Movie Car : Automan Car Lamborghini Countach LP400

AUTOMAN is an American science fiction television series produced superhero Glen A. Larson. It aired for only 12 episodes (although 13 were made) on ABC zwischen 1983 and 1984.

AUTOMAN (“Automatic Man”) followed the adventures of a police officer and computer programmer named Walter Nebicher (Desi Arnaz, Jr.), an artificially intelligent crime-fighting program that had a hologram (Chuck Wagner) created the situation in computer world and allow the reality to help fight crime.
While in the real world, Automan presented as an agent of government, Walter helped by the name “Otto J. Mann”. This was a secret for all fixed characters, except for a close colleague Walter, Roxanne Caldwell (Heather McNair).

Nebicher could merge to become one with his Automan both the awareness and skills to share, while maintaining Automan invulnerability to such things as gunshots and explosions. During the “merge” Automan some form of a human head on a glowing body of circuit patterns and flickering light were visible.

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An Amazing New Sports Car KTM X Bow

Here is a fantastic new sports car – the KTM X Bow. It ‘s amazing the way it looks, how it’s done and over. So what is special about its appearance? Well, it has open wheels, with cycle type fenders, but hardly see them. On the front is a large fireplace that hides the wheels, but under that is a narrow chisel nose is the front of the body, the engine behind the cockpit.

The KTM X Bow top engine is a curved roof that serves as a cover, and provides some downforce at high speeds. Then, two radiators are mounted on each side of the engine, just behind the cockpit, where they hide in the engine and rear wheels. Seen from behind, you can see the rear suspension and a big scarf on the back with the exhaust coming out straight. This acts as a security incident silencers State, taking the impact in an accident. Another thing that is different: the instruments and controls are all mounted on the steering wheel center.

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The King of Supercars in 1970 – 1980 : Lamborghini Countach

The Italian word Countach is not easy to be translated straight into English. It is an expression of amazement, like: “Wow, Look at that!”. That was exactly how people reacted when they saw the new Lamborghini Countach prototype in 1971 Geneva Motor Show. His name tells us all: Lamborghini wanted to build the most spectacular sports car of all time, would be far more advanced than his time, an even greater impact than Miura was doing would kill himself, would be the dream car of every student in the following years.

Having tasted first success with Miura, Bertone’s chief designer Marcello Gandini drew an even imaginative and radical design for the new Lamborghini supercar. Its appearance can be described as space-time. Never before has a production car looked as sharp as a knife, with a non-proportional body, a windshield so fast, spectacular looking “scissor doors” (another brilliant gimmick, because “Gullwing”), sky-looking windows, a sharp yet flowing waist line targeted mounting hood and a tail that looked like a spaceship!

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