Brit Builds a Ferrari F430 Scuderia Replica Out of a Ford Cougar

Who would have thought that the Ford Cougar, known as the last generation Mercury Cougar in North America, would prove so popular with the replica crowd?

After a couple of Bugatti Veyron 16.4s and an Audi R8, we have now unearthed a Ferrari F430 Scuderia clone based on a low-mileage Cougar coupe V6.

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Video of Million-Dollar Fender Bender Caused by a Blonde Woman in a Bentley Hits the Web

A video that captured one of the more highly publicized car accidents of recent years, which incidentally (or not…) involved a young blonde woman driving a Bentley Azure convertible into four other luxurious cars in Monaco, has surfaced on the internet almost a year after the crash happened. Read more »

This Ferrari F430 Replica was Built Out of a Toyota Celica

Without doubt, the Pontiac Fiero is king when it comes to donor vehicles for replicas, but once in a very blue moon, we stumble upon exotic lookalikes that are not based on GM's mid-engined sports car.

Like this Ferrari F430 clone listed for sale in Canada. The Bianco-Fuji-colored (sic…) Maranello-wannabe is built around the seventh and last generation of Toyota's Celica sports coupe series.

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Lincoln Town Car Limo Crashes Into Exotic Car Shop in LA, Damages Ferrari and Rare TVR [Updated]

A livery service Lincoln Town Car that was used as a taxi smashed into a luxury car shop in the Mid-City area of Los Angeles on Wednesday morning leaving one person injured and causing damages to the building and at least two supercars, a Ferrari F430 Spider and a rare TVR Tuscan S.

According to authorities, the driver of the Lincoln taxi pulled out an injured female passenger from the rear seat and left her near the Specialty Car Craft shop in the 1800 block of South La Cienega Boulevard before he fled the scene on foot. The female passenger of the Lincoln was taken to the hospital.

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Detroit Show: Ferrari F430 Spider Bio-Fuel Concept

You know that something’s definitely changing in the automotive world when Ferrari decides to show off a biofuel-powered concept. Based on the F430 Spider, the prototype is equipped with a V8 engine that runs on biofuel E85 which was developed with using experience gained in competition. In particular, Formula 1’s technical regulations demand that petrol (gasoline) with 5.75% biomass-derived content must be used, while the FIA GT and American Le Mans Series (ALMS) where Ferrari took part with the F430 GT2 in 2007, use fuels with 10% ethanol. -Continued

According to Ferrari, certain modifications were made to the F430 V8’s fuel feed system and most importantly to the engine CPU to allow the engine use E85. Developing the CPU, two fuels (Flex Fuel) can be used by the engine with the same compression ratio. All of the other technical characteristics have remained unchanged with respect to a standard production engine, however. The use of this type of biofuel and the modifications made resulted in an increase in maximum power output (+ 10 hp at the same rpm) and torque (+ 4%) while overall weight was unchanged. The advantages to the environment translate into a 5% drop in CO₂ emissions

Video: More Ferrari F430 Scuderia Test Driving

We can’t seem to get enough of the new F430 Scuderia and thank God, there’s plenty of media material circulating around the net these days. In this video, the guys at American car magazine Road & Track put Ferrari Formula One test driver Marc Gene in the driver’s seat and let him take advantage of the sexy Italian supercar. Also, don't neglect to check out our humongous F430 Scuderia wallpaper gallery by clicking here. -Video after the jump

Via: Motorpasion

Video: Ferrari F430 Scudera First Test Drive

Here’s the second video of the 2008 Ferrari F430 Scuderia from CarOnline (see the first one by clicking here). “Poor” Ben Barry was forced by Car to be among the world's first journalists to drive the latest Ferrari on the roads around the Italian company's Maranello headquarters. If we guessed right, Barry kinda liked the F430 Scuderia…

Via: Autoblog.it , Sourcer: CarOnline