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Porsche 911 Turbo S

Check out this new Porsche 911 Turbo S – a car that Porsche promises to bee the fastest and most powerful 911 Turbo ever.

The car’s powered by a 3.8L flat six with two turbochargers slapped on. The unit churns out 523 bhp up by 30 from the old 493 bhp that it produces. The torque gets boosted as well for 515 lb-ft.

The power is sent to all four wheel thanks to a seven-speed PDK dual-clutch transmission. Flappy-paddle are standard for the first time as well. The car’s also equipped with traction control, torque vectoring, and a mechanical limited-slip diff.

Added systems include launch control and dynamic engine mounts. All that lets the car sprint from 0-62 mph in just 3.3 seconds and go all the way up to 196 mph. But we all know that, in a good day, 911s can go past 200 mph.

And the car’s relatively a fuel sipper too with 24.8 mpg (provided that you don’t max out the power on tap). The car’s available both as cabrio and coup.

Video: Super Bowl XLIV Car Ad Roundup

So the Saints won the Super Bowl sticking it up Payton Manning’s bum.

Non-football gearheads could settle for all the car ads in the biggest night of TV.

Here’s our round-up.

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Ferrari to Produce 599 GTO

Ferrari just recently launched the 458 Italia so we can expect a few lulls in their release cycles. They can sure keep teasing us though.

The company just announced that they will be making a 599 GTO slated for later this year. Ferrari aims for the car to be a “more focused” version over the GTB (pictured) and HG TE models.

As for the power figures, the car is expected to dish out not less than 650 bhp and added torque is to be expected . The car will be put on a diet as well to lose a few more kiloframs.

We just hope that the road cars they’re building will be any good. For some reason, there’s an inverse relationship between the quality of their road cars and their F1 cars and it looks like they built one heck of a car for this coming season.

For no geek gearheads out there, GTO stands for Gran Turismo Omologato which means the car’s “homologated” or certified by several racing bodies to be qualified for racing.

Nissan 370Z Black Edition

Nissan may not be releasing something new for now but updates on its existing fleet would be most welcome. We’re pretty sure that they’re still milking all the development and hype they’ve given cars such as the GT-R and the 370Z.

Anyway, here’s a special edition of the 370Z sports coupe – the Nissan 370Z Black Edition. The car’s built to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Nissan’s Z cars.

Powering the car’s the same 3.7L engine from Infiniti found in the standard 370Z. The car gets some added goodies though which include red leather and suede interior, leather steering wheel, and a touchscreen sat nav inside.

Outside the car gets either a metallic black or quartz paint job while it sits on 19-inch rims. The car also gets red brake calipers for good measure.

Only 370 of these babies will be hitting Europe and would cost around $52,500 (£33,645) for a manual and $54,680 ( £35,045) for an automatic.

Source: Autocar

Formula 1: Alonso Continues Ferrari Roll

Day 3 of Formula One testing and it’s Fernando Alonso’s turn to take the Ferrari out for a spin on his home track in Valencia.

The Spaniard did not disappoint his fans, clocking the fastest time of the day and keeping the Ferrari roll going. Looks like the Massa-Alonso tandem will be hard to beat with that new Ferrari of theirs.

Surprisingly, it just might be BMW Sauber’s season as well as Pedro de la Rosa came in second again in the lap time board continuing its second place streak from Day 1. Kamui Kobayashi clocked in second in Day 2 as well.

Michael Schumacher clinched 3rd yet again in his Mercedes. We can all just hope that he’d find his pace to match the Ferrari boys this season.

Jenson Button came in 5th in the day which gives doubt to his real skill as a driver. Lewis Hamilton was fast enough to clinch 3rd in Day 2.

Formula 1: Virgin Racing VR-01

Virgin Racing will soon have their cherry popped soon and they’ll be doing it with the VR-01. (Unclassy? Deal with it.)

Virgin Racing entered F1 as Manor Grand Prix. It’s the first of the four new teams to unveil their racer. What’s interesting with this car is that it’s design using computational fluid dynamics rather than with a more traditional wind tunnel. Let’s see if pure math can trump the good ol’ wind tunnel.

The car will be powered by a 2.4L V8 Cosworth engine.

Virgin Racing might be first timers in F1 but the team behind it is composed not of racing rookies. Manor Motorsport has been participating in Formula Three races and helped launch the careers of Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton.

The car will be piloted by Timo Glock and Lucas di Grassi.