Lord Aleem targeted in Arson Attacks

Sometimes, it just doesn’t pay to be rich. Maybe his rivals didn’t like him calling himself

Lord Aleem?

A millionaire teen is blaming jealous rivals after losing four of his supercars, worth more than £500,000, to two separate arson attacks in just one week.

Aleem Iqbal, 19, who runs a luxury car hire firm with his father, leased out a new £340,000 Lamborghini Aventador Roadster last Friday.


Hours later it was set on fire outside a house in Luton, Bedfordshire, with the attack caught on CCTV.

The footage shows three hooded men pulling up to the house around 1am in a Mercedes 4×4, and dousing the Lamborghini in petrol.

Yesterday, three more of his luxury cars, worth £200,000, were destroyed in a second attack close to his Platinum Executive Travel firm in Yardley, Birmingham.

Two Audi R8 Spyder supercars and a Bentley Flying Spur were torched at around 12.20am – and the attack was again caught on CCTV.

The clip shows two people walking up to the three cars before they were apparently set alight

Aleem, who dubs himself ‘Lord Aleem’ on Twitter and Facebook, said: ‘I’m not really in a great state of mind at the moment – I’ve had half a million pounds worth of cars destroyed in the last few days.

‘I’m not sure if it’s an attack on my family, because they would have come directly after me or my family if that was the case.

‘However, I do believe it could be a vile act of jealously towards my business or it could just be mindless vandals on an arson spree.

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Lord Aleem targeted in Arson Attacks

Lotus Releases New Limited Edition Exige LF1

At the MotorExpo Show at Canary Wharf in London, Lotus revealed its new Exige LF1, of which only 81 will be built.

The Exige has always blended the extreme and the sublime. In true Lotus fashion, it traces its origins back to motorsport, conceived from technology, developed in competition. With its highly tuned engine, dramatic styling, and hardcore handling – Lotus’ recipe for intense performance remains instantly recognisable.

With the Exige LF1 Limited Edition there is no mistaking its link to Formula 1. This summer 81 Lotus Exige S cars will receive a Lotus F1® Team inspired livery and interior trim to commemorate the number of grand prix victories held by the Lotus marque*.

Delivering race-car thrills on the road and track, the critically acclaimed supercharged 3.5l V6 Exige S is well known for its focussed dynamic performance, now, with a striking bespoke black and gold paint scheme with red accents and gold 17” front and 18” rear cast alloy wheels, the Exige LF1 leaves no doubt as to its heritage or indeed to its intention!

The Exige LF1 is a car that begs to be driven; inside the meticulously designed black and gold interior ensures that the driver and passenger environment evokes the spirit of competition, the sporty details a continuity of the Formula 1®inspired scheme.

Exclusivity and performance are at the heart of the Exige LF1; each car will be individually numbered with its own limited edition carbon fibre build plate and loaded rich with extras such as the Exige Race Pack with Dynamic Performance Management system, two-piece high performance brake discs and high-performance Pirelli P-Zero Trofeo tyres. For those drivers wanting to optimise their Exige LF1 an optional Convenience Pack, heated seats and rear parking sensors are available.

Designed with Lotus fans firmly in mind, the Lotus Exige LF1 brings to life the iconic black and gold livery of the 1970s and 1980s. A blend of heritage and modernity, the Exige LF1 pays homage to the great Lotus Formula 1 cars of yesteryear yet incorporates the palette and sophistication of today’s E22.  Each of the 81 limited edition cars will sequentially celebrate a specific Grand Prix from car #1 commemorating Lotus’ first GP victory at Monaco in 1960 to car #81 marking Kimi Raikkonen’s win at Australia in 2013.

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Lotus Releases New Limited Edition Exige LF1

When Your Supercar Doubles as Living Room Art

If you live in Singapore and you have at least $6 million , you could buy an apartment where you park your car in your living room.

Hamilton Parks in Singapore is a brand-new 30-storey development where flats cost between £6 and £15million. But with parking in the city limited, the skyscraper designer came up with an innovative way of parking some of the planet’s fastest cars.

Residents simply drive their 200mph motors into a biometrically-controlled lift at the base of Hamilton Parks on the city’s swanky Orchard Road

They then press their thumb on a sensor in the lift and the elevator transports the car to the apartment where it is parked in what developers call an ‘en suite garage’.

Owners can then wind down after a long day’s work with their supercar in full view – despite being more than 100-metres up.

Hamilton Parks, built by KOP Properties, is made up of 56 apartments and boasts swimming pools, play pools, jacuzzis and a gym. Each apartment gets two ‘en suite garages’ apart from residents in the penthouse who have four.

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When Your Supercar Doubles as Living Room Art

Veneno Owner Adds to His Collection of Rare Models

He’s an owner of an ultra rare Lamborghini Veneno and has put an order down for another rare beauty.

Kris Singh, or popularly known in Instagram as lamborghiniks, and an owner of an ultra rare Lamborghini Veneno (green trim), has recently put down an order for a brand new Pagani Huayra. What gets interesting is that Kris´ Huayra will be the first Special Edition to be made, similar to the special edition Zondas (RS,LH,HH) that were built for interested clients.

We only have these pictures as the building process has just begun. Kris has recently joined up the forum teamspeed, in which he manages a thread showcasing the entire build process. The car is likely to be delivered to Beverly Hills in 2 months.

Veneno Owner Adds to His Collection of Rare Models

The World’s Fastest SUV

At the Severn Valley Motorsports in Telford, Shropshire UK, they built a Supercar killer. It’s a custom Nissan Quashqai, which at 1100bhp is the world’s fastest SUV, capable of in excees of 200mph.

The Qashqai is one of Britain’s most popular motors but it has never been associated with high performance. But now a British firm has turned the modest car into a behemoth capable of outrunning the quickest of supercars.

It is quicker than a Mclaren P1 – and costs a whopping £275,000. Engineers at Severn Valley Motorsport, in Telford, fitted the Qashqai with a 3.8-litre twin-turbocharged engine which now develops a staggering 1,100bhp.

This gives the five-seat family top of the mighty top speed, the Qashqai also has brutal acceleration, going from 0-62mph in just 2.7 seconds. It will do 0-124mph (200kph) in 7.5 seconds and cover a quarter-mile sprint in 9.9 seconds – crossing the line at 144mph. The McLaren P1, meanwhile, will do 0-62mph in “less than three seconds”, 0-124mph in seven seconds and the quarter-mile in 9.8 seconds.

SVM’s Qashqai has the underpinnings from a Nissan GT-R sports car.

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The World’s Fastest SUV

There’s Rare, and there’s Rare

Only 9 are to be made!

 The Veneno Roadster is a car that looks like the love child of an Aventador and a Le Mans prototype racer. Some say it’s ugly, but we’re not among them. It’s more of a misunderstood beauty, like one of those tall Swedish girls that you don’t notice until they become famous. But regardless of what we say or think, the Veneno remains an extremely rare car, which makes every sighting important.

The ultra-exclusive car was recently spotted in Bolgona, Italy, where it was being displayed at a shopping mall. To what end, we really don’t know. Because the average shopper is unlikely to be able to pay €3.3 million ($4.5 / £2.8 million) plus taxes on something like this, especially the way the Italian economy is going. Still, Lamborghini is making 9 of them and most are probably going to Chinese or American buyers.

Announced in August 2013, the Veneno Roadster is described by its makers as “an open racing prototype with an extreme design and breathtaking performance”. A powertrain borrowed from the Aventador means 750 hp are put at the disposal of the driver from a 6.5-liter V12 engine. Is it fast? Oh yes! 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 2.9 seconds and capable of reaching a top speed of 355 km/h (220 mph).

All those crazy wedge shapes and creases were carefully sculpted of carbon fiber reinforced plastic and sit on top of a carbon fiber reinforced polymer monocoque. The result of all this weight saving is a curb weight of only 1,490 kg (3,278 lbs) which makes for a power-to-weight ratio of 1.99 kg/hp. Not bad for something displayed at the mall.

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There’s Rare, and there’s Rare

The Most Extreme Golf Concept

From a standing start to 60 mph in 3.9 seconds makes this the fastest of all Golfs.

With 400 hp on tap, the Volkswagen Golf R 400 Concept is comfortably the most extreme Golf concept ever created which has a good chance of making it to production. Recently one lucky YouTuber managed to film the concept starting up and driving for the very first time and as you’d imagine, it sounds gnarly!

Based on the standard Golf R hatchback, the R 400 Concept shares the same 2.0 litre four-cylinder engine and 4MOTION four-wheel drive system. The Golf R 400 Concept is pumped up considerably with an extra 100 hp and 70 Nm of torque. Full figures are 400 hp together with 450 Nm of torque available from 2,400 to 6,000 rpm

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The Most Extreme Golf Concept