At the prestigious gathering of rare and antique cars and automotive novelties Concours d'Elegance Pebble Beach in the USA, BMW turned back the clock and with its new version of the BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage R concept paid tribute to the Bavarian beginnings on American soil, where in 1975 they opened their first branch outside Europe BMW North America. Hence the similarities with the legendary BMW 3.0 CSL model, which also served as inspiration for the aforementioned concept, which debuted in the American IMSA racing series that same year.
Supi, back off! Here's the O Six Hundred ultralight kayak from Australia, which brings back to modern culture a 4,000-year-old Eskimo boat design made of a wood/bone frame over which a stitched animal skin was stretched. The modern version is made of 30 pieces of arawakaria - an evergreen tree native to Australia - and carbon fiber and weighs only 10 kilograms, but is still as strong as oak.
Hyundai recently presented the Vision G Coupé concept, a kind of "trailer" or "teaser" for the future premium models of this South Korean car brand and proof that the Equus will not be just an excursion. For him, the designers and engineers from many Hyundai design centers from all over the world butted their heads, like a kind of knights of the round table - after all, the "theme" was chivalry - and the Americans had the deciding vote, and the "veto" was somehow in the hands of brand president Peter Schreyer. And you can see the result below.
The Mercedes C-Class has grown - a new coupe that redefines modern luxury. Athletic character, sculpted appearance and an interior that is second to none. The C-Class coupe is synonymous with sporty elegance and is the first in its class to have air suspension, but it also pushes the boundaries in its class with super aerodynamics, state-of-the-art assistance systems and powerful engines. It will be in showrooms in the last month of 2015.
Do you remember when you were a child, a teenager or even a student when you stood up on the trunk of a bicycle? Something similar is also offered by the Moto concept motorcycle, which resembles a sports motorcycle, but with a much shorter seat. The lack of a seat comes at the expense of not two, but as many as four pedals for passengers. Amir Elias' concept Moto allows the transport of as many as three people at the same time, except that none of the passengers sit, but both stand while driving.
It's good in life if you know how to find yourself and take care of your ass. Ford, or their daughter premium brand Lincoln, will also take care of it well, literally. Even so much so that they will deal with each of your ass individually. Their future seats will have as many as 30 levels of adjustment, and they will be found in new models of the prestigious Lincoln Continental sedan.
Although Audi is already forging the next generation of the A8 model, this has not stopped the Germans from offering buyers a more powerful version of the S8 model, the S8 Plus. It is powered by a 4.0-liter V8-Biturbo engine that can develop an enviable 605 horses or 445 kilowatts, while the maximum torque is 700 Nm, which jumps to 750 Nm in overboost mode (increasing the overpressure in the blower). The price will be suitable for the equipment and class - 145 thousand euros plus!
Many a city cyclist has a lot to say about bike racks. Indeed, industrial designers have been creating interesting stands for the last few years, which are becoming an indispensable part of urban furniture, but too often we get the feeling that they only thought about aesthetics, while they completely forgot about the practicality of stands. How else is one to interpret e.g. spiral racks that are a disaster in terms of usability? The same cannot be said for the Estonian design studio Keha3's stand and their refined version of the Tulip fan fan stand. Is the Tulip fan fan 2 the modern bike rack we've been waiting for?
The future is here. Lexus was not kidding with its Slide floating board and upgraded the June promotional video with a demonstration video, where the superconducting board was put to the test at the Cubelles skating rink in Barcelona. Check out how she fared and what professional surfer Ross McGouran had to say about her.
Volvo has always been synonymous with safety, and nothing is more important to the Swedish car brand than passenger safety. It signed many safety innovations and was among the first to adopt the three-point seat belt and rear-facing child seats. And speaking of children. You may not know, but Volvo also has its own line of child seats, but now it has taken the safety, and especially the comfort of the little ones, to a higher level. Only for them, in the luxury concept edition of the Child Seat Concept XC90, the passenger seat was abandoned and replaced by a child seat facing the back seat.
Swincar is the most unusual all-terrain vehicle in the world. The electric "quad", which resembles a spider, is not stopped by any terrain, because the independent suspension for each wheel separately and the body, which moves separately from the chassis, allow it to cope with terrains that until now seemed impassable.
The Bolt M-1 is still fundamentally "just" a bike. You can drive it. But the point is, you don't need one. It is an electric bike with a battery that can take you 80 kilometers on a charge, and it can "cruise" at a speed of up to 64 km/h. The high-tech bicycle with regenerative brakes is connected to a smartphone, where through a special application you can access all collected data such as speed, distance, etc., and you can also unlock it wirelessly.