Through my love of Alpine, I have also found myself in appreciation of other French racing marques such as Matra and Panhard. There really is a huge lack of information or literature about Panhard, however luckily such is not the case with Matra.
Automobiliac posted these great Matra cutaway drawings done by Robert Roux a couple of years ago! Go there to see a blistering video of a MS650 screaming across the track!
Welcome to the first ever IEDEI mystery car challenge. I will be very impressed if someone is able to identify this car! Make and model. There are no penalties for wrong guesses!
Only 10 days til the best race weekend of the year comes knocking on our doors!
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Chris Harris back in form, riding in a Lancia Delta S4, Stratos and 037!
expected price of around $55k? Where do i sign?
In all likelihood, considering the source (Auto Express)—these are likely modified photos using a Panamera as a base, but after the debacle of the A110-50, who knows anymore!
I love the Panamera and judging by the way this looks, I love this even more….WOW. Porsche is going to go big time if they launch this in the Audi S4 price range….although I would expect, as with all Porsches, the price will climb higher quickly with a few options.
src: autoExpress
These photos may be digitally altered/edited, but it doesn’t matter as they’re pretty damn cool. I’m digging the minimalist stone background. “Leda and the Swan”, as described:
“A modern reinterpretation of the Greek myth, the images capture a woman in an Escada wedding dress and a white vintage Porsche 928, photographed by Alex Rank within digital sets designed by adNAU’s Tino Schaedler.”
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Well this is pretty damn wicked. This is going to create a whole new generation of 10 year-olds making films with little projectors! Directed by The Theory.
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I love how funky the Lamborghini Jarama is—and I love that it doesn’t look like any other Lamborghini. Designed by Gandini, It had cartoonish looks: dintinctly conventional looking body panels set to a bizarrely low-slung, frankenstein set of proportions. All in all, i think this may be one of the most underappreciated Lamborghinis ever made—along with my personal favourite: the Islero
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BMW M3 DTM vs. Audi RS5 DTM…..which is airborne! From yesterday’s Spielberg DTM race.
src: Audi Sport
Well yes the 2012 Le Mans is around the corner, but one company brought out their unique prototype yesterday for the Le Mans Test Day. The Green GT H2 promises to be the first Electric/Hydrogen powered race car—and after participating in 2012’s test day, has been officially invited to race in the 2013 24 hours endurance race. Very interesting stuff indeed.
Here’s Green’s highlights of their race car as per their website:
– No pollutants
– No emissions of gas or CO2, or NOx
– Renewable energy
– The hydrogen comes from the electrolysis of water. The water is then recomposed during the production of electricity in the fuel cell. This same water can then be used again to re-produce the hydrogen.
– GreenGT H2 is expected to reach a speed close to 300km/h. With its on-board electrical control system, the GreenGT H2 can run for 40 min and its new electronic control system allows optimized cornering speeds.
src: technologicVehicles
The buzz is rising for Le Mans in June! Here’s the fantastic cockpit of the R18 e-Tron quattro! wicked.
src: Audi Sport
Unlike many modern workers, I still work in a somewhat traditional environment (Hospital) and each day I wear a dress shirt, a tie (50% of the time), a sport coat or blazer, and dress pants. I do think that modern men have lost the ability to properly dress for work and it’s a real shame. I see younger men in NYC walking to work dressed like they’re going to grab a sandwich (jeans, t-shirt, crap shoes), and to be honest it’s a damn shame.
To me, it doesn’t have to do with wealth as much as it does an appreciation of one’s work and respect for the environment around them. It shows one has the thought to care about their workplace, and has the dignity to spend the few extra minutes a day to look presentable outside to complement staying presentable inside. In the old days, coats and dress shirts were not only for the wealthy—they were for everyone. Taxi drivers wore shirts and ties, janitors wore uniforms—people had dignity about the service they were providing. These days, people don’t care about dignity—-they want their money and they want to go home. Definitely a damn shame…
If you’ve read IEDEI, you will surely remember that I have quite a big soft spot for Dunhill clothing and accessories. I do have a few Dunhill shirts and they are extremely comfortable and sharp fitting.
Great video showing the making of a Dunhill custom tailored shirt.
Before the fantastic Renault Alpine A110-50 put on its futuristic body, it underwent testing! As we know, the A110-50 is based on the Megane Trophy, and has been adapted and tweaked into the A110-50. It’s pretty wicked to watch the skeleton going around the track…courtesy of the excellent Type 01
I was bumbling along in my rental Civic (yes i am still driving rental cars while the A3 gets fixed), and spotted these 2! Nice combination to see together being transported on trailers for what seems to be a track day exercise—not too common of a sighting in Queens, NYC.
Porsche 911 Targa and Porsche 911 GT3
In celebration of upcoming Le Mans 2012—-here are two fantastic illustrations by Peter Hutton
The Le Mans-conquering Bentley Speed 6 and Bentley Speed 8.
Really starting to dig these after seeing a couple of great examples at the Carlisle Import Show a few weeks ago.
Fiat 124 Sport
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Thanks for all the great comments, emails, and feedback around my shaving ‘megapost’ i made previously. The Proraso italian shaving cream i’ve been using is quite good, however being as Knize make some of the world’s finest clothing, accessories, and fragrances—I was obliged to try out their shaving soap in a beautiful Knize-etched wooden shaving bowl.
The soap is great, lathers up quite nicely after about 40-50 spins of my brush, and goes on with plenty of smoothness. The smell, as with all Knize items, is simply fantastic. It’s pretty difficult to find Knize accessories in the US, however this soap along with other Knize items are currently available at Colonial Drug in Cambridge, MA. This, by the way, is a great shop with tons of other great Knize items in stock. The shave soap and the bowl are $45 and in stock.
There will be a day when I make it to the only standing Knize shop in Vienna; but for now, I will take what i can get and scavenge around for these little pieces of gentlemen glory.
After checking out photos of the BMW Zagato Coupe concept yesterday, I found myself trying to think of the last Zagato-bodied car that i actually really liked. Immediately the first car that really came to mind was the limited production Lancia Hyena.
It’s important to consider that this was not only a fantastic looking car, but carried the performance to embarass a Lancia Delta Integrale. Bold words then…..so why is that true? The Hyena is based off the Delta Integrale, shares the same 250hp engine, but weighed 450+ pounds less (it weighed just 2550 pounds)! So stunning to look at, and with a 0-60 time in the low 5 seconds; stunning to drive!
Completely underrated too….i would love to have one of these in my garage. They were supposed to make more than 100 cars—however production stopped after 26 cars. Stay tuned for a more in depth feature to come in the following weeks—-on a car i’m becoming more and more fascinated with.
Beautiful painting by Meier, of the superb Panhard-Levassor CD #53 car which raced in the 1962 Le Mans. It also came in 1st place for the “Performance Index” (calculated by Performance: Energy ratio).
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Well this is an odd looking car isn’t it. The standard, current generation Z4 is not a bad looking car, however it has always seemed too long and a bit awkward. So how do you reckon making an already awkward car even more awkward can happen? Oh yes that would be the job of Zagato.
Zagato have always made strange looking cars, no question about it. Sometimes their madness pays off (Alfa Junior Z, Lancia Hyena, Lancia Fulvia Sport, Alfa Giuletta SZ), although it seems lately that everything they make sort of looks like a parody of the ‘old-school’ Zagato designs.
So Zagato have now rebodied a Z4 into what is know known as a BMW Zagato Coupe. I think it looks pretty subpar, if i’m honest…and I find the BMW-Zagato connection to be a little strange. That being said….it IS interesting—-although I think the previous generation Z4 Coupe would rather accomplish all of this in a far more attractive manner.
In the old days, these sorts of awkward body styles really did work—mainly because the bumpers were not ‘integrated’ as they are now, and the wheels weren’t absurdly large and bulky like they are today.
the BMW Zagato Coupe is debut’ing at this year’s Villa D’Esta.
the sketches actually looked pretty promising…
here’s a video discussing the idea and design of the car:
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