Caterham R500 - Top Gear 2008 Car of the Year (COTY)

Caterham R500 wins the Top Gear 2008 Car of the Year (COTY) award, as announced at the popular BBC show. Powered by a 2.0 Ford Duratec engine, Caterham R500 may develops 263bhp and gets 0 to 60 mph acceleration time in 2.88 seconds.

Caterham R500 managed a time of 1.17.9 which is better than the Bugatti Veyron, Pagani Zonda F and the Ferrari Enzo.

Caterham R500 was featured in the TV show December when it was put against the BMW powered Veritas RS III.

Caterham R500 was also driven by The Stig on the shows track and managed quite a respectable time taking the 5th place on their chart.

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Audi Quattro - Last of the Line

Audi released a photo of the last-of-the-line Audi quattro which built with right-hand-drive. This Audi quattro is the property of Audi UK and it has zero miles. The last built Audi quattro will never be sold on the market as announced by Audi UK.

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Priceless original last-of-the-line Audi quattro is stored in secret UK location

Fame has returned to the sought-after original Audi quattro thanks to its starring role in the new BBC TV drama series ‘Ashes to Ashes’, set in 1980. The most priceless example of the legendary sports car that pioneered four-wheel-drive for production road cars is Audi UK’s own unregistered car with zero miles, and will never be put up for sale.

So rare is this car - the last right-hand-drive quattro sports car ever made - that Audi is forced to keep it in a secret location and stored in a sealed, dehumidified environment. Similar to the TV star example seen nationally each week from February 7th, the as- new, just as it left the line Audi-owned example even shares the same bright red paint color.
An untouched and as new car could actually be worth an unlimited sum to an enthusiast Audi collector. “We would never be able to replace this car and its value to the brand is inestimable” said Jeremy Hicks Director of Audi UK. “Whenever we have exhibited it, we have received a succession of surprisingly high offers, but sadly this particular car, the quattro that started it all for the company in the early eighties, will never be for sale”.

In the final twist to the tale experts have spotted that the specimen of the model featured in the TV drama is actually a 1984 model year quattro identified by its single headlamp binnacles which , say the pundits, was not yet on sale in 1980. At that time the first quattro launch in March 1980 features twin headlamp lenses on each side.

“The unprecedented exposure from the TV show has thrown the spotlight back onto the original quattro for the first time since production ceased almost twenty years ago. We are seeing renewed interest in our classic cars and we fully expect demand for the first Audi quattro to rise dramatically this year,” concluded Mr Hicks.

Audi has just launched the latest manifestation of the quattro line with the 580PS RS 6 quattro Avant priced from £77,625 on the road. Capable of up to 174mph, the RS6 - the most powerful road Audi ever made - arrives with its first UK customers in May.

Intriguingly, Audi has always spelt ‘quattro’ with a lower case Q.