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April’s events in the automobile industry were often on the same scale as April’s. We once again laughed a little bit at the most interesting news of the series, but also at various oddities, and tried to comment on them with a slight arrogance. Hold on to your hats, let’s hit the gas!

Author: Bring a Trailer

Among the big cars at online events, this 2010 hot-rod-style moving coffin also appeared. After opening the fiberglass coffin, you can see the V8 engine from Chevrolet in the middle, and at the very back, the idiom seat and the marble dashboard . The appearance of the organ-style exhaust pipes and lanterns were used instead of light. Driving this machine is certainly a lot of fun, but it’s not for the faint of heart.

Author: Bring a Trailer

Boleslavsk rocket. koda became a competitor of Bugatti, Ferrari and Lamborghini on April 24. Its one-piece machine with two electric motors with a combined output of 800 kW (1,088 hp) is the cheapest coder, which also does not require a mandatory car insurance, insurance or parking fee. In addition, it is an electric car with which you do not have to mess with cables. Although the car is only designed for virtual driving in the Gran Turismo 7 video game for Playstation consoles, it is a very special car for the new generation who don’t want to own anything (and often don’t even drive).

Author: code Auto

Fisker’s lost and found. Henrik Fisker, general editor of the Fisker Inc. car brand, in an effort to stave off the bankruptcy of his company, sells his home in the Hollywood Hills for $35 million. In April, shares of his troubled automaker traded at around 5 cents a share, giving the company a thorny capitalization of just $26.8 million. The shares thus fell by about 96 percent, which led to the delisting of the company from the New York Stock Exchange. In contrast, the value of his house has increased in recent years. In 2021, he paid $21.8 million for him. So if it gets the asking price, the value has increased by 61 percent over the last few years. When it has been repeatedly shown that making and selling cars is not his parquet, shouldn’t Fisker like to become a real estate agent?

Author: Fisker Inc.

Alpha to sern. In April, the Lombardy metropolis of Milano became the unfulfilled center of attention of the automotive world. The Alfa Romeo car company named its new crossover after him, which it announced last year. When she revealed at the world premiere of the model that it would be produced in Poland, she was shocked. The minister of the Italian government, in response to the Milan law, replaced the Italian-sounding names of products that are not initially identified as Italian. What about the fact that it is a law to protect the Italianness of food. So Alfa Romeo relented and named the car Junior. After the famous alpha from the last few years, but otherwise you can probably equip people’s esk salm.

Author: Alfa Romeo

Navigate to Junior. Part of Alfa Romeo’s quarrel with the Italian government was also a small tweet with photos of the navigation screen with a map, on which Milano is marked as a Junior city.

Author: Alfa Romeo

Return order. The futuristic appearance of the Mercedes EQS discouraged the conservatively elegant clientele. The modernized version therefore got a classic star on the hood and instead of a black panel, a front mask with chrome slats, which evokes a classic grill like the S. Bravo! But who didn’t think twice?

Author: Mercedes-Benz

Play with colors. On April, the car companies again tried to attract the attention of some of the birds. Probably the most successful was Volkswagen, which boasted the ID.3 model in a brightly colored Harlequin Edition with panels painted in contrasting electroluminescent colors. The idea got a positive response on social media, and it turned out that many of the discussants would like to buy something similar. So isn’t that a way to get things dtroits among people?

Author: Volkswagen

Uka, what um! In order for Hyundai to convince the Americans that autonomous cars are safe, in Las Vegas, they had test commissioner Kandice Jones assess the driving behavior of the Hyundai Ioniq 5 automatically.

Author: Hyundai

But it was just an advertising trick, because autonomous cars cannot actually drive themselves. Avoid this, however, to small weights, as it would look like during a forceful police check or a complaint about a misdemeanor.

Author: Hyundai

Slow down The slowest Ferrari in the world appeared in the drab. The prototype F12 Berlinetta from 2014, which the Maranell brand used for the development of the F12 TDF version, reaches a maximum speed of 300 km/h thanks to the 6.3-liter V12 engine with a power of 740 hp. This piece is not designed for driving in heavy traffic and the mechanics have limited its speed to just 25 km/h. That is, on par with an electric scooter.

Author: Ferrari

AirCar plays hard music. The father of electronic music, Jean-Michel Jarre, became the first VIP passenger in the cockpit of the Slovak AirCar company KleinVision. This happened at the international flight in Pieaney, in preparation for the opening concert of the Bratislava festival of science and music Starmus, at which, in addition to Jarre, Brian May from the cult band Queen will also perform. AirCar will also be part of the video production at the opening concert of the festival.

Author: KleinVision

A memory of the future. The Russian company Kalanikov, famous for its submachine guns, has just introduced its own motorcycle. The electric machine I-49 is an electric replica of a motorcycle from the 1950s, which was a copy of the German DKW machine, its parts were acquired by Russia in the course of authorized repairs.

Author: Kalanikov

Go ahead and go to the mall. Not only does the code have a new proper building. Thus, the American concern General Motors announced that it is expanding its global center to Bedrocks Hudsons Detroit for the fifth year. It will thus become the main German in the buildings on the historic site of the former department store JL Hudson. It is the fourth headquarters of the GM company in Detroit since 1911. For the current headquarters in the Renaissance Center, where there is also a hotel and a residential complex, GM will be looking for an alternative use.

Author: General Motors

Designer kiks. The new generation of Nissan’s compact crossover also caused a delay in April, its name Kicks should not have caused a delay. But the novelty caught the attention of the design side as well. From the rear, the Alfa Romeo Junior looks striking with its shape. I wonder if it’s a coincidence.

Author: Nissan

Used travel vehicle. At the RM Sothebys auction, there will be a Fiat 500L with a known owner. The car has less than 1,400 kilometers on the odometer and in 2015 it was used by Pope Francis during his visit to New York. The car was last used in 2016 on St. Patrick’s Day. Finally, in the same year, the car was auctioned off for charity for 2 million crowns. So it is a touring car. How much will the car sell for now? And for how much again pt?

Author: RM Sothebys

The fork is fully electric. At the same time as its electric convertible GranCabrio Folgore, Maserati presented the luxurious electric moon Tridente, built in cooperation with Vita Power. The car is powered by a pair of electric motors with a total power of 600 hp, which ensures a maximum speed of 74 km/h and a range of about 70 km. the team car outclasses it with three electric motors with a system power of 761 hp, and a top speed of 290 km/h. However, eight pasar can fit on the lo.

Author: Maserati

Toyota will also be there. The world’s largest car company is hard at work building the city of the future, Woven City, and is about to build a new headquarters in Tokyo. In 2029, it will be expanded to the Inagawa district, not far from the train station there, close to Honda and Mitsubishi. Would there be a plan for consolidation?

Author: Toyota

Electric by the ice. A large part of the development work of the various electric models of Aston Martin is done by the team, but the British let themselves be overtaken by Ferrari and before electric cars, especially plug-in hybrids. We planned to launch the first car for five years, said f Aston Martin Lawrence Stoll, but no one wants them. And he added: We were ready to do it, but it seems that the hype in the electric vehicle market was also much more about politics than consumer demand. Especially in the price category of Aston Martin.

Author: Aston Martin

Italian car dealership. In the Stellantis concern, there is a sense of humor. The Maserati MC20 originally had the Alfa Romeo emblem, and the Abarth 1300 OT, which was created to mark the 75th anniversary of the Abarth emblem, is in turn an Alfa Romeo 4C with a bodywork. Make it in a Maserati operation and it will be created in just five pieces.

Author: Abarth

Hare Krina, Hare Suzuki. Suzuki produced 30 million cars in India. This country thus became the second country, after Japan, to reach this milestone. This happened in just 40 years and 4 months from the start of production in December 1983, while in Japan it took 55 years and 2 months for the same Suzuki. The first model was the Maruti 800 from Maruti Udyog, which preceded the current Maruti Suzuki company.

Author: Suzuki

Potaov animation of the electric seductive car code Vision Grand Turismo

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Author: Bring a Trailer

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