Friday, September 9, 2016

Classic Cars at everyone's sight in Europe

Roda Museum, Lérida, Spain
 Along the history of motoring, which already has quite some years to its account, an attractive offer of collections and pieces which belong in museums has been formed. All over the world, the so called engine tourism grows and positions itself.
Worldwide, people create museums to display cars coming in all brands and sizes. Here are five options you can't miss!
As a first option we propose the Museum of Roda, in Lérida, Spain. It is an original initiative, displaying cars belonging to the the Clubs of Classics in the city and it is placed in an old mechanical work shop.
Among its most interesting pieces is the old Taxi of Barcelona.
Another building to highlight is the Museum of Caramulu, Portugal. It began as a collection, which belonged to João de Lacerda, in 1955 with a Ford T from 1925. At present, this museum has a permanent exhibit of 30 motorcycles and 65 automobiles, representing 36 brands of about 7 different countries.
Museum Torre de Loiza

Placed in a beautiful landscape not so easy to get to, the museum Torre de Loizaga has the most comprehensive collection of Rolls-Royce in the world, for they have at least one unit of every model ever made by this brand. Most of them are perfectly conserved to these days.
The Museo de la Historia de la Automoción (Museum of the History of Automotion) in Salamanca is also amongst the greatest museums. It's main pillar is the Gómez Planche Collection, made up of more than one hundred vehicles, thousands of parts, accessories and objects related to automobiles, as well as an impressive bibliographical archive, gathered for forty years.
And closing up the museum Braga Fafe, in Portugal, considered for many years the "Rallies Cathedral". Braga has preserved a good taste for automobiles with a modern museum inaugurated in 1996, it exhibits a display of the classics from 1903 to 1996. It is regarded as one of the most complete contemporary museums in the planet.

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Famous people exhibit also famous cars


Actor Hugh Laurie , the unforgettable Dr. House,
is also a fan of the "rolling " classics
Cars belonging to famous movies, TV, sports and fashion personalities....... are simply extraordinary.
It's a fierce category, where showing off is not a problem nor is it drawing attention to yourself. If you may, you might say it's quite a show. You interested? Follow our top 5.
Like owner, like car. The nationalized American actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, is a classic cars enthusiastic, he has dozens of them in his private collection: a 911 Porsche, a Hummer, a Bentley an impressive Mercedes Excalibur and his favorite, a mythical Dodge Challenger.
Royalty belonging cars, are of course a most, and for a reason, for there are cars you just love for life. That's the thought of Charles of England, the eternal heir to the throne, on his beloved convertible, a 1970 DB6 Aston Martin.
 
Arnold Schwarzenegger, with his favorite car,
 a mythical Dodge Challenger
Likewise, former Nirvana drums player and Foo Fighter's leader, Dave Grohl, drives a beauty, the Ford Falcon Compact Van, produced between 1961 and 1967, and which has the rare ( and rather noisy) particularity, of assembling the engine between the front seats.
One of the most popular Hollywood actors, George Clooney, is also found in this list. His mythical Corvette, could not be left out. And though many personalities posses one, more or less modern, this wonderful 1958 V8 C1 Convertible, leaves no room for doubts, it is quite rejuvenated but is doesn't spoil its vintage charm.
And the last to classify is the British actor Hugh Laurie, the unforgettable Dr. House, with his taste for classics, on board of his superb 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 convertible, of which only some six thousand units were produced.
What should be done to drive one of these? Only they know....

Monday, September 5, 2016

The smallest ones in the world on four wheels

Nothing can escape the motoring world.
There are no impossible challenges on wheels. Even if space is a challenge, they know how to look spectacular. Do you doubt it? I invite you to know the five smallest cars in the world.
We will begin with the BuddyCab, the sixth generation of the electric vehicle Kewet.
It was originally developed in Denmark in 1991 and of the first 5 generations over one thousand vehicles were sold in 18 countries. The previous version of this model was launched in 2010.
The Smera is an electric vehicle launched in Paris, France, in 1998; with the initial price of $33.000. It is barely 2500 mm long and 960 mm wide. Can you imagine? It can only reach a maximum speed of 110 km per hour and travel 100 km.
The Kandy Coco is another classic on this list. It's price does not exceed the amount of $900, and is regarded as the cheapest car in the world. It can be purchased in The United States although it is a car of Chinese fabrication. However this is an extremely slow car since it reaches only up to 60 km an hour when carrying a load.

Another amongst the small ones, this time with capacity for two persons, is the Copen, a vehicle with two doors, built by Japanese workers of the brand Daihatsu. It's debut took place at the Tokio Motor Show of 1999. At the beginning, it had a 660 cc engine, however it had to be modified to 1.3 l to make it more powerful.And closing this top 5, a car belonging to the family of racing cars, the Tango.
This electric sporting vehicle designed and built by Commuter Cars, an American company placed in Washington, was introduced in 2005 by the actor George Clooney. It costs $108.000 dollars.
Now you know you can move around being cool, even if there isn't much space.