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Raw: A rare Bugatti that lay at the bottom of a lake for 73 years is set to fetch over 80000 pounds at auction-the price of a brand new luxury motor. The legendary car was dumped in the water in 1936 by a frustrated Swiss official because the owner had abandoned it without paying the import tax. The value of the car was less than the money owed and the customs officer was compelled to destr More..oy it. Thus, he drove it over the Italian border to nearby Lake Maggiore – and pushed it into the deep waters. The story became part of folklore in the nearby town of Ascona as locals debated whether the car actually existed. After 30 years, the truth emerged after a keen diver rediscovered the Bugatti lying on its side 160 feet down at the bottom of the lake. Since then, members of the local diving club regularly visited it and last year decided to raise it and sell it for a local charity. Surprisingly, there was still air in the tyres and traces of the original Bugatti blue paint on the bodywork. It is believed that 20 per cent of the vehicle is salvageable and collectors and museums are likely to be keen to buy it. “We’ve offered a few things in our time in the motoring department, but nothing like this,” the Sun quoted James Knight, of auctioneers Bonhams, as saying. “Sometimes we get cars that have been hidden in barns for years, but never have we had one that’s spent 70 years at the bottom of a lake,” he added. The proceeds from the car’s sell will be donated to the Damiano …

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Honda seems to start playing with the super sports car, the evidence after the Honda NSX is now launching its new product the Honda HSV 10 GT. The design is like a super sports cars another, very sporty!! If you are a fan of Ferrari or Lamborghini, you definitely will like as well with this car. The engine was also given a very powerful energy-based V8. Developed in parallel with the outgoing NSX race car in Japan’s Super GT touring car series, the new Honda race car has been approved for competition use next year–apparently the Super GT regulations have a loophole allowing an automaker to campaign a car in the series that’s “production feasible” but not in production–and we now have all the official details. Renamed the HSV-10 GT (Honda Sports Velocity), Honda’s new race car is packing a 3.4-liter V-8 engine developing more than 500 horsepower and 290 pound-feet of torque. Power is sent rearward via a Ricardo sequential manual gearbox that will also be adopted by Nissan’s and Toyota’s race cars in the series and the whole thing weighs in at just 2400 pounds.

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