Swiss to Introduce Badly Drawn R8

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A Swiss company plans on making a car which is faster than a Veyron but is cleverly disguised as an Audi R8 drawn rather poorly.



See? I wasn't kidding.

Resting on an ultra-stiff, ultra-light aluminum chassis, the carbon-fiber clad car will employ a dry-sump’d, supercharged, 7.2-liter V-8 mounted amidships. Gearshifting will be via a six-speed sequential gearbox, and power will be fed to all wheels….

Crazily enough, Weber (which has best been known to this point as a parts supplier) claims that drivetrain (engine, gearbox, and differentials) is an entirely HausGemacht proposition—that’s right… they’ve engineered the whole works themselves.

The company claims that their baby will rocket from 0-100km/h (62 mph) in around 2.7 seconds, en-route to a top speed of at least 400km/h (249 mph!), so if the Weber actually makes it to production as promised (these things have a way of turning into vaporware), perhaps we’ll see a showdown with Bugatti’s Veyron 16/4.

http://news.windingroad.com/countri...percar-to-take-on-bugatti-for-worlds-fastest/

This isn't going to happen. A blown 7.2 V8 sounds tasty, though.

 

[Tornado]

You know, tommorow I'm going to take my Blazer, put a 2000 BHP engine (blown small blocks are still all the rage these days) in it and sell it as a 270 MPH supercar.

 

[Sage]

Someone was doing fine(-ish) on the front, then towards the midsection Salvador Dalí stepped in and said “No no, let me do it!”

So, they have a sketch, but nothing else? Clever. What do you call vaporware in car terms?

 

[exigeracer]

Sketches of that nature are a regular part of a design development, you just don't see them. There's nothing underpar about that drawing, it just took maybe 5 minutes to finish. The main focus of the designer at this point is to get as many ideas on paper as fast as possible, then refine certain aspects of them until you've got one solid rendering of what you want everything to actually be. That is what you normally see published (or somewhere near the end there), and not rough sketches like this.

 

[Philly]

So, I don't have to be a great artist to be a stellar car designer? I can live with that. Looks like something I would do. Well, maybe a bit better...

As for the idea of beating the veyron? Sorry, no dice. It was, what, ten years for somebody to go faster than the Mclaren F1. I would expect the Veyron to stand for awhile as king. Besides, it cost VAG dearly to produce such a car. For a stand-alone company to make this thing would be very very difficult and remarkable.

 

[niky]

Someone was doing fine(-ish) on the front, then towards the midsection Salvador Dalí stepped in and said “No no, let me do it!”

So, they have a sketch, but nothing else? Clever. What do you call vaporware in car terms?

"Vectors"? ( waits for flames... )

 

[Omnis]

Looks like a whale mixed with some kind of super pissed-off African big game.

 

[Jim Prower]

Uhm...

looks like a car designer tried to translate something his three-year-old drew.

 

[Dave A]

I suggest you all take note of this post.

Sketches of that nature are a regular part of a design development, you just don't see them. There's nothing underpar about that drawing, it just took maybe 5 minutes to finish. The main focus of the designer at this point is to get as many ideas on paper as fast as possible, then refine certain aspects of them until you've got one solid rendering of what you want everything to actually be. That is what you normally see published (or somewhere near the end there), and not rough sketches like this.

this picture is no way representative of the car final design.