<![CDATA[Jalopnik: trofeo]]> http://tags.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: trofeo]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/trofeo http://jalopnik.com/tag/trofeo <![CDATA[Roger Moore's Daughter Confounds The Baddies In Her '89 Oldsmobile Trofeo]]> Oldsmobile apparently had a policy of hiring the daughters of famous actors for their ads of the Bush I Era; there's Julia Nimoy in this '91 Silhouette ad, and here's Deborah Moore in the Trofeo.

With that futuristic touch-screen dash display, it's no wonder that the forces of evil will stop at nothing to get their hands on the Trofeo. Why, they'll even blow up a hay wagon in their desperation!

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<![CDATA[15 Lamborghini Super Trofeo GTRs Provide Heavenly Soundtrack]]> The Lamborghini Super Trofeo series offers up 15 Lamborghini LP560-4 GTRs, 150 cylinders pumping out a glorious soundtrack and 8,550 combined bull-power tearing up the track. Are you ready for a sublime aural experience?

Lightened to 2,800 pounds and fitted with a new 570 HP race-tuned 5.2-liter V10, the Lamborghini LP560-4 GTRs are shown here fighting it out during the third race of the first season at the Adria Raceway in Italy. The noises that come out of the tail pipes of the Super Trofeo cars are pure spectacle and we're convinced they're pumping out this full, rich tune with the single goal of attracting all fans of racing, engines and lions catching their prey.

The good stuff starts around the 2 minute mark in the top clip, but this clip to the left of the driver's seat point-of-view starts as soon as you hit the go button. If you're at work, pop on some headphones and crank that volume. And if you're at home, well we shouldn't have to tell you. Goda di!

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<![CDATA[Lamborghini Super Trofeo GTR Mixes It Up At Monza]]> The stripped down, 2,800-pound, 570 HP Lamborghini Super Trofeo GTR gets an on track debut, mixing it up with LP560-4 little brothers and a Porsche GT3 RSR at Italy's Autodromo Nazionale Monza.

Make sure you turn the volume up for this one boys and girls because you won't want to miss the glorious and angry sounds piping out of this 570 HP, race-tuned 5.2-liter Italian V10.

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<![CDATA[Project Car Hell, Mad Scientists Of GM Edition: Buick Reatta or Oldsmobile Trofeo?]]> Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Yesterday, we watched two radically depreciated V12 machines from the roaring 90s slug it out bloodlustfully in the Hell Garage, and when the smoke cleared… well, actually, the smoke never cleared, as the frying ECUs of the two contestants emitted such copious clouds of toxic vapors that the Gawker server hamsters responsible for our polls keeled over in their little wheels. That means we have no idea whatsoever which of those fine automobiles won the vote, so it's our first-ever PCH draw. We're really hoping the hamsters have been CPR'd back into action today, because we'll need to know which of GM's super-expensive, whiz-bang-digital-dash-equipped Early Bush I Era cars shall triumph!


Back in the 80s, when The General still had plenty of money to throw around (even after the back-to-back-to-back energy crises/billion-dollar Wankel engine/Iron Duked Fiero debacles), the engineers and marketing gurus put their heads together and decided that a sporty two-seater with incredibly futuristic all-electronic instrument panels would be just the thing to get Buick buyers to sign on the line that is dotted. Thus was the Reatta created! However, the septua-, octo-, and nonagenarian members of the customer base that made their way into the showrooms to behold the new Buick staggered back in horror from all that newfangledy gadgetry and general lack of Buick solemnity (in spite of last-minute attempts to make the car reassuringly slow and mushy-handling) and the Reatta episode added another grim chapter to the very thick book of Massive GM Business Mistakes. Still, it was a good-looking car with serious performance potential for junkyard-minded individuals today, so it would be nice to find a deal on a solid one, right? The '86 Reatta sold for $26,700 when new- more than a BMW 5 series- but prices are quite reasonable now; in fact, we've found you this '89 Reatta (go here if the ad disappears) with an asking price of only $1,100. It doesn't run ("ran out of gas and won't start again"), but that won't matter once you get a supercharged 3800 for it! Will the Electronic Control Center work? Maybe! If not, how hard could it be to fix?

That Reatta is a pretty sweet machine, and (as Every Single Seller will tell you, hard to find), but say you want a back seat in your Visual Information Center-equipped GM machine, so you can haul along more passengers on your TRON-style journeys? Why, that means you need an Oldsmobile Troféo project, and you'll need an '88 or newer in order to get one with no unsightly Toronado emblems. It's already been demonstrated that the supercharged Buick 3800 swap is pretty easy with this car, which means all you need to do is hand over $750 for this 1990 Olds Trofeo (go here if the ad disappears), which has snazzy red paint and low miles. Don't worry about its non-running condition, because you'll be tearing out that naturally-aspirated boat anchor before you've even had a chance to discover whether or not the VIC dash actually works. The statement "Doesnt Run And Brake Line" is somewhat cryptic, but don't worry about that- just imagine the torque-steering fun you'll have while watching all the flashing lights and space-age bar graphs bounce around the dash! And, speaking of space-age, check out the new poll steroids our hamsters are now mainlining:
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