Interesting design insights, directly from the Design team that worked on the Lexus LF-Lc.

-Dan B.

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One of the most famous cars in movie history was sold last weekend at 2012 Autosport International show.

Of course we are talking about Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 from 1967', known as Eleanor in one of the best car movies, Gone in 60 Seconds, designed with a help of Chip Foose.

The designers did some modifications for the movie purpose, which included wider wheel arches, a hood scoop, front bumper spoiler, side skirts with exhaust pipe, a small duck-tail spoiler in the back, a pair of front lights on the front bumper and new 17-inch Schmidt alloy wheels.

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Yet again, a Japanese tuner puts it's imprint on European market cars. This time is Wurde, a well known tuner and the "victim" is the Porsche Panamera S. 
The kit is a six-piece item, which provides a sportier look to the luxury saloon, which includes a new lip kit for the front, new side skirts, rear diffuser, a sportier wing, new rear fenders panels. 
The six-piece kit costs around 13.500 EU, but it can also be sold as separate items. 

For extra money, the tuning company can provide a new bonnet, headlights lids (as in the photos) and a new roof spoiler.

Source: GTspirit

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Looks like one part of Saabs history will not be forgotten.

During the past week, the news got around about Saab selling the famous museum in Trollhattan due to the bankruptcy. Luckly, it was saved by the few investors; former Saab owner Saab AB, local city council of Trollhattan and by foundation run by the Wallenberg family.

The investors have paid £2.5 million to buy the cars in museum and to take over the lease of the museum building.

A Turkish investment group called Brightwell Holdings is said to be in the running, as is the Chinese company that was trying to buy Saab before it fell into administration, Youngman.

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Caterham F1 (known as Team Lotus from last season) is the first team to reveal it's car for this year F1 championship.

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It's official, BMW has released a new model range in it's brand, the M Performance, which is a class that sits between normal models and M models. 
The most distinctive characteristic must be the all new 3.0L, in-line six cylinder diesel engine, which features a three-turbo system, with a maximum output of 381HP and a peak of torque at 740Nm available from 2.000-3.000RPM, the redline being sat at 5.400RPM.

The very first models that broke the ice, were the BMW M550d xDrive and BMW M550d xDrive Touring, capable of doing the 0-100KM.h sprint in 4.7 seconds ( Sedan version) and the Touring in 4.9s. 

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The story about the once mighty brand Saab is slowly coming to an end.

Since Saab is on it's way to bankcuptcy, the Swedish law firm has decided to put the 120 cars from the famous Saab museum in Trollhatten on the market. Cars included in this liquidation moment are everything from old pieces from 1946, the famous Ur-Saab, the original to the racing 9000 series.

Few interesting facts about Saab:

- Founded in 1937

- Active in aircraft production, military weapons and automotive industry

- First car fitted with seatbelts as standard equipment

- Inovator in turbo-charged engines, broke records in endurance

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Once with the new Ford Fusion ( Mondeo in European Market ) unveil, at the Detroit Motor SHow, Ford also presented the new NASCAR version, based on this model.

What Ford states, is that the design team had 3 main objectives to achieve, when they designed the new racer, they had to make it look, as close as possible, like the stock version, including the brand design, the proportions and the design cues in car's profile and front grille.

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