After taking a look at our high-res image gallery below, we were tempted to say the Pagani Huayra made its o-fish-ial web debut… but we won’t. Oh, wait.
In any case, Pagani’s newest supercar can now be seen in all its glory, and we generally approve of the overall styling, despite the fact it’s got something of a bottom-feeder fascia up front.
Moving past that, we see a pretty serious set of gullwing doors and enough slats, flares and strakes to fill the sketchbook of a Boeing designer. read more »
As tenants of the information superhighway’s underpass, we feast on a daily ration of bizarre automotive videos.
That diet has put us in contact with some of the most heinous clips of mechanical destruction ever seen by human eyes. But today, we bring you something that completely redefines the notion of catastrophic failure.
The guys at Bang Shift managed to unearth a clip of tractor pull featuring one incredibly powerful machine by the name of Never Satisfied. read more »
After three consecutive wins in the famously brutal Dakar Rally, Volkswagen is no stranger to cresting dunes and speeding across desert terrain. And now the German automaker has rolled in to Qatar with a pair of very special Touaregs.
Most enticing of the two is the Race Touareg 3 Qatar. Envisioned as a street-legal version of the rally raider that recently locked out the podium at Dakar, the Race Touareg 3 Qatar looks every bit the beast it’s based on, with a few nods towards usability.
It packs the same 300-horsepower 2.5-liter TDI, with the 16-inch wheels of the rally machine swapped out for gold-colored BBS wheels complimented by the “Race Touareg” wording in gold across the “Magic Morning” white flank. read more »
Turns out we were way off on this whole car of tomorrow business. According to BMW the car of tomorrow is a form-fitting suit with unflattering horizontal lines and ball-bearing shoes.
Or, maybe it’s a kind of bat winged jacket that attaches to a collapsible scooter… thing. That one’s called Flymag, pictured above, which converts into a backpack and apparently makes you FOF when you sit on it.
These concepts and more are courtesy of FDI, the International Design School in Barcelona, and are on display through the end of this month at Rambla de Catalunya.
Go see them now before they’re relegated to the annals of yesterday’s crazy visions for tomorrow.
Japanese tuners sure love breaking the mold and shocking people with their creations. Revealed at the Tokyo Auto Salon, the 4509 GTR is the product of VeilSide, a Japan-based tuning firm established in 1990 by Yokomaku Hironao.
It is based on a fourth generation Toyota Supra Turbo from 1993 and has received a complete makeover with the exterior design borrowing styling elements from the Bentley Continental with a hint of an Audi R8 here and there.
The body parts are made out of carbon fiber and fiberglass, while the look is completed by the new black wheels sized 20-inches up front and 22-inches at the back. read more »
Feast your eyes on the BMW Z5, a conceptual study for a mid-engined supercar created by a pair of young Turkish designers named İsmet Çevik and Fatih Tezel.
There’s no description attached to the pictures, but if we counted the number of cylinders correctly, the designers built the concept with a V8 engine in mind.
If you have any thoughts about the styling, you can leave them in the comments section below. read more »
The SLS AMG Mercedes E-Cell will be produced: the official announcement comes from the headquarter in Stuttgart. The standard electric supercar goes on sale in 2013.
Dieter Zetsche, head of Daimler AG, called it “the most technologically advanced supercar in the 125 years of automotive history. ” The 125th anniversary refers to Stuttgart, who in 1886 built the Benz Patent-Motorwagen. read more »
Watch the video below and you’ll see that this thing is clearly not going to win any land speed records, and with nary a door it’s hardly all-weather compliant.
But, the RoboCar MEV from ZMP is more of a research vehicle, a self-driving car that’s built on an electric microcar platform. It uses GPS and a plethora of front and rear sensors to know where it’s going, an evolution of the Linux-powered 1/10 scale model we saw back in 2009. Just, you know, bigger.
And pricier. Way pricier. Yes, you can buy one, but you’re looking at about $35,000 for the simplest version, the Type A, which only has automatic speed control. read more »
At CES and the NAIAS in Detroit this year we saw ever more powerful smartphone integration, but nothing like this.
Nokia Asia teamed up with two Chinese coders, An Jiaxuan and an unnamed friend, to whip up a C7 app that controls a BMW 1 Series.
They said it took them only 20 days to get things ready but we’re thinking adding the remote controls to the car itself must have added some further time to that.
The result is in the video below, a short test drive that Nokia promises “isn’t special effects.” See for yourself and let us know if you spot a meatbag driver hiding in there somewhere. read more »
