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Ferrari Prances in Hybrid-Electric Style

Hybrid-electric vehicles seem to be all the rage these days, and the prototypes in the stables at Ferrari's home of Fiorano is no exception.

As part of its 60th birthday celebration, Ferrari unveiled the Mini Chili, a mere 1,000 kg beast almost completely made of carbon fiber sporting fixed seats and carbon ceramic brakes. The need for a dashboard is gone with the driver information systems all being condensed down into the steering wheel, making for a compact little ride. The light weight is offset by an Active Aerodynamics system, which kicks in at the most opportune of moments.

Don't get your hopes too high, though -- Ferrari claims it won't make this car, but be on the lookout for similar technology in future Ferrari vehicles.

[Source: AutoExpress]

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Tags: carbon fiber, CarbonFiber, ceramic brakes, CeramicBrakes, concept car, ConceptCar, electric, ferrari, hybrid, hybrid-electric

Shaq Supersizes His Lambo

by Erin Mays (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos, Celebrity Shopping, Sports

At 7'1", Shaquille O'Neal is probably the tallest customer Lamborghini has ever had -- to the point that his test drive probably wasn't the most productive thing. Enter Gaffoglio Family Metalcrafters, who do fun stuff like help automakers with their concept cars, engineer and produce aerospace-quality glass, and do custom coachwork, stretching cars like the HUMMER limos we like to make fun of. Or, in this case, Shaq's Lamborghini Gallardo.

Gaffoglio stated that it was important to the company to keep the design consistent with stock Gallardos, so in extending the roof, doors and side windows, the original design of the vehicle played an important role. Extending the windows proved to be the trickiest bit, necessitating imput from the aerospace division in addition to coachworks expertise in order to get it right.

So, did they succeed? As we look at the photo above and try to figure out whether it's stock or stretched, we certainly think so.

[Source: Edmunds.com InsideLine]

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Tags: aerospace, concept car, ConceptCar, Gaffoglio, gallardo, lamborghini, o'neal, prototype, shaquille

Lux List: Favorite Egg-cellent Items

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Designers love eggs. Eggs have beautiful, clean lines and a great shape. The egg shape is perfectly symmetrical when cut vertically, but has a soft slope that draws the eye along its curves when viewed as a whole. Egg shapes can and do appear just about anywhere anwhere, in both small and large sizes. We've noticed this, as egg-shapes have come up repeatedly on Luxist, but we still have our favorites. Let's face it: some egg designs work better than others. These are some of the good ones:

Vivian Alexander Egg Purses - These novel purses are made out of real Rhea egg shells. They are enameled and decorated to perfection by hand with a variety of precious and semi-precious stones. The interior of the purses are lined with silk and they retail from $1000-7000. The Chanticleer Purse, pictured, costs $2,875.

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ASC Diamondback Viper Concept Car

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos

This concept car was created by American Specialty Cars and has a mostly carbon-fiber body. The fixed-roof ASC Diamondback has a supercharged 6.0-liter engine with 6-speed manual transmission, unique rocker panels housing dual side-outlet exhaust and an all-new stowage area behind the seats housing. The car has a carbon fiber roof and a very cool looking OmniCarbon hood that shows off ten trumpeted air intakes, with individual port throttles. The car has carbon-fiber-look instrument panel face and interior-trim accents; race seats with custom trim; a custom roll-cage with 5-point seatbelt harness and the Sony sound system.

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Lamborghini Debuts New Concept

by Rick Reed (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos

Our sibling Autoblog is in Detroit covering the North American Auto Show and they have pictures and details on the Lamborghini Miura. Currently the Miura is a concept car and production appears to be up in the air at this time. Autoblog is intensively covering all the concepts and new debuts throughout the day.

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Tags: concept car, ConceptCar, North American Auto Show, NorthAmericanAutoShow

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