We recently had this Colt Speed engine cover custom painted in Lambo Orange for a customer.  We added new decals on top with a clear coat to seal it all in.

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How’s this for a statement. These sure look like machined carbon fiber Lamborghini emblems to me. Lamborghini is not playing around with their LP-700. For those that already have the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak carbon fiber bezel watches…now you can get a Lambo to match that machined carbon fiber goodness!

Oh…here’s one of the new leaked picture that everyone should rightfully be circulating. Expect those Murcielago used prices to drop with the quickness!

Clamped.

I just wanted to repost this in case you missed it. Two incredible cars in the same blue color (great color choice for these cars). Apparently they are owned by the owner of Harrods UK and were parked outside the store. Pretty crazy.

source:

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/clamped-lamborghini-murcielago-koenigsegg-ccx-2010-07-30

My friend Dan Harman had mentioned this on his personal blog and I wanted to share it here.

I’ve been a reader of Garage Life magazine in Japan for years and although this home feature is not from Garage Life, it represents everything that I love about the magazine and about garage-centric architecture found in Japan.

Seriously…who here wouldn’t kill for a home that has a living room with a drop away floor that lifts up your Diablo or your Countach.

This is a fine example of a perfect home for car lovers. It is one of many things that Japan has a thriving sub-culture for.

I always manage to end up with various amazing car pictures that I save on my desktop. I browse a handful of blogs each day and people often send me emails and links to things that I find cool. There’s no point of just keeping them on my desktop when I can share, so I’m introducing this new ongoing series of posts as table scraps. They’ll just be pictures that I personally find cool.

Lets kick it off:

After yesterday’s amazing success of blog reader Janne’s Electric Race About, I thought we should balance it out with a bit of mysterious failure.

It seems that this Mazda RX-8 owner really wanted to build a rotary powered Reventon. But rather than just having some crazy idea, he/she actually went out and built this wacky mash-up of a car!  Its safe to say that we’ve never seen a Japanese car styled quite like this before. And perhaps for good reason…

While it is easy to mark this car as hater fodder and go on the attack, something should be said for the originality and execution. For how crazy of an idea this was, it sure could have been a lot worse. Particular parts of the car are somewhat decent (if I’m being generous). While the front fenders dont work for me at all, the rear fenders and rear bumper is actually fairly cool.

Overall, although I don’t personally like how it turned out I think the owner deserves some respect for trying something as crazy and different as this.

Thanks to Russ of Re-Extreme for the lead on this:

http://rextreme.blogspot.com/

During my past trip to Japan I had dinner with one of my friends who is a famous aero parts designer. In the course of the evening’s conversation on design he schooled me on something that I should have known but never did…and it blew my mind!

Did you all know that the Lamborghini Diablo uses Z32 300ZX (Fairlady Z) headlights? I consider myself to be a bit of a car nerd and I had no idea of this fascinating fact, which looking back is quite an embarrassment because I should know things like this!!!

Anyway, its a pretty fascinating  story. The Lambo uses the exact OEM Nissan headlight with no modifications. The headlight even says Nissan on it, although Lamborghini put a carbon fiber strip over the Nissan markings to save face with Lamborghini clientele who just paid a hell of a lot of money for Z32 parts bin headlights.

Our discussion reached this topic when we were discussing just how expensive it is to produce custom headlights. The example given to me was that even well established car companies like Lamborghini often will use existing products to keep development costs reasonable on their cars.

Another example he gave me was the Lotus Esprit using AE86 Corolla/Levin tail lights. I’ve later found that the Saleen S7 and Pagani Zonda use the same tail lights. I suspect there are dozens of stories like this, so feel free to share if you have more to add!

I apologize to those of you who already knew this, but IMO this is must know information for any car nut out there. I wish someone would have told me these cool facts earlier! I was truly in disbelief at the idea of a Lamborghini using Z32 headlights, its amazing they pulled it off without getting more heat from the press and their customers!