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Time
Sunday, November 13 · 12:00pm – 3:00pm
Location
CUICAR
4 Research Drive
Greenville, South Carolina
Link to past event pictures: http://www.photogninja.com/gallery/index.php/Car-Shows/Clemson-CUICAR-Oct-2011
This is the 4th event that they have had at the Clemson CUICAR campus and it was a chilly morning but the sun came out and it was beautiful. There were a good number of cars from various generations of automotive history. Very beautiful cars if you ask me, I took some pictures but for anyone that I didn’t get their picture sorry, not feeling up to par and needed to go and get some food but next time I shall get pics! Some of my favorites was the Ariel atom, and seeing the mustang and camaro with the old school 8 track tape decks. It was cool to see willy nelson and the beach boys in the old 8-tracks. Every car was simply awesome to look at and I wanted to thank everyone for showing up and maybe next time we can have it even bigger
Here are a few: full album here
Last weekend we attended the Motorsports on Main, this is it’s second year doing this event and they bring out all the lemons cars before going down to Road Atlanta for the big race. After seeing the cars from last year (pictures here), i believe that there were more cars last year but it appeared bigger this year and we loved it. I can’t wait to go down to Road Atlanta to watch the race one year but for now here are some pictures from the event. (Full Album Here) Thank you Michelin for putting on this event and bringing another awesome thing for us to do downtown!! It is what keeps greenville, sc a truly wonderful town to live in.
So I finally went to a DE event at CMP in Kershaw, SC with another subaru buddy who took his 240 race car and have to admit I had a blast. It was my first event and my instructor helped me a great deal! Aside from a few oops I did on my last session my instructor said I was smooth and even when i did the 2 oops I saw it and corrected the car back online 
I have a few videos but none of my best session due to the stupid flip camera batteries….. I was rather impressed with the subaru on the track even with her being a automatic. The only issues the car had was a boost line came undone but that was easily fixed and going down the back strait away at full throttle the car seemed to hickup at 90 but not every time…. weird but checked everything and it was fine. I used my hawk HPS pads for the event and didn’t have to swap out rotors or to my backup hawk plus pads although the tires got a little chewed up it was a blast! I can’t wait to do another one maybe even in the leggy. I had a few friends take pictures since i was behind the wheel for a change and here they are. The only thing I noticed is the car had a little body roll in one of them but i had taken the turn way too late and didn’t want to go off track. Pictures are here
Just on pic of the car 
We got a late start to the day so I ended up missing the first half of the morning racers and it is a 2 day event but I choose to only go out on Saturday due to the cost of hotels and other expenses I didn’t want to incur lol. I signed up for my track day in September and need to save every $$ possible because I still need a good bit of stuff to prep the car. Anywho thats enough about me, here are some of the event pictures and you can visit the rest here
Here are some highlights:
Pictures of Previous Meets: http://speed-society.com/gallery/ind…baru-Car-Meets
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Vendor List As of 3/11/2011
Car Clubs Attending
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I’ve always wanted a NSX from their first day of debut but still don’t have one yet….. Looks like honda isn’t letting us down! Thanks to my friends over at MotorTrend for posting the story
The NSX lives, at least in a different form. According to one source, Honda never gave up its plans for an NSX successor. Even though the V-10-powered post-NSX concept came along at the wrong time — during the economic meltdown — and had to be cancelled, Honda engineers didn’t completely shelve the project.
They simply applied a more market-friendly (and eco-friendly) sports-car approach to the company’s flagship two-door, giving it the latest hybrid gizmology. Completely different than Toyota’s THS-II hybrid system, the technology slated to power Honda’s new sports coupe “can be driven with either a clutch and an engine only, the engine and motor only, or the motor only,” says our source. It will also offer a manual transmission option.
It apparently will employ a modified Accord platform, and power will come from either a 2.4-liter 4-cylinder or a 3.5-liter V-6, with the latter considered the sure favorite. Why do we think so? Once again our spies in Japan have uncovered a patent application that specifies a “V6 powertrain developing upwards of 400 horsepower.” That makes sense, especially when you consider what one company staffer told us about Honda’s desire to return to making sports cars. “Honda does not see the CR-Z as a sports car. It’s a sporty coupe and a great first try in the hybrid-sports direction. To be called a sports car, a car needs to have the potential of an NSX or an S2000. That’s what we need to aim for.”And as expected, the coupe will employ a version of the automaker’s proven SH-AWD system, but Honda will apply NSX concept technology by fitting the rear-drive-based SH-AWD setup that enabled the test mule to lap the Nürburgring in 7 minutes, 37 seconds two years ago.
Using the front-wheel-drive Accord platform as a base for this car will cut R&D costs dramatically. Engineers will swap the front and rear around to create a rear midship AWD package. If the coupe gets the green light for production, expect to see it in showrooms as early as 2014. Still unclear is if the car will continue to be badged as an Acura here in the U.S.
Chrysler Group LLC says the new Dodge Viper sports car is going to be “drop-dead beautiful” and is meant to draw buyers from Porsche SE’s cars and General Motors Co.’s Corvette.
The new Viper’s look was inspired by “a naked woman on the beach,” said Ralph Gilles, the head of Chrysler’s design. The car will be released next year as a 2013 model-year vehicle, Gilles told reporters at the Automotive News World Congress Thursday in Detroit.
“It’s an icon, and as a performance brand, it’s important for me to have a performance vehicle,” Gilles, who also is head of the Dodge brand, told reporters after the event.
Chrysler, managed by Italy’s Fiat SpA, wants to draw buyers from competing vehicles such as Porsches and the Chevrolet Corvette, Gilles said. The new Viper will be profitable, and its sales volume isn’t important, he said.
Chrysler sold 392 Vipers last year, down from 482 in 2009 and 1,172 in 2008, according to researcher Autodata Corp., a researcher in Woodcliff Lake, N.J.
Dodge needs to do more to make the Viper an aspiration to consumers and the redesign gives them a chance to “make it a renaissance of that vehicle,” said Rebecca Lindland, an industry analyst with IHS Automotive.
“There are not a lot of younger people, and by younger I mean under 45, who aspire to own a Corvette or a Viper,” she said.
While production of the sports car ceased in July, the automaker’s five-year turnaround plan included the possibility of bringing it back in 2012.
Design break
Gilles has overseen the redesign or refresh of 16 vehicles since Chrysler exited bankruptcy in 2009. After such a busy time, Gilles said he worried that his staff had grown stagnant and told them to halt work and take some time off. He declined to say which vehicle they were working on when they stopped.
“We’ve been working so quickly and so fast that we’re not innovating like we used to,” Gilles said.
The new Viper won’t use engines from Fiat’s Ferrari brand, Gilles said. Dodge will be able to sell a small number of Vipers in Europe, he said, without being specific.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced a new rule to help decrease passenger ejections in vehicle rollovers. Under the rule, vehicle manufacturers must develop a solution to prevent an unbelted adult from moving more than four inches past the side window in a crash situation. This new vehicle standard would be in place starting in 2013 with a requirement by all vehicles under 10,000 lbs. to have this protection by the 2018 model year.
Rollover accidents killed over 8,200 people in 2009. From 2000-2009, 47 percent of people killed in rollover accidents were completely ejected from the vehicle and many of those killed were not wearing seat belts. NHTSA believes the standard will prevent around 373 fatalities and 476 serious injuries each year.
This is the final step in an initiative to improve the safety of vehicle occupants. The first measures included the mandate for electronic stability control to be in all vehicles for the 2012 model year and a new pole test by NHTSA that requires manufacturers to install new technologies to improve head and thorax protection in side crashes. This is being addressed largely with side-curtain airbags and torso airbags. This final rule effectively leads to the side-curtain airbags being larger and remaining inflated longer.
Since 2001, NHTSA has assigned rollover resistance ratings to vehicles and last October they updated the star safety system, which includes a more comprehensive evaluation of front crashes, side crashes, and rollover resistance. A number of 2011 models have been evaluated under these new ratings with more to come.
NHTSA currently conducts roof-crush tests by pressing down on a plate placed against the edge of a vehicle’s roof. The roof has to withstand a force equivalent to 1.5 times the weight of the vehicle, up to a limit of 5,000 pounds, without the plate moving more than five inches.
A revised regulation enacted in 2009 requires vehicle roofs to withstand three times the vehicle’s weight in that test. Under that force, the roof should not bend so far that it would touch the head of a median-height-male test dummy. How far the roof could crush without touching the head of the dummy would depend on the dimensions of the vehicle. It also requires, for the first time, that vehicles over 6,000 pounds meet a roof-crush standard, although the standard for the heaviest passenger vehicles will remain at 1.5 times the vehicle’s weight. The revised roof-crush standard starts phasing with the 2012 model year and applies to all new vehicles by the 2017 model year.
