Posts Tagged ‘handiwork’

Smart, but flawed: Steering wheel navigation screen

Thursday, April 10th, 2008
The latest gizmo from Japan's Takata will tell you where to go, but not like those verbally abusive digital keychains from the '90s. The Takata CSW steering wheel is designed to interface with sensors in your vehicle and display different messages on an LCD screen in the 12 o'clock position. There a......

Detroit 2008: Bentley factory artisans demonstrate their craft

Sunday, November 4th, 2007
click above to view more images of Bentley's artisans at work We love Bentleys because of their exquisite sheetmetal and meticulously crafted interiors, but few understand the incredible amount of work it takes to make a Bentley a world class GT. We were able to spend a few minutes with a couple of ......

Car Costume: Audi 90 Quattro becomes Audi 90 IMSA GTO

Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Old Audis are cool, and old racing Audis are even cooler. A Swedish Audi fanatic seems to think so, too, and has gone to extreme lengths to transform a workaday Audi 90 into the IMSA GTO version of that car. Not wanting to go the stripe-and-bodykit route, this Audi's flares were painstakingly constr......

Nissan teams with Marc Ecko for pair of custom SUVs

Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Perhaps hoping to emulate the success that Ford has enjoyed from its long standing relationship with apparel producer Eddie Bauer, Nissan has announced that it's partnering with urban style maven Marc Ecko, who plans to modify a Nissan Pathfinder and Armada with his signature artistic style to comme......

Looking for something in a Chevrolet Caprice Estate? CWW Designs is happy to oblige

Friday, April 21st, 2006
The advent of photo manipulation programs like Adobe Photoshop have ushered in an era where its quite often hard to distinguish between fact and fiction-- sheet metal and pixelated musings of digital airbrush artists. For some publications, it's even an opportunity to fudge spy shots into convincing......

Video: [Eastern] Bloc rockin' beat: Lotus tunes Lada

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
Though we're not sure how old this is, we figured that you would enjoy another installment of those crazy blokes at Top Gear, this time taking a hapless LADA Riva 1.5E and throwing the nutters at Lotus Engineering something approaching a blank check.In two weeks time, they turn the 35 bhp four-wheel......

From Russia with love (by way of Germany): The Rousseau-Balt Impression!

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Alright. So we’re a little shaky on our Russian, but we know an eye-catching piece of road sculpture when we see one. Enter the Rousseau-Balt Impression, a German conceived custom teardrop throwback with a heart of gold Mercedes. To be revealed today at the Concorso d'.Eleganza Villa d'.Este in It......

Pirelli calendar seeks out invisible allure

Saturday, April 23rd, 2005
This year's Pirelli skinfest— I mean "world's most prestigious calendar"— marks a return to form. Once again, the tiremaker's contribution to female potraiture has captured the "invisible allure" of various supermodels in black and white. French photographer Patrick Demarchelier snappe......