Honda Motor Co. missed at least $255 million of brand exposure on television by selling the Formula One team that swept the world championship titles yesterday, a media analysis company said.
The Japanese carmaker sold the team to manager Ross Brawn in March, depriving it of 8 1/2 hours of international coverage the squad’s cars got in the first 15 of 17 races, according to Godalming, England-based Margaux Matrix Ltd., which analyzed broadcasts and advertising rates in 18 countries… Details
Ilmor Engineering, the firm made famous for its work with Indy Cars and Formula One, as well as Triumph Motorcycles and Harley Davidson plus GM, Honda and Mercedes have built an engine that will make you think for a bit, it’s a 700cc, 3 cylinder, 130 horsepower turbocharged 5 stroke. Did they say 5 stroke?
The 2 outboard cylinders are the high pressure (HP) fired cylinders while the center low pressure (LP) cylinder makes extra use of the exhaust gases. The point of this design is to …Â Details & Pictures
Crash Video Automobile Misc. – 240 mph crash – Team Arrow ,from Windsor Ontario Canada is Home of the Worlds Fastest 500cc Motorcycle Fastest one mile average 228.58 mph August 18, 2006 World Record S-G 650 210.728mph August 4, 2004. This was …
At the second annual Barrett-Jackson collector car auction here in the Mandalay Bay resort and casino, you could bid on Jay Leno’s motorcycle, on a racecar that played a role in the Elvis Presley movie “Viva La Vegas,†on cars owned by the actors Bruce Willis and Don Johnson, on replicas of the Batmobile and Barney Fife’s Mayberry sheriff’s car or on a Lee Iacocca 45th anniversary edition Ford Mustang.
Or, like me, you could have been drawn not by celebrity but by the stunning proportion and coach-built detail of a 1947 Cadillac that quite literally was brought back from the dead…Â Details & pictures
