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XXTREMELY FAST KUNOS Simulazioni is excited to announce yet another Ferrari that's coming to their Assetto Corsa game later this year. This time it's the Ferrari 599XX EVO, the super hardcore track toy for the rich racing enthusiast. As the car is not road-legal, owners can only use it on the track and for the million or two that they have put down for it they get the exclusive pleasure of having Ferrari transport the car to the track and also supply a group of their own engineers and a pit-crew to monitor and set-up the car to the owners liking or for the track itself. If you are not mega-rich then don't worry as Assetto Corsa will give you the opportunity to experience this outrageous car for yourself later this year. This ‘car’ is simply brutal, “nasty”. Vastly different in comparison to other road cars modified to be used in competitions, the 599XX Evo is much more like a prototype. When you see it in action, is difficult to imagine that it comes from a road-legal base. It looks, it drives, it sounds differently to any other car. And it’s an exclusive car, that just few lucky people in the world can drive on track. It’s the same on the virtual side: few racing games include the 599XX Evo, therefore we believe that gamers and car enthusiasts will appreciate our effort to bring this awesome car in Assetto Corsa. Assetto Corsa Official Website [gallery size=gallery-thumbnail" itemtag="div" icontag="span" link="file" columns="5]

Outrun the Pack! Kunos Simulazioni have confirmed that the Ferrari 458 GT2 will be coming to their eagerly-anticipated simulation-racer Assetto Corsa on it's release which is due sometime later this year. They have also released some rather nice screenshots of the car from the game for us to gawp at and drool over. [gallery size=gallery-thumbnail" itemtag="div" icontag="span" link="file" columns="5]

Come GT Some! Simbin have announced the latest mean-machines that's coming to their free-to-play simulation racer RaceRoom Racing Experience (R3E). From next week an aggressive trio of GT Racers will be available to players, these are the BMW M3 GT2, Ford GT1 and the extremely rare but very cool Ferrari p4/5 Competizione. As per normal they will be available to try before buying on certain days that can be found at the link below. You can find out more about R3E at RaceRoom.com Via Simbin Insider

Moving Day Assetto Corsa has released two videos showing some small but delectable teasers of the moving parts that the games vehicles will have. These include a Ferrari F40 that flutters it's pop-up head-lights at you and a Pagani Zonda R that opens, closes, opens and again closes itself to you. Sensational!

A Modena Classic A few months back Ferrari was announced as coming to Assetto Corsa via a select few models, this started with the reveal of the 458 Italia as one of the five that would be coming to the game. The next to be shown is the absolutely legendary Ferrari F40, the last car to come from under Enzo Ferrari's watchful eye and the best Ferrari ever in many people's eyes. The mid-engined supercar from 1987 and made to celebrate 40 Years of Ferrari road cars was all about pure-driving pleasure and had none of the luxuries that you would expect from a supercar of it's price. In fact the car was all about being as light-weight as possible that even the paint was so thin you could see the carbon fibre weave underneath it! Housing a twin-turbocharged 2.9L V8 pushing 471bhp the car could hit 0-60mph in under 4 seconds and continue on to a top speed of 200mph which made it the fastest production car of the day. And now thanks to Assetto Corsa you too may be able to see what the fuss of this car was all about and finally get the chance to push this legend hard around a track. [gallery size=gallery-thumbnail" itemtag="div" icontag="span" link="file" columns="5]

Euro having a laugh right? Playground Games and Turn 10 have announced the vehicles coming to Xbox 360 players in the March Meguiar's Car Pack from the 5th of this month. With it you can get to grips with the crazily practical new Audi RS4 Avant (paintgun not an option unfortunately), the future classic Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale and the much loved 'gangsta' Mercedes-Benz G65 AMG. The pack contains nothing from the 'land of the free' and has only the one car from the 'land of the rising sun' which has annoyed some of the Forza community. All-in-all it's another DLC pack featuring most of what some would call rehashes of already available Forza Motorsport 4 content, either way it's another promised pack for the game and for those still enjoying it, will be a welcome addition for theirs. The pack will be available for 400 MSP or FREE to Season Pass buyers as well as the option to buy separately at 240 MSP each. Forza Horizon March Meguiar's Pack 1) 1998 Nissan R390 (FREE) 2) 2013 Audi RS4 Avant 3) 2013 BMW M135i 4) 2003 Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale 5) 2012 Mercedes-Benz G65 AMG 6) 2004 Peugeot 206 RC 2010 Joss JT1 (Season Pass Bonus) Trailer Join the discussion of Forza Horizon in our forum!

"If in Doubt, Flat out!" No better way to live your automotive existence than by that said above by the late great Colin McRae, the crazy Scot was known for pushing things to the limit and then going even further. So it's refreshing to see this philosophy for pushing the envelope being adopted by the very privileged and ultra-rich supercar playboys of this world with their extravagant and rare toys. In this video from those mysterious TaxtheRich100 mental cases on youtube we see an extremely rare Ferrari Enzo being completely thrashed along narrow country roads and splashing through filthy puddles with the car often trying to step out as if maybe to say I should not be treated like this, please stop!. Thankfully the driver keeps on it and we get to enjoy all the spins, powerslides and speeding through the environment as he does so. Truly one of the best videos around on the net today and whether you feel that it's good to see a car like this treated this way or want to crucify the owner, you can't deny that the raw sound and the pure driving shown in this video is certainly thrilling to watch. Thanks. TaxTheRich100

Take your Jalopnik! The content of the next Forza Horizon DLC Car Pack has been revealed and it's a definite love and/or hate one at that. Full of the strange and the wonderful - and even a carbon copy with just a different badge - it's a pack that seems to be splitting opinion and even making some regret their 'Season Pass' purchases! Either way it's another pack for another month and if you are still blasting around the roads and dirt tracks of Colorado then here's some more toys for you to play with. Available from February 5th for 400MSP or for FREE if you were lucky enough to purchase the Season Pass, the below vehicles will be yours to play with or vent your anger upon from then. 1) 1966 Ford Country Squire (FREE) 2) 1970 Datsun 510 3) 1973 Mazda RX-3 4) 1991 Ferrari 512 TR 5) 2012 Toyota FJ Cruiser 6) 2013 Subaru BRZ 7) Devon GTX GT3 - (Season Pass Bonus) Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WV_SGVWINs

Car bashing - literally! We invite forum member MrLolololXD (pictured above) to write about his car-related occupation: Panel beating. It’s just one of those jobs. One of those jobs that when you tell people about, they don’t necessarily know what it involves. Well, fellow reader, you shall no longer be one of those people. Ahoy, I am MrLolololXD and I’m a panel beater. Although I’m more into the restoration side of things, not smash repairs. Because I like seeing how things are made from the ground up. Anyways... Panel beating is a very broad section in the automotive trade. It can cover the repair of severely crashed cars and paintless dent removal all the way through to restoration and fabricating entire new bodies for old cars that weren’t sealed very good from the factory 50 years ago. *cough*allofthem*cough* Working where I do, I get to work on a HELL of a lot of cars people can only dream about. Ferraris, Aston Martins, Lamborghinis, Rolls Royces, Mercedes, BMW, racing cars etc, etc. I am still relatively new to the trade, but I’ve already worked on some of the world’s most loved and desirable cars. And although you may think they are all built extremely well, well, they are not. At all. The factory welds on a Ferrari Dino look like they were done by a blindfolded monkey who was trained by a politician. Not a pretty sight... And I’m not even gonna start on old Rolls Royce cars. But, that’s another fun thing about restoration! You get to see and know a lot of things about these cars that even the owners don’t know. And our goal is to have the cars rolling out of the workshop, looking twice as good as they did from the factory. Many of these old cars weren’t built on machines or jigs like today’s vehicles are. They were just quickly slapped together by hand. American cars up until about the mid to late 70’s had a panel gap allowance of 3-4mm! So you could have a 2mm gap at the front of the door, then a 6mm gap at the rear! Or have the bonnet 3mm offset to the left of the car! When restoring a car nowadays we try and get that figure down to less than 1mm! Another fun thing about car restoration is getting to whack expensive cars with hammers. But there’s nothing more rewarding then standing back once it is complete and thinking, ‘Oh, I made those door skins!’ or ‘That is one nice flat panel, whoever did that deserves to be congra... wait, I did that!’. Seeing the cars you have worked on in the past winning shows, drawing crowds and hearing the comments people have to say about them is just so damn satisfying. Although when working on these cars, say, a classic Ferrari for example, you don’t see it as a classic Ferrari. You just see it as another hunk of metal that needs work done before it buggers off. It’s not until afterwards you realise, did I just really work on one of those?!? As fun as all this is, it comes with one major down side. Pickiness. Being so precise with the work you’re doing all day can have its toll when you go to a car show. You just walk around not appreciating the cars for what they are, but picking every single little thing out of them. ‘Oh look, there’s a tiny spot of dust in the paint there.’ ‘These gaps are terrible, the front is 2mm off from the back!’ ‘See at the bottom of the pillar, there’s a dry spot in the paint!’ I can walk around a brand new car dealer and pick crap out of all of the cars. Although it gets worse when buying a second hand car. I’ve started to notice this even more recently because I’m currently looking to purchase one for myself. You go over the car for ages, looking for every little wave, ripple, stone chip or whatnot. But it can come as a good thing too because you can easily spot if the car has been crashed or damaged at some point. You also get to meet a lot of interesting and well-known people in this trade. It’s all very exciting! In my opinion car restoration is one of the most fun jobs a car fanatic could have. Getting to pull a car apart, fixing anything that needs doing, then putting the whole thing back together again like a big box of expensive Lego. Everybody loves Lego, right? It also gives you a lot of knowledge. Also practicing on other people’s cars all week long can only mean good things too, when you finally decide to get around to fixing up that old Civic of yours, because you know you’ll have the best damn Civic on the block. I suppose I shall wrap it all up here and leave you with a few pics I have taken over the last couple of years panel beating. [gallery link=file" size="gallery-thumbnail" columns="3" itemtag="div" icontag="span]