BMW 4219 Eli – 2013
This beautiful story starts in the US, one night, Ben talks to his nephew to Eli 4 years is already passionate about the & rsquo; automotive.
Eli wants to build his own car and his uncle is the & rsquo; wonderful idea, because he himself is passionate about cars, has technical knowledge and mastery 3D.
Eli is delighted with the & rsquo; involvement of his uncle, l & rsquo; matter is taken very seriously by our two protagonists.
They therefore establish the specifications, Ben then calls the site jalopnik.com, its purpose being to seek the contribution Internet users to conceptualize one or more visual this car.
Here is that & rsquo; he said :
"I know that & rsquo; there are a lot of & rsquo; talented artists in the community Jalopnik, and I would ask for their assistance to develop their “artistic aim” from prototype to specification carefully crafted by my nephew.
J & rsquo; love that & rsquo; visually beautiful we can show him that his great imagination invented.
Here are the features that & rsquo; Eli statement (with great surprise for me so c & rsquo; is accurate !) :
– It's a BMW ;
– There is 42 wheels, and of course all-wheel ;
– The propulsion system is provided by 19 Porsche engines, each producing 459 horses. C & rsquo; is entirely his own idea and I think its wise choice because use of boxer engines in a multiple configuration makes it easy to stack 8721 cumulative CV !
– The engines are all related to a single transmission, it n & rsquo; not specified, but I think the Viscous would be probably a good idea ;
– Power is transmitted to all the wheels via a series of limited slip differentials ;
– There is 3 seats 3 flying ... so 3 Children can drive the car at the same time ;
– A “toy box” with inside game platform is essential.
The model I have found is “4219ELi” for 42 wheels, 19 engines, extra long wheelbase and injection.
J & rsquo; encourage everyone to try, even if it is only a quick sketch. Of course, some people can do 3D renderings.
Here's how I l & rsquo; have approached the subject :
– J & rsquo; have divided 19 three main engines ranks, one of 9 forming the spine of the car, then 2 lateral 5 each.
– A transmission unit Y-shaped is mounted to the & rsquo; back to combine the power of the engine to give the 42 wheels.
– The radiators are channeled in large areas of each side of the car.
– The 42 wheels are divided into four groups of 40 units and two wheels director at & rsquo; ... before the & rsquo; craft will be difficult to steer this car ... probably use at least two traveling roads, fortunately the din of 19 flat-six should be enough to prevent motorists ...
– And for “toy box”, my idea is d & rsquo; used the principle of safety air slides aircraft to be deployed when opening the tailgate !
Go, see your ideas ! »
L & rsquo; Uncle Ben also offered his vision of the drawings thing :
Proposals came gradually, but more unexpected was yet to come…
BMW USA got wind of this story is pretty stung and transmits the & rsquo; case style center via the communication unit of the BMW Group headquarters in Ingolstadt in Germany.
For a company of this size, c & rsquo; was a much easier challenge ahead and it s & rsquo; there is hitched.Shortly after, the German brand has posted on his Facebook page a picture of the car concept of Eli, fully supervised by its marketing department with the following statement :
“Of course, we will send this model to Design Service & design”.
Still, if ever “4219 Eli” one day become reality, the bill could be hefty for our boy…
In all cases, Congratulations to BMW d & rsquo; playing the game, like what even the wildest dreams can come (almost) reality ... n & rsquo; is it not-Eli ?!
Source : jalopnik.com
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