News: Ferrari F12 Berlinetta

This is a design flight of the upcoming Ferrari F12 Berlinetta. Like the 599 it replaces, the F12 will have a V12 engine that was first featured in the Ferrari FF, however this reworked version produces 730bhp along with 609 torques and weighing in at just 1,525kg, the F12 Berlinetta will hit 62mph in 3.1seconds, 124mph in 8.5 and will run out of steam at a whopping 211mph. The F12 has already blitzed Ferrari's Fiorano test track in just 1minute 23seconds, faster than the Ferrari Enzo.

Check out this video for a good look at this amazing new car!

Spotted for sale #4

This weeks 'spotted for sale' car of the week is a Bugatti Veyron, and not just 'any' Veyron; it is in fact a Pur Sang, with only 5 in the world, it is an incredibly rare car!
The Bugatti Veyron is an incredible car, it provides utmost luxury combined with supersonic speed and acceleration. This Chrome/Black paint job really makes it look even more exclusive. I love the way the Bugatti Veyron looks so discreet, yet can achieve a top speed of 253mph and hits 60mph in under 3 seconds! Despite all this I have never really been a huge fan of they Veyron, if I could afford one, I would buy one (I mean, who wouldn't?!) but I would prefer to drive a Pagani Zonda or a Lamborghini, just because they have more drama and noise! The Veyron is a bit too sensible in my opinion, a bit too German and scientific.

Anyway that's enough of my opinion, here are some facts about this extraordinary car; an 8.0L W16 quad turbocharged engine producing an astonishing 1001bhp, a 7-speed DSG sequential gearbox which allows for very quick, smooth gear changes, however all of this comes at a cost, the Bugatti Veyron weighs a massive 1888kg which means it 'only' has 440bhp per tonne. The Bugatti Veyron was put into production in 2005, all the 16.4 Veyrons have been sold, however should you want one, they are available on request. The 'Pur Sang' part of the name actually means 'Thoroughbred', it was launched at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show. This specific Veyron has only covered 155 miles since it was brand new in 2008, so it is still in pristine condition! You can see more of this Bugatti Veyron by clicking the link below. Thank you for reading! :-)
Price: POR

Bugatti Veyron Pur Sang

Morgan

This is only going to be a quick post but here we go. This is a Morgan I spotted in Exeter on Thursday, I didn't manage to get a good picture of it because I was in a rush to get back to college! I'm not sure what model it is as I'm not really clued up on Morgan's! I must say I really like the look of this car although I'm not sure a classic British sports car would really suit a 17 year old college lad though, unfortunately. If anyone knows what model this is I would be interested to find out so if you know, please comment!
I will be back to posting more detailed posts tomorrow!:-)

Sorry about the bad quality of the image, I really don't know why the camera on my Blackberry was so poor on this occasion.

Wrecked #3

This weeks 'Wrecked' post is one that many of you have probably already heard of, the Ferrari Enzo allegedly crashed by Stefan Erikssen in Malibu. I have chosen to write a blog about this crash because there is so much conspiracy/mystery behind it. The Ferrari Enzo is one of my all time favorite cars so it is genuinely saddening to see such a beautiful specimen to be ruined.
As you can see from the images, the car has been completely split in half! The engine has actually been separated the front end of the car! Ferrari has estimated it will cost around £200,000 to £250,000 to completely repair this Ferrari Enzo to it's original state. Police say that the Enzo reached a speed of 199mph before it crashed and split in half! I highly recommend that you read more about this crash on Wrecked Exotics as they have all the information you could ever want on what happened, you will also be able to view images of the car itself as most of them have been copyrighted, hence there only being one on this post (sorry about that, rules are rules unfortunately).

Below is a video clip of this crash being talked about on the news, I highly recommend that you check this out also!

Spotted for sale #3

Sorry this post is a day late, like I said in the previous post, I have been very busy recently! This is the second post of the day so don't forget to check out the previous one if you haven't already!

This weeks 'Spotted for sale' car is a Porsche Carrera GT in 'Biarritz White'. I have chosen this car because in the previous post we saw that Lewis Hamilton's father had crashed one into a hedge!



As you can see this car looks stunning in white with black wheels. I love pretty much everything about this car, it looks fantastic, goes like a bat out of hell and the sound is absolutely out of this world. This car is incredibly rare, out of just 1,270 being produced only 50 are thought to be in the UK, the chances of ever seeing one are very small. The Carrera GT produces 604bhp from it's 5.7 litre V10 engine

The Carrera GT can trace it's roots back to the 911 GT1, the exhausts, for example. I have to admit I always have loved the Carrera GT mostly because of the noise it makes, as soon as it starts up it just howls like a wounded animal, fantastic. Check out this video of Carrera GT sounds and just listen to the noise it makes! This car is being sold by Dick Lovett, check out the advert below for more.
Price £279,990.

Porsche Carrera GT

Wrecked #2

Sorry this post is 5 days late, I've been very busy recently and haven't had time to post anything :-/ so here is the 'Wrecked' post that should have been posted on the 17th of February 2012.


This weeks wrecked post is a fairly well known crash as it was Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton's father, Anthony. The car that was unlucky enough to be involved was a grey Porsche Carrera GT that Anthony Hamilton didn't own, it was 'borrowed'. As you can see from the pictures the car is pretty badly beaten up and so is the hedge it went through!
You can read an article on this on the Daily Mail here.


The Porsche Carrera GT is an incredibly rare hyper car worth around £330,000 and only 1,270 exist in the world with 50 thought to be in the UK. With over 600bhp on tap and rear wheel drive the Carrera GT is a difficult enough car to control, but it gets more difficult, the clutch in the Carrera GT is very difficult to operate if you are inexperienced. It's a great shame that such an amazing car has lost it's life but fortunately no one was hurt.

Spotted for sale #2

This weeks rare/unusual car found for sale is a Lamborghini Reventon Roadster.

I have chosen this car as this weeks spotted for sale because it is one of my all time favorite cars, an incredibly rare and beautiful Lamborghini, I always have loved Lamborghini's because they all look so striking. In fact it was a Lamborghini Gallardo that I saw on the t.v when I was younger that really got me into cars!



The Lamborghini Reventon Roadster debuted at the 2009 Frankfurt motor show, it uses the engine from the Murcielago LP670-4 SV which means it is able to reach 205mph and hit 60mph in just 3.3s, this is insanely fast for a convertible car! The bodywork is inspired by a jet fighter, as you can probably tell from all of the 'sticky out bits', inside the car even the speedometer is just like the one you would find on a jet fighter. There are only 15 examples of the Reventon Roadster in the world and only 20 Reventon's, so it is an incredibly rare car.

This car is currently for sale on James List and is priced at £1,150,165. Check out the link to the advert for this amazing car below for more images and information.

Lamborghini Reventon Roadster

P.s sorry I haven't posted for a couple days and I know this post is a day late but I have been spending time with my girlfriend, thank you for reading :-)

I'm back!

Okay people I'm back and posting from now on! :-) although I probably won't be posting on February the 14th because I'm spending the day with my girlfriend again.

Back on with this returning post I have an image of a Ferrari Testarossa, I don't think that this is a particularly good looking Ferrari however the sound it makes is truly astonishing, sorry again about the poor quality of the image, I was in fact sat on the bus and only managed to get a quick snap of it. When it revved up it's Flat-twelve engine to pull off I was amazed, I never thought it would be so loud and so brutal! Not sure if it was completely stock, the exhaust sounded modified, but I'm really not sure, anyway I hope you enjoy this post and more will be on the way very soon! Thanks for reading!

Wrecked #1

Hello, I have decided to do a weekly post from now on (every friday) of a wrecked high performance/expensive car. This is the first post for this weekly post and I have chosen a very, very nice car that has unfortunately been wrecked! I hope you enjoy reading this and looking at the images (well maybe some won't like what they see, I didn't!). Just as a heads up I'm not sure I will be able to post this weekend at all until Sunday as I'm staying at my girlfriends house, so maybe flick through the images and watch some videos until I get back? :-)

Here are some images of the wrecked Pagani Zonda F in Hong Kong. This crash occurred on the 26th of January 2012. According to wreckedexotics.com, the car crashed into a tree, then a pole before coming to a halt in this state. I must say I feel very bad for the owner of this incredible car, being 1 of only 25 produced and costing around £1,000,000 to buy it is an extremely rare car! I also feel bad for the car, the Pagani Zonda F is such a good looking car (especially with this colour combination) and the sound it produces is even better, it's one of my dream cars!


All images are courtesy of Wrecked Exotics, I recommend that you check out their website for hundreds of images of wrecked cars.

This is an image of the Pagani Zonda F before the crash, courtesy of Exotic Spotter.

Quick Image of a 911 Turbo

This is the second image I will have posted that isn't that great, but it's something :-) I took this picture the other day on the way to the bus station after I had finished college (I was in a bit of a rush so I only had chance to take a quick snap) but you can still see the car an it looks fantastic, I love the way German cars always seem to look classy and expensive. I hope you enjoy viewing the images on my blog and I will probably post again later :-) Thanks for reading :-)

F430 from the bus window

This post is going to be quite random but here we go anyway; this is an image of a Ferrari F430 I took out of the bus window on the way home from college (I know the quality isn't great and the picture shows half the car) but still I thought I would upload it anyway for you to look at. It's a shame I saw the car when I did because I really would have liked to have got some really good pictures of the car parked up or a video of it driving but I didn't get the opportunity (one of the biggest problems with living in the South-West of England, there aren't many supercars) but I will continue searching for interesting cars to photograph/film and upload to here, so watch out for those!

Spotted for sale #1

I have decided to start a weekly post showing one rare/unusual car that I find for sale on the internet, I will post as much information about the car and justify why it is my choice for the week. I will also link the website showing the car for sale, just in case anyone wants to purchase it (although this is unlikely) ;-)

This weeks rare/unusual car found for sale is the Gemballa MIG-U1.

I have chosen this car because it is one of a kind, literally, it is the ONLY MIG-U1 in the world that looks like this, the MIG-U1 starts life as a Ferrari Enzo then gets modified by Gemballa, the company famous for modifying Porsche's. Personally I love this car, the way it looks, the way it sounds, everything! Gemballa plans to build 25 MIG-U1's but they promise that 'no two of the MIG-U1 models will be the same' - so each car will be unique.

The MIG-U1 is based on the Ferrari Enzo, the V12 engine in the Gemballa spits out 700bhp, enough to take the MIG-U1 from 0-60 in just 3.2s and on to a top speed of 217mph. The aerodynamics have also been tweaked, the new front skirt features a spoiler lip that generates up to 35kg of additional down-force and there are door extensions to the diffuser and rear spoiler. Fresh air flows into the engine bay through inlets in the side of the car and also on the roof.

This Gemballa MIG-U1 is for sale on James List, the website renowned for offering luxury and exclusive items for sale. Check out the link below to view more pictures and information about this amazing car.
Price: Unavailable (P.O.R) 

Gemballa MIG-U1 For Sale

Check out the Images!

Super quick post - check out the 'Images' section of my blog to view pictures from my trip to the Haynes Motor Museum! :-)

2009 Nissan GTR

This is my first 'proper' post on this blog. I have chosen to post images of this 2009 Nissan GTR that I saw in Exeter a while back, finished in orange with a Carbon Fibre roof. I love this colour choice because it's different to every other GTR I've seen (normally grey, black, white or red) so it was nice to see a different and brighter colour for a change. I hope you enjoyed this, more coming soon :-)

P.s sorry for the bad quality images and text, I'm posting this from my iPad and it's difficult to edit the photo's and upload them, plus they were taken on my Blackberry then downloaded from TwitPic so I didn't have good quality media to begin with.

Welcome

Hello and welcome to Spark 66 Car Blog, I know the name may seem a bit strange, but I wanted something unique :-) firstly a bit about myself; I am a 17 year old college student who lives in the South-West of the U.K. I have always been interested in cars so I thought I would set up this blog to post my opinions on cars news, images and videos etc. thanks for reading and my first 'proper' post will come very soon :-)