BMW had their Art Cars and Mini has specialty celebrity designed automobiles, but Bentley decided to take things a step further and recruit contemporary artist Romero Britto to create the centerpiece for their “Come to my world” exhibition in Germany. The English automaker provided Mr. Britto with a Continental GT as a canvas, prepared with a Bentley Blue base coat for the South Florida artist to get to work.
The car is covered in colorful, comic-like figures featuring a large multi colored flower on the hood, winged heart on the driver’s door, ladybug inspired door mirrors and a few orange and purple stars. The negative space is covered with Britto’s recognizable signature, similar to the mathematical symbol for pi; it is consists of a “T” followed by a squiggly line that sometimes goes down like a backwards “J” and other times is just a continuation of the character before it. The entire feeling of this piece of 200 MPH artwork is that it is as playful as the GT is fun to drive.
Before the vehicle’s official debut, the classic English coach builder Bentley keeps teasing us with future Grand Bentley. The Arnage successor will be unveiled sometime this summer.
Rolls Royce has launched an online configurator for their future Ghost model. So, before its official debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show you can start having fun designing your future dream car online.
It seems that until July 9, Jaguar decided to tease the living daylights out of us with details about their next generation XJ. This time it is is all about driving dynamics. The engine lineup for the new car consists of the new 5.0 Liter V8 as the main gasoline burning engine available, with the 503 HP supercharged version toping the lineup with the XJR. There will also be a 3.0 Liter twin-turbo diesel V6 making 237 HP while returning as much as 40 MPG, but that engine has not been confirmed for the North America market just yet. Check out the video to see what we are talking about.
You might recall hearing news about Christiano Ronaldo’s infamous late-night exploits with a Ferrari 599GTB a few months ago that caused him to crash his million-dollar vehicle in a Manchester tunnel.
After having escaped with nothing more than minor injuries and a slap in the wrist from British authorities, the Portugese footballer has replaced his mangled 599GTB with a brand new one.
The price of being filthy rich, yes?
Pictures have been leaked out on the World Wide Web showing Ronaldo getting off a plane at the Tire Aerodrome near Cascais in Portugal and into the waiting seat of a brand-new red Ferrari 599GTB.
The car is surprisingly similar to the one he wrecked a few months ago. It doesn’t seem that Ronaldo is that at all worried about picking up another tab on his credit card worth over $300,000. Besides, that doesn’t seem to be too high a price for the soon-to-be world’s most expensive football player.
For those who don’t know about Ronaldo’s fondness for a Pransing Horse, the star footballer mercilessly wrecked his old 599GTB on his way to training. Fortunately for him, he escaped the incident unscathed but the same can’t be said for the wrecked Ferrari.
Jaguar will unveil the new generation XJ luxury sedan on July 9. But before we’ll see the final product, the company keeps teasing us with one more video, this time talking about the sedan’s aluminum body shell.
GM announced it will build a new luxury stretch sedan called the Cadillac XTS. The new sedan, next to the upcoming Buick Regal, a redesigned Chevrolet Impala and current Chevrolet Camaro are the big hope for the company.
The new Cadillac XTS will be the largest four-door sedan Cadillac’s line-up. It will come to replace the DTS and will compete with models from BMW, Audi and Lexus. The car will go into production in December 2011.
Next to the Impala and Regal, the new Cadillac XTS will be built on GM’s global Epsilon platform. This means GM will built three different models for three different brands - Chevrolet, Buick and Cadillac - based on the same basic vehicle underpinnings - that can be translated into smaller costs.
"It gives GM the flexibility to juggle the production mix to meet the market," said one source familiar with the company’s plans. "That is something that GM has not had the full-scale opportunity to do. In the past, they’ve built assembly lines dedicated to one vehicle, they run the piss out of it, and they throw money at to make the public buy it whether you want to or not. That’s passé. That’s the bad old days we hope will never come again."
Bentley has just revealed two new teaser videos featuring the future Grand Bentley. It’s true that they don’t reveal anything about the car, but they do make us really anxious about it!
Jaguar promised to unveil a totally redesigned model in 2009, taking design cues taken from the latest XF-C Concept and the current XF super sedan. Even if the next generation XJ sedan will keep the car’s aluminum platform, everything on the exterior will be changed. As the Indian automaker prepares for its upcoming launch less than a month away in July one thing is for certain. Wherever a future super car is testing, spy photographers are never too far behind!
The next generation Audi A8 was supposed to be launched this September at the Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany, but unfortunately the unveiling was delayed along with the highly anticipated all electric R8 super car. The German automakers have decided to forego their home show and even hold off on making an appearance with the luxury limousine at the Los Angeles International Auto Show. What we have learned is that the all new A8 is headed for a debut in the sunshine state, could it be the South Florida International Auto Show? Back in Frankfurt we will see a few of the automaker’s new products, the Audi R8 Spider and the A5 Sportback.
The executives at Audi are hesitant to unveil the new A8 in Frankfurt or in L.A. because they do not want the launch of their flagship limousine to be overshadowed by other automobile’s international debuts. It also doesn’t hurt that the current A8 is still selling quite well, and if it isn’t broke there is no need to fix it. The four ringed automaker also has a few more models planned for future production, like the A7 Sportback that is set to be unveiled in 2010, the compact A1 will also make an appearance in 2010, followed shortly by the slightly larger A2 and the Q3 compact crossover.
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