Author: karla

The most generous Dodge Charger owner of all time goes to this fella. You see, putting TVs inside your car is selfish. The passengers will love it, but what about your fellow drivers? Don’t they deserve to catch 30 seconds of music videos while they sit at a red light? One car owner in Memphis, U.S. thinks so — he put 32-inch spinners and TV screens on each door for all the other motorists to see.

 

Source: Complex Rides

Formula 1 drivers will be forced to make two pit stops as well as face a strict limit on how long they can stay out for if teams accept proposals for new 2014 tire rules next month. If accepted and then agreed upon by the F1 Commission and FIA’s World Motor Sport Council, the rules will demand that each driver must stop twice during the race to fit new tires. Furthermore, drivers will not be allowed to use the ‘prime’ specification of tires for more than 50 percent of the race distance, while the ‘option’ compound will not be allowed to be used for more than 30 percent of the race distance. Should the rule changes be accepted, they will almost certainly reduce the importance of tire strategy in the races as there will no longer be an incentive to eke out longer life from the tires.

 

Source: Road & Track

Designed to combine style and exclusivity — two hallmarks of German engineering — it will come dressed with a variety of color options, including a choice of models like a Platinum Silver Metallic finish to go with a Black, White, Meteor Grey Metallic, Basalt Black Metallic, Mahogany Metallic and Carrara White Metallic colors, all of which are available upon request. Bi-xenon headlights, a fancy privacy glass, and a set of 19-inch Cayenne Design II wheels are also part of the exterior program. Meanwhile, the interior also received a fancy set of upgrades, highlighted by a two-tone interior trim that has partial leather seats, a SportDesign steering wheel and a Porsche Communication Management (PCM) system with GPS navigation. Anti-dazzle interior mirrors, special floor mats and “Platinum Edition” sill plates, are also part of the interior digs, giving this Cayenne Platinum Edition the workings of an certifiably exclusive SUV.

 

Source: Top Speed

The fastest racing cars today are all built to tight regulations. So what would happen if you took the best designer in Formula 1 and asked him to draw up a car with no restrictions whatsoever? This, the new Gran Turismo 6 concept from Red Bull, the X2014. The designer in question is Adrian Newey, the very last man who still draws his multi-championship winning cars on paper rather than in CAD. This is his third ‘X’ car for Gran Turismo. The first was the X1 aka the X2010 and the second was the follow-up X2011, which recorded a 3:10 Nurburgring lap time in GT5, if that’s anything to go by.

 

Source: Jalopnik

Swiss artist Fabian Oefner has recently been inspired by Harold Edgerton’s super-slow motion freeze-frame art, applying it to classic cars. For this series, dubbed Disintegrating, Oefner explores 1967 Ferrari 330 P4. He begins with a simple sketch of what he’d like the ‘exploding car’ to look like. He then painstakingly disassembles and hacks up a model car, poses each fragmented, airborne piece, and takes a series of photographs. The lighting, angles, and backgrounds all have to be perfect. In post-processing, he trims and overlays each bolt and rivet—more than 1000 pieces, in some cases—into a single photo, creating the illusion that we’ve just seen a micro-second frame of an exploding car.

 

Source: Road & Track