{"id":296297,"date":"2007-01-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/auto-industry-accelerates-into-dream-world-era\/"},"modified":"2007-01-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T08:00:00","slug":"auto-industry-accelerates-into-dream-world-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/auto-industry-accelerates-into-dream-world-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto industry accelerates into dream-world era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fabulous Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster was quite an eye-catcher at the recent Los Angeles and San Diego auto shows.<br \/>The 2007 LP640 was there to show off extensive bodywork modification and super strength. No longer a concept dream; it&#8217;s maybe not for your everyday customer, but a beauty to behold.<br \/>You wonder, whose ideas generated these stylish innovations &#8221; the designer or the computer? Ah, such freedom. It&#8217;s a wonderful Land of Utopia.<br \/>Lamborghini Centro says it has maintained the original style principles of purism, sportiness and functionality with a more aggressive appearance.<br \/>The asymmetrical design of the sides is particularly striking. The area behind the air inlet on the right is almost closed and on the left there is a large opening for the ventilation of the oil cooler. This, in addition to the aerodynamic form of the front and rear, is an illustration of how functionality dictates the shape.<br \/>For power, it has a 6.5 liter, 12-cylinder, 60-degree V engine that will get all the speed anyone would want.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>In this dream world era, the auto industry is parading all its newest concept cars, lining them up for shows taking place throughout the country.<br \/>Honda and Mazda, for instance, have unveiled a pair of road huggers, recently featured in Car and Driver magazine. For show, though, they are non-running foam and clay models.<br \/>Honda&#8217;s Remix concept is a new two-plus-two sports coupe made for extensive front-drive bits. Mazda designer Franz von Holzhausen calls the Nagare the company&#8217;s new surface design language. That&#8217;s how far ahead these dreamers think.<br \/>Others in the lineup are the Nissan 350 ZZ, Lotus Esprit and Toyota&#8217;s Supra targeted for 2008, a Mustang and Audi&#8217;s Exotic R8 Cabrio for 2009, a BMW ZZ Roadster and Pontiac&#8217;s GTO for 2010 and, finally, the Porsche 928 and Bugati&#8217;s Roadster down for 2011.<br \/>It&#8217;s important in these days of uncertainty to show the world the pure exercises in style that interpret key models. Somehow it reflects historic trends and the image of important brands.<br \/>Noteworthy &#8221; General Motors is seriously considering building a V-6 version of its Stingray sports car &#8230; Honda is rumored to be testing a new aluminum-block V-8 in the Ridgeline pickup truck &#8230; Mercedes-Benz E Class will improve aerodynamics with a new front bumper and lower air dam, a restyled front grille and headlights &#8230; The national Horseless Carriage convention will be held at the Town and Country Hotel in Mission Valley, Feb. 19-23. They anticipate 200 members attending from throughout the country, and I&#8217;ve been asked to be the keynote speaker.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fabulous Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster was quite an eye-catcher at the recent Los Angeles and San Diego auto shows.The 2007 LP640 was there to show off extensive bodywork modification and super strength. No longer a concept dream; it&#8217;s maybe not for your everyday customer, but a beauty to behold.You wonder, whose ideas generated these stylish [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Auto industry accelerates into dream-world era","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sdnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}