Airborne Motor Group (Kee) (Ultimately closed and outdated)

Hello again folks. We finally created our small muscle car for today! :slight_smile:

2015 Airborne Phobos Six/Eight
Phobos is the name of Mars’ natural satellite. There was also a car called Phobos VT in GTA Liberty City Stories. But today we talk about Airborne Phobos.
The Phobos is an small muscle car pointed to those who like top speed. The car itself, in design and performance was inspired by 1970 Beta Supercoupe and some other cars, including Airborne S200 and newest Ford Mustang and even on some point AMW Vulture. [size=50]No, I bought the Vulture after the Phobos design was finished, don’t worry TheTom.[/size]

The car will appear in three variants: Six, Eight and Speed 8.

Six variant is powered by 300 PS V6 engine from Xy Speed 6 which was tweaked to give enough performance and fuel economy in the car such like this. Power from this V6 is powered through the Manual 6 speed gearbox to rear wheels - typical, eh? Despite having V6 engine the car can keep up easily with even weaker variant of muscle car from our Singaporean friends - We recorded 5.7 seconds to 100 km/h with clock (may change) and on Kraków’s airport starting line the car reached 270 km/h. It can probably reach more, but we don’t want to make cannibalism into our company. We want the Eight to sell the best :smiley:

The Airborne Phobos Six will cost 43.780 $.

In question of looks - Six and Eight variants are the same except for Eight wheels inspired by Supercoupe’s wheels, to be honest. Anyway - the Eight variant (misspelled Speed 8 on the picture - naming got wrong) has 543 PS engine (the power may be decreased due to narrowish character of the car, we plan decrease to 510 HP). This prototype Eight, misspelled Speed 8, because of fail and to avoid paparazzis ran 310 km/h on the Nurburgring and reached 4.9 seconds time to 100 km/h! :slight_smile:
The engine is completely new thing - crossplane V8 with loads of power that gets transferred by Manual 7 gears to rear wheels. Price of this car is rated at somewhere near 60.000 $.

Sorry, but photos will come later. Our photographer forgot to send them to us ;_;

Hello and welcome again to Airborne Automotive. We have some important things for you:

  1. I’m rewriting official model offer for whole Airborne Motor Group, because model offer cannibalism happened in the group. Anyway, from today there are five companies of Airborne Motor Group which offer next cars:
    RZ Motors - Currently CEO of this Croatian company considered with me that they will produce only Orbit sedan for now until introduce of new car in 2016 or 2017. He also mentioned that he plans to produce a city car to compete with constructions like Opel Karl or Skoda Citigo and small soft-top roadster, since Croatia is hot country and people need open-top cars.

Airborne Automotive - I can tell that almost all cars with get a general facelift. Models that will be still in offer will be Alpha, Lambda, Haiyan, Xy and S310. There is also production Cerberus ready and facelifted Chimera with more character of long-riding GT. We must also redesign the Phobos, because finished car with all engines looks, drives and sounds like crap. Sorry for no photos, plus this description is non-actual :frowning:
At main company of this group I plan also introducement of Gamma and Omega, which will be in order just wagon version of Alpha (the Gamma) and sedan version of Lambda (the Omega). Haiyan, Xy and S310 will be unchanged from looks at least (Haiyan is now more controllable hehe) :slight_smile: There will be also a car that will refer to Group B in some way and first modern Airborne in category that it created - All-Terrain Supercar. It’s name is Marrakech.
BTW. Guess how much power is production Cerberus making :wink:.
BTW2. Projects: Feather and Omicron and unnamed crossover are cancelled - they’re planned for another company.

Ray Corporation - Small company found in Japan in late '90s, made only the Shibasaki now wants to come back with new-gen Shibasaki which will compete with Nissan GT-R or Acura NSX. We don’t have very much info about it.

Haight Motor Works - Original company under this name was found in 1972 after Richard Haight’s quitting from Airborne Automotive. The company was building luxury, but powerful cruisers but got defunct in 1987 with death of mr. Haight. In 2004 it’s name was bought by Haight’s great-granddaughter, Kate Haight-Melewski. Unlike first CEO and Haight, Kate, when he met me in 2011 as new CEO of the Airborne Automotive said all lies of her great-grandpa and found me as a pretty nice person. In 2013 she introduced concept car simply named Roadboat. It’s 2015 and production model is almost ready + it will have similar bodyshell to Airborne Phobos to reduce costs. So, I’ll just quote Kate:
Prepare for comeback to 80’s people!.

Strokkur Automotive Limited - New company found in 2015. It will just produce typically offroad and utility cars. Yeah, we’re moving the Feather and Omicron to this company. We don’t want to tell anything more since this company is a secret for now.

Hey fellas! Who missed Airborne Automotive?
Today we want to present two models that got revised mechanically-wise and next-gen Chimera and one wild motherfucker. So, take a popcorn and enjoy our presentation!

2016 Airborne Lambda
Well… I won’t tell anything about the looks. Nothing changed. Really. TRUST ME. But in case of performance and weight pretty everything changed. Now the car’s chassis is made out of carbon fiber, same with body and the car is anyway safer, lighter and more powerful. It’s also more expensive to produce, but we changed the price tag to be more acceptable, despite fact it’s more expensive. Car went anyway faster, lighter, more safe, more reliable - JUST BETTER.
Retail price: 261.070 $






2016 Airborne Haiyan
Like Lambda, here the looks are the same. Weight increased by ten kilos to 902 kg and we decreased the power to 443 PS (which is still impressive for 2299cc twin turbo V8) but the car is faster. Now it gets the first 100 on the speedometer in time of 3.2 seconds and it can reach 325 km/h. Fuel mileage is also surprisingly good for this kind of the supercar. We’ve put also bigger rims to fit the car’s looks.
Retail price: 190.100 $





By the way, inform me if I got better 80-120 km/h time than any of Gryphon Gear’s cars :slight_smile:

2016 Airborne Chimera II
Well… It was supposed to be a facelift but in total we made completely new cars. New Chimera has more luxury and GT face with acceptable performance. Now the car has “only” 500 PS but it’s more comfortable and drivable. We installed eight gear sequential gearbox and mated it with All-Wheel-Drive system. The car now reaches 319 km/h and needs 4.1 seconds to reach 100 km/h. It also has better gas mileage.
Retail price: 241.560 $






Rest of cars coming soon.

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1991 Airborne S240
In 1976 Airborne Automotive introduced one budget sports car named S200. It became instant success when it was suceeding the Valetta and was produced to late 1982 making profit of one of most successful cars we were ever producing. In 1984 it’s successor, S220 was launched. It was planned to be more successful and functional than S200, but S220 was selling much worse than it’s precedessor which resulted in people’s disappoinment. In late 1986, to save honor of the company in this area, project Next-S started. It was finished in late 1989 with name of S-Concept. In 1990 it was presented to public with the name of S240. New car was made as an convertible with modern, but still nice body shape with power of typical sports cars of it’s era. S240 was that successful that it lasted in production to 2000 until it was ceased because of “Project Millenium”.

The car itself was made practically out of materials used for S220 with example of body type: S240 used Aluminium, when S220 used fiber glass. Performance-wise, S240 had 243 PS pumping out of 2,4 litre turbocharged inline 6 engine with intake. That power was transferred through the 5-speed manual gearbox to rear wheels, which was innovation in the S cars line and RWD is still in use, even in S310. Back to the topic, with weight of just 1156 kilos S240 was reaching speed of 243 km/h and could reach first 100 km/h in time of 8.2 seconds.
The car had two seats: One for driver, one for passenger. To not make the things sh*tty, car was equipped with sport, but yet comfortable seats, featured Driving Assist and ABS plus basic entertainment systems.
Car in 1991 was available with price of just $15.190.

Funfact: From 1994, when Jeffur presented it’s Blast Convertible car reviewers compared Airborne S240 to it despite bigger power output and more sporty character.





2016 Airborne Cerberus
Forget about the past. Forget about now. Forget about the future… Unless you’re driving new Airborne Cerberus.]

Yep, this is production version of Cerberus concept car from 2014. This model is more powerful, faster, in other ways - better. Concept one had 967 PS? Production one has 1079. We’re proud of this car. It can reach 423 km/h, launch to 100 km/h in time of 2.8 seconds plus it’s 80-120 km/h time is the same as Znopresk Zeus GG Tune one! :sunglasses:
This model continues the legacy of Airborne most powerful supercars, even hypercars like this model… I don’t know what to add here, sorry, it’s just perfect hypercar that we needed from 1976 and terrifying Hades project car crash :slight_smile:

We will produce only 118 units, each one will cost 862.200 $.






As always, tell me what do you think.

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Liking the new Cerberus though! Especially the rear end and i love how you mentioned my Blast Convertible in the S240 part although it’s a fun-to-drive convertible car though.

Hello and welcome to Airborne Automotive, where I’m presenting cars of the company (sometimes other companies, but still affliated with Airborne).

Let’s start from blast, ladies and gentleman, Airborne Rea! (I’ll put text and link to photos for easier life and not 30 min page loading)

2016 Airborne Rea
What can I tell now. We presented this car few days ago in Frankfurt on IAA. Read my relation from presenting the car.

Rea was covered, cover got out and the car was shown. People are clapping, then clapping stays.
Welcome ladies and gentleman. As you may know, I’m Oskar and I’m current CEO of Airborne Automotive, one polish-american crosscountry premium company. Do you remember year 2011 when my Airborne R400 drawing leaked into the internet? Well. This was the first iteration of current Rea. It was also at some point one of first iterations of Haiyan. But as you may notice, Rea is like smaller sister to Haiyan: has less power, it is less hardcore and in general still fun to drive, plus it uses the same engine layout, but with another engine. The engine that powers the Rea is made specially for this car, but we won’t hide fact that first running prototypes of the car that you see used units from Xy GT. This engine may be weaker, but it’s more opted on track and everyday use, plus it’s lighter despite fact that this is inline six. In interior we used eco-leather and generic type of wood. Thanks fuckers from Greenpeace.
But back to the topic, Rea also comes with U-shaped glass panel on the engine cover so you can see how this bad boy vibrates if it is interesting to you. If you ask about the competitors, I would say: Porsche Cayman, Alfa Romeo 4C, eventually V6 Ferrari when it will come out, we’ll see. The price will stay at price of approximately Alfa 4C’s, but hey, you are getting more luxury stuff plus almost permanent service and eventually my lessons when it comes to track use. laugh. Okay, at the end, I want only to tell you people to also watch our other cars: Ganimedes, Deimos, Synths and S270. We didn’t brought them with no purpose.
Oh, and I would forgot: greetings to Jeffur Automobiles CEO and my dear Singaporean friend Muhammad.

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1989 Airborne Synth
Synth. Well, we named it back in the years due to popularity of electronic music. Synth was presented at Geneva in 1988 and went production in 1989 as a replacement of Sentinel that was produced from 1971 and even had two generations! Synth in general was a car that was presented as four-door sedan. Two-door coupe and wagon joined the offer in 1990 and Clubman variant joined in 1991. All of these cars lasted to 1996 and presentation of new model. Funfact: Alpha is one of successors of the Synth. But back to the topic. Wagon, coupe and sedan were powered by the same engine: 220 HP unit which was placed transversely and connected to front wheels. Clubman was enhanced with some point of bodykit, bigger grilles, exclusive rims and 236 HP engine. It was also rear-wheel-drive unlike it’s cheaper twins. Prices stayed like this:
Sedan - 12.230 $
Wagon - 13.170 $
Coupe - 12.890 $
Clubman -15.780 $

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1993 Airborne Ganimedes
Well, you would remember the Xy. Produced from 1980 to 1991. After break of CCCP and Xy’s production finish we’ve planned something new. We tried to create still sportish, but family car. In 1992 previous CEO confirmed the Ganimedes project. It was planned to be developed in three versions: E (comes from Eco), S (comes from Sport), RS (comes from Rallye Sport). Thankfully to money crisis after 1991 and the Evoluzione project which ate half of the company budget Ganimedes was never finished fully - only Eco prototype was made. Despite fact that it’s prototype it’s fully drivable. Powered by 89 PS 2-litre 4-cylinder engine it could reach 177 km/h and needed almost 11 seconds to reach 100 km/h. Ganimedes was quite light and even considered to be in production in changed form, but this plan wasn’t realized until 1997 and the next model. If you want, you can/could see this car on the Frankfurt IAA. Ganimedes Sport and RS are, sadly, only on sketches.
Funfact: CEO said that if Ganimedes would be produced from 1994, it would cost 7.650 $.

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2003 Airborne S270
As you may know, Jeffur Scout Coupe was produced between 2001 and 2002 and thankfully to extremely high price it led to Jeffur Automobiles US’s bankrupcy. In January 2003 (2.01.2003 if it matters) Airborne Motor Group bought 60% of Jeffur US actions. Plus it split perfectly in time, when Airborne S240 went out of the production in mid 2002 and needed a successor. Airborne Automotive took some Jeffur’s engineers responsible for the Scout Coupe, brought some engineers from S240 and VOILA! We have the all-new S270. In shape it was all-new, but still it reminded of Airborne S200 which began this line of [size=50]fucking awesome nigga supahcars[/size] Airborne’s sports cars on mid level. S270 was powered by 2701cc twin turbo V6 generating 280 PS, and with combination of mediocre weight plus genuine aerodynamics setup S270 could reach 245 km/h and needed only 6.7 seconds to reach 100 km/h. Sadly enough, acceleration was enough to compete with it’s main rival, Ray Shibasaki in japanese spec but was left out by british one. Power was transferred to rear wheels. In interior you could find leather or alcantara seats and dashboard and on dashboard it was combined with spruce wood additions. Plus it had analog clock made by best polish producents as a funfact. The car was costing 25.290 $ at the time and was pretty successful.

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2006 Airborne Deimos
The year is 2006. Airborne Automotive wanted to put their new med-level supercar, Deimos into Le Mans championship. However, like the Ganimedes, money lack was the problem. Street version was built to be first massive supercar of the company and race version was never built. Street car was made only in years 2006-2007 and there are 893 units produced. It wasn’t very successful car: First, emissions. Second: mass. But, third: it was quite cheap - costed 107.800 $. Sadly, the interior was lacking due to lack of funds - engine was lacking too. In general, not very successful car. Pretty much confirmed as one of Cerberus’s precedessors.

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Tell me what do you think! :slight_smile:

This “Lambda” car… is it a sports wagon or luxury?

I’m afraid that it’s luxury superwagon.

Interesting… :wink:

Anyone’s interested in this company anymore? I have some cars to be shown off that I made when this thread was inactive. Someone wants to see them? :S

Why not? May as well post them if you’ve already made em.

Well, I’ll post them so. But wait for pictures - I need to take 'em all.

I see your company like Maserati - poor value, but this makes it a bit exclusive. The main reason is your cars are priced high which I think you should keep doing. It makes it different to all the other manufacturers here who race to the bottom eg “better performance than a Porsche but much cheaper!” <- which makes the company a value oriented manufacturer, not a luxury one.

Well… Poor value… okay.
Anyway; I try to make my cars exclusive, and luxury, yuno, but I don’t literally f**k out quality sliders on every car. :wink:
Plus I think about the prices… For me they’re fine, because hey, if you want cheap Airborne Automotive car, cheapest one (as for 2015/2016 MYs) costs about 17k. Most expensive one (excluding the Cerberus, which is limited to 118 units, 121 with concept and 2 prototypes never released to public - 800-900k for production one, where concept was planned to cost in production form about 1 million $) costs about 263k (and it’s Lambda, hue hue!). Plus, about performance advertisements - I write quotes like “Better than Porsche!” if it’s close to be true.

Anyway, thanks for your opinion utopian… May I ask how’s magazine going? xD

I guess I’ll post some new cars (mainly from company’s history for now) today or tomorrow - depends, because I got ill and headaches are often. :cry:

Well, when I meant poor value, I mean you have high margins ie large ratio between production cost and msrp which for me marks the difference between a Hyundai with leather seats and an Audi with leather seats.

Oh… Okay, thanks for explanation. Sorry, my english is not perfect and I could mismatch something. :stuck_out_tongue:

Let the Maserati-like company roll some cars! :slight_smile:

1982 Airborne Cossarini
The year is 1969, when Cherry from 1961 gets ceased along with Beta. Unlike the second car, which got a successor (Beta Supercoupe is a successor to Beta, if you don’t know), Cherry was forgotten. After oil crisis, which made the company to close for several months, our engineers back in time worked on various small sports car projects since 1975 to fit the gap after Cherry. In 1980, one 18-year-old car designer who just finished his school, Alberto Juan Cossarini came to Airborne Automotive for practicing from Latin America. In early 1982, when most experienced engineers in our company talked about little sports car project, Cossarini literally broke into conversation with words “Eyy, Amigos, I have great car design project!”. Of course, previous CEO (current in 80s) told Cossarini to literally shut the fuck up, but after the conversation he looked at the project… He liked it that much that he said sorry to Cossarini and recruited him as second lead designer of Airborne Automotive. Cossarini himself accepted the proposition to step up in company hierarchy and started to do technical design of his car, which he named Cossarini ESC1. ESC was for Experimental Sports Car. When the project was finished in March 1982, due to lack of time he put Xy GTi’s engine into the car and slightly tuned it up to reach 135 HP. Airborne Cossarini, as it got renamed later due to marketing reasons made huge success on it’s presentation in Geneva in the year 1983. People loved it for it’s possibility to cheap repairs, hence Cossarini got the same engine as Xy GT/GTi, design that was ahead of the company for at least ten years and respectable performance. Cossarini (as a car) could reach 196 km/h of top speed and it needed 9.5 seconds to reach 100 km/h. It was still responsive due to simple front suspension system (McPherson struts) and low weight, it is 883 kg. Sadly enough, reviewers criticized Cossarini in 1984 and 1985 like bunch of fucking hypocrites when they finally realized that engine is mid-placed, it’s too futuristic look and quite high price for Cherry successor, as Cossarini was promoted. Cossarini made quite big success when it came to cult, but not big success when it came to sales, mainly because of it’s looks which looked more like 90s than 80s and mid engine placement. It was also quite expensive, as written above. As for 1983 it costed 16.570 $. It was replaced in 1991 with new Airborne Cherry.

And by the way - if you will ask what A.J. Cossarini does today, I come with an answer: He’s now a company businessman and leads designers team as a 53 year old, sometimes angry man. Trust me, he named me few times from pendejos and putas when I said to him that I will launch Cerberus into limited run :wink:

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1976 Airborne Hades
Well, this is the car that founder died in. The year was 1976 and new hypercar prototype developed to compete with Lamborghini Countach was being tested. When we were testing the Hades (fully functioning one) prototype on Silverstone, it had an problem that went terrible in consequences: one cable from engine just broke and got into exhaust system, and this cable just got into forces of grip and started to burn. Too bad it was too close to fuel tank; the fire reacted with this fuel tank and exhaust smoke, the car exploded at speed of 260 km/h and turned into flying fireball with founder inside. At the end, this fireball finished it’s destruction path on one of borders. The car was literally in parts, cockpit was divided into three parts. When firemen controlled the fire and put it out, people took out founder’s body, which got splitted into six parts of melted meat outside of the car. There were two Hades prototypes - fully functional one, with complete engine was destroyed, second was just a showcar with Worker’s 43 HP engine just to move itself. In 2009 I decided to rebuild original Hades compatible with historical documentary, which got finished in 2013. The car can reach 277 km/h and needs 5.5 seconds to reach 100 km/h. Hades is powered by turbocharged 2,4 l V8 engine with mechanical injection that pumps out 439 HP at 6600 RPM, and the redline is placed on 7200 RPM. The car itself is very hard to control, even with safety systems equipped. Anyway, Hades is one of cars that if they have one malfunction, this malfunction can be deadly…

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1955-1960 Airborne Worker
Hmm, it’s the car that launched Airborne Automotive into the zone of small city commuters. Worker itself was designed at the dawn of 1949, with first engines made in 1950, but the car was finally finished and launched into production in 1955 as a 2-door and 4-door sedan. Both had the same engine, which was 42 HP 1,0 litre inline 4. Both cars also had the same weight - 657 kilos. In fact, they only differed in seats and doors amount. The price only was the difference, but I’ll list all prices below. Worker 2 could reach 115 km/h and needed 22.5 seconds to reach 100 km/h, Worker 4 had the same parameters.







In 1956 Airborne Motor Company introduced Worker Convertible, later renamed Speedster for marketing purposes. It had engine that was tweaked to reach 48 HP (sportish Worker? Why not kurwa!), but was also heavier with weight of 688 kg. Despite this it was faster - 121 km/h of top speed and 21.3 seconds to 100 km/h. Plus it came with soft top that you could close :smiley:




Year 1957 brought a pickup variant. It can be called one of few utes we produced actually. Except for ability to carry cargo at the back and introducing new base color for Workers - Polish Red, it featured the same engine as 2 and 4 door versions. In comparison to them, due to worse aerodynamics, pickup could reach 114 km/h and needed 23.4 seconds to reach 100 km/h.




1958 was the year of introducing wagon versions of Worker - the first of them was the panel van! This utility model was designed to transport light stuff, it was like Ford Transit Connect today. From performance side, it had the same parameters as Worker Ute/Pickup - 114 km/h top speed, 42 HP, but had better 0-100 acceleration - 23 seconds. Along with panel van there was a 3 door version introduced, and it was surprisingly faster to 100 km/h even than basic sedans! Needed only 22.2 seconds, made it second quickest Worker in the offer, just behind Speedster. 3 door variant was an option for, example, couples who wanted a car that they could sleep in on long tours. In 1958 also there was a second basic color introduced for all Workers, Marrakech Desert Sand. Panel van weighted 660 kg, and 3-door variant was only 3 kilos heavier.







At early 1960 Airborne Motor Company pushed last variant of Worker into production, 5-door one. Basicly it was just three-door one with additional pair of doors and seats inside, making it perfect family car for cheap. All Workers got ceased in 1963 when they just got old and had a direct successor in the cars of Xy and Persephone.




Prices of Worker, according to MY of launch:
1955 2d - 892 $
1955 4d - 908 $
1956 Speedster - 959 $
1957 Pickup/Ute - 933 $
1958 Panel van - 969 $
1958 3d - 971 $
1960 5d - 1.020 $

Last car coming tomorrow. Now I’m too ill…

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I like the front on the Hades. Simple, but manages to get it’s point across.

And the final car from this “set” :stuck_out_tongue:

1971 Airborne Imperator
As you may notice, the Rome from 1967 was first attempt of our company to build a supercar on highest level. Despite having low power output it could keep with Lamborghini Miura, it’s main rival. It was hand-built until 1969 in limited run of 476 units (find a reference :smiley: ). In 1970, when Beta Supercoupe was presented as a manifest for fastest muscle car in production, CEO also said about massive-produced supercar plans. Those “plans” were finished and presented in 1971 in form of Airborne Imperator. This beast was pointed to compete with Lamborghini Miura P400SV and upcoming Countach and could easily leave De Tomaso Pantera in the dust. Imperator was planned as a most hardcore supercar ever built by Airborne Motor Company and it’s quite true for it’s times. It had V8 5,7 litre crossplane engine that generated 520 HP. For comparison, Miura SV generated 390 HP. That just let the car reach insane numbers: 6.2 seconds to 100 km/h, 301 km/h top speed (297 when lights were on). The car was also pretty light with weight of 1332 kilos. You may notice that car got 0.0 points in drivability - that’s not true, of course, is pretty hard to control, but you can master it. Just like mentioned Miura or several muscle cars. In fact, Hades is the successor for Imperator - but first production car that succeeded the Imperator in terms of being innovative was Airborne Evoluzione from 20 years later.





As always, gib opinions! :smiley:

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