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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

Audi will launch a new crossover positioned below its Q3 in 2016, the automaker confirmed today. To be called the Q1, the new crossover will fit in the subcompact segment and will compete against similar tall-riding premium vehicles like the Buick Encore and MINI Cooper Countryman. In this teaser photo, a five-door crossover is shown with rugged looks and an aggressive grille similar to that found on Audi’s Crosslane concept car from 2012. A similar look is expected to feature on the 2015 Audi Q7. Front-wheel drive will be standard, with all-wheel drive possibly available as an option. Engines would be four-cylinder units.

 

Source: Motor Authority

When Nissan unveiled the BladeGlider, everybody immediately thought “it’s a road-going Deltawing,” because it was clearly a road-going version of the very pointy race car that used to be Nissan-powered. Now the owner of Delta Wing Technologies, Don Panoz, is calling the concept a clear rip-off, and has filed suit against Nissan, Ben Bowlby, a former Deltawing team member who now works for Nissan and was on the BladeGlider team, and Darren Cox, the global director of Nissan motorsports. If Delta Wing Technologies is successful in court, Nissan will be barred from selling, showing, or racing cars with such a design.

 

Source: Complex Rides

The Lamborghini Veneno Roadster seems too crazy to be a real car, but it is. And while most carmakers prefer to showcase their newest products within the safe confines of a convention center, Lamborghini decided to put the Veneno Roadster on an Italian aircraft carrier. The Veneno Roadster is a roofless version of the Veneno coupe, which was unveiled at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show, and is itself based on the Aventador. Like the Aventador, the Veneno is all-wheel drive, and has an ISR single-clutch automated-manual transmission for gear shifting. Despite all that, the Roadster weighs a relatively petite 3,285, largely thanks to extensive use of carbon fiber. Lamborghini’s new forged carbon production method cuts production time significantly.

 

Source: Motor Authority