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Video: Listen to the Laraki Epitome’s 1,750-hp engine run

Filed under: Concept Cars, Coupe, Performance, Videos, Specialty, Luxury

The outrageous 1,750-horsepower Laraki Epitome caught us by surprise at Pebble Beach, and we caught it from plenty of different angles in photos. While we imagine the $2,000,000 Epitome is probably waiting outside Michael Bay’s estate right now trying to get a walk-on part in Transformers 4, we have YouTuber user BrianZuk to thank for getting the sound of the alien auto form while it sat on Pebble’s Concept Lawn.

When you check out the video below for a listen of the burble emanating from the four high-mounted pipes, the sound might be familiar since it comes from a 7.0-liter Chevrolet V8 – and as you’ll hear, there’s nothing wrong with that at all.

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GM adding 750 jobs to build more heavy-duty pickups

Filed under: Truck, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Plants/Manufacturing, Work, Chevrolet

Chevrolet Silverado HD at Flint Assembly

General Motors has announced that it will add another shift at its Flint Assembly plant to produce more Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra heavy-duty pickups. The third shift is expected to add a full 750 new jobs, and the first wave of employees will begin arriving at the facility during the second quarter of this year. Production will ramp up in the third quarter. Right now, Flint Assembly employs 2,100 workers, and last year, the factory churned out 115,000 vehicles. GM says that the first wave of positions will be filled by workers who were laid off at other facilities. The majority of those workers are expected to originate from Lansing.

The remainder of the positions will be taken by employees who were laid off at other plants, including Orion, Willow Run and Warren. GM won’t be hiring any new employees for the third shift. Hit the jump for the full press release.

[Source: General Motors]

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GM adding 750 jobs to build more heavy-duty pickups originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Start Wearing Purple: Pagani releases one-off Zonda 750

Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Middle East, MISC

Pagani Zonda 750

Pagani Zonda 750 – Click above for image gallery

One of these days, we’ll turn around and find that the last of the one-off special editions of the Pagani Zonda has come and gone. And that’ll be okay, because by then we should have its oft-spied and highly-anticipated successor (tentatively dubbed C9) to ogle instead. But that day is not today, as yet another specially-commissioned Zonda has hit the interwebs.

Called the 750, this edition is based on the five-of-a-kind Zonda Cinque, but sets itself apart with an unmistakable magenta paint job and a redesigned rear window to accommodate that giant overhead fauxhawk air inlet. Specific details have not been announced, but given the one-off’s name, it could be packing a 750-horsepower version of the Mercedes-Benz AMG-built 7.3-liter V12 engine. Or the 750 could stand for something else entirely.

The supercar is currently undergoing construction, commissioned by an unspecified Middle Eastern buyer. Color us surprised… which happens to be a similar shade of purple.

Gallery: Pagani Zonda 750

[Source: Pagani]

Start Wearing Purple: Pagani releases one-off Zonda 750 originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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eBay Find of the Day: Czech out the 1956 Avia 750 MKIII streamliner

Filed under: Auctions, Racing

1956 Avia 750 Mk III – Click above for high-res image gallery

Bidding is over and this gem is gone, but it’s a worthy look at history nonetheless. Czech company Avia, now a truck builder known as Ashok Leyland, built two-stroke, two-cylinder cars in the fifties that were converted to racers. Czech driver Miroslav Jurca got hold of one in 1956 and turned it into this: the 750 Mk III. The aluminum and magnesium alloy skin sits over a steel tube chassis, within which lurks a 750cc, four-stroke BMW engine.

A surprising amount of tech also lives under that revised bodywork, including a fully-independent front suspension with unequal-length A-arms, coil springs, telescopic hydraulic shocks and torsion bars; an independent rear suspension with coil springs and hydraulic-telescopic shocks; a transaxle gearbox and lightweight alloy-magnesium rack and pinion steering. You can have a detailed look at this interesting car it in the photo gallery below.

Gallery: Avia 750 Mk III

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eBay Find of the Day: Czech out the 1956 Avia 750 MKIII streamliner originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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