Wow! The 10 Cars Cristiano Ronaldo Owns
Who doesn’t know Cristiano Ronaldo the current number one Footballer in the world. One of his many passions is cars. Not just any cars, he has a passion for fast cars, and he loves to showcase them for all of his fans. With a private garage that can store all the possible dreams cars that CR7 can think of the options are endless.
Currently, Ronaldo has a collection of 19. In 2009, he crashed his Ferrari 599 while driving to the airport.
1. Bugatti Veyron
This car cost Ronaldo a cool $1.7 million.
2. Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4
Bought in 2012 this fantastic car cost $318,000.
IAA 2017: Mercedes-AMG Project One
The Mercedes-AMG Project ONE shows AMG’s route to the “Future of Driving Performance”. The two-seater supersports show car brings the very latest and efficient, fully-fledged Formula 1 hybrid technology from the race track to the road almost par for par. The show car marks the highlight of the sports car and performance brand’s 50th anniversary year.
The ALL-NEW Bentley Continental GT
Bentley Motors announced today the full details of its new Continental GT, the definitive Grand Tourer. Designed, engineered and handcrafted in Britain, the new third-generation Bentley Continental GT combines spirited, focused performance with handcrafted luxury and cutting-edge technology, to create the finest Grand Tourer they've ever produced.
Official: 3rd Generation Porsche Cayenne
We knew the news was about to break, and now it is official! Ladies and Gentlemen, let us introduce to you the all new, 3rd generation Porsche Cayenne. What's new? Well, lets begin with new engines, new chassis, innovative control concept, and increased connectivity. The appearance has drastically changed and we can see exterior features from both the new generation Panamera, and the Cayenne's little brother/sister, the Macan.
This is the final Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta
Last year, Ferrari built the last "closed" LaFerrari for a special auction to support the reconstruction of central Italy following the devastating earthquake. Number 500 was sold for a whopping $7,000,000, a record for a 21st Century car. Soon after that Ferrari decided to build the LaFerrari Aperta, the open version of the LaFerrari. The last copy was built last month, marking the end of the production of this magnificent car.
BMW M140i 2018
New special-edition models, an enhanced premium interior, extended connectivity features and the latest-generation iDrive operating system: this is the next generation of the BMW 1-Series. The sportiest representative of the premium compact class comes with a broad range of efficient engines encompassing powerful three-, four- and six-cylinder variants. Uniquely in this class, the BMW 1-Series has rear-wheel drive, with the intelligent xDrive allwheel- drive system available as an option. The new edition of the BMW 1-Series will be launched in July 2017 in 3-door and 5-door versions.
NEW: Lamborghini Aventador S Roadster
The icon that inherited the legacy of the historic S models of the Miura, Islero, Countach, and Urraco returns to outdo itself in its most exciting version: the Aventador S Roadster. The new V12 engine with a whopping 740 HP and the exclusiveness of Lamborghini design, unparalleled in this open top version, are joined in the Aventador S Roadster by the most sophisticated technology of the range.
2018 Audi A8
The new-generation, 2018 Audi A8 flagship limousine made its world premiere today at the first Audi Summit, a grandiose motor show for one brand held in Barcelona.
Audi’s new S-Class and 7 Series competitor is a clean-sheet redesign, with a new platform and new interior. It’ll also pioneer road-going level three automated driving from 2018.
The larger 5.2-metre long A8’s design is the first done entirely by the Audi team under current area head Marc Lichte, and is rather portentously claimed to herald a “new design era”, from its wide single-frame grille to the muscular body and haunches.
There are also HD Matrix LED headlights with Audi laser lighting and a LED light strip combined with OLED tech at the rear, ensconced within a distinctive single-frame design.
Within the cabin, Audi wafts on about “every detail radiating superlative bespoke quality”, citing the perforation in the seat upholstery to the electrically opened and closed shutters on the air vents.
The interior deliberately adopts a “reductive design”, clear and with horizontal orientation. Reflecting Audi’s positioning as a digital, future-proofing brand, it does away with the familiar rotary push-button and touchpad of the predecessor model
Instead, the instrument panel is kept largely clear of buttons and switches. At its centre is a 10.1-inch touchscreen display, which when off blends almost invisibly into the high-gloss black surround.
Rather, the user interface appears as soon as the car is opened. The driver controls the infotainment system with fingertip control on the large display. They can use a second touchscreen display on the centre tunnel console to access the air conditioning and make text inputs.
To avoid a kind of tactile nightmare, when the driver activates a function in the upper or lower display, they hear and feel a click by way of confirmation. The glass-look operating buttons respond in the same way.
The A8 can also apparently engage in intelligent conversation. The driver can activate an array of functions using a more natural form of voice control, with information either available on-board or delivered from the cloud at LTE speed. On-board tech includes traffic sign recognition and hazard information drawing on the so-called swarm intelligence of the growing Audi fleet.
The on-board navigation is self-learning, based on the route just driven. The map also incorporates highly detailed 3D models of major European cities, presumably with other regions to follow.
Suitable for chauffeur markets such as China, the rear seat has over-the-top seat warmers and massagers. Rear passengers can also control an array of functions, such as ambient lighting, the new HD Matrix reading lights and seat massage, plus make private phone calls via a separate operating unit. The rear seat remote has a removable OLED display as large as a smartphone.
The new A8 is claimed to be the first production automobile to have been developed specially for highly automated driving, achieving level three status. The Audi AI traffic jam pilot takes charge of driving in slow moving traffic at up to 60 km/h on freeways and highways where a physical barrier separates the two carriageways.
The system is activated using the AI button on the centre console, and draws on cameras, radars, a 145-degree scanning laser sensor and a new on-board brain. During piloted driving, the central driver assistance controller (zFAS) now permanently computes an image of the car’s surroundings by merging together data from the various sensors.
With traffic jam pilot on, the car can start, accelerate, steer and brake for itself.
The driver no longer needs to monitor the car permanently, they can take their hands off the steering wheel permanently and, depending on the national laws, focus on a different activity that is supported by the car, such as watching the on-board TV. As soon as the system reaches its limits, it calls on the driver to take back control.
This mention of legality is key. Every country in Europe has its own laws regarding vehicle automation, in the US it’s state-based, and in China such laws are non-existent. This will be a large stumbling block. Audi must therefore adopt a step-by-step approach to the introduction of the traffic jam pilot in production models.
The Audi AI remote parking pilot and the Audi AI remote garage pilot autonomously steer the A8 into and out of a parking space or a garage, while the manoeuvre is monitored by the driver — a la arch-rival BMW.
Dynamically, the suspension incorporates all-wheel steering, which steers the rear wheels at the opposite direction to the front at five degrees at low speed to cut the turning circle to 11.4m, while doing the opposite at high speeds. Similar systems are on offer from Renault, BMW and others.
The steering ratio for the front wheels varies with speed. You can also have the sport differential that actively distributes drive torque between the rear wheels, complementing the quattro permanent all-wheel drive system that’s now standard.
There’s also Audi AI active suspension, a fully active suspension system capable of raising or lowering each wheel separately with electric actuators. This means the car fights against lateral and longitudinal inputs. The car is also raised with lighting speed if there is an impending lateral collision, reducing the potential harmful consequences.
This suspension system obtains energy from a 48-volt electrical system, standard as the primary electrical system in all versions of the A8. In conjunction with the air suspension for the A8, the system is said to deliver “an utterly new driving experience”. We will have to wait for a drive to know…
Engine-wise, the new A8 oddly gets two “extensively re-engineered” V6 turbo engines at first: a 3.0 TDI and a 3.0 TFSI. The diesel develops 210kW and the petrol 250kW. Two eight-cylinder motors, a 4.0 TDI with 320kW and a 4.0 TFSI with 338kW, will follow slightly later. Later there will also be the 6.0-litre W12.
All five engines operate in conjunction with a belt alternator starter (BAS), the so-called nerve centre of the 48V electrical system. This mild hybrid technology enables the car to coast with the engine switched off, and to restart smoothly. It also has an extended start/stop function, and an energy recovery output of up to 12kW.
The combined effect of these measures is to bring down the fuel consumption by as much as 0.7L/100km.
Beyond this there’ll be the A8 L e-tron quattro with a plug-in hybrid drivetrain comprising a 3.0 TFSI V6 engine and an electric motor achieving a total of 330kW/700Nm, while the lithium-ion battery will store enough power for about 50km of electric driving.
It can be optionally be charged by the Audi Wireless Charging system, which includes a largely lossless pad in the garage floor with a power output of 3.6kW.
Australia:
The new Audi A8 will hit Australia in mid-2018. Interestingly, it’ll launch with 3.0TDI and 4.0TDI engines only, with Audi stating minimal market demand for petrol.
The New BMW 8 Series Sounds Like a Beast
Spied at the Nürburgring in full Karussell mode, this BMW 8 Series prototype seems to be packing at least eight cylinders.
Topspot: Aston Martin DB11
The DB11 is the first car resulting from the partnership between Aston Martin and AMG. And it appears to be a successful partnership because the DB11 is a hit! After six consecutive years of losses, Aston Martin is finally posting a profit and this car is a big contributor to that success. We can see the success in the amount of spots of this car and this spot in Switzerland is a special one! Not because of the car, because it is a "standard" DB11, but because of the photography by Nico K. and the beautiful Swiss landscape.
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