Car Design Contemporary Style: November 2010

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Rhys Millen slides up a mountain

Video: Pikes Peak hero takes Hyundai coupe and travels mostly sideways up Brazilian mountain road

Think Europe has the monopoly on sensational spaghetti-shaped driving roads? Brazil would like to take that conception and drop it off a mountain range.
Preferably, this one. The Serra Do Rio Do Rastro is not a ‘New Latin Gym Free Dance Craze!' but a mountain range in Southern Brazil. And along this mountain range lies a stretch of tarmac seemingly created by the gods of oversteer.
Pikes Peak legend Rhys Millen and the Red Bull team decided this narrow path with little run-off and lots of peril should be tackled sideways. They strapped Rhys into a race-prepped 750bhp Hyundai Genesis coupe, gave him a pat on the back and sent him on his way.
This is the result.

Brabus tunes the SLS for Essen

There is a small but influential and lightly prosperous body of thought that believes any car can be bettered by adding some pronounced scoops and bigger wheels.
This body of thought is today manifested via Brabus, that modest German outfit behind the creation of a 788bhp Mercedes S Class, which has decided the SLS AMG needs More.
Unveiled for the Essen Motor Show, the lightly modified "Widestar" features a new front spoiler, a rear apron, blistered rear wheel arches, a boot lid spoiler, sculpted rocker panels and bigger air outlets. The wideboy SLS comes with 30mm lower Bilstein suspension (adjustable), and 20 and 21-inch lightweight forged alloys.
You only get 10bhp more via a titanium exhaust system, but then the SLS comes with a 6.2-litre 563bhp V8, which is plenty. It doesn't need modding, but it could have been worse. Much, much worse...

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Video: Last Lambo SV’s victory parade

Murcielago SV gets V12 salute through streets of Sant’Agata with rather tasty ceremonial lap

Posted by: Vijay Pattni, 30 November 2010

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Remember the Lamborghini Murcielago SV? You know, the understated, sedate and not-at-all orange V12 supercar made by those mad Italians?
Well, production of it has finished. The last SV borne from thunder and skirt appendages was met with a lavish ceremony to mark its monument among Lamborghini heritage.
See pics of the last Lambo SV to roll off the production line
Its successor is already on the way and will hit the Geneva show stands next year, but Lamborghini wasn't letting this one go so quickly. We brought you the pictures, and now here's a video clip of the Murci with its older brothers.
TopGear.com's tribute to Lamborghini
If the Kardashians were cars, this would be the family tree. Which does beg an irrelevant and nonsense question - which car company would most resemble the Osbournes? (Notice the ‘u' in the surname - we're thinking Ozzy, not George...)

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Porsche confirms Cajun SUV

New sub-Cayenne SUV based on the Audi Q5 confirmed by Porsche board.

The Cajun is go! Porsche has confirmed that its next model line will be a new SUV, which will slot into the range below the Cayenne. In a statement from yesterday’s board meeting, Porsche confirmed a new model “under the working name "Cajun"… will further expand the world’s most successful Porsche segment in the SUV sector.”

The new car will form what Porsche describes as “an attractive entry model in the Porsche world.

The "Cajun" will attract new and even younger customers to the premium brand along with the Boxster, the market leader in the segment of two-seater, mid-size sports cars.”

The Porsche Cajun will be based on the Audi Q5 and will go into production in 2013. The move makes plenty of sense, as the recently introduced new Cayenne is selling extremely well. In the first full quarter of sales of the new car, the Cayenne shifted more than double the number of cars in the same period last year.

Porsche also confirmed that Wolfgang Hatz will be promoted to its board as the new head of research and development. Hatz moves from his position as the boss of Engines and Transmissions Development for the Volkswagen Group and replaces Wolfgang Dürheimer who has moved to take charge of Bentley, Bugatti and VW Motorsport.

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The original Lancia Stratos: in pictures

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Exclusive: TG drives the new Stratos

Our man hits the track in the one-off, Pininfarina-designed supercar

A brilliant montage of the original Lancia Stratos in the heat of competition battle is playing on a big screen, backed by some great period rock tunes. One of the most successful rally cars of the 1970s, the Stratos is one of those cars that exerts a magical hold over the people who lived through its imperial period, and for many beyond that too. Just 492 were made, and it was conceived purely as a pretty terrifying competition weapon. It is, to use an over-used word, a legend.
Now it's back. To the strains of Rolling Stones classic 'You Can't Always Get What You Want', it's obvious that for German businessman and Stratos enthusiast Michael Stoschek, sometimes you can get exactly what you want.
The new Stratos represents an eight-year labour of love for all involved. Car designer and Stratos nut Chris Hrabalek worked up a full-sized proposal which he showed at Geneva back in 2005. Then he badgered Stoschek into building this one-off, literally popping out of hedges to ambush him. Hrabalek's persistence has paid off, and the result is almost certainly the best one-off special to have emerged in the past 20 years.
Squeezing into the ultra-lightweight carbon-backed race seat and clamped into place by a six-point harness, I'm about to become only the second journalist in the world to drive the new Stratos. It's worth around three million pounds, it's the only one that exists, and just to crank up the pressure a bit more, former F1 driver Tiago Monteiro is my co-pilot. Nervous? You could say that...

It's instantly apparent that this is an exceptional bit of kit. Designed and built by Pininfarina, its carbon-fibre body clothes a cut-down Ferrari 430 Scuderia chassis. It also uses the Scud's powertrain, so the underpinnings are about as good as it gets.
The gearchange is sensationally fast, and with a new free-flowing titanium exhaust and a few other electronic mods, the Scud's 510bhp output is up to 540bhp. Weight is down 80kg to just 1,247kg. You do the maths...
Stoschek is a successful competition driver, so the new Stratos feels like a racing car: there is almost zero slack in its steering and handling. It's one of those cars that thinks its way from one corner to the next and gets there so fast, it takes your breath away. It's 10 per cent stiffer than the Scud, and feels amazingly tight and beautifully engineered. The development team benchmarked it against the Scud, but also the Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Yes, it's that good.
Top speed is close to 200mph, 62mph about 3.3 seconds. It's also a proper handful, and moves with the wired nervousness of a competition car. We weren't able to really stretch it, but its high-speed stability and overall balance are said to be impressive.
Stoschek admits that it would need to be tweaked a bit depending on which circuit it was being driven on, and there was a bit of understeer here at Le Castellet in the south of France. But that's true of any hi-po car on a track and for a one-off, the new Stratos really is an astonishing achievement, a phenomenally well-executed, ultra-modern version of a quixotic rally legend that pulses with all the spirit of the original.
The talk now is of a run of perhaps 25 production cars. Stoschek is keen for his project to be validated in that way - he wants to share the love rather than keep it all to himself - and the likely cost is half-a-million pounds plus the donor car. For that, the lucky owner wouldn't just be getting a rich man's retro folly, they'd be getting a seriously, seriously good car.
Next up, a GT2 version. Bring it on...

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Monday, November 29, 2010

X-Lite offers limited edition Lorenzo Valencia jeweled helmet

If you are one avid fan, you must have noticed the jeweled X-Lite X-802 helmet Fiat Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo wore when he was crowned the 2010 MotoGP World Champion in Valencia on November 7, 2010. The helmet was a real eye-catcher and now, X-Lite will be offering a very limited number of handcrafted replicas of this sparkling helmet. Dubbed Lorenzo Valencia, the helmet comes finished in eight layers of paint, with the lustrous finish produced by the impregnation of gold pigment. The top of the helmet features the Porfuera symbol (meaning “on the outside”) festooned with 1800 Swarovski crystals.

Skilled artisans take 96 hours to complete each helmet, and they are delivered with special presentation packaging plus and the World Champion’s signature. The jeweled Lorenzo Valencia helmet is priced at around $13,250 and they ask for deposit of $2,700 plus a two-month lead time.

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Dartz plays it dirty with the Rolls-Royce hood ornament

Russian tuner Dartz never fails to hit the news with its bespoke creations, especially the $1.5M Monaco Red Diamond Edition Russian SUV that stirred up some controversies over the use of whale penis leather interiors. This time, the Russian tuner has replaced the iconic Rolls-Royce’s “Spirit of Ecstasy” hood ornament with a couple making love. The erotic hood, designed as part of a tuning package for the Rolls-Royce Phantom, has been named “Spirit of Xtasy.”

The weirdest and the funniest part of the whole story is that the man in the hood ornament resembles Dartz founder Leonard F. Yankelovich. Whether you like the tuner’s work or not, this thins is surely going to turn heads…seriously.

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Volvo Air Motion Open Air Car Design Concept Futuristic Car

Sport futuristic car Volvo Air Motion design concept presented at Los Angeles Auto Show Car Design Challenge Competition, Volvo car Maker Company. Unique open air car design technology whole innovative level with its “lighter than a Formula 1 racing car” study vehicles development. New Volvo Air Motion’s aerodynamic car body mirrors design the look of a clam shell and are built from an ultra light carbon fiber material that tips the scales at less than 1,000lbs. In addition its strong however ultra-light body kit structure, the Volvo Air Motion car concept auxiliary adds to its superlatives eco-friendliness, as it is not using a single drop of gasoline while driving wild.

Volvo built Volvo Air Motion concept car through fewer components and replaced the heavy internal combustion engine with powerful, nevertheless simple minimalist, compressed air motors. To compress the air wanted for the centrally mounted air tank, Volvo came up with a design for Air Replenishment Sites. Intended at enthusiast, Volvo Air Motion can be seen at the show in 1/4 scale model displayed in the area that connects the South and the West Halls. It fully showcases the beauty and purity of Scandinavian vision and further delivers a guilt free, raw driving experience.

Car Design Contemporary Style

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Rhys Millen slides up a mountain

Brabus tunes the SLS for Essen

Video: Last Lambo SV’s victory parade

Porsche confirms Cajun SUV

New sub-Cayenne SUV based on the Audi Q5 confirmed by Porsche board.

The original Lancia Stratos: in pictures

Exclusive: TG drives the new Stratos

Monday, November 29, 2010

X-Lite offers limited edition Lorenzo Valencia jeweled helmet

Dartz plays it dirty with the Rolls-Royce hood ornament

Volvo Air Motion Open Air Car Design Concept Futuristic Car

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