The men’s magazine, Penthouse, is filing for bankruptcy … for the third time. Who says sex sells?
(BroBible.com)
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
McLaren Will Eventually Build One, Too
McLaren, unlike Ferrari or Lamborghini, won't build an SUV
McLaren's design chief is not into the SUV.
Lamborghini now has one, and Ferrari says it will introduce one by late 2019 or 2020. But don't expect McLaren to taint its supercar DNA by giving into the temptation to tap into the hot-selling sport utility vehicle segment.
"I'm not the first person to point out an SUV is neither particularly sporty or utilitarian," McLaren's chief designer, Dan Parry-Williams, told Top Gear. "It's not 'everything for a reason,' unless the reason is to clutter up the streets," referring to a McLaren design mantra ("everything for a reason", a nod to minimalism and purposefulness in the company's cars). In other words, they're not going to build one since it doesn't fit with the mission of the company: to build ultra high-performance sportscars.
(AutoBlog.com)
McLaren's design chief is not into the SUV.
Lamborghini now has one, and Ferrari says it will introduce one by late 2019 or 2020. But don't expect McLaren to taint its supercar DNA by giving into the temptation to tap into the hot-selling sport utility vehicle segment.
"I'm not the first person to point out an SUV is neither particularly sporty or utilitarian," McLaren's chief designer, Dan Parry-Williams, told Top Gear. "It's not 'everything for a reason,' unless the reason is to clutter up the streets," referring to a McLaren design mantra ("everything for a reason", a nod to minimalism and purposefulness in the company's cars). In other words, they're not going to build one since it doesn't fit with the mission of the company: to build ultra high-performance sportscars.
(AutoBlog.com)
Gurney's Goodies
All The Innovative Ways Dan Gurney Shaped Racing As We Know It Today
Winning Le Mans For America—And Tall Guys Everywhere
All American Racers started in 1966, but one of their earliest projects was one of their most legendary.
One problem: Gurney’s helmeted 6'4" body didn’t quite fit in the car, and thus, the Gurney bubble was invented to allow space around his head. The smooth bubble fit over the driver’s head to allow Gurney enough headroom to race.
Sharing The Bubbly
It’s always fascinating to learn who popularized different post-race celebrations. Long before we had donuts and shoeys, Dan Gurney started the now-ubiquitous habit of spraying anyone with reach of the podium with celebratory champagne.
After winning Le Mans in 1967, Gurney was handed a magnum of champagne and just couldn’t help himself. Gurney explained, as quoted on the All American Racers website:
America’s Best Run In Formula One
Dan Gurney also did something no other American driver in an American-built race car has done outside of the Indianapolis 500: win a Formula One race. Gurney’s team was the Anglo-American Racers for his F1 run due to the British Weslake V12 they used, but the Eagle Mk. 1 car itself was built in America, as Gurney’s team’s own design.
The Gurney Flap
Gurney’s other namesake contribution to motorsports was as simple as bolting some aluminum right-angle to the trailing edge of a race car’s rear wing, yet it changed the game for aerodynamics.
The Gurney flap worked so well that Unser then complained of too much understeer from the extra downforce at the rear, forcing Gurney’s team to modify the front of the car to match. Later, McDonnell-Douglas utilized the concept for lift on aircraft, and other race teams started to copy it.
What it does is simple: airflow behind the flap forms a pair of vortices that deflect air going over the wing-and-flap combo downwards, creating precious downforce that sucks the rear of the car to the ground and allows for faster cornering speeds if the front aerodynamics are a good match.
Adding a Gurney flap is still a simple, inexpensive aerodynamic tweak used by racers today.
Complete list (Jalopnik.com)
Winning Le Mans For America—And Tall Guys Everywhere
All American Racers started in 1966, but one of their earliest projects was one of their most legendary.
One problem: Gurney’s helmeted 6'4" body didn’t quite fit in the car, and thus, the Gurney bubble was invented to allow space around his head. The smooth bubble fit over the driver’s head to allow Gurney enough headroom to race.
Sharing The Bubbly
It’s always fascinating to learn who popularized different post-race celebrations. Long before we had donuts and shoeys, Dan Gurney started the now-ubiquitous habit of spraying anyone with reach of the podium with celebratory champagne.
After winning Le Mans in 1967, Gurney was handed a magnum of champagne and just couldn’t help himself. Gurney explained, as quoted on the All American Racers website:
I was so stoked that when they handed me the Magnum of Moët et Chandon, I shook the bottle and began spraying at the photographers, drivers, Henry Ford II, Carroll Shelby and their wives. It was a very special moment at the time, I was not aware that I had started a tradition that continues in winner’s circles all over the world to this day.The bottle was initially given to Life photographer Flip Schulke, who captured the madness before ducking from the spray and proudly displayed it in his home for many years. But given how the champagne spray went viral long before “going viral” was a thing, Schulke eventually gave it back to Gurney and the All American Racers shop.
America’s Best Run In Formula One
Dan Gurney also did something no other American driver in an American-built race car has done outside of the Indianapolis 500: win a Formula One race. Gurney’s team was the Anglo-American Racers for his F1 run due to the British Weslake V12 they used, but the Eagle Mk. 1 car itself was built in America, as Gurney’s team’s own design.
The Gurney Flap
Gurney’s other namesake contribution to motorsports was as simple as bolting some aluminum right-angle to the trailing edge of a race car’s rear wing, yet it changed the game for aerodynamics.
The Gurney flap worked so well that Unser then complained of too much understeer from the extra downforce at the rear, forcing Gurney’s team to modify the front of the car to match. Later, McDonnell-Douglas utilized the concept for lift on aircraft, and other race teams started to copy it.
What it does is simple: airflow behind the flap forms a pair of vortices that deflect air going over the wing-and-flap combo downwards, creating precious downforce that sucks the rear of the car to the ground and allows for faster cornering speeds if the front aerodynamics are a good match.
Adding a Gurney flap is still a simple, inexpensive aerodynamic tweak used by racers today.
Complete list (Jalopnik.com)
A Stunning Secret About The Liberty Walk 'Miura'
Why Liberty Walk Made The Most Outrageous Lamborghini Miura Ever
This is a one-off promotional car, so don’t send them emails asking for one. The story behind the car a typical one.
Toshiro “Toshi” Nishio, Sales Manager at Liberty Walk, kindly explained the story of this curious car to me. “Kato-san has always wanted a Miura, but finding one is quite difficult,” he said. That’s understandable—who wouldn’t want a Miura?
“One day Kato-san went to a few random car shops and found a Ford GT40 (replica) for sale. This gave him the idea to make himself a Miura,” Toshi said.
From idea to creation it took about six months. They stripped the Ford body off and put their own custom Miura body on top of the chassis, overfenders and all.
Kato-san could’ve easily made this replica without the overfenders, but where’s the fun in that? As always he wanted to combine his love of classic Japanese cars and this classic European exotic. From the outside with the stance and overfenders to distract the eye, it’s quite a convincing replica. The black color does help hide some of the doubt.
The car isn’t fully complete yet; air suspension will be the next thing to go on this “Miura.” While the chassis and engine are from a GT40, some “modifications have been made to the engine.”
(Jalopnik.com)
This is a one-off promotional car, so don’t send them emails asking for one. The story behind the car a typical one.
Toshiro “Toshi” Nishio, Sales Manager at Liberty Walk, kindly explained the story of this curious car to me. “Kato-san has always wanted a Miura, but finding one is quite difficult,” he said. That’s understandable—who wouldn’t want a Miura?
“One day Kato-san went to a few random car shops and found a Ford GT40 (replica) for sale. This gave him the idea to make himself a Miura,” Toshi said.
From idea to creation it took about six months. They stripped the Ford body off and put their own custom Miura body on top of the chassis, overfenders and all.
Kato-san could’ve easily made this replica without the overfenders, but where’s the fun in that? As always he wanted to combine his love of classic Japanese cars and this classic European exotic. From the outside with the stance and overfenders to distract the eye, it’s quite a convincing replica. The black color does help hide some of the doubt.
The car isn’t fully complete yet; air suspension will be the next thing to go on this “Miura.” While the chassis and engine are from a GT40, some “modifications have been made to the engine.”
(Jalopnik.com)
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