Cerberus and Lambda is my favorites.
What is the engine in Lambda.V8 3.2 TT ?Please upload engineâs dyno if it is possible.I think the engine is just a little too hungry .
[quote=âonix953â]Cerberus and Lambda is my favorites.
What is the engine in Lambda.V8 3.2 TT ?Please upload engineâs dyno if it is possible.I think the engine is just a little too hungry .[/quote]
The engine is the same as in Chimera, but detuned. You know, I guess that 710 hp, even in high performance luxury flagship wagon is bit too much.
[size=50]However I plan something to detronize Charger Hellcat huehue[/size]
The Lambda looks awesome. Iâm honestly not the best stylist in the world, but Iâll take a shot at making one, too. Iâll keep you posted.
Like the Lambda. Iâd prefer the reverse and turn signals to be switched by that doesnât matter. Over all, great car.
The Lambda is pretty cool, I like the front end.
Is that 17 Liters per 100km? If so thatâs very thirsty for a modern car! Can we have a look at the engine dyno graph?
Thank you Felgen for this beautiful body!
1965 Airborne Omicron
Well, despite the sporty aspirations and not-less sporty name, Airborne cars werenât always that sporty. For example, the Omicron.
In 1965 actual CEO (and founder, died in 1976) was surprised with success of Volkswagen Transporter T2 and released the Omicron in 1965. However, this small bus wasnât planned to be a response to T2, but came to fact that the factory needed small reliable bus-thingy to deliver workers to it. When the first bus was taking people at 30th December of 1964, some people at the factory even asked how much CEO wants for this bus. He said that this one (weâre presenting it also, itâs just production Omicron with number 00001 taped on itâs chassis) is not for sale. But according to peopleâs applause, he presented the car at 1965 New York Show and told interested people that it will cost only 1970 $. This car became one of most successful Airborne cars and even survived huge crisis in 1973 and was produced in total from 1965 to 1983! There are 102,336 units sold across the world, but the most of them stayed in the US or got to Poland.
The engine is two-carburetor Inline 4 producing 82 PS, this power let this car reach 138 km/h, which is quite good score. The bus isnât also very luxury; it was just created to transport people. It features standard âfun equipmentâ (not an innuendo ) and 6 seats that could be covered with everything, even fur. The seats in this model were covered with alcantara, just for comfort. The bus is also FWD and weighs only 1108 kilos! The bad side of this car were poor color options, there were only colors that were just⌠making puke these days (except this blue ^^) and the thirsty car overall due to sh**ty aerodynamics, it consumed 14 litres of fuel per 100 km.
Tell me your opinions
By the way, something funny: exemplar with serial number 00069 was ordered in custom sparkling pink color and the first owner was a guy that was gay-oriented and he even proposed a date to CEO, for what he got kicked out of the factory.
Nice van, needs more orange!
IMO you might want to look at your gearing so you can save some fuel and also look at the fuel/air ratio as well; my game defaults to 13.5 which is not so bad for EFI but for carbs⌠thatâs guzzler territory!
2015 Airborne Xy
First Xy was made 35 years ago. The model began instant hit and was offered in three variants. Itâs production stopped in 1991, when the USSR got destroyed and split into Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and other countries, you know.
Today, when designing new hatchback for our lineup, we asked our customers what would they want to see: They said: a car like my Xy was some years ago. So we heard them and today weâre preseting second-gen Airborne Xy!
This carâs design is followed by Lambdaâs great opinions about design, but we made it look quite more aggressive. The fog lights are in this strange place just to fit into safety regulations. Standard variant is powered by 146 PS 4-cyl turbocharged engine (just like other variants) and has quite nice fuel mileage. It has standard seats and âfun equipmentâ (again, itâs not F***ING INNUENDO). The only problem was too long chassis, but our engineers created a thing that can be nice: bike holder, which is unusual for our company. The same thing is made in Xy Sport and GT. Also weâre happy to mention that all variants have 6-gear gearbox and rear wheel drive installed.
Standard Xy reaches 195 km/h and reaches 100 km/h in time of 7.3 seconds.
Xy Sport is slightly powered, still turbocharged Xy Standard with bigger wheels and silver as basic paint. Itâs engine is boosted to reach 199 PS. Itâs slightly heavier, but itâs just because of another size of turbo. Itâs faster than a ânormalâ Xy, but it still reaches respectable numbers for family hatchback: 222 km/h of vmax and 6.2 seconds to 100 km/h.
Xy GT is, for now, most hardcore variant of Xy and is directed to compete with cars such as Volkswagen Golf R, Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG or Audi RS3. It has 280 PS and can run over 250 km/h! Itâs top speed is 254 km/h and GT needs only 5.7 seconds to reach 100 km/h from a standstill.
By the way: If you will spot camouflaged Xy, just ignore it. Itâs a surprise
But not from surprises; we plan also Superlight variant, which will be scrapped from everything and everything will be lighter.
Planned prices
Xy Standard - 17.210 $
Xy Sport - 23.100 $
Xy GT - 28.465 $
As always tell me your opinions!
Kampf: Ah, better send an email first before we make a trip to Poland. Hope the prototypes are nearing arrival there. If only the Concorde is still in serviceâŚ
Greetings, Oskiinus, CEO of Airborne Automotive,
As per contract agreement, we have completed 4 different prototypes of the hotter variants of the 2nd generation xY hatchback; the Spec-S, Spec-R1, Spec-R2, and the GT Sport.
I hope you are still all right about the Spec-S being built on our side, due to the trade secret technique used on developing our own All Wheel Drive system. Nevertheless, the Spec-S will still be under your brand.
Please do look on the bright side; it will be Airborneâs debut into the Singaporean market. 40% of the sales on the xY Spec-S will still be sent to you, if it is feasible. As of now, the Spec-R1, Spec-R2, and GT Sport prototypes
should have arrived Poland, and half of our team would be there soon, driving the cars to your company showroom. Fret not, we will hand over the documents, blueprints, and tuning specifications to you. It has been
a great pleasure to collaborate with the Airborne Automotive.
This is Kampf, founder and team leader of the Battalion Tuning Team, and Iâll see you on the speedway!
Warmest Regards,
Muhammad Amir a.k.a. Kampfzerstorer
Kampf: All right. Erika, Lean, Raquel, ready to go to Poland?
2015 Airborne Xy GT Sport (BTT tune)
Well, you probably heard that we are co-operating with another company. And seen camouflaged Xy. Well, itâs time to reveal the surprise!
We co-oped with Singaporean Battalion Tuning Team with proposition of tuning up our Xy, you know, for those for the GT is not enough. All we can say, that it is pretty much like lighter Xy GT; the same amount of power (280 PS; 276 hp), however from different placement. In our âstandardâ GT the engine is turbocharged 1800cc Inline 4, here you can spot turbocharged 1500cc crossplane V8, which sounds better
The acceleration time is also better, the car needs only 4.4 seconds for 100 km/h speed. Top speed is also slightly better, resulting in 260 km/h. The car weighs 1156 kilos, and itâs in prototype state for now. Price is not planned, however we plan small run, just like other prototypes (Spec-S2 and Spec-R) which are being polished and look just the same as those from BTTâs photos. [size=50]WE WANT TO POLISH AND DISCOVER THEM MKAY?!?!!?!?!?[/size]
The model has been redesigned from base Xy, resulting in different front, tail lights, door handles⌠I guess everything except the carâs shape was changed
Other prototypes are coming; I hope that Kampf will post also relation from his companyâs trip to PolandâŚ
CEO
Sorry for this delay with showing cars, but we had issues with police about fact that Xys went to noise control. Of course they almost not passed them and the cars stayed for some weeks.
Anyway, itâs time to present them!
Airborne Xy Spec-S2 (BTT Tune)
Well. If Xy GT Sport isnât enough for you, what about something more powerful, but sadly not street legal in Poland? If you decide to take this car to track, have in mind that you can kill yourself. But you canât, because for now itâs a prototype, hehe. Itâs powered by 605 PS V8 crossplane that transfers the power to all wheels through 6-speed gearbox. The car can reach pretty impressive rpms (even 9000!). We at Airborne Automotive donât know how, but this car is in practice faster than a Haiyan with reaching almost 310 km/h and having 3.2 seconds 0-100 time. The looks improved to meet the more of racecar face of this car. But it barely tries to tell us that itâs still road car⌠Not like his more powerful brother.
Airborne Xy Spec-R (BTT Tune)
This is probably the most extreme car badged with our logo. Cerberus compared to this is small happy cute baby. This yellow motherf***er (no offense) has almost 800 HP and weighs only 919 kilos! The looks are completely extreme and the car didnât even passed the track restrictions about CO2 emission, so if we will take it at the meetings, it will be probably only static decoration
Anyway, we had opportunity to drive the car without police asspain; it reached 365 km/h (!) on the Krakow airport and it had 2.5 seconds 0-100 time. Plus we canât drive it very much, because turbo overheats pretty quick. Anyway, itâs final evolution what our friends out of Battalion Tuning Team could get from our hatchback. In being thankful, me, as a CEO known as Oskiinus, I say:
If you want to go back to Poland for a trip or just to meet the country even in brand tasks, donât forget to visit your friend my friends
Plus I forgot to mention that we are working currently on Feather (not) project.
Hello!
Sorry that I didnât posted any information about our company here, but we had much work with developing some of our cars. We also have some great, but some bad news. But, we want to present you something that we found in our museum.
1961 Airborne Cherry
The Cherry was a car that defined the lightweight roadster definition and was made after Austin Sprite and Lotus Seven success. In our company we always tried to get to everyone and we want still to be the all-ways company with producing cars with sports claws.
Anyway, the car was pretty unique. It weighted 609 kilos and was very safe for itâs period at the same time. It was powered by small Inline 4 engine producing 76 PS. The power was transferred through the, unusual for us, 3-speed manual gearbox to rear wheels. Unlike Seven, the Cherry was pretty comfortable. And I must say, we call the museum one âYaymobileâ, because of pretty happy looks. It resembled Austin Sprite pretty much, but we didnât had problems with it. The Cherry was offered to 1965 in some colors: Red, Purple (like you see), Yellow, Airborne White and Black.
BTW. Donât care that the car in some shots weights 612 kilos; we just need to replace our calculating machines because theyâre doing mistakes. On machines (which are 100% correct) of RZ Motors, our sub-company (these guys created Orbit for example back in '09) it showed 609 kilos.
Names
We also have second problem; one maniac paparazzi broke in the night to the company, stole the planned model tree and published the info to the internet. The names are: Streetlight, Hellhound, Digamma, Gamma, S310, Beta 2K15 and Chimera Speed 12. This guyâs already imprisoned, but, we canât lie to you. We plan some new cars to fit up our offer. The paparazzi discovered also hidden Chimera S12 prototype and we still want to give these photo from him. Maybe we can publish it sometime.
Second by the way: Want to see the car that started our company in 1947? (itself Airborne Automotive was registered and confirmed in 1948, but the company existed from 1947).
About Cherry and this problem, tell me what do you think!
HEEEEEEEEEELLLOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW!!!
Today, we want to show you another exemplars from our museum, but one car is unique: itâs from the brand that we currently own.
2001 Ray Corp Shibasaki
Letâs start from the beginning: Ray Corporation was born in 1998 in Japan. It was created by a young Japanese who got rid of Nissan Skyline, Mitsubishi 3000GT and other japan supercars, like the Honda NSX. From 1999 he worked on his supercar, the Shibasaki. The car itself was presented in 2000 at the Tokyo Motor Show and gained some positive opinions and reviews, so the founder let the car be in production. However the sales werenât going as expected and Shibasaki caused bankrupt of the company in march 2003. In the same year the founder did a Sepuku and the company members got divorced into other makes (Mercedes, BMW, Nissan, Audi, even some are on Airborne). The car for few months of 2003, to the March, Shibasaki was also offered in Britain with engine that wasnât limited by law restrictions, which resulted also in better performance. The british cars were also exported to Australia, but so far we know about 1392 cars made worldwide. They are:
- 1102 japanese ones
- 288 british ones
- 2 australian ones
Anyway. The car in japanese spec stays in our Airborne museum. It has 280 PS engine which lets the car to reach almost 250 km/h, which got limited to 180 km/h due to Japanese law (just like the power to 280 PS). The car reaches first 100 in time of 6.3 seconds, so slower than his competitors. But it has one advantage. Low weight makes the car more sensible in turns. The power is delivered through 6 speed automatic gearbox to all wheels in axle power proportions 50F/50T. The Shibasaki in Japan costed 3.462.720 JPY in 2001 and 29.175 $, when converted to dollars.
The British one was different. It had the redline further placed compared to Japan Shibasaki (from 6000 to 7000). That let the power, with better compression and some secret tweaks, to rise to 334 PS. British Shibasaki was, thankfully to that, slightly heavier than his asian brother, it weighted 1332 kilos. The performance was MUCH better than the Japan original! British one reached 258 km/h and launched to 100 in only 4.9 seconds time! Due to the performance, some british Rays were imported back to Japan and went to be popular in the street racing culture, where itâs used till today. It had also better fuel mileage than Japanese Shibasaki, but costed slightly more. It costed 30.550 $ and 18.610 pounds in England. The australian Shibasakis were probably featured with a 400 hp V8. We say probably, because they got destroyed, as we know.
Added Shibasaki photos.
Hello people! I have MANY cars to submit to you for spotting, almost all of them are historical ones, but one is completely new and will have itâs premiere at nearest Motor Shows
1990 Airborne Arthemis
Nuff said. Airborne Automotive in 1990 was invited to parcitipate in the Out of Africa challenge. The rules were very restricted (for the company that was specialized in mid-expensive builds). Anyway, the company made the Arthemis; biggest entry with almost TWO THOUSAND litre trunk, 4 seats, low kerb weight and made it as a pretty good off-roader. Sadly enough, it had the same issue as almost all Airbornes of these times; a bad handling. This was however pretty comfortable for a true man that needs this car for work or to train his body, hehe. It was powered, which was unlikely for Airborne in 1990, by SOHC Inline 4 engine with single carburetor making 125 PS. The redline was placed at 5100 RPM. The car was pretty reliable, despite fact that it was made to be as cheapest as possible. Arthemis was produced to 2006 and was sold only in Africa. It was unavailable to sell at authorised african Airborne shop (we donât have one till now ;( ) and it was imported from Poland.
Despite some difficulties, the Arthemis was sold in amount of 33 thousand units. Itâs price was pretty acceptable for such a big vehicle - 4.860 $ in 1990. The car didnât made a big success in OAC challenge - it was 18th, and to being ironic, guy at 17th was a CEO of PolMot company with a Gobi car, that was much smaller and nimbler and it came from Poland. However today we can be proud from this what Arthemis made.
2016 Airborne S310
Yeah. The S series cars. If youâre old enough, you may remember cars such as S200, S220, S240 and S290. They were all from our company. Now the successor of them is coming!
The S310 continues the tradition of S-named Airborne cars and is made to battle with huge variety of cars; Subaru BRZ, Toyota GT86, V6 Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang (V6 and I4 ecoboost) with combination of classical red paint from S200, modern design inspired by other cars of our company, such as Alpha or very successful Lambda, which is selling as fast as fresh bread, but anyway, letâs get back to S310. Itâs engine (naturally aspirated 3,1 litre V6) generates 282 PS, which is VERY GOOD result for a entry-level sports coupe (however we plan something more entry-level for Ray Corporation, which just got reborn and itâs ours, maybe something based on Orbit for RZ Motors?). Itâs performance we need to keep in secret for now, but we can tell that the car can probably reach 280 km/h and it probably needs 5 seconds to 100 km/h. If you want one - youâll have to wait for it and it will be sold at price of 42.640 $. At this price youâre getting pretty cool looking vehicle with mid-level luxury equipment, good performance and pretty looks.
More cars coming tomorrow! Donât forget also to tell your opinions about these two!
Hello! Hereâs the CEO of Airborne Motor Group, Oskiinus!
Today, as I said, I wanted to show two historical cars that werenât very successful, but they both opened a new era in Airborne Automotive.
1947 Airborne Type 1
In 1938, Haight Motor Works got opened. It was created by Richard Haight (1899-1976). By World War II HMW was selling luxury cars for richest people or for war veterans in US. In late 1945 Haight met my great-grandfather, but sadly, due to my family contributions, I canât tell his name ;(
Anyway, letâs go back to the topic: My family comes from Poland and my grandpa opened his workshop in march 1946 and it was called White Eagle Garage. Then in 1947 he went to sort-of race, as a competitor with 1940 Chevy tuned by him. In half of the car, at the speed of unreachable 140 km/h in these times, he jumped from the ramp. After very loud âWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!â, which was heard even on visitorsâ chairs. Then, after coming in 6th place, he said to Haight:
"Richard, you probably saw how I went airborne. I telled you about my own car company plans, yes? And I have the name for it. Airborne. Airborne Motor Company. I hope you can help me in this new adventure.
Of course, R. Haight agreed and he became the Co-CEO of the company, that went on business fully in 1948. But, the first car was built in late 1947 in recordish 26 days. Airborne Type 1. It was planned as bit of luxury to people that canât afford the luxury car. For only one prototype car first CEO of AMC (no, thatâs just shortened Airborne Motor Company, not American Motor Company) used body shape of unused Haightâs design, which was planned as a family car to compete with⌠Citroen 2CV
Anyway, the car was built and presented in 1948. Americans mostly didnât liked it, due to weak inline 4 engine (in their minds; in real the power was enough) and too less chrome. However, the car was built in the short run from unused shells of Haight. 24 cars were built, and all came in âMatte Grayâ color. By the way, the paint was bought almost for free from Germans after WW2. The paint was planned to be splashed on nazi planes, to be serious.
In total, Type 1 wasnât very successful, but it started the whole company. And in 1950 my great-granddad made very successful small family car. It was powered by 3-gear manual gearbox and it transferred the power to rear wheels. The powerplant was inline 4 engine producing 122 PS, and, to be funniest, itâs redline was placed at 3300 RPM. In 1947 it could be probably placed higher, but in times of post-war business black hole the reliability was more important. In the car you could seat in one of five premium seats and you could listen to awesome (in itâs times) AM radio. The car in itâs times costed only 1.806 $.
Tell me what do you think about this first car of the company
2015 Airborne Haiyan SuperSport
You probably know our Haiyan, one of best-selling Airborne cars along the Xy and Lambda. Itâs the special one-off version with power pushed up to 556 PS. Yeah, 556 PS FROM THE 2,3 LITRE TWIN TURBO V8. The power boost to wildest numbers didnât affect performance, and it made the car much faster. It got also scrapped from all the equipment, leaving only gear stick, steering wheel, basic cockpit shape and two racing seats. It got slightly heavier (by 7 kilos, 890 kilos). Acceleration time is 3.2 seconds, and the top speed established at 355 km/h. Some days ago we sold the only Haiyan SS to guy who ordered it for 600.000 $ with special âDevilâ paint color. Tell me what do you think!
Well, now letâs show one of crappiest Airborne Automotive models ever built.
1984 Airborne Morrowind Group Automation Prototype
The year was 1984. CEO of Airborne, my grandpa, wanted to compete in Group Automation championship. Morrowind project has began and it got finished 20 days later. In another 4 months the first and only prototype was built. The finished car wasnât looking and made like the project requested. It had intercooler fault, which had to be built outside of the body and some suspension issues the project was finally cancelled. It was powered by inline engine producing 153 PS plus the car weighted 1126 kilos. It was pretty light. However, the only prototype got hidden in museumâs magazine, which canât be accessed, so we canât tell anything much. By the way, I guess, if Morrowind would be produced today, It could be more powerful sport Orbit.
Tell me what do you think about them all.
The Haiyan SuperSport is pretty darn impressive, espically considering it has a 2.3 Liter engine.
Such as light car must be great on a track, whatâs it time on the airplane track?
Hmmmm⌠We have sad news at the company.
Our headquarters are close to the forest. And in the forest wildfire started. HQ burned with all projects, and everything. We hope we can recover something.
Sadly enough, all current models burned too, along with historical ones. We hope that we can recover something.
But, maybe it has to be like that?
Anyway, we still have frames etc. for new cars - they just need to be redesigned.
Sincerely,
Oskiinus.
Some hours later
Okay. We have good news. Almost all models were saved from this wildfire and moved to Seville dealership hideout, which got opened, if someone needs desperately to watch the new cars.
The only car that didnât survive fully was the Cerberus - We needed to detach carbon fiber body that burned out, but everything is safe.
The sad news is fact, that weâre at the balance of bankrupt and need to cease some models - so say goodbye to Orbit (it wasnât selling good now). Itâs now produced by RZ Motors, our sub-company. We also will stop the sales of Chimera (temporarily), and maybe facelift it.
We hope for some help from the bank and eventually some friends.
By the way: We constructed our first V6 engine in 30 years and weâre very proud of it. It will make appearance in some new trims of existing models, and one totally new model:
They are:
- Xy Speed 6
- Alpha Speed 6
And this new model is unnamed (for now) car that will be in fact smaller and more affordable version of Haiyan. I guess that it will have 300 hp and would compete with Alfa Romeo 4C and even weaker Caterhams.
Tell me what do you think about the ideas
Oskiinus
CEO of Airborne Motor Group