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Volkswagen Glass Factory

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via core77. Volkswagen’s “Transparent Factory” in Dresden, Germany… Video after the break.

You’ve never seen efficiency and technology like this. The parts are delivered via mass transit and delivered to the production floor by robots. The floor is beautiful Canadian maple, and yet it delivers electricity cordlessly to rolling workstations via induction. The power tools used by the workers count how many bolts they’ve installed, so you know exactly where you are in the build. Individual cranes suspend the cars at the appropriate height and angle relative to the height of the worker. It’s so safe that car buyers themselves can freaking hop on the assembly line and help build the cars.

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Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0

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Wow… looking good. Check out more photos after the break.

The latest limited-edition 911, the 2011 Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0. It packs a 4.0-liter flat-six derived from the 911 GT3 RSR racer, complete with forged pistons, titanium connecting rods and a crankshaft pulled directly from its track-bred descendent. with 500 horsepower, from 0-60mph in just 3.9 seconds, crack 124 mph in less than 12 seconds and top out at 193 mph. The price is $185,000, and only 600 will be produced when sales begin later this year.

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2012 Lamborghini Aventador

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Here are some photos of the new 2012 Lamborghini Aventador, the successor to the Murcielago… Check them out after the break.

The Aventador sports an all-new 6.5-litre V12 engine weighing in at just 235kg which produces 700bhp, 509lb ft and the ability to transport the carbon-fibre bodied, scissor-doored supercar from 0-62mph in just 2.9 seconds and on to a top speed of 217mph. – TopGear

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SSC Ultimate Aero II: The World’s Fastest Production Car

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Very dope. More photos after the break. BUY

SSC Ultimate Aero II, the new Ultimate Aero is powered by a 6.8-liter twin-turbocharged V8(with 1,350 horses), can reach a top speed of 275 mph. It aims to recapture the production car speed record that took away from Bugatti’s Veyron. Its wheels are the world’s first one-piece carbon-fiber units and tip the scale at just under 13 pounds. The car weighs about 2,600 pounds. There’s carbon-fiber all over the Ultimate Aero II, with the exception of some aluminum bracing for added safety in the event of a crash. Shelby SuperCars expected to sell it next year for $970,000.

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