Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport in Startling White.

GT Spirit calls this the Photo Of The Day!  No arguments about that at all

The Bugatti Veyron possibly the defining car of the decade. It pushed boundaries and explored technological advancements like no other car manufacturer has ever done before and produced a car the shatters the limits of what everyone believed was possible.

The Grand Sport allowed the speed, power and brutal acceleration to be experienced with the wind rushing through the driver and lucky passenger hair with the sun on their skin

Powering the 2010 Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport is the now familiar, 8.0-liter quad-turbocharged W16 engine pumping out 1,001 hp and helping to launch the car to 100 km/h in around 2.5 seconds and onto a top speed of 407 km/h. This flawless white example was photographed by GTspirit photographer Willem de Zeeuw

Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport in Startling White.

The Audi Aftermarket Photo Gallery

Take a perfectly good Audi, and make it sing.

The second day of the Geneva Motor Show brings about a slower pace free of press conferences and reveals from the four rings brand, and so we’re able to head to more far-flung areas of the Geneva PalExpo and discover displays featuring other Audi and Lamborghini product. Most notably, this includes offerings from Audi’s rich aftermarket.

Larger tuning houses like Abt Sportsline and MTM are actually located on the show floor and not far from Audi directly. We’ve already posted all of the press materials from Abt and the MTM materials will be coming shortly. What we can tell you now is that they had their high-speed Nardo S8, an RS Q3 and a Volkswagen Amorok pickup swapped with a 4.2 TDI V8.

Right now we’re focusing on capturing as much as we can while we’re here, and this includes several other modded Audis down in a lower aftermarket hall on the other side of the facility.

So what was in the OE/Aftermarket hall? We found a modified RS 3 sporting a mix of modifications, a matte black S5 featuring two different wheel designs on either side and also a nice-looking RS 5 from Vossen wheels.

Also in the OE/Aftermarket hall are several vendors selling car-themed goods like books, clothes and of course model cars. Here we found an equally rich mix, like 1:18 scale S2 Coupe and a 1:43 model of Audi’s mid-engine Gruppe S prototype.

Check out more photos from this set in our Geneva Motor Show photo gallery linked in the usual spot below and to the right of this story.

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The Audi Aftermarket Photo Gallery

Without doubt one of the stars at Geneva

The highlight of Geneva 2014, the Koenigsegg One:1 with a mind blowing 1360hp and 1360kg of weight.

Some exciting things coming in the space, keep your eyes peeled!

Thanks for watching, Tim

 

Without doubt one of the stars at Geneva

The Hottest of Hot Hatches

Two years ago, we spent some time behind the wheel of a limited-edition Audi A1 Quattro, and we were left in awe of the 256-hp supermini’s perfectly balanced chassis and incredible performance. In the immediate aftermath, Audi functionaries insisted that a not-so-limited-production successor was on the way to complement the brand’s tiny,Volkswagen Polo–based A1. And then all went quiet. Until now, when the 2015 S1 was introduced ahead of the car’s in-the-metal debut next month at the Geneva auto show.

The S1’s specifications are quite similar to its limited-run predecessor’s. The new car is also powered by a 2.0-liter turbo four, and uses a six-speed manual, while top speed is 155 mph—3 mph faster than the A1 Quattro’s.

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In order to make this S1, engineers had to make a number of modifications from the front-drive A1, which is about three inches longer than a Ford Fiesta ST but nearly identical in every other dimension. For starters, an all-wheel-drive system needed to be fitted, making the S1 the first mass-produced all-wheel-drive A1, as was a new multilink rear suspension and making accommodations for the larger engine—the A1’s powertrain lineup maxes out at a 1.4-liter.

Rated at 231 horsepower and 273 lb-ft of torque, the S1′s EA888 2.0-liter turbo four is less powerful than the A1 Quattro’s EA113 powerplant, but it produces more torque. Audi says that the S1 can sprint from standstill to 62 mph in 5.8 seconds, or 5.9 seconds in the five-door S1 Sportback, and achieve 34 mpg on the utopian European cycle. Those performance estimates handily outgun what we achieved in our test of a Fiesta ST, which was good for a 7.0-second run to 60.

The S1 looks aggressive, with its unique fascia treatments and quad exhaust outlets. The look can be enhanced with an exterior design package that adds “Quattro” graphics, a large rear wing, and blacked-out trim on the hatch.

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The interior is fitted with special gauges and sport seats, although buyers can upgrade the latter to “S” seats with integrated headrests. Interior materials are dark and businesslike, lending the cabin the air of seriousness that’s commonplace in the car’s larger siblings.

Given the S1′s performance and level of refinement, its German-market price of €24,259 (roughly $33,000 at today’s exchange rates) is almost a steal. We doubt the 2015 S1 will ever reach America air, but when the standard A1 was launched we were told the car could be certified to meet U.S. safety standards with relative ease. We suggest ringing Audi and registering a request.

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The 2015 Jaguar XFR-S Sportbrake

This isn’t your ordinary, everyday station wagon.

As much as we love wagons, we love hotted-up wagons even more—there’s just something intoxicating about a powerful sports sedan with an enlarged cargo-swallowing space grafted to its rump. Take, for instance, Jaguar’s 2015 XFR-S Sportbrake: The package starts with the beastly 2014 XFR-S sedan, but drops that car’s trunklid and skyscraper wing in favor of a curvaceous cargo area topped with a small spoiler. A reasonable argument could be made that Sportbrake’s lines appear more natural, and they lend the car a certain grace to balance out its brash specifications. That the configuration offers an additional 1.9 inches of headroom for rear-seat passengers and an ample storage shed for the pink slips of the vanquished are just bonuses.

Weight Management

As an estate, provisions must be made to manage extra mass at the rear of the car. Jaguar specifically tuned the active rear suspension for the task, recalibrating the continuously variable dampers and springs to deal with the Sportbrake’s unique weight distribution. The rear brakes were tweaked, the rear axle modified, and the anti-roll bars swapped to ensure the Sportbrake offers the same handling as the XFR-S sedan. Twenty-inch Varuna wheels wear specially developed Pirelli tires sized 265/35 in front and 295/30 in the rear. The wheels come standard in a two-toned finish, but can be ordered in gray or gloss black finishes. The electronic programs that control the car’s Adaptive Dynamics chassis settings, the active electronic differential, and the stability-control system have been reprogrammed to work with the uprated suspension components and wheels.

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The 2015 Jaguar XFR-S Sportbrake

Hyundai to Challenge at Geneva

It seems almost sacrilegious that Hyundai would even dare to parade the same stage. But, thanks to an Italian design studio, they’ve come up with something special.

PassoCorto: a two-seater sports car at Geneva Motor Show

The concept car realized by the Master in Transportation Design in collaboration with the Hyundai Design Center Europe will be revealed in world preview.

PassoCorto, the tenth full scale model created by Istituto Europeo di Design of Turin, is a sports car, extremely compact in size. Designed by the Master in Transportation Design – work experience IED Turin – a.y. 2012/13 in collaboration with Hyundai, it will be revealed in world preview at the 84^th International Geneva Motor Show.

The Korean car manufacturer gave to the Institute a design brief with its target potential customers being young people, who are always connected, those of 2.0, known as generation Y. This very target market also includes the students on the Master’s asked by Hyundai to draw and design the car that would be top of their list for buying and driving.

It is time of PassoCorto, created in a year – 2014 – that, in addition to the tenth full scale model, will also see the Institute celebrate 20 years of the Transportation Design course and 25 years of activity in the region.

PassoCorto is the work of sixteen students on the Master’s course coordinated by Luca Borgogno, Lead Designer Pininfarina. The concept is the result of a process marked by various assessment stages, simulating a real working situation. All the students submitted their own proposal; the two that were best able to respond to the initial brief were selected and “merged” together into the final version which combines approximately 70% of one proposal and 30% of the other. The entire class in fact created a core working team in order to create a well-integrated model of the two final versions in line with the concepts expressed by the scale models, completing as a group the full scale concept.

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Hyundai to Challenge at Geneva