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This featured Car is Carrera GT

Carrera is a slot car.

This featured Car is Carrera

Carrera dominated the German markets in the 1960s and 1970s, due to using an additional third wire, and effective marketing, also at the nearby Nuremberg International Toy Fair.

This featured Car is Carrera

In the 1970, Carrera offered 1:24, 1:32 and 1:60 scales for slot cars, and the slot-free "Servo" systems which allowed cars to switch lanes, guided by the guard rails on the outside. Due to the many systems offered, and fewer customers (Generation), Neuhierl had to sell his company in 1985, and took his own life. The new owners sold rather cheap products.

This featured Car is ABT

Johann Abt (born December 1935), who continued a horseshoeing tradition of his family with motor cars, was a motorcycling and hillclimbing racer for Abarth factory team until 1970. He later entered cars with his own team, winning the "Trophée de l’Avenir“ and other series.

This featured Car is Koenigsegg CCR

The Koenigsegg CCR is a mid-engined sports car manufactured by Koenigsegg. It briefly held the world speed record for a production car and is currently the fourth fastest production car in the world, behind the Bugatti Veyron, SSC Ultimate Aero and the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport.

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Italdesign Brivido concept is part car, part hybrid Italian spaceship


Hidden among the nooks and crannies of the Volkswagen Group is the Italdesign-Giugiaro design house, where founder Giorgetto Guigiaro has overseen the styling of everything from VW Golfs to the DeLorean. This is his newest concept from the Geneva Motor Show: the Italdesign Brivido, a hyrbrid-powered grand tourer that has just enough out-there touches to intrigue us.

When a design house does a concept, the least important part of the car lies under the hood. While Giugiaro touts the 3-liter, 360-hp V6 that can hit 60 mph in five seconds or so, the real job of the Brivido is to advertise Italdesign's styling abilities, which generate $100 million a year for the accountants in Wolfsberg.

Giugiaro says the Brivido -- Italian for "thrill -- was designed as a realistic touring car, with only a set of gullwing doors as the bow to auto show drama. While the front end looks vaguely related to the Ferrari 458 Italia, the car becomes more distinctive towards the back, from the glass cut-outs in the doors to the screens for the rear-view cameras that float like wings around the steering wheel. There's also an interior that's full of touch screens and a toaster-like slot for an iPad.
The Brivido will remain an auto show queen, but it's conventional enough that a few ideas, such as the LED headlamps/turning signal combination, will be folded into real vehicles. Then again, Giugiaro did bring another copy of the Brivido to Geneva in a Martini racing livery...

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