got some genuinely nice and original designs there and I like the fact you have established your own style of taillight configuration that you use across multiple platforms, keep up the good work.
2017 Airborne Centenario
Airborne Motor Company’s founder was born at 2nd of January 1917. After 59 years he died in Hades supercar tests in 1976. Hades was founder’s ambition to create the best car to outclass everything else, including cars of it’s era. But we made a car to celebrate founder’s 100th birthday in 2017. Of course, the car is finished in 2015 but who the hell cares? Sales will begin at 2.01.2017, just at the 100th birthday anniversary day. Anyway, this is the Centenario. Made to be best car you can afford if you have LOOOOOOTS of money. Pointed at Gryphon Gears, Jioranis and other hardcore creations. It’s company’s first production car with V12 engine under the body and it produced 625 hp and still leaves some place to rev this engine a bit more. Massive aero engineering and weight reduction made this car go in 2.5 seconds too 100 km/h (that’s quicker than you can speak Airborne Automotive Centenario name) and it can reach maximum of 382 km/h. As a Cerberus’s partial successor it has slower top speed but better 0-100 acceleration (2.5 vs 2.8 
). In case of suspension and tyres it’s pretty unique; as the first car of the company uses pushrod suspension plus Centenario runs on road-legal semi slicks, which is pretty uncommon in Airbornes. Of course, it comes with a bit of luxury inside and safety systems including ABS and ESP. Don’t worry, you can turn them off, however we don’t recommend them even if the car has AWD like here. After 39 years, the ultimate hypercar is finally ready. Centenario will be offered in three colors, as refferring to countries where it has grown: Championship White, Polish Red and American Blue. Of course, everyone who buys this ridiculous [size=50]piece of shit[/size] hypercar will be also part of official Airborne Supercar Club who brings together owners of limited-production super and hypercars over the years from Airborne, this is:
- Rome (476 units)
- Evoluzione (25 units)
- Deimos (somewhere near 400 units)
- Centenario (1917 units)
The price is 786.620 $.
I hope I didn’t killed you from boredom because of this backstory. And, would you like a kind of interview, or stuff like Kampfzerstorer did and so other people?
If magazines want to review one of the cars, they can ask with ease.
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Nice little Hypercar you got there. What’s the airfield time?
My company avoids posting track times due to it’s politics (and fact it doesn’t want to get involved in stupid time wars), however saying that Centenario laps Dunsfold track in time of approx 1:10 and Green Hell in 7:14 is pretty true.
Fair enough. I’ve noticed that you have positive downforce in the front and negative in the rear. You really should try to swap those around so you have negative in the front and positive in the rear.
2016 RZ Aranaut
Airborne Motor Group was pretty successful in 2015. Names like Ray Corporation were brought back to live, Airborne Automotive met various reorganisation processes. Let’s start from 2016 news: RZ Motors is going to be revamped too and they will produce mainly city compact cars (that means ending production of Mk1 Orbit). Let me present their new car, designed in 2015…
RZ Aranaut is a car that is probably the cheapest possible entrance to Airborne Motor Group’s world. It’s basic car of RZ Croatian lineup. It has naturally aspirated Inline 4 multi point EFI 849cc engine generating almost 66 hp (YES, SATANIC POWAH). Since it’s not very expensive (not like Smart), it has pretty simple suspension with MacPherson struts and semi trailing arm to provide compactness. Body, designed by Airborne engineers is pretty similar in materials to cars of polish company lineup - monocoque chassis with aluminium body panels. It provides reduced risk of rusting and gives some opportunity to be alive after an accident. About performance… it’s one of only few cars in whole Airborne Motor Group offer to have FWD and 5-speed gearbox. It’s not very fast (not tested yet, however bet that it will go maximum 170 km/h wouldn’t be so unfair). Of course, Aranaut provides also newest safety systems and shares interior shape with Airborne Xy. Price will start from 11.410 $, depending from taxes and personal preferences.
I only just noticed that the 2017 Centenario was slated to compete with the likes of my company specifically. I am flattered. In fact, 2016 for us is a year of a different kind of envelope pushing in ways other than simply as fast as we can make it, but by 2017 we will likely be looking to put together all our accumulated experience to revive a 2014 project to make a dedicated hypercar slayer.
At this point in time Automation lacks the engine configuration I would like to put in such a car, but in due time, one shall see. What we can confidently say is that it will comfortably outpace a P1, which is only fitting so many years down the road.
[quote=“strop”]I only just noticed that the 2017 Centenario was slated to compete with the likes of my company specifically. I am flattered. In fact, 2016 for us is a year of a different kind of envelope pushing in ways other than simply as fast as we can make it, but by 2017 we will likely be looking to put together all our accumulated experience to revive a 2014 project to make a dedicated hypercar slayer.
At this point in time Automation lacks the engine configuration I would like to put in such a car, but in due time, one shall see. What we can confidently say is that it will comfortably outpace a P1, which is only fitting so many years down the road.[/quote]
By telling it’s competitive for your level of cars and setting up year for 2017 - I usually do a model year where ot is going to be introduced, you know. Something like Luxury HUDs: they’re in cars from 2015 irl, however these cars will be introduced some Time later (from few months to even Three years). And sorry if I interrupted your plans (with this “ad”) - Centenario was mde in previous year as a Concept car featuring futuristic Technology (you know what I mean when you see irl concepts, yeah?). Wasn’t afraid of that, I meant current Gryphons. 
Don’t worry, there’s no interruption of my plans whatsoever. If anything, it coincides with our plans quite nicely, though the cars do remain in a different class since I’m aiming for about 1300hp with a turbo. If anything it would have baan a good competitor for the Soltra Espation… Except Soltra was disbanded after an accident crippled their company at the end of 2015.
But it would generally be unreasonable to get annoyed with a potential competitor for interrupting one’s plans anyway 
Just saying that the Soltra Espation was quite a bit cheaper in total cost terms
Hello guys.
You may notice Airborne F15, nicknamed “Patricia” from one of twenty deadliest hurricanes that were measured by humans. The car overall is 10th out of 12 places in AP1 category overall, and was 28th in Sebring. Despite this, we’re pretty okay with result. Not happy, not sad, however it could be worse. But, finally, Patricia made a “debut” on AMWEC poster, this time of race in Fuji
By the way, you may expect that production version of Rea may base on Patricia.
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In case you missed, our Detroit entries!
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[quote=“Oskiinus”]Hello guys.
You may notice Airborne F15, nicknamed “Patricia” from one of twenty deadliest hurricanes that were measured by humans. The car overall is 10th out of 12 places in AP1 category overall, and was 28th in Sebring. Despite this, we’re pretty okay with result. Not happy, not sad, however it could be worse. But, finally, Patricia made a “debut” on AMWEC poster, this time of race in Fuji 
By the way, you may expect that production version of Rea may base on Patricia.[/quote]
Oh, that’s were the name came from 
By the way, I was close to the zone were Patricia were supposed to strike (like 2 hours or so). It was a chaos, a lot of traffic accidents from people runing from the coast to other cities, the gouverment place a lot of shelters, and all the stores, schools, gyms and pretty much everything was closed… and at the end nothing happened. Just regular rain for a day and a half. Nonetheless, the F15 is my favourite looking car in the AMWEC 
Let’s show some historical propositions from Airborne Automotive, since I had nothing to post last time…
1978-1980 Airborne Mercury Coupe/Targa
In 1974 the founder planned to make supercar that would wipe out everything, including Lamborghinis, Ferraris and even De Tomasos and other exotic speeders. The car was presented in 1976 as Hades, but in result of terrible accident which founder died in, next CEO (his son - at time of he became the CEO he was only 15 in late 1976) decided that Airborne needs to strike sports car market, but not with THAT radical car. That’s how Mercury was born. By times when it was presented in Geneva in 1978 reviewers quickly took it as response to british Lotus Esprit and the car made initially kind of success - not a failure, but not a hit. Unlike Esprit, it’s main rival it was not turbocharged until 1985 and was offered in two variants - coupe and targa (joined the offer in 1980). Both Mercurys in their NA stage were powered by 2,8 litre V6 that had power of “only” 208 hp that was transferred to rear wheels by Airborne’s classic - manual gearbox made in cooperation with Getrag, which allowed to use unique setup with “reverse 1st” gear. Combined with small curb weight (964 kg targa, 971 kg coupe) could reach impressive 0-100 result of 5.9 seconds and respectable top speed in it’s class (245 km/h coupe, 241 km/h targa). In fact, Mercury Targa made bigger success due to possibility to take off roof and make the car lighter. In 1978 Mercury Coupe was costing $24.653 and Targa in 1980 was priced at $30.443.
1975 Airborne A27
In 1973 oil crisis struck many small, but also big companies. Airborne Motor Company was assassinated due to bankrupcy in 1973, but was reborn quickly in the same year as Airborne Automotive and was only manufacturing Valletta (first post) in small amounts to 1976. But there was another project - family car focused on economy for times of crisis. Result of this plan was Airborne A27 - pretty simple name came by A from Airborne and 27 was from fact that the model was presented 27 years after founding. A27 was extremely crappy, slow, boxy (but featured some nice looks), and pretty economical and went Airborne back from the dead in first year of production - the car became a hit! However, it hurt company’s name pretty badly - Airborne fans turned out and said that the company went it’s sports factor, so founder sent desperate letter to Kraft Haus Technik for possibility to tune their car. In fact, A27 had 2 litre inline 4 producing only 60 hp. The car could reach only 157 km/h and needed 16 seconds to reach 100 km/h, which was pretty… well… explain it to yourself It had also it’s pros - it was RWD and light, so some drifts could be performed (and in late 90s A27 became one of drifters’ favourite cars). In shortcut: A27 was car only for crisis times and it did pretty well, however production of this “budget” version was cut in 1978 due to plans of introducing new, better commuter sedan which would be made better, more powerful and in total better. A27 in 1975 costed only $2.152. Also, as a funfact - two exemplars of A27 were reported to be shipped to PRL in December 1977, however what happened to them is unknown.
1966 Airborne Beta 1000
In Anno Domini 966 christians went to territory of Polans and christianized Mieszko I from Piast dynasty and his people causing the beginning of Poland. In 1966, 1000 years later Polish Church released Bible of the Millenium which was direct translation of original Bible and Airborne did anniversary thing too - Beta 1000. Because what car was better to modify into anniversary edition than Beta, Airborne’s flagship car from 1961 to 1969? Beta 1000 kept the V8 engine what started it’s lifespan in Monocoque and then went to original Beta. Compared to Beta, Beta 1000 received visible design overhauls and in fact became pretty modern design-wise. It could catapult itself to 100 km/h in 6.7 seconds and reach 232 km/h, which was pretty comparable (if it comes to acceleration) with most of muscle cars of it’s era. It wasn’t a track car - it was more like 2+2 GT. It was however very thirsty - it burned 23 litres of fuel per 100 km! The car was limited in production to 966 units (which of around 71-73 were shipped to Poland) and was available only in two colors - Championship White or Flag Red, which are colors of polish flag. In it’s times Beta 1000 costed 16.050$.
Tell me what do you think!
I enjoy watching classic cars. The mercury seems like a quite fast car for the time 
I would love to review it in my magazine viewtopic.php?f=41&t=9258I
My reaction when I saw the A27* econo-box* had MFI
[quote=“Sillyworld”]I enjoy watching classic cars. The mercury seems like a quite fast car for the time 
I would love to review it in my magazine viewtopic.php?f=41&t=9258I
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Probably will end up being dissed by being undrivable unworthy piece of shitpile but sure, go ahead on my PM or Skype (oskiinus)
By the way, I thought you don’t want any cars for the magazine because of big update
Well, as soon as the open beta is launched I will be searching for cars to review! Whenever I’m ready I’ll send you a PM.
QUOTING WITH IMAGES FROM NEW YORK AUTO SHOW THREAD. DON’T BAN ME, IT’S DIFFERENT THREAD AND I WANTED TO SHARE CARS WITHOUT WRITING EVERYTHING FROM SCRATCH
[quote=“Oskiinus”]Hello and welcome to Airborne Automotive stand. We’re Polish company that produces cars from 1948 and today we want to present to you our newest models and some historical ones to show how the company was doing at those moments.
Today we present to you new models. First one is Xy’s new generation to replace one produced from 2015. Don’t worry, all orders for previous gen will be done and the car will be in production to 2017 just to fulfill orders. New generation, however will be produced like previous one: in variants of Standard one, Sport (S), GT and GTS to take heritage and unused body panels from Xy GT Sport tuned by Battalion Tuning Team. Engines will be also new, since previous ones couldn’t pass the emissions test. New engines are 1998cc Inline 4 with turbocharging in all variants up to GT and 2200cc V6 with twin turbo in GTS. Talking about statistics would be pretty useless, since you can see them on the stand.
If we talk about pricing, we can tell that first propositions (may change later) for the prices are:
Standard: 16.120 $
S: 21.930 $
GT: 26.620 $
GTS: 32.290 $
Next car is Megi Twin Turbo. You may remember normal Megi, our newest V12 monster that reutilizes many parts from Centenario and Cerberus and has whooping score of almost 800 hp from NA engine? Well, we had also plans for other cars from Megi line. One of them is twin turbo. Practically track-limited monster with economy of steam train, 1500 hp on rear wheels and big ass spoiler? What do you need more? By the way, car is supposed to go almost 400 km/h and needs approx 2.5-2.7 seconds to 100 km/h.
Price is unknown, will probably be over million dollars per unit.
Next car on the show is our brand new model: after creations of Ray Automobiles and RZ Automotive, our sister brands, finally we could also make a city car, and when RZ focused on compactness and city usage in Aranaut, Ray focused on basic equipment and drivability on their Senpai, we, at Airborne focused on making our city car sportier. This is interior-wise and chassis-wise twin of RZ Aranaut and Ray Senpai - but different idea. This car has inline 4 with 150 (!) hp which gives it serious punch. For now it will be available in only one trim, for 13.260 $.
Now let’s focus on historical cars - this strange minivan that you see is third generation and last one of Airborne Omicron produced from 1988 to 1994. Despite strange looks and even more stranger performance for minivan in segment of Pontiac Trans Sport it sold extremely well (like Omicron Mk1), because it fitted perfectly in lifestyle of racing drivers that also just created their families. Omicron MK3 is also one of few Airbornes to ever feature hydropneumatic suspension. It’s powerplant was turbocharged 3.0 litre V6 that generated 260 hp on 5000 RPM. It’s also probably the only Airborne (in pre-2000 era) that could seat 7 passengers in standard and had sliding doors. It’s also the only model which production was moved from Los Angeles, USA plant to Warsaw, Poland plant and was second car after Synth to be produced fully in Poland (from 1989).
Funfact: it’s speedometer is scaled to 300 km/h, but don’t be hyped, it doesn’t reach those speeds 250 km/h from hill was it’s maximum.
The last car we want to present to you today is 1998 Airborne Synth GT1 Stradale. In 1994 some spy photographers discovered prototype marked as Synth RS. Of course, we’ve planned Synth RS, but in 1996 due to massive costs and possibility to convert it into GT1 racer it was scrapped. After four years development in total Synth GT1 was presented. Despite two years after Synth’s production cut (which happened in 1996) it still reutilised it’s name for reason that it used many parts from this mid-size car. Synth GT1 in it’s racing spec raced in only one race: 24h Le Mans qualifying. After this race it was classified by FIA as terrifying, impossible to beat and too insane to race and got instantly banned. Company was left with 10 unused bodies, which got converted into street versions. Even in street specs, GT1 was insanely fast machine - it could easily beat Porsche 911 GT1 Strassenversion and Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR, not speaking about Nissan R390. It featured 5,5 litre V8 flatplane which generated insane 673 hp on 5800 RPM. Combined with almost zero wheelspin, this thing was launching like from crossbow. It was also one of first Airbornes to massively use carbon fiber in it’s body and pushrod suspension. Despite it’s racing roots it was pretty useable as long-distance GT, only if you could suffer V8 sound behind your back. At it’s time Synth GT1 wasn’t cheap - it costed 500.000 $, and we also have info about whereabouts of all 10 units:
#1: stands at Airborne Automotive museum in Warsaw
#2 (this one with sprayed GT1 on it’s back): stands in CEO’s private collection
#3: belongs to Los Angeles collector
#4: totaled after accident in 2004
#5: not perfectly known, but probably one of KHT’s or BTT’s engineers owned it back in past (not sure about it, just rumors, we lost track after this car in 2008)
#6 to #8 (not painted ones): belong in order to Jay Leno, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sabine Schmitz
#9 (only green one with stripes): belongs to Jeremy Clarkson
#10: totaled after accident on the track in Abu Dhabi
#11 (race spec): stands at Airborne museum’s secret sections; not presented to public
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News from Airborne Automotive’s Facebook page:
"Hello people, you may noticed that we temporarily stopped production of practically of our models, leaving only Haiyan and Lambda - those models that were best selling from our company. Aside from this, we plan to release following models and simplify lineup in order after GAR project:
1. Unnamed city car (probably Mimas) - Basic, Eco and Sport variant
2. Next production Xy after Mk3 Concept - in basic variants like Normal (new name for Standard), Eco, S and GT and non-mass variants based on co-op with our Singaporean friends, those are GTS, GTS Evolution, GTS Evolution S and GTR
3. Next gen Alpha heavily based on Mk2 RS concept released back this year; will feature Standard, Premium (new name for Luxury variant), S and RS variants; wagon version will be called Gamma (US, Australia and Japan, all of the Europe except Italy) and Alpha Estate (Italy-only name) it will also receive at least one sporty version
4. Omega will be cancelled and transformed into Lambda; this time Lambda will be offered in both sedan and wagon
5. Cherry will be offered in both roadster and coupe
6. Rea gets sadly cancelled, but revamped Haiyan will fit the slot perfectly - we also plan to make sort of concept that would show one japanese corporation how they should make their cars - also speaking about Haiyan, it will be more oriented also to track than raw power and wild drifts, you know, hence it’s a track car
7. We’ll add V8 mid engined beauty to compete for example with Lamborghini Huracan and Ferrari 488 to the offer
8. Megi at current form will be cut - it was too expensive to let it go into production even in limited series, so we’ll develop production version with similar performance (or even better), but lower costs
9. Centenario will be offered in 1917 units as scheduled with no changes, same goes to Knossos production plan.
And yes, unlike Saminda we actually have money, people and reliable cars and tech to base on them when making massive changes. All models are scheduled to be launched to July 2017, starting from now.
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Guess who’s back?
2017 Airborne Cherry
Well, new-gen Cherry is finally done! Favourite spartan roadster of our customers since 1961 got it’s new generation. Today it’s one of it’s kind - says “no” for downsizing and turbocharging by having naturally aspirated 1.9 litre inline 4 under the hood. Also, as for true Airborne stands, it has rear-wheel-drive, sporty feel, great manual gearbox (our speciality), of course steel monocoque body and special body colours! Can be yours for 17.310 USD (without taxes, import fee and stuff).
Racing brrakes are available for 1.000 USD, they short braking distance to 32 metres. 
2016 Airborne S310 production ver
Well, you may remember our pre-production S310 by utopian201’s test. He criticized along with some other people that the car handles pretty bad and has sh**ty brakes. Well, we corrected this. We also changed looks, you know, for better marketing. Engine has been revamped too - gets better fuel mileage and more power (pre-production had 280 hp, current model has 306). Also it’s a bit faster - now 5.5 seconds to 100 km/h and 268 km/h top speed. Available with 29.960 $ price tag.
Also, Cherry and S310 are first cars in company to use our special water-cooled brakes tech; when brakes are extremely hot, it uses water (normal H2O, you know) to cool them down.
CZ7 Concept is already on ship going to Saminda’s HQ in Japan, Xy and Mimas need final adjustments and some idiot crashed both Alpha Standard and Comfort variant, leaving RS only in tact.
Tell me what do you think, and would you see more cars from revamped company?
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