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  • Bueller? Bueller? Liftmaster’s latest commercial would ruin Ferris’ day off

    It’s not easy to make a memorable commercial for a garage-door opener, but LiftMaster found a way.

    The company on Monday released a 30-second ad spoofing the 1980s cult-classic movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” If you’re not familiar, the plot centers around the titular high schooler (played by Matthew Broderick) skipping school. At one point, Bueller and friend Cameron Frye (played by Alan Ruck) borrow Frye’s father’s 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder (a replica was used in the movie).

    LiftMaster recreated that scene, complete with the glass-walled garage, but swapping the Ferrari replica for a 1966 Jaguar E-Type. Ruck even makes an appearance as the father, showing off the new LiftMaster Secure View garage-door opener’s noteworthy feature—a built-in camera that will let you know if anyone is “borrowing” your car.

    One of three cars used to film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” one crossed the block at a Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, earlier this year, netting $396,000. Built by Modena Design & Development, the car is officially known as a Modena Spyder California.

    It may look reasonably close to a real Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder, but the replica has fiberglass bodywork and a steel-tube frame. Under the hood sits a 427-cubic-inch V-8 making about 500 horsepower, which is admittedly more than the 275 hp produced by the 3.0-liter V-12 in the genuine article.

    In addition to the car sold at Barrett-Jackson earlier this year—chassis number GTC001—a second car is known to exist. The third car was sacrificed for a scene in which the “Ferrari” takes a nose dive out of the garage. Thankfully, the Jaguar E-Type remains safe in the LiftMaster commercial.

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  • MODIFIED ESCORT RS TURBO EXCLUSIVE – FC TV EP17

    Welcome to Fast Car TV! With awesome builds, new products, tech talks and which cars we’d buy to modify, think of it as the magazine…but moving and talking. In this episode, Jules from Fast Car is joined by his boss, Phil Weeden, to discuss retro project cars for under £2000 and get an exclusive scoop on the modified Escort RS Turbo set to dominate the show scene! Make sure you check out Ep16 here and don’t forget to subscribe to our channel! 

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    It’s very rare you see a retro car build like this go to so many lengths to produce what will be a world-beating show cars. Those looking at this for the first time, this is a series 2 modified Escort RS Turbo built by Carl from Players Show. Finished in Porsche Rubystone Red (otherwise known as pink), it perfectly showcases what can be done given the time and vision.

    We could spend all day talking about what has gone into this build, but there’s a far easier way of doing that and that is by picking up a copy of Fast Car. We had first look in when it came to this Escort and somehow it has managed to stay off of social media until the magazine on-sale date (Friday 25th September).

    Not only do Phil and Jules discuss this week’s feature car, but they also delve into what projects each of them would buy with a £2000 budget. Phil, on the one hand who already owns an Audi TT, would unsurprisingly spend his money on a, you guessed it, Audi TT. The VAG 1.8 turbo engine is a tried and tested motor that we know is highly tuneable, so a great basis to start. Jules, on the other hand, would take a more nostalgic approach and return to our roots with a Citroen Saxo VTS/VTR. Prices are fairly low at the moment for a tidy Saxo, but we all know that won’t last too long.

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  • The Maserati MC20 has F1 tech

    Maserati hasn’t raced in Formula One in decades, but the automaker’s recently unveiled MC20 supercar boasts some F1-derived engine tech, according to Jason Fenske of Engineering Explained.

    Specifically, the car’s 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged V-6 uses pre-chamber combustion. That means each cylinder has dual combustion chambers, each with its own spark plug. Pre-chamber combustion isn’t new; Honda was using it in the 1970s, Fenske noted. But Maserati is doing something different with the technology.

    Maserati is likely the only automaker using a so-called passive pre-chamber system in a production car. As the name implies, air and fuel aren’t actively injected into the pre-chamber, which is smaller than the main combustion chamber and located directly above it. Instead, the air-fuel mixture is drawn into the main combustion chamber, and then pushed up into the pre-chamber, by the motion of the piston.

    Maserati Nettuno 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged V-6

    Maserati Nettuno 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged V-6

    This setup is designed to speed up combustion, which in turn reduces knock, Fenske said. Knock is a major potential issue due to the lean air-fuel ratios used in the engine and other modern engines to pass emissions tests. Maserati’s patent on the design also claims it can reduce fuel consumption by 30%, or allow for an engine to be downsized by 25% while producing the same power as a larger one.

    Both the pre-chamber and the main combustion chamber have their own spark plugs. At high rpm and high load, only the pre-chamber spark plug is used, while both are used in other conditions, Fenske said. The amount of time between firing each spark plug can also be adjusted, changing the duration of combustion to warm up the catalytic converter, or even make the engine quieter, Fenske said.

    In the MC20, the Nettuno engine produces 621 horsepower and 538 pound-feet of torque. That allows for 0-60 mph in 2.9 seconds and a top speed of 202 mph, according to Maserati. The automaker hasn’t provided pricing information or a production timeline for the MC20, its first supercar since the MC12 ended production in 2005.

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