Ever since I was confronted by the ungainly sight of the new Ferrari F12, i’ve been trying to remember just what that rear end reminds me of…and then all of a sudden, i remembered. It looks like a Uterus with bilateral fallopian tubes and ovaries!!
The Ferrari version has very wide fallopian tubes, and unnaturally round ovaries; however the general architecture is simply uncanny. Did you think nobody would notice, Pininfarina?
Exhibit A: Uterus
Exhibit B: Ferrari F12
At its announcement in August 1970, a month after the launch of the redoubtable Torana GTR XU-1, GMH said it was “breaking with tradition by giving the public an opportunity to see in advance a car which could be the basis of a limited production vehicle in the future…the GTR-X has been built specifically to test design concepts and help assess the Australian market for a locally designed and manufactured two-seater sports car.”
OH really, GM? Sounds like you were been sipping too much Pontiac Banshee!
src: cartype
Touring Superleggera have sprung a ‘redux’ of the famous 1952 Alfa Romeo Carozzeria touring ‘Disco Volante” by introducing a modified, spec’d out, balanced (49/51 weight balanced) rebody on the Alfa 8C chassis. The 2012 Alfa Romeo Disco Volante Superleggera is slated to be a limited edition production car!
A friend of mine just checked in from the Geneva Auto Show where it is being premiered…..and said it looks fantastic in the flesh! I don’t doubt it—-as it looks fantastic in this photo!
src: pic via autochannel
This is a funky photo—–what is that Porsche 914 doing off-roading through mountains !? I think that couple is so fried on hallucinogens they have no idea where they are!!
I believe so! From everything I minimally know about the MK3 development process, this is by far the closest thing i’ve seen consistent with the descriptions i’ve heard. Same kinda roofline, but very progressive design. I really think this photo, which accompanied a technology press release….is the first official hint at the MK3 TT’s design!
src: autoblog
I’m so excited about this; the next Le Mans is going to be absolutely wicked! Audi today introduced the latest variation of last year’s Le Mans winning R18, the R18 e-Tron quattro, marking the first AWD race car entry by Audi in a looooooong time. This is a complicated drivetrain, with electric motors driving the front wheels, and the diesel motor driving the rear wheels—-with variation between them, so the front wheels serve as stabilizers depending on when the electric motor is on and what direction the car is turning in. Surely this has added weight as well, but it will be fascinating to watch the TDI R18s running simultaneously with the e-tron R18 quattros! As with most street and prior race-spec’d Audis….the grip gained by quattro will likely make up for any weight difference.
src: Audi
I love this thing! Totally inspired by the R8 and the E-Tron (especially the Detroit Auto Show E-Tron Coupe concept), but this Roding carries a BMW inline 6 with 320hp. Weighs only 950kg.
Limited to 23 cars for the initial production run. I can’t wait to see more photos…..and to find out if there will be a proper run of production cars! Oh and roding……ditch those silly time attack ‘red strips’ on the rim of the wheels and get some proper black/grey wheels on there.
more info at: Roding
src: Autoevolution
it’s all about perspective, isn’t it!?
This art and photography project by Skrekkogle is great, challenging the perspectives and altering our expectations of size.
The Citroen DS4 Racing is scheduled to be shown at the Geneva Auto Show. There isn’t a week that goes by where I am NOT envious of my european friends and how they have such fantastic ‘hot’ hatchbacks to choose from and buy!!! Americans simply do not understand hatchbacks; which is why we have 5 on the market here or something like that. What choices do we have in the US for ‘hot hatches’? VW GTI, Audi A3, Ford Focus, Mini Cooper, and some weird 3-door Hyundai Velociraptor Roster Foster Pentacoster….
For the love of god, SOMEBODY buy PSA (Peugeot/Citroen/etc) and bring us these french hot hatches! Ford maybe? Buy PSA! Nissan, stop diddling around with the miserable current lineup you have in the US and bring us some Renault Meganes and Clios! VW, hurry up and buy Alfa Romeo so you can bring us theirs as well as the Audi A1, S3, RS3! Suzuki, bring us the Swift!
oh and the Citroen DS4 looks pretty damn wicked from where i’m seeing it. 1.6 liter 256hp mini-rocket (256hp out of 1.6L? wow).
src: Top Gear
Alfa Romeo Montreal; easily one of my top 3 Alfas ever…look at that lumpy V8 muscle hanging over the front wheels!
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Audi entered 3 cars into the 12 hours of Bathurst this year, and the #1 car came out on top after pouring rain and a kangaroo crossing the track! These R8 LMS specially put forth for Bathurst looks sweeeeet!
Photos and videos:
Official 2 part video:
src: Audi Sport
Amazing that this prototype is from 1988/1989…..with styling way ahead of its time in terms of swoopy ‘coupe-like’ rooflines which have made their way back into fashion these days with cars like the CLS, A7, and Panamera.
I am, of course, a huge fan of the Panamera. And yes i take a lot of crap for it from readers of IEDEI and my friends! ha. Quite simply, i think it is the most interesting sedan on the road today.
So here’s my take on what happened to the Porsche 989. Ulrich Bez, head engineer of Porsche in the late 1980s, proposed the idea for a 4-door ‘sedan’ which could be mass marketed as a proper german rival sedan to BMW and Mercedes. Porsche, pretty much sucked at business during this time; most people don’t seem to realise that Porsche were in BAD shape through most of the 80s—–virtually going out of business at one point! They had lackluster products, selling for too much money. Surely the 989 must have come across as a revelation of sorts! Unfortunately Porsche’s rubbish financial state and the departure of Bez resulted in the project being canned by the early 90s. Obviously it came back in the form of the Panamera.
So some of you may have seen the photos of the ‘original’ Porsche sedan concept, by Troutman-Barnes—-which may have inspired the 989 (minus the crazy suicide doors on the Troutman!) Here are photos showing the evolution of the design:
As of right now, nobody knows the whereabouts of the 989 prototype pictured here—-in fact I have even read that it was given to Ferry Porsche as a present—-however MY suspicion is that it is sitting somewhere inside Ferdinand Piech’s lost basement of lost concepts, waiting to be unearthed again! The car has NEVER been photographed again since this original german photo shoot…..
srcs: top speed, pelican parts, wikipedia, the petrol stop
So in the past few weeks i have been TRYING to figure out what Renault has planned for the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Alpine marque—-i’ve been given some clues, but they are very minimal!
It’s interesting that Renault had shown a concept in 2010/2011 known as the Dezir, and I do find myself wondering if somehow the ‘new’ Alpine Concept which may be introduced at the upcoming Geneva Auto Show will look anything like this!
This year has been a massively disappointing winter with only a scanty 1 or 2 days of proper snow to drive around in—–and all in a year when i searched months for the right wheels to put on brand new snow tires.
I am left to wonder what could have been……well here’s a nice photo from 1916 with white stuff filling up the street in Seattle, a place I will be later this week for a visit.
src: vintage seattle
Fiat Dinos, coupe and convertible that is! What a weird photo too….with 3 people standing on the top of old castle/building in the background. Are they dancing?
src: conceptcarz
I cannot wait to see Lotus entering this into the 2012 FIA WRC GT class, and although Lotus still hasn’t officially begun its season with this rally version of the Exige, they claim it will enter in competition for this 2012 season at some point.
Claudio Berro, Group Lotus’ Director of Motorsport, said: “When you consider that we’ve only began working on this car in July, I think what we’ve achieved in that time has been incredible. For me the Exige S makes the perfect GT rally car, it has an awesome 3.5-litre, supercharged engine, and we’ve managed to balance the weight perfectly to meet the minimum weight regulations.
365hp, to be exact! Wicked.
Video:
src: Lotus
Well obviously this isn’t a real car; however it is the active imagination of an industrial designer to create a ‘what if’ type video of an “Electromagnetic” supercar. It’s kind of absurd in a ‘watched too much Tron’ sort of way, but still interesting to think about and watch.
Most people don’t realise just how SMALL the Alpines are, until they either see one in person or see pics of it next to other ‘small’ cars….as most of you know, the BMW 2002 is not exactly a large car….but the Alpine makes it look pretty tall!
The A110 makes any car look huge….but even the A310 is tiny in real life. The first time I saw these cars in real life, i was amazed at how efficiently small they are in person.
src: JB Hilversum
(fake logo adapted from SaabsUnited)
It seems like they are! According to a report on Saabs United, there are 7 companies currently bidding for the bankrupt swedish remains of SAAB, one of them is noted as a large european carmaker—-which by some accounts hails from Munich. Well that would only mean one thing….BMW. BMW & Saab had previously had some agreements to share technology developing the next Mini and the Saab 9-2; so this wouldn’t be completely out of the blue.
“6-7 serious bidders have been confirmed and among them is a European car-manufacturer according to several sources to different media. What was interesting this time is that these companies want to build Saabs. We have gotten very strong indications from several independent sources that this european company is German and located in Munich. This company has the intention as Till mentioned in an earlier article, to build Saabs and their own cars on the same platform.”
For Saab’s sake….I hope it’s true!
src: SaabsUnited via Autoguide
sort it out, mate!
i don’t know much about this photo or where it’s from, except that It made me laugh. Shared to me by Arman
I think the Maserati Tipo 61 “Birdcage” is easily one of the most beautiful, fascinating, and artistic race cars ever made—–and these photos really are stunning. These photos were used by RM Auctions during the 2010 auction of the car, where it sold for $3.343.648 to be exact. Obviously that’s a lot of money—-but honesty a FAR more beautiful and desirable car than many of the ‘expensive’ and overpriced Ferraris i’ve seen sell for much more in auction reports.
src: brandjunkies
I know I post a lot of Group B stuff…..but honestly it NEVER gets old…..i think as time goes by, that era of Group B rally will be looked back upon even more fondly than it already is—–as an era of classic rally cars which were overpowered and supercool. This video, in addition to Group B cars, also shows other rally cars which post-dated Group B rally.
This video by Tadej P is filmed beautifully in San Marino. Yes there is some music in there, however it isn’t too intrusive and serves more as background. It’s nice to see some Group B cars in action—-in a video which doesn’t look like it was ripped using a 25 year-old VHS cassette!
also check out Tadej’s super photography on Racemedia
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