A boxy green shell that once belonged to a Land Rover Series III now sits so close to the ground that speed bumps become serious obstacles. This is the Slamd Rover, a one-off custom currently listed on eBay for £15,000, or roughly $20,000. The body looks familiar enough from a distance. Everything underneath tells a different story.
Venuum has finished its first full conversion of a Lamborghini Revuelto, and the result sits lower and wider than the factory car while still respecting the original shape. Called the Voltoro V1, the project takes its name from the Italian word “voltare,” which means to turn or rotate. The shop’s stated aim was simple: make the car wider, lower, and more precise without breaking the discipline of Lamborghini’s lines. The finished example now rolling in Dubai shows they largely succeeded.
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A digital design exercise called the Estocada takes the sharp lines of Lamborghini’s past four-door experiments and stretches them into wagon form. The project draws directly from the 1968 Espada, the long low grand tourer that once carried four people in relative comfort, and the 2008 Estoque concept, the sleek sedan that never reached production. The result is a rendering that asks what a modern Lamborghini shooting brake might look like if the company ever decided to build one.
Ford Racing turns 125 this year, two years older than the company that carries its name. The milestone traces back to a single afternoon in 1901 when Henry Ford climbed into a two-seat machine he called Sweepstakes and set out to prove his ideas worked. On October 10 of that year, at a dusty track in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, Ford faced Alexander Winton, the established favorite. Sweepstakes managed speeds approaching 60 miles per hour. Its engine held together when others did not. Ford finished first. That result drew the investors who later helped him open Ford Motor Company in June 1903.
More than twenty years after a battered diesel pickup refused to die on British television, Toyota staged a careful recreation of one of its most memorable moments. This time the star was the brand’s first all-electric Hilux, and the chosen ordeal was a 760-kilogram caravan released from thirty feet onto its cab.