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Kepler Motion

December 28, 2009 / / Comments Off on Kepler Motion

It was killing me not to be able to write about this, as it isn’t often that I know about something really interesting before all of the “cool” kids do.  So, finally I’m going to post a few pictures of the Kepler Motion “Dual Powertrain” Supercar.

Kepler Motion at Dubai International Auto Show

As a picture is worth a thousand words (and I have access to some) I’ll mostly post those.  I write this sitting in the Kepler offices in Southern California where the executive and engineering team have just returned from the Dubai International Auto Show where the Motion was announced to the global press. The “Dual Powertrain” (250 hp electric motor in the front, 550 hp twin turbo in the back) is for the purpose of improving performance (not just being “green”) and the Motion is gorgeous! Kepler Website

Press Feeding Frenzy

I have many many more pictures and I’ll post some as I have time.  I am in Orange County to spend time with friends and family and log miles on a bicycle again for the first time since my crash and resulting surgery in October – so those things are a priority. 

Neil Hannemann and Russ Wicks of Kepler

Kepler Motion

Happy New Year!!!

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C’était un Rendez-vous

October 13, 2009 / / One comment

I’ve been meaning to write something about this video for some time – just because I think it’s so outrageously cool that I want people to see it. I thought about it again last Saturday morning when I received a message from my buddy Russ that he was on his way to “Cars and Coffee” in a Ferrari 275 GTB – Russ knows that I like old Ferraris and that I think the 275 GTB is one of the prettiest cars ever built.

Ferrari 275 GTB

Ferrari 275 GTB

The story behind this short film is that French director Claude Lelouch filmed the early morning run through Paris and that the car used was a 275 GTB driven by an un-named Formula One driver.

Lelouch later claimed that a large Mercedes carried the camera and that the sound of the Ferrari was dubbed over – I am somewhat skeptical, but I suppose an Oscar winning director should be able to accomplish a task like that.  I thought Star Wars was cool when I saw it, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t real… In any case, the film and sound are amazing.

The Route

The Route

The route that Lelouch chose also passes by and through many famous Parisian landmarks, including the finish line of The Tour de France (so there’s a bicycle racing connection), and places where my sister worked and lived in the time she spent there (so there’s a family connection).  The speed of the “Mercedes” has been calculated (and independently agreed upon) to have been 190 – 200 kph on the Champs-Élysées – and that will get you to church on time…

 

C’était un rendez vous- Claude Lelouch.flv

The film was removed from YouTube in 2012.  Here is another version.  Still the best!!!

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