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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

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