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[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