MAZDA FURAI

ABOUT

The Mazda Furai is the fifth and final car in the series. It is also the most storied and most popular Nagare-styled car.

The Furai is based on the Courage C65 LMP2 prototype that Mazda used for the American Le Mans Series.^[8] The car runs on E100 ethanol, being the only rotary-powered car to do so. The engine is a midship-mounted R20B Renesis Wankel engine producing 450 hp (336 kW; 456 PS) and coupled to a 6-speed Xtrac semi-automatic transmission. The engine was built by company Racing Beat, who also made the rotary-designed muffler.^[8] The name Furai (風籟, wind's sound) is also a reference to the Nagare "wind and flow" motif. The car wears the number 55 as a tribute to the Mazda 787B.

The Furai was tested on many circuits, such as Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. In 2008, the car was destroyed after catching fire during a Top Gear photoshoot. This event was fully revealed to the public in 2013.^[9][10]

                           NISSAN ESFLOW

ABOUT

to be unveiled at the March 2011 Geneva Motor Show. It is a sports car weighing less than 1,000 kg (2,000 lb), capable of going 0 to 100 km/h (0 to 60 mph) in under five seconds and having a range of 240 km (150 mi) on a single charge. The body is similar to the Nissan 370Z and the headlights and taillights are similar to the Nissan Juke's.^[21] The expected price is US$34,000 to US$40,000.

                         MCLAREN ELVA


SPECIFICATIONS 

The name Elva (pronounced ella va) means "she goes!" in French. The car is named after the lightweight early open top race cars developed by Bruce McLaren. The M1A, M1B and M1C were produced between 1964 and 1967. Due to limited staff, production was outsourced to British automobile manufacturer Elva


PERFORMANCE

The Elva can accelerate to 100 km/h (62 mph) in less than three seconds and in 200 km/h (124 mph) in 6.7 seconds. Production was to be limited to 399 units with customer deliveries scheduled to begin in late 2020. On April 3, 2020, McLaren CEO Mike Flewitt announced the production total would be reduced to 249 units, citing customer feedback encouraging exclusivity as the force behind the decision

       BMW VISION CONNECTED DRIVE

EXTERIOR

Unlike the 2008 BMW GINA fabric skinned concept, the ConnectedDrive features more traditional materials, but in an equally modern design, referred to by BMW's head of design Adrian van Hooydonk as a 'layered surface'.^[4] The front grille maintains the BMW style grille, and the front and rear lighting monitor the surrounding traffic conditions around the car. The doors are a variation of the 1989 BMW Z1, with the outer skins slide forward and the inner door slides backwards. The use of unconventional lighting is integrated into the overall design, from the bonnet area and around the seats to the rear boot lid.

INTERIOR 

The interior is very much driver orientated, with a high centre console dividing the interior into two, and using differing lighting schemes to change the internal and external character of the car.^[5] The passenger has their own display unit directly in front of them, and the driver has a 3D head-up display screen which overlays actual sat nav information onto the view in front.

                     CHEVROLET MIRAY

Overview
Manufacturer	Chevrolet (General Motors)
Designer	Chevrolet Advanced Design team
Body and chassis
Class	Concept car
Body style	2 door Roadster
Layout	M4 Layout
Doors	Scissor
Powertrain
Engine	1.5 L (hybrid gasoline / electric)
Electric motor	15 kW motors (2)
Transmission	Dual-clutch transmission
Battery	1.6 kWh lithium-ion battery

EXTERIOR

The exterior of the Miray is made of carbon fiber and has an angled groove on the side that lighted underneath it.^[1] It has LED headlights and a dual port grill.^[1] At the rear, there are retractable flaps that give the vehicle additional airflow.^[1] The concept has aluminum-carbon fiber composite wheels that are 20 inches in the front and 21 inches in the back.^[1] Occupants enter the vehicle through scissor doors.^[1]

INTERIOR

The interior is composed of brushed aluminum, natural leather, white fabric, and liquid metal materials.^[1] A projected instrument panel shows the performance of the Miray. The cockpit was inspired by the Chevrolet Corvette.^[1]

SPECIALITY 

Instead of traditional side mirrors, rearview cameras emerge from the side windows while a front-facing camera shows real-time video that is overlaid on the GPS navigation.^[2]

      GENERAL MOTORS FIREBIRD I XP-21

Only one Zero was made. The same is true for another car in the exhibit, the General Motors Firebird I XP-21. This thing is literally a jet on wheels. Its turbine engine spewed jet exhaust at 1,250 °F. It was so sketchy that the driver was never supposed to push the throttle beyond 100mph. And you know what GM did with the Firebird I XP-21’s co-creator Harley J. Earl after it came out? They didn’t fire him. As the first top-level executive designer in American history, they basically gave him carte blanche, allowing him to introduce the world to both tailfins and the Corvette, too; later, he retired. (It’s worth noting, Earl is credited with creating the original concept car as a way to build hype around design, the Buick Y-Job.)

These are incredible cars. And they’re on display at the museum May 21 to September 7, 2014.

                   LANCIA STRATOS ZERO

Atlanta’s High Museum of Art is opening an exhibition of some of the rarest and boldest concept cars ever built. At a time when cars are getting plainer and plainer, and teens and twenty-somethings can barely be bothered to get a driver’s license, it’s a reminder why generations of Americans handed over 52 weeks of salary for a dream on four wheels.

Take the Lancia (Bertone) Stratos HF Zero. This metallic wedge is pure 1980s futurism, but it was actually built in 1970–that’s the year after this season’s Mad Men takes place, for those keeping count. The Zero was designed by Marcello Gandini. If you think the Zero looks a bit like a Lamborghini, that’s not so crazy. He also designed the Lamborghini Miura and Countach, the latter of which shares the Zero’s aggressive, spear-like posture. But Gandini was no one-trick pony. He also design the remarkably groomed original BMW 5 series, the cooler-in-retrospect Citroën BX, and a tiny, cubby bear of a car, the Innocenti Mini. Additionally, he invented those absurd and eye-catching scissor doors we associate with supercars to this day.