James Glickenhaus, the car collector and investment banker whose passion for exotic automobile design resulted in projects like the Pininfarina-styled P4/5, has released a trickle of details teasing his latest car to come out of his own coachbuilding studio: the SCG 003. At the start of the project, Glickenhaus said ” We’re thinking [carbon fiber] tub, a [twin-turbo V6] and a very sexy shape.” We know he’s a man who gets what he wants.
The new project car won’t be built on any existing platform, but will be constructed from scratch, based off of a bespoke chassis, powered by a twin-turbo, six-cylinder engine. The intent is to take the custom vehicle the Nürburgring 24 hour endurance race. In this teaser image, we see the shape of it coming along under the contours of the sheet, with just a bit of front nose poking out, hinting at what the rest will look like.
The former film director and current investment banker states that his love of modifying vehicles started back when he modified a Lola T 70 to be road legal and stable enough to endure common traffic without overheating. Years later, he commissioned famed coachbuilders Pininfarina to help convert his Ferrari Enzo to the P4/5, a modern tribute to the 1967 Ferrari 330 P3/4 race car. Ferrari liked it so much, they even allowed him to badge the car with its distinguished logo.
That Ferrari badge came right off when he modified the P4/5 in-house as Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus to become the P4/5 Competizione, which went on win a host of races, including taking home the FIA Alternate Cup trophy. After adding a KERS, a kinetic energy recovery system that converts usually wasted brake energy into power for quick boosts, he came to the conclusion that the next generation of hypercars were losing their way, being too heavy and complex.
“What if I stepped back? Simpler. Lighter. Smaller? ” says Glickenhaus, on his website. This is where the idea of the 003, Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus’s third one-off road car was born. Today’s little tease has us more than a little excited for the car’s full reveal at the 2015 Geneva Auto Show.
BYD has launched the third-generation Qin Plus DM-i in China, and the first thing that caught my eye is its price. According to CarNewsChina, the plug-in hybrid sedan starts at 79,900 yuan, which is about $11,980. That’s an incredibly low price for a brand-new car, especially by US standards.
What’s even more impressive is the range. The Qin Plus DM-i can drive up to 137 miles on electricity alone, which should cover most people’s daily commutes without using a drop of gas. Once the battery runs out, the 1.5-liter engine takes over. Thanks to its 17-gallon tank and roughly 91 mpg with a drained battery, the combined range reaches up to 1,423 miles.
Apple won the PC market’s worst quarter, but that’s not the entire story. It won the race by stumbling less than everyone else.
PC makers shipped just 57 million computers worldwide in Q3, which might look good, but it’s a 21% year-over-year plunge (via Counterpoint Research). And despite Apple’s Mac shipments falling by 11%, to 5.6 million, its market share rose from 8.7% to 9.8%. How did that happen?
Update (October 22 23:54 PT): In response to our query, GM clarified that offline recording support is already available on eligible vehicles. Like Tesla's Sentry Mode, it requires owners to connect a USB drive to save incident recordings, which can be viewed on the vehicle's infotainment screen. The upcoming Connected Cameras feature will build on this by giving owners remote access to these recordings via the revamped OnStar app, allowing them to check footage without walking out to their car.
General Motors has announced plans to add a new Connected Cameras feature to its OnStar service starting next year, giving drivers a way to monitor parked vehicles remotely and capture footage of certain incidents.