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£6 million Aston

For those people who find owning a standard Aston Martin model just isn't enough, French tuning firm Star Electric Cars France (SECF) has come up with the Aston Super Sport, a limited edition supercar worth a whopping £6m.

The Super Sport's 5.4-litre V8 engine churns out a massive 950 horses, though SECF has not revealed any performance stats at this stage. Expect it to be doing somewhere in the region of 200+mph, and then some.

Only eight of these extra special Astons will be produced

West Coast Customs

Since the days of Pimp My ride, we at F2B have been massive fans of West Coast Customs and have recently been into Custom My Ride, which is where celebrities and average joe's give their cars to WWC to be transformed into incredible, one-off unique vehicles. Check it out on Discovery turbo at 8pm weekdays

Smashed-up Supercars

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Back with a.....smash? Thought it would be good to start off again after our long absense by showing you some supercars that have been KIA since we have been gone. See if you can name them all

The future of Lamborghini

This is the Lamborghini Navarra concept – designer Adam Denning's proposal for a new V12-powered flagship model for Lamborghini.

To me it seems this concept has been based on the reventon and the has been given to the guys at West Coast Customs to modify

Ferrari 612 GTO revealed

This is undoubtedly the hottest concept that has ever existed – everyone else might as well pack up and go home as far as im concerned.

Has Ferrari gone and surprised us with renderings of its next car in its concept stages? No, believe it or not, this fascinating design study is the brainchild of Germany-based independent designer, Sasha Selipanov, and represents his vision for the next-generation 612 Scaglietti.

Goodbye Hummer, hello Shadow Hawk

Fans of stealthy SUVs will no doubt have felt a little tearful earlier this week following the announcement that GM's gas-guzzling Hummer is no more. But before we've had time to mourn Hummer’s departure from this increasingly cruel world (well, it took the Pontiac brand away from us, didn't it?) another US-based company has come along and unveiled not one but six amazing off-roaders that even Hummer lover Arnold Schwarzenegger would approve of.

Produced by Shadow Hawk – named after the comic book hero, which makes the marque even more amazing – these super terrain vehicles (STVs), referred to collectively as "The Hawks", come with similar equipment, and are only separated by the types of materials used in their construction and their purposes.

Take the Street Hawk, for example, a car that is described as the marque's "best on-road performing" vehicle, with a power output of 1,100 ponies helping it to achieve a 0-60mph of 3.5 seconds and a top speed of 208mph. Since when did off-roaders go that fast?

And if that’s not enough for you, then perhaps the Batmobile-esque Desert Hawk, with its night-vision cameras, satellite phone and off-road lighting system, might whet your appetite? It certainly got us frothing at the mouth.

In terms of technologies available in all of The Hawks, owners can look forward to playing with daylight cameras, active suspension, driver-activated ride height control and 46-inch wheel travel.

Dias Design

While searching for car rendering tutorials i found this site that shows you how to create great rendered concepts by using photoshop withot having to use a tablet

click on the title to access the website or type in the following address

www.diasdesign.info/videos/car_renderings.htm

Subaru Cosworth Impreza Leaked

Images of the brand new Cosworth Impreza CS400 have been leaked on the net before the cars official unveiling.

The Subaru Cosworth Impreza,  will pack just under 400bhp and hit 0-60mph in 3.7 seconds, (two seconds faster than Ford’s Focus RS!), will be limited to just 75 models for  purchase 

The modified 2.5 litre STi lump features uprated pistons, a modified turbo, remapped ECU and 355mm AP Racing discs. Style wise there’s a new front valance, rear spoiler, grille, 18-inch alloys, Recaro front seats and a choice of three colours – red, dark grey of silver.

Want one? Well it’s gonna cost you £49,995 so you best get saving.

Introducing the Audi A9

This is Spanish designer Daniel Garcia's vision for a luxury sports saloon that would be ranked higher than Audi's current flagship car, the A8.

Audi reveals special edition A1 superminis

Audi has unveiled seven special editions of the A1 superminis ahead of their arrival at the 29th annual Wörthersee Tour, which is being held in Austria next month. The editions include a Hod Rod and police version.

Prices for the A1 start at just £13,145 for the entry level 1.2 TFSI SE variant, with the flagship seven-speed 1.4 TFSI S line priced at £18,280. Still, that's remarkably cheap for a car from the iconic German marque.

The £20m car

An uber-rare 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic has sold for a record-breaking $30m (£20m) at auction, making it the most expensive car ever.

Sounds of the world (America v Europe)

the following two videos show some of the best car noises from USA and Europe. Who wins ? you decide...

Audi R8 GT gets faster

Audi seem to be on a roll at the minute and are producing some fantastic cars and the new R8 GT is no different.

The Audi R8 is a supercar so incredibly hot that since we first saw it in 2006 So, as you can imagine, we were rather excited when we discovered that Audi is planning to launch a high-performance version of the 5.2 FSI V10 variant next year.

Audi have increased the power from 510bhp to 552bhp and managed to get the R8's 0-62mph down to 3.6 seconds, while increasing the top speed to 197mph – up by 2mph from the standard V10 model.

Lamborghini reveals Chinese Murciélago

Italian legend Lamborghini has uncovered a limited edition of the Murciélago , aptly named the LP 670-4 SuperVeloce China Limited Edition. Only 10 versions of this model – deemed exclusive because each one will be numbered and personalised with the owner's name – are going to be made available, for the Chinese market only, so we're expecting a battle to end all battles to own one of these ultra-rare Murciélagos.

China Limited Edition hangs on to the 0-62mph of 3.2 seconds and that ridiculously fast top speed of 209mph – though the addition of an orange stripe, said to symbolise "the strength of an erupting volcano"

Ken Block's Monster Fiesta

Ken and the Monster World Rally Team will campaign 7 rally events in North America in 2010 for Ford, including the Summer X Games in August. Block will drive his 2011 Ford Fiesta based on the race-winning European Rallycross Fiesta prepared by Olsbergs Motorsports Evolution.

“I am very excited to finally be in the Fiesta,” said Block. “The Fiesta is the car that beat me last summer at X Games. Ford has a great platform with the Fiesta, and I can’t wait to see what I can do in the Rally America championship and at the X Games later this year.”

Block’s Fiesta is powered by a 2.0L turbocharged engine capable of producing 850 hp at 8,000 rpm, but due to a required turbo-inlet restrictor by the 2009 Summer X Games, the Fiesta will be running in the range of 650 hp.