Prodrive
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Classic cars have seen their values rise substantially over the past decade, but it's not only owners of road cars who have benefited. Many race and rally cars are proving to be shrewd investments for their owners, especially those driven in famous events or by famous drivers. A Ferrari Formula One car driven by Michael Schumacher, for example, just sold at auction for $5.9 million. British motorsport and engineering firm Prodrive is catering to the growing demand for maintenance and restoration of its classic race and rally cars with the new service Prodrive Legends. More than 1,100 race and...
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Prodrive chief wants to build an amphibious carProdrive, the Britain-based company known for building race cars and most recently supporting Subaru's record-setting run up the Transfăgărășan highway, has aquatic plans in its future. The company's boss, David Richards, wants to build an amphibious car. Richards said...
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Watch Prodrive build an Aston Martin Vantage GTE racer in 60 seconds
When it comes to racing, Aston Martin’s weapon of choice is the compact and lightweight Vantage sports car. However, the Vantage that takes to some of the world’s top racing tracks in events like the World Endurance Championship and United Sportscar Championship is very different to the...
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Prodrive Develops Deep-Luster Colored Carbon Fiber
British motorsport and engineering firm Prodrive has come out with a new technology that allows it to produce sumptuous carbon fiber panels that can be ordered in virtually any hue. Colored carbon fiber is nothing new and has featured on a number of vehicles in the past, particularly those from...
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Is Prodrive Looking To Buy Cosworth?
Recently we brought you news that current owners of Cosworth, American racing names Gerry Forsythe and Kevin Kalkhoven, had put the legendary British tuner and engine manufacturer up for sale. Since then, reports out of the UK claim motorsport firm Prodrive is considering submitting a bid for...
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MINI Ends Its Involvement In WRC Competition
Citing “a very difficult commercial environment,” BMW Senior Vice President MINI Business Coordination and Brand Management, Dr. Kay Segler, has announced that MINI will end its factory involvement in the FIA World Rally Championship at the end of the 2012 season. The announcement comes...
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The official tuner for Ford in Australia, Ford Performance Vehicles (FPV), will be moved completely in house now that major shareholder Prodrive has decided to sell its stake to the automaker. FPV was operating under a joint venture agreement between Prodrive, which owned a 51 percent stake, and Ford, which owned the remaining portion. Ford and Prodrive have since signed a Memorandum of Understanding for Ford to fully purchase the assets of FPV required to engineer, manufacture and market FPV cars. The range consists of several high-performance versions of the Ford Falcon sedan sold primarily...
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MINI Is Back For The 2012 World Rally Championship
After missing a paperwork deadline for entry into the 2012 WRC, MINI is expected to announce its return to the series later this week.
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Prodrive Working On Road-Going MINI Countryman WRC: Report
MINI’s new World Rally Championship racer, based on the Countryman crossover and developed by British motorsports and engineering firm Prodrive, recently made its official world debut and has since been throwing up dirt at a number WRC events in Europe. Next year the rally car, officially...
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MINI WRC Team Gets Official Launch In Oxford
Since the first hintings of the return of the MINI name to the world stage of rallying last July, right up through to the testing stages and constant teasing, we have longed to know what form MINI’s efforts for the World Rally Championship (WRC) would take, and now we finally know. The new...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran
