May 2010

My first ever post on this here site was titled ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles‘ and even though I might be going a bit off topic here I just got sent this clip from the film (which contains quite a bit of sweary sweary) so I had to put it up.

If you haven’t seen the film this is the bit where Steve Martin‘s character has just got back to the airports car hire depot after being told to collect his car from a huge car park outside. Well after looking for a long time and getting into all sorts of comical situations its transpires that the car is not actually there and this is what he does when he gets back to the car hire depot and see’s the same woman who served him before… I feel we have all felt this frustrated at some point in our lives.

Anyway enough of this, back to cars!!!!!!1!!!!!111!1!! Oh yeah and go buy the film it’s ace!

Do you ever sit at home and look outside your window at your 663bhp Mercedes SL65 AMG Black and think to yourself, ‘man I wish it was faster…’

If you said yes then you are a very rich and very mental human being but thankfully Brabus have answered your dreams and have made the super special edition Brabus T65 RS  Vanish version that boasts 788 bhp and a climate change inducing 1047lb ft of torque. With torque like that you wont just be melting tyres you will be melting the earth and spinning it backwards, the eco lot and climate change activists will probably have a fit if they saw this chewing up tyres on the street.

Even with the electronically limited torque figure of 811 lb ft the Brabus will do 0 – 124mpg in 9.8 seconds and carry on to a face ripping 206mph!

Needs wider wheels...

Now when I said super special edition earlier I really did mean it because this is actually a one off made for a very dedicated Brabus customer who seems to not have any concept of speed. The lucky, lucky man.

See look, loads of arch space! Wider wheels now!!!

The full Brabus press release can be found on Pistonheads here.

Bit of arch gap there...

Hard as nails.

Add some lights, windows, plates and legal tyres. Roll like a pro.

[Via Akku on RR]

Those Irish people over in Ireland seem to be buying all of the Escorts and then flinging them around the roads like complete madmen, breaking them and then buying more and repeating the process. Prices of Escorts are ridiculously high at the moment and I should be annoyed but then I remember why all the Irish are buying them…

Escorts from about half way through on this video.

They are awesome to rally and Ireland has some pretty amazing rallying stages and rally scenes. I think one day a road trip is in order to watch some of this amazing rallying. Of course driving over in our own cars would be pointless so the plan would be hop on a little plane and land in the capital, enjoy a boozy night at the Guinness brewery and surrounding public houses and then jump into a hire car in Dublin and drive up to the nearest rally stage. Watch the rallying for as long as it is going on and then find a lovely looking MK2 Escort and say to the owner ‘I would like this Escort please’, give him some gold coins for his car and then dump the hire car back to the depot and drive my nice new (old) Escort onto a boat headed for England.

Sounds simple enough and the Euro is still less than the pound at the moment so it would be a bit cheaper than trying to find one over here and I get a boozy, rally watching short holiday at the same time. Win!

I lowered my car quite a bit last week. So to celebrate my excitement have some random Capri’s that are from my file marked ‘OMG LUSH AWESOME YEAH!!!1!1!!’

Any donations to the file are always appreciated so link me to the best Capri picture you have ever seen in the comments! Go on do it. Go on. Do it.

This is probably the lowest road going Capri around. I aim to beat this but to be honest I have no idea how he has actually managed to get this low. The owner says its just on springs, so they must be tiny!

Once I have my new wheels on and I have the back down (I’m sporting awesome 70′s style rake at the moment) then I will have to see just how much lower I can go.

In Joy