Automotive Update : Lamborghini "Fighter" Chris Brown's Special

How do you define "cool" on your car? Cool, cute, steady, all of it completely relative. However, U.S. singer, Chris Brown, do not have a headache thinking about it after a designer embodies the meaning of "cool" to be the Lamborghini painted fighter planes of World War II era.

Beginning last April, Lamborghini's ex-lover R & B singer, Rihanna, it was seen in the parking lot of a gym. Italian supercar which was originally newfangled Gallardo runs out dikucuri paint spray painted with leather design fighter P-51 Mustang.

"Thank you for rapper T-Pain. He who says if Lamborghini Chris took a touch, and recommended me to conjure up the car," said Sean Burnley, designer of the Lamborghini design.

Sean is from Georgia claimed to be assisted other artists in the design work on this car. "An artist, Brad Keener, help me to Photoshop affairs. The design is then approved by Chris," he said.

He also claimed to find references as much as possible to apply the Mustang fighter jet look into this car. Can be seen, he was even more details apply splash-splashing oil so this Lambo looks like a dull old planes that are often used to fight.

Special, the standard 5000 cc car engine is fitted with seat even before a real fighter. But unfortunately, the chair turned out to be removed and replaced with new modern upholstery and audio systems. Understandably, that has not rappers, not a fighter jet ....

One more, no less special, in addition to the agency if there is a code Gallardo plane. Sean Burnley claim is that as much detail as this?

"Oh no, those numbers if applied on a phone keypad will tereja CHRISB (read: Chris Brown)," said Sean.

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Review 2011 Citroen DS3 Racing Exclusive Sport Car Design

This is automotive hot news about new exclusive sport car 2011 Citroen DS3 Racing design technology, detail review and specification, tuning performance, first test drive and price list with best sample 2011 Citroen DS3 Racing Car Pictures gallery. The new Citroen DS3 stands to offer endless possibilities for customization. Citroen Racing, the racing department of the mark, has squeezed the most of the technical and aesthetic possibilities of this model.

Sportiness and exclusivity – The bold design of the DS3 Racing joins the strength and sinew of its 200 CV. His 3.94 m long, are a concentrate of sportsmanship. The DS3 Racing has been a study worthy of the world streamlined competition. It has an air diffuser in carbon finish which aims to maintain vehicle stability at high speed. As a feature of style, the exhaust outlet is chrome plated. All these facilities, which come from the world of rallies, enhance the sporty nature of DS3 Racing, claiming its exclusivity through a specific signature on the gate.

The DS3 is also unique for the colors that appear in the Geneva Motor Show. Its body is dark gray, while its roof, its exterior mirrors and brake calipers are orange. This orange color becomes the grille and chrome wheels. This customization is also present, through decorative stickers on the roof, tailgate and fuel storage depot. High performance is the hallmark of the DS3 Racing. Its engine, based on the 1.6 liter THP 150 engine and tuned by Racing Citroen has the backing of the whole experience of racing teams of the mark, five times World Rally Champion.

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Test Drive 2011 Mini S Countryman All 4 New Car Specification

The resurgence of 2011 Mini S Countryman All 4 has been nothing less than spectacular vehicle design features. Detail specification, review and first test drive report, and new car price list we will provide to you. The new car with modern design prototype which has futuristic comfortable interior design is very interesting to talk. Yet despite its showroom achievements, 2011 Mini S Countryman All 4 bosses are well aware that to retain the sales momentum built up since the modern day hardtop reached automotive car showrooms at the turn of the millennium they need to keep broadening the appeal of the lineup with new and different car models, without losing the Mini essence.

Now, nine years after its rebirth, we’ve been invited to drive a preproduction prototype of what is Mini’s boldest model to date: the 4 wheel-drive, 4 doors Countryman. The 2011 Mini Cooper S Countryman elegant sport bold model car design obviously pushes the limits of the Mini brand, taking it into a class it has never before occupied. At 161.3 inches in length, 70.4 inches in width and 61.5 inches in height, it shadows its trendy sibling by a respective 15.6 inches, 4.1 inches and 6.1 inches. Not exactly mini, then!

If it helps you obtain a handle on the size of the 2011 Mini Countryman, this newest Mini car technology is a few inches shorter in length than a Volkswagen Golf but is almost 3 inches taller. At 102.2 inches, the Mini actually rides on a slightly longer wheelbase.

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Shallow Family Car Modification

Shallow Family Car Modification. Shallow super custom car. Flat cars

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The New Born

The New Born

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Alien Style Citroen C2

Alien Style Citroen C2

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The flow of wind

Since the appearance of the first car its design has been significantly changed. Modern cars are very fast, comfortable, and aerodynamic, yet it's not the limit of the development in this domain. Thus Japanese designers have recently managed to create quite a futuristic car that looks very unusual.

This latest design direction of Mazda Company was called "Taiki". The appearance of such an original design was inspired by the shape and flow of wind. Their challenge was to create "a design that visually expresses the flow of air and the atmosphere" - called "taiki" in Japanese. The shape of the car's back, especially of the back wheels, has no right lines, but curves. It's so unusual that it's hardly possible to imagine that there was something of this kind before. Due to its shape given concept seems to be extremely aerodynamic, yet no other information about its characteristic features is available.

Anyway this gadget can be considered as a very forward thinking one. I would say that it's a breath of fresh air in a slightly stale auto show season. However it's not the fact that there will be a significant number of proponents of such a bold design.

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RCA Concept Cars

RCA Concept Cars

Royal College of Arts has truly crafted some royally spectacular designs of concept cars that do not yet soar in to the skies but look almost good enough to go around as alien creations that are crafted for inter-planetary journey travelling at the speed of light. Being constantly in touch with almost every single concept car design on a daily basis and having seen more than a few personally it is pretty hard to get surprised anymore consistently. But once in a while amazing designs like this come along which take the standards several notches higher by not just producing ‘Spielberg’ styled stuff, but also making them energy-efficient and emission free!

These concept cars build upon the RCA’s world-renowned vehicle design program, which has produced many exceptional designers over its 40 years of existence. Now that nearly every major auto manufacturer has announced plans for an energy-efficient automobile, these breathtaking designs should set a whole new standard in eco-design as we venture in to a future that holds a millions surprises which we hope are filled with green goodness.

Pierre Sabas’ Airflow concept encases an electric engine and suspension within an exterior constructed entirely of glass, while Jon Radbrink’s Nuaero car integrates sophisticated aerodynamic principles such as airfoils, a venturi tunnel, and a catamaran-esque underbody to maximize its efficiency. Sergio Loureiro Da Silva’s rocket-red Phoenix car pairs beautiful aerodynamic curves with a system that regenerates lost energy through movement, and Arturo Peralta Nogueras’ futuristic vehicle runs on algae and features an evolving solid hologram technology to adapt to its environment, passengers, and scenarios.

You just have to sit back and take a moment to allow this amazing work to actually sink in as it would still look unreal. All I can say is that, “Thank God we had photography or all the words in the world could not have conveyed the sense of spectacle that I have just witnessed.”

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10 Concept Cars

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The Airflow by Pierre Sabas of France has wheel-mounted electric motors and is made entirely of glass. "I’ve tried to wrap it around like fabric. It allows for a new driving sensation and it gives the occupants a new perception of the outside world," he says. The car won the Best Design Interpretation Award at the Pilkington Automotive Vehicle Design Awards.

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Yun Woo Jeong's "Transform" might be the offspring of an unholy marriage between Optimus Prime and a Morgan. It has a transparent elastic top that can be stretched to any shape to suit the driver's needs and mood. "I've been interested in 'transformables' since I was a boy," says Jeong. "It is common to boys across the world. How many transformable robots have passed over our memories? Why do they generate so much enthusiasm? Some say it's childish. But I assume it is human instinct."

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Raquel Aparicio Lopez's "Soft Vehicle" is made of foam. You stash your stuff in a boot, er, trunk that opens with a zipper and you climb in through "a sensual slit" and sit in a seat surrounded by impact absorbing "jelly balls." The Spanish designer believes softer cars are safer cars. "I would like to extrapolate rubber, textile and other soft materials into vehicle design," she says.

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Sergio Loureiro Da Silva designed "Phoenix" for maximum efficiency. There's a turbine up front, a kinetic axis -- whatever that is -- and electric motors at the back. The Spanish designer likens the vehicle to a motorcycle with a sidecar, but it looks to us like something you'd see in a pod race on Tattooine.

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Paul Howse wanted to offer a new definition of luxury and exclusivity with "Enigma." It's an electric vehicle that ideally would get its power from the sun, and the passenger compartment uses magnetic levitation to isolate it from the rest of the car.

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Joonas Vartola's "Iomega" isn't so much a car as a "relaxation capsule" with a chauffeur. Vartola says the shape of a swan inspired the exterior. Driver and passengers sit in separate compartments, which "fosters the idea of this being a passenger car rather than the usual driver's car architecture," the Finnish designer says.

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"I'm thinking about a new way of consuming cars," says Italian designer Ilaria Sacco, by allowing a high level of personalization. She calls the car "My Lounge," and it takes an Ikea approach to design by allowing buyers to pick everything that goes into it, "like how you would design your living room." (Hex wrench not included.)

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Dong Kyu Kim of South Korea was influenced by fashion design, and "Chameleon" takes its styling cues from shirt collars, blowing scarves and women's eyeliner. The car is asymmetrical because, "like a good dress, it will never be perfect," and paramagnetic technology allows it to change colors so it'll always match your outfit.

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None of the technology Spanish designer Arturo Peralta Nogueras has planned for his vehicle exists yet, but if you're gonna dream, dream big. "Senses" runs on algae and features an exterior made of "solid hologram technology," whatever that is. It's also got artificial intelligence, and the interior "evolves and adapts to its environment, passengers and scenarios," though we're not sure how. No matter. It sure looks cool.

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Jon Radbrink of Sweden also has a thing for glass. He used a whole lot of it on "Lexus Nuaero," his gas-electric hybrid. "I was inspired by architecture and used glass in conjunction with other materials to create a layered effect that gives the feeling of transparency for the occupants," he says. The Pilkington judges liked it enough to give it the Best Use of Glazing -- that means glass -- award.

Called the Lexus Nuaero, it features motors in the wheels and a touch-screen dashboard where the information and controls can be moved around.

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Swedish automotive design graduate Jon Rådbrink presented a concept for a catamaran-shaped car at the Royal College of Art graduation show in London last month.

Also an automotive design by Jon Rådbrink

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Hydrogen-powered Circulus

If you are sick and tired of being in those heavy traffic situations and you tend to use ecologically friendly products, this marvelous concept car will be your favorite model. This interesting car concept turns out to be powered by hydrogen. Called, Circulus this smart car is capable of turning 360 degrees which makes it highly maneuverable.

This ecologically conscious car concept feature one of the kind design as well as powerful capabilities including omni directional wheels or shape shifting rear. If your technological appetite is not yet satisfied, this breathtaking three wheeled car features one spherical front tire which makes it so maneuverable turning 360 degrees effortlessly.

This concept idea might be quite useful in those congested roads, so every experience driver would appreciate it. Two tires at the rear are designed to gain more stability on roads as well as ideal braking abilities. Its spherical tire is fuelled by an independent motor which seems to be operating on hydrogen.

Its motor is mounted at the rear part of the car. Its side body panels are constructed from recycled plastic along with polyurethane also used for seats construction. As for the rest of the parts, they are supposed to be made of aluminum making sure the car is light weight.

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New GM Concept Car

New GM Concept Car

"We're on a journey," admitted Wayne Cherry, General Motor's vice president of design, when questioned at the automaker's top-secret design studios near Detroit. "This is a mission...We're redesigning technology..."

The impressive design feat, which is said to create a superbly smooth ride by levitating the body away from the chassis, may well be based on top-secret work in the government's closely guarded Area 51 -- where many think a crashed alien UFO has been reverse engineered to discover the principles of extraterrestrial science.

Quoted in an article in the highly respected Edmonds, "You can think of the first 100 years of automotive technology as volume one," said Larry Burns, GM vice president of research, development and planning. "And Autonomy as volume two."

Edmonds also noted that "the surface... has a pale-colored, smooth, shiny hard plastic exterior much like Apple Computer's latest laptop, the iBook," raising speculation that the computer maker and GM may well be in a collusive arrangement to develop and use alien spacecraft technology for tough, aerodynamic exteriors.

Rumors of similar developments by Ford Motor Company have so far remained unconfirmed; but with intense competition among the largest auto makers to include alien technology in new designs, there can be no doubt that they are not far behind.

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The new Mustang

The New Mustang

I found a really exciting prototype show car while traipsing around SEMA in Las Vegas today. Seems that Galpin Auto Sports of Van Nuys took a Ford Mustang GT convertible and went COMPLETELY NUTS on it. Sure, it started out as a 2008 Mustang GT, but it is completely unrecognizable now! Hand made composite body, voice command controled, even DUAL retractible steering wheels (left and right side drive, thanks to drive-by-wire technology)!!!

In the deep, 3 layer, candy purple paint, it looks like something the Joker might drive… if he could handle the 1000 horsepower twin supercharged power!

Of course, it sits so low to ground here, at a height that it would be impractical on most any road or track, but thanks to air ride technologies’ suspension system, the computer constantly gauges the road for the optimum ride height and firmness of the ride itself. and still, it “cuts” quite a shape… and those headlights!

Here’s a nice big picture for ya:

UNfortunately, when you come around the side of the car, you see get the impression that the car’s designer was heavily influenced by his childhood playthings… Mattel Hot Wheels®.

Still, Galpin Auto Sports was aiming for a vehicle straight from the car shows of the 60’s (Autorama) that sparked people’s imagination and excitement. Given that this vehicle is COMPLETELY road worthy and driveable and not just some clay work with paint and chrome stuck on it… I’d say they goal has been FAR exceeded!

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New BMW Vision Modification 2010

The new 2+2-seater hybrid-diesel BMW Vision Efficient Dynamics concept car, with sexy gullwing doors and low emissions, will be the centerpiece of the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show, but there is plenty of information available about the car already.
Offering hybrid technology, the BMW Vision EfficientDynamics is powered by a three-cylinder turbodiesel and two electric motors. System output is 262kW (356hp), maximum torque is 800 Newton-metres (590 lb-ft). The all-wheel drive features an electric motor on both the front and rear axle.

With an anticipated acceleration from zero to 100 km/h in 4.8 seconds and top speed around 250 km/h (155 mph), fuel consumption in the EU test cycle of 3.76 litres/100 km (equal to 75.1 mph imperial gallons), and CO2 emissions are 99 grams/kilometre.

As a plug-in hybrid, BMW Vision EfficientDynamics is able to cover the entire fuel consumption drive cycle under electric power alone. Taking the sources of energy used for generating the electric power consumed into account (EU electricity mix), this reduces the CO2 emission rating to just 50 grams per kilometre.

Electric power is generated through an efficient concept of Brake Energy Regeneration. Energy is stored in 98 lithium polymer cells. The car is able to cover a distance of approximately 50km (31 miles) in electric mode alone.

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