ARX-01b and the Audi R10 TDI.
[Google Street View - Laguna Seca]
[Via: Jalopnik]
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The Mazda Miata was designed to be a grown-up’s go-kart that could out handle just about anything else on the road, and it did a pretty good job at that task. However, some people are just not satisfied with enough, and are always looking for more.
In this case, more came in the form of a V12 engine out of a Jaguar that one enterprising Miata owner decided to shove between the front wheels of his Miata to see what would happen.
Sure, it’s not pretty, and twelve carb intakes poking up through the hood are sort of a dead giveaway for the fact that this is no ordinary Miata, but isn’t that the point when you’re building a project like this?
Check out the vid for a walkthrough of the build, as well as the sound of the monster as the owner fires it up for the first time:
[Via: Jalopnik]
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Believe it or not, the zoom-zoom boys are behind this beautiful concept car, and it’s called the Furai (Japanese for “sound of the wind” and pronounced “fu-rye”).
The look is based on an American Le Mans Series racecar, and the chassis is the actual Courage C65 chassis that Mazda used in the ALMS series two seasons ago.
Power comes from a 20B three-rotor rotary, and runs on E100 ethanol fuel to produce a reported 450-horsepower.
The lines of this car are what really make it a thing of beauty though, so compliments to Mazda and Swift Engineering for cloaking a wolf in wolf’s clothing.
Care to let DYH take a test drive?
[Via: Mazda]
[Via: Autoblog]
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Mazda’s new MX-5 hard-top convertible can raise its top in only 12 seconds, which is a full 18 seconds faster than a girl who just signed her dignity away for 15 minutes of Girls Gone Wild fame. The new micro-site, 12 Second Thriller, showcases Mazda’s “world’s fastest retractable hardtop” with short video clips that involve the top saving lives form the likes of birds, ninjas, sharks and aliens. Plus, users can create their own trailer by choosing a genre and a character to star in their creation. Thrilling.
[Via: Autoblog]
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