If money was no object ...

Aston's CC100 Speedster Concept is the best styling exercise I've seen in a long time. Simple and emotional. If money were no object, and if I didn't want to be risky, I would build something of similar spirit.

If I wanted to be risky:

I'd take the highest quality personality test I could find. Then I'd hire a fringe artist to paint 3 canvases in any way he chose based on how my personality understands reality. Each canvas would have its own theme: Aesthetic beauty; emotional desire; passionate action.

Then I'd ship those canvases to Horacio and tell him to empty a design studio of everything except the canvases. He would have two years to design and build a car based on his inspirations from the artwork. I would encourage him to pull from his own personal inspirations, and to combine those with what he sees of my personality in the artwork.

I would intentionally not see the car until it was finished.

 

Were money no object, I'd love to do a detailed documentary / TV series on a restoration for an older, classic car -- say a Miura or SWB. Sort of "This Old House" for car dorks.

 

Here's to hoping that my personality wouldn't be the same as a jellyfish's.

 

Mine would be a Black Enzo with a targa top. (Ignore the engineering problems. This is fantasy.)

Also a VandebBrink 599 with a convertible top and a Novitec package to get it to 1,000 HP.

http://www.vandenbrinkdesign.com/current-projects/599-gt-convertible

 

This...its STUNNING!!

What LaFerrari should have been.
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I grew out of 3 wheelers when I was a little boy...

Ooh I love that! Just a shorter overhang is all that's needed really!

F430 manual base, hang a 599 V12 in the back.

Any more pics?

Win!

 

I would take Pinin's Maserati Birdcage concept from a few years ago and make a ground up revised version.

I thought that was stunning.

 

Ferrari Xezri Concept Car - Friki.net
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This should be the new Dino
Wow did Jim's car influence the brand or what!
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Thanks. Man that looks good.

 

+1.
Pure driving enjoyment is the goal.
Why adding more unreliable (long-term eg after 10yrs) electronic driver aids ?

 

It would have to be a mad hot rod entirely made of communist era East block vehicle parts. No modern stuff, for sure.
Generally, a ZAZ (Zaporoshets) 968 body with chopped roof and air-cooled Tatra V8 engine in the back.

Other option would be to construct a replica of long scrapped Wolseley Gyrocar, by all means probably the worst vehicle ever made.

 

Why the H16 and not the v16? The H16 was an utter piece of rubbish and only managed to win one race in a Lotus driven by Clark but nobody actually expected it to finish.

Now the v16 was a failure too, but oh what a sound!
Pete

 

Mid mounted flat 12 engine.

Monicoque construction with built in safety cell/cage.

Designed by industry insiders who know car design better than any student, or youngster ;-)

Full ground effect a-la Group C / IMSA era aero, no external wing; but designed in conjunction with race car.

I wouldn't be adverse to a 4 rotor engine

Other ideas that aren't a ground - up build...

7 Liter Prius

TWR Jaguar V12 "Silk Cut" era powered XJ220

5.8 Liter s/c powered RS200

Packard 299 re-built.

 

So, what on the 75th Anniversary Birdcage, what part of that car was the original testbed for 10's of thousands of production components? While the GT90 was based on a XJ200 chassis, the V12 ended up in every V12 Aston Martin... and was all new.

 

Isn't the Birdcage on a Enzo chassis?

And why does the fact that the GT90's components being a test bed make it more awesome as a concept car? Remove the word concept and I can see your point ...
Pete

 

Open top with central seating
All carbon
V12 mid engine
500hp/2500lbs
Trans optional between stick/clutch and paddles

 

Not so much, it is the fact that what they made for the concept also proved so useful for production vehicles.