Some Automotive Fun...

Got a Rolls Royce Phantom and still feel that something is missing? Then buy a Rolls Royce Faberge egg!
 

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Or how about a Bentley scented candle?
 

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In 1996 PM Entertainment, looking for new worlds to conquer created the over-the-top TV cop show 'L.A. Heat', some but not all of the car chase footage was recycled from films made by PM Entertainment during the preceeding years...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8wH2-KFXnA


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(The only Jaguar to appear in a PM Entertainment film as far as I know.)


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Consider this... Part One
 
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ADF getting into some fun: Matilda a Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon from Team Army on display at the 2022 Townsville 500 Supercars in Queensland.

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More teething problems with 'self driving vehicles'...

GM Cruise snafus have blocked SF streets with suddenly immobilized self-driving cars at least three times in the last two months, with one incident where almost 60 vehicles stopped, and another where Cruise “lost touch with its entire fleet.”
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https://sfist.com/2022/07/08/gm-cru...knew-one-time-nearly-60-cars-stopped-at-once/

And an earlier incident in which the SFPD pulled over a self-driving car because they thought it was stolen...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DZL0i51tRs
 
Two hyper-efficient electric cars that are as close as one can get to blank-sheet designs and still be road legal. They're following Colin Chapman's philosophy of 'simplicate and add lightness'. The Mercedes EQXX is purely a testbed and uses - currently - very expensive manufacturing techniques but its technology will feed into later production vehicles. Right now, it makes the EQS look like a Ratte.

The Lightyear 0 is on sale later this year. It'll be costly but they're also promising that it will be used to the development of fund cheaper vehicles.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS1SBhBjAHY&t=557s&ab_channel=FullyChargedShow


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An interesting read here on the impact of 3-D printing on car production that directly references aerospace design.

www.thedrive.com

Can 3D Printing Give Us the Future Cars We Really Want?

Fabless manufacturing could save the auto industry from numbing uniformity. Can fabless manufacturing save the auto industry from numbing uniformity?
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Of course, the hurdle for additive manufacturing—and a monumental one at that—is to build cars in the quantity the auto industry demands. There are other challenges as well; we’ve already gotten a sobering taste of how concentrating microchip fabrication in a single region can bungle the supply chain and jam a wrench into the world’s economies. How might automakers avoid a similar fate?

How might planemakers avoid a similar fate?

Kevin Czinger is one of those forward-looking people working to solve the auto industry’s fabless-production puzzle. Czinger is CEO of Divergent 3D, an additive-manufacturing startup that landed $160 million in a Series C round of funding this past April, as well as Czinger Vehicles, maker of the 21C hybrid hypercar, built using 3D-printing technology and, Czinger says, a full digital production system. In effect, it’s a showcase of Divergent’s technology, and of the auto-manufacturing business model its technology could unlock, operating under the same roof.

The following are excerpts of my conversations with Czinger, in which we talked about his companies, his admiration for aircraft engineer Clarence “Kelly” Johnson (head of Lockheed’s famed “Skunk Works,” which built the remarkable SR-71 Blackbird), his ability to get big stuff done quickly, and the next steps in the future of the auto industry as he envisions it.
 

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