Reading Time: 3 minutes Today we leave our offices in Tampa, Florida and head to the west-coast for a week long working vacation which will take us to the annual SEMA show in LasVegas, some 2013 model road testing from Vegas to the Yosemite and a factory tour with the fine folks at Tesla Motors in beautiful San Francisco, California. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes A guilty pleasure for any Nissan Motorsports enthusiast, the annual Z Nationals track day is one of the few times you will ever get to see all generations and all models of Nissan sports cars racing together […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The production Lexus LFA features a new V10 engine and a carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) body. CFRP materials account for 65 percent of the LFA’s body composition by mass. The LFA went into production in late 2010, with a projected run of 500 vehicles at the base price of US$375,000. A circuit-tuned variant debuted in 2012 with a base price of US$445,000, making it the most expensive Japanese road car ever built. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Southern California based product model Brooke Thompson has become one of our favorite SEMA “Boot Babes” to photograph and catch up with every year. Beautiful, well spoken and very knowledgeable about the products she is representing, Brooke is one of the best in the industry. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes BMW RLL team finished second this year in the ALMS teams championship. The team’s seventh podium finish of the year at Petit LeMans, that included victories at Sebring and Road America, gave BMW third place in the GT class Manufacturer’s Championship. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The SRT® Motorsports team found out why the Petit Le Mans is one of the most feared endurance events in North America road racing, but the new team of SRT Viper GTS-Rs had more than its share of success on its way to finishing 8th and 13th in the American Le Mans Series GT class. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The #46 Thiret TDS Racing Oreca 03 Nissan edges through a corner just ahead of the #67 IMSA Performance Matmut Porsche 911 GT3 RSR at this years pivotal Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute It wasn’t all that long ago that we were all following Nissan’s development and production of their first GTR inspired Juke prototype with bated breath and awe… […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes As has become an annual Autumn tradition around the Down Shift offices, recently we made our yearly trip up to Z1 Motorsports in the scenic foothills of northern Georgia (Metro Atlanta) to participate, photograph and enjoy all of the sights, sounds and activities afforded by this most spectacular annual Nissan enthusiast extravaganza. […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the clear fan-favorites at the 2012 Z Nationals Track Day was Melissa Miller in her cross country driven Z32 Nissan 300ZX Twin-Turbo.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Aaron Paul has been cast to play the lead in DreamWorks Studios action film “Need for Speed,” it was announced today by DreamWorks’ President of Production, Holly Bario. Scott Waugh (“Act of Valor”) is attached to direct, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Team Viper drivers Kuno Wittmer and Dominik Farnbacher took advantage of a break in today’s schedule for the American Le Mans Series’ Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta to visit a children’s hospital in nearby Gainesville, Ga. […]
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