Fiat Panda Monster Truck

Pour les besoins d'une publicité à paraître début 2013, la nouvelle Fiat Panda 4x4 a subi de légers développements pour se transformer en un Monster Truck aussi impressionnant qu'inattendu...

Réalisé par l'agence Leo Burnett, ce spot commercial met en scène un groupe d'amis en week-end à la montagne qui voit arriver à l'hôtel un véhicule surprenant. Avec une agilité qui stupéfie tous les témoins, une Fiat Panda grimpe en effet en toute tranquillité jusque sur les hauteurs où trône la résidence. La chute sera à découvrir sur vos écrans en janvier prochain.

Techniquement, ce Big Foot serait un mix entre une Panda 4x4 et une Jeep CJ7 4200, sur lequel seraient montées des roues de tracteur équipées de pneus « Highspeed » de 150 cm de diamètre, faisant ainsi culminer le toit de cette Panda à 3,9 m du sol.

L'histoire ne dit pas si cet engin est motorisé par les blocs habituels de la Panda 4x4, mais on peut en douter...

Classic Concepts: Porsche 928 H50

We were recently given the opportunity to drive the Panamera Sport Turismo concept car, but the marque was a lot more secretive 25 years ago. This four-door 928 was created in 1987, but has only just been revealed to the public – and shows how long Porsche has been considering a sports car in the ‘shooting brake’ mould.

By 1987, Porsche loyalists had begrudgingly accepted the 928's egg-shaped styling and blasphemic front-engined layout; but Porsche had grasped that it would never gain the cult following of the 911 it was intended to replace. Rather than forging ahead along an ever-narrowing path, the Zuffenhausen marque instead decided to build upon the 928’s GT credentials by experimenting with a four-door version in the style of a shooting brake.


A new-at-the-time Series 4 model served as a basis, with its enlarged, now 5.0-litre V8 (tweaked to 330bhp) remaining front-mounted. The existing chassis was lengthened to give rear passengers more legroom and they were now also aided by the addition of half-sized coach doors. However, after 5,000 miles of developmental testing, the engineers decided that the chassis didn’t meet the required rigidity benchmarks in elongated form, and it was swiftly consigned to storage.

The development mule (which explains the ill-fitting rear screen and poorly finished bodywork) didn’t see the light of day for another 25 years, when it was finally revealed at Pebble Beach 2012. Its flaws might have extinguished any hopes for production, but the H50 928 certainly passed wisdom down to its spiritual successors – Porsche crafted a completely new (and adequately rigid) platform when cultivating the Panamera. So with the latter flying the nest and starting its own family, it seems only fair that the forgotten father gets a moment in the spotlight.

Text: Joe Breeze (Classicdriver)
Photos: Porsche

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OLDER N' FASTER // THE CALIFORNIA LOOK

This is the story of the California Look. Started back in the 60's no other style was as influential or important to the Volkswagen scene. They just get Older n' Faster ....

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Bruce Willis to auction personal motorcycle collection for charity

If you are a real ‘Die Hard’ motorcycle collector, you can’t miss the opportunity on bidding on one of the five personal motorcycles that action film star Bruce Willis will be donating for charity which will benefit veterans and wounded combat troops through the Boot Campaign, a non-profit military appreciation and support campaign based in Texas.

The five bikes to be auctioned will be a: 1962 Cushman Eagle
, a 1972 Harley Davidson Ironhead Sportster XLH, a 1988 Yamaha TW, 
a 1991 Yamaha XT 350 
and a 2005 Ducati 1000DS (with only 285 miles on it).

The charity auction started this month on charitybuzz.com and each bike will be auctioned for one month only.

Bruce Willis who was born an Army brat said, “I wanted to use my bikes in a way that would benefit our military service members, and I am thankful to have found the Boot Campaign as the catalyst for using my bikes in a way that will give back to our country’s true heroes. These bikes have been a lot of fun to ride, and my hope is they can do a lot of good for our veterans.” 

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FACTORY 5 GTM

The Factory 5 GTM Supercar is the American answer to the highly-acclaimed, British made Ultima GTR. Both are kit built supercars with a mid-mounted engine, space-frame chassis, fibreglass body shell and a top speed that’ll make your eyes water. Both cars are capable, rather easily, of embarrassing any supercar you throw at them and both can be built for a relatively paltry sum (if you compare price tags with the Ferrari Enzos of the world).

The basic Factory 5 GTM kit costs $20,990 USD, once you have it you’ll need to source a 1997-2004 Chevrolet C5 Corvette as an engine/suspension donor and get your hands on either a Porsche G50 or a Mendeola 5 speed transmission. Factory 5 says that the average build time for the GTM is about 600 hours and the average total cost is about $50,000 USD depending on the final specifications that you choose and how cheaply you can source a C5.

The performance specifications of the GTM were tested by Car and Driver Magazine in 2007, the GTM had a recorded 0-60 time of 3.0 seconds and a 1/4 mile time of 11.0 seconds (with a 450 hp engine installed).

If you’ve been looking for a winter project and you’ve got access to an old C5 Corvette, you might want to click the link and visit the official Factory 5 website here.

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