Turbo

The Lancer Goes Global

We've seen a few spy-shots of the new Lancer, but today we finally get to see the concept artist's sketches for what some are calling the most important design in Mitsubishi's 90-year history. With a posture very near to the ground, it's relatively long hood, a mean "shark nose" and uniquely deep "eyes", it's very attractive even if it doesn't blow the lid off of emblematic designs of Ferrari or Lamborghini. The notable bit is, instead, it's ambitious design/marketing theory – called "Project Global" – that will end up putting this car on the international radar after it debuts in Detroit. We wouldn't be surprised if certain German auto makers adopted this theory in the near future, leveraging this "flexibility required to accommodate regional needs and regulations as well as market trends and new customer demands in markets as diverse as Japan, North America, Russia, Asia-Pacific and Europe."

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Tags: car, concept, lancer, Mitsubishi, turbo

New Porsche 911 Release Details

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos

After making it's debut a few months ago, the new Porsche 911 Turbo drew a crowd at the New York Auto show this week and Michael Bartsch, the vice president of Porsche Cars North America gave out some release dates. The Porsche will be available for purchase starting in June with a sticker price of more than $122,000. Shortly afterward, in August, a street-legal version of the Porsche racer the 911 GT3 is to be released in the United States at $106,795. The company plans to sell about 800 units during their first year.

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Tags: 911, 911 GT3, auto show, cars, gt3, new cars, porsche, porsche 911, porsche gt3, race, turbo, us

Turbo Wall Sculpture

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor

The design spotters at Inhabitat drew our attention to the Turbo sculpture. The sculpture is aimed at those of us who made model cars and airplanes when were were little, laboriously popping out the tiny pieces and gluing them together. The sculpture from Jellio is inspired by those kits. I'm not sure I love it for a living room but I bet the guys from Autoblog are wishing for this under their Christmas tree. It sells for $2500 and there are only ten available.

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Tags: car art, modern sculpture, nostalgia, sculpture, Turbo