Designautos: June 2010

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Lancia Fulvia

1966 Lancia Fulvia Berlina

Lancia Fulvia Coupe

Lancia Fulvia Coupé

Lancia Fulvia Coupe

Lancia Fulvia Coupé

Lancia Fulvia Coupe HF

Lancia Fulvia Coupé HF

1965 Lancia Fulvia Sport Zagato

The Maserati Khamsin (named after the Khamsin, a hot, violent wind in the Egyptian desert) was a sports car introduced as a Bertone prototype in 1972 at the Turin Auto Show. In 1973 it was put on display at the Paris Motor Show, where it was badged as a Maserati. Production of the vehicle started in 1974. The car had a front mounted 4.9 litre V-8 delivering 320 hp, housed in bodywork that resembled a lower, flatter Ghibli, designed by Bertone. Production of the Khamsin ended in 1982, with only 430 vehicles produced.

The Khamsin had several unusual features, such as DIRAVI power steering, with higher than usual assistance for parking, decreasing with speed, and a glass rear panel (between the taillights) below the rear window, giving reverse visibility surpassing most cars, especially similar sports cars.

Maserati Khamsin

Maserati Khamsin Car

Maserati Khamsin

Maserati Khamsin Car

Maserati Khamsin

Maserati Khamsin Car

Maserati Khamsin Car pics

Mercedes-Benz reveals Ocean Drive concept for Detroit

Look past the Mercedes-Benz Ocean Drive concept's LED head and taillamps and fancy flush doorhandles and you're looking at what a likely S-Class production convertible will look like. Names for the famous strip of road on South beach, the Ocean Drive would fit right in with the beautiful people and the high-end cars known to prowl the area.

Based on the V12-powered, long-wheelbase S 600 sedan, the Ocean Drive concept gets an oversized grille (we like) and retains its source car's four-door style. the side glass is frameless, and there are no pillars to interrupt the lines when the car is open to the sky. A traditional, large soft-top protects occupants in sub-optimal weather conditions, and the car features Mercedes' neck-warming technology called AIRSCARF. Nifty indeed. Build it.

Mercedes-Benz reveals Ocean Drive concept

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

TVR T440R Cars Photo

TVR T440R Car

2003 TVR T440R

BMW Italdesign Nazca C2 Car Pictures

BMW Nazca C2
The BMW Nazca C2 or Italdesign Nazca C2 or Italdesign Nazca M12, was a 1991 concept sports car. The car was designed by famed automotive engineering company Italdesign, home of Giorgetto Giugiaro, and features a similar frontal design of a BMW. The car was equipped with the 5.7 L V12 engine from BMW and produced 380 bhp (283 kW; 385 PS).

BMW Nazca C2

BMW Nazca M12 Car photo

1991 Italdesign Nazca

The Italdesign Nazca C2 Car

BMW Nazca Car

1991 BMW Nazca C2 Cars Pics

Italdesign Nasca bmw car

TVR Car Pictures

2000 TVR Cerbera Speed 12

2003 TVR T440R

TVR Tuscan

Friday, June 18, 2010

Toyota GT-One Car

The Toyota GT-One (model code TS020) was a racing car initially developed as a for grand touring style rules, but later adapted into a Le Mans prototype. It raced in the 1998 and 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans.Toyota GT-One Road.

History

Following the end of the Group C era around 1994, Toyota decided to alter its plans in sports car racing by moving to the production-based GT classes for 1995. Toyota decided to approach this in two ways by using two different styles of car for competition. The first was a heavily modified Toyota Supra, referred to as the Supra LM, which would use a turbocharged inline-4. The second entry was a custom built car designed specifically to be a racing car, yet required a small number of production cars for sale in order to meet homologation regulations. This car was modified heavily from the Toyota MR2, and became known as the SARD MC8-R. The MC8-R would use a custom built Toyota turbocharged V8. While the Supra performed admirably in 1995, the MC8-R would appear superior for 1996. With development of high powered supercars for the GT classes at the time, Toyota decided that a car similar to the MC8-R, which was intended as a race car first, would be better suited to continuing Toyota's development of a GT car. Thus Toyota announced they would skip the 1997 24 Hours of Le Mans to be able to develop their new GT car for 1998.

Turning to Toyota's European arm based in Cologne, Germany, Toyota Team Europe (TTE)and Dallara were charged with development of the new GT car. With taking the one-year hiatus, TTE was able to look at what the competition was developing for the GT class, and exploit it to their benefit. In 1997, both the Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR and the Porsche 911 GT1 were dominant cars in their class that exploited loop holes in the rules in place at the time. Each car was a custom built super car of which only a small handful of production cars were built to homologate it. TTE realized that they would actually only need to build a single production car in order to meet homologation regulations, thus allowing TTE to have a car that would never truly be sold to a customer, meaning that any driver luxuries could be left out.

Toyota GT-One Road

Lamborghini Bravo

Lamborghini Bravo

The Lamborghini Bravo was a concept car designed by Bertone for Lamborghini. It was first presented in 1974 at the Turin Auto Show.

The Bravo was designed to showcase ideas for a replacement to the Urraco. The completely working prototype featured a 3L 300 hp (220 kW) V8 that powered the rear wheels, and underwent nearly 40,000 miles (64,000 km) of testing before it was placed in the Bertone museum. It was never put into production, but many styling features of the Bravo would find their way into the Countach, including the angular features, the window arrangement, and the wheel design, but the interior was never more than what was barely necessary to operate the vehicle.

Lamborghini Bravo

1974 Lamborghini