Pininfarina-Motorola Maserati Birdcage

[HeilSvenska]

Guess what i found...the revealing of the new Pininfarina concept...before the Geneva autoshow even begins!

http://img155.exs.cx/img155/4404/dscf04479vp.th.jpg (http://img155.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img155&image=dscf04479vp.jpg)
http://img14.exs.cx/img14/9269/dscf04377pa.th.jpg (http://img14.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img14&image=dscf04377pa.jpg)

I am so glad that it's not a mobile phone.

And it is called teh 75th Birdcage so far.

[SilviaEvo]

what the fuck is it?!!? Motorola wtf?

[HeilSvenska]

http://www.pininfarina.it/ginevra2005/e_sp_maserati.html

1500kg + 700+hp

[Sir_GT]

Wild... but I like it. :) It's very appealing in a modern way.

[racer_f50]

i kinda like it as well. very streamlined and sleek design. hope Maserati decides to produce it :D

[666fast]

Unusual, but I actually like it. Too bad this is about as far as the car will make it. No one would put that into producion!

[Sir_GT]

Unusual, but I actually like it. Too bad this is about as far as the car will make it. No one would put that into producion!

Which is a shame, isn't it?

It's the glasshouse cockpit that's going to prevent that car from going into production... unless they use some sort of brand new, super material that is both see-through, very lightweight, AND can hold the car up in case it flips over.

Which is highly unlikely really. :)

[sinueipn01]

1500kg + 700+hp

1500Kg kinda ruins the whole point of the original birdcage masers which were built that way to be lightweight

[saadie]

the car looks ok ... i guess ....... i tought you posted pictures of bird cages ..:?

http://www.pininfarina.it/ginevra2005/sp_geneva/e_img/mas_mobility.jpg
wtf .... now they've started making aerodynamic cell phones .......

[T5]

Interesting concept,but i doubt that it will be produced.... :|

[DeMoN]

I do like the car a lot, but I like how they managed to make such a radical car. It looks great, and dammn who would ever imagine a car that opens up that way?

BTW where did you get the pic in your sig from?

[HeilSvenska]

http://www.motorworld.net/forum/showthread.php?p=363183#363183

[gucom]

It's the glasshouse cockpit that's going to prevent that car from going into production... unless they use some sort of brand new, super material that is both see-through, very lightweight, AND can hold the car up in case it flips over.

Which is highly unlikely really.

lexan or whatever the stuff is called, they use it among others for visors for racing helmets...if thick enough it's bullet proof i believe..

[loliea]

Birdcage? Why? Because you have few tubes on the dash?
In comparison the original was a real birdcage
http://img7.exs.cx:81/img7/7941/frame6gl.th.jpg (http://img7.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img7&image=frame6gl.jpg)
http://img7.exs.cx:81/img7/5558/cockpit3jq.th.jpg (http://img7.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img7&image=cockpit3jq.jpg)
http://img7.exs.cx:81/img7/6363/dashboard2rx.th.jpg (http://img7.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img7&image=dashboard2rx.jpg)
http://img7.exs.cx:81/img7/433/back2xt.th.jpg (http://img7.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img7&image=back2xt.jpg)
http://img7.exs.cx:81/img7/1636/front0we.th.jpg (http://img7.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img7&image=front0we.jpg)

Can't they find a new name?

[gucom]

hmmm there are more similarities...like hte raised wheel arches...

[loliea]

hmmm there are more similarities...like hte raised wheel arches...

And it's got 4 wheels too!

[gucom]

lol i hope u see what i mean...the body of the new birdcage is low, with its wheel arches sticking out above it, just like the old birdcage

[loliea]

I got your point gucom, but a lot of sports car (including the Porsche GT and other Porsches) have this particularity due to the fact the the wheels are getting bigger but the front still need to be low to reduce the wind resistance and the drag coeficient, and generate good down force for hight speed stability.

[mv]

I've found the original teaser way better than the actual thing. :|

[Chaos in 1983!]

aweosme I love it...just slap on some convetional or some gullwing doors and send that thing into production!

[TT]

http://img217.exs.cx/img217/8747/maseratibirdcage012ry.th.jpg (http://img217.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img217&image=maseratibirdcage012ry.jpg)

;)