$2 Million Supercar Chooses Suppliers
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Plans of producing the world’s most expensive car continues with the selection of suppliers. For example, the $2 million supercar DiMora Natalia SLS 2 is the first automobile in the world to choose "HeatFlexx" heated frameless windshield wiper which will be standard equipment. The electrically-heated "HeatFlexx" windshield wiper was introduced at the SEMA and AAPEX auto shows and helps melting ice and snow that can build up on the windshield.
In addition to selecting suppliers, DiMora Motorcar announced it has begun work on the Natalia SLS 2 sport luxury sedan. It will be the world's first $2 million USD production automobile and the Natalia will feature dozens of innovations, most never seen before in a production automobile. One such innovation is the variable-cylinder, aluminum DiMora Volcano V16 engine producing 1,200 horsepower. Also, the car is equipped with four steerable 24-inch wheels running on innovative flat-free tires and the chassis and lighweigt body will use aerospace composites and structures.
Onboard there will be over 50 computer systems which control all the electronics including the latest state-of-the-art operational, navigational, computer, communication, and entertainment systems. Heating, ventilation and air conditioning will be zone controlled by each passenger and the parked car will be kept cool or warm for hours with the engine off. Further, there are some unique beverage holders able to heat or cool drinks. Also, for the convenience of the handicapped, the front passenger seat will slide to the right, rotate 90 degrees, and lower the passenger to the ground.
It was reported that Luxury Resort Villas, which owns at least 10 luxury resort estates around the world, has ordered a fleet of 10 Natalia SLS 2. The Natalia will be available for use by luxury resort home owners in Las Vegas, Hawaii, Tuscany and Dubai, among others locales. Surely, those heated windshield wipers will come in handy.
This is what happens when a Maybach copulates with an Excalibur
wow this is like a new level of uglyness in my opinion, i think bentley, mercedes, and rolls royce look infinitly better.
Quite an interesting study in car production. What kinda customer will buy it though? I also don't understand why it's so powerful when you clearly can't chuck it around corners like a Lambo, Porsche or Ferrari.
The specifications of the car are amazing, but none is suiting the other. Moreover, it looks like they designed the car in dark, and decided to go on with it any way.. I doubt they will sell 2 cars a year.. With all its technology,it will be a good example of worst investments..
yea, $2million dollar car, i'm definetly gonna be driving this in the ice and snow. WASTE.
Man!!!!! This car is unbelievably Ugly-Looking. This one's for the queen of Saudi Arabia!!
The back looks nice but the front in kinda american. I wonder what Clarkson has to say about this car.
What a stupid reason to build a car. Whats the point of making the most expensive car in the world. The price should follow the car itself. Of course to make profits, companies should set a certain strategic price range to compete with other makers, but the idea of building a car just for the sake of making it the most expensive car is pure bullcrap. Even the Veyron has a purpose, it is (or used to be) the fastest production car while at the same time retaining the throne of being the most expensive. Aesthetically, this car is hideous, and i would get a Phantom (which is one quarter of the price but many times better looking) over this any day.
i couldn't agree more with u MB6.3 but lets wait and see it might be worth it (it looks like shit)
Hmmm interesting when i read about the HeatFlexx i was expecting something cool like it zapps your windshield dry, but after looking it up all it is is a frameless wiper like the ones you can find at any automotive store for 20$ with a metal wire going through the rubber blade heating it.. WoW.......... 2 million dollars and thats the best they could come up with? Why not put a transparent conductor within the windsield itself, kind of like a defroster on your rear windshield? That would have been better. With the wire being on the wiper you have to worry about shorts from cyclical loading on the wire everytime you flip the wipers on there is a chance to fry your 2million dollar car.
Ford has been doing it for awhile, and it's really practical in winter, but under certain sunlight situations the inbuilt conductor could be slightly seen and it becomes... slightly irritating, eventhough it doesn't affect visibility per se. About the ugly facia, well, I want to believe it's just a provocation, and that they will come up with something more decent all the while keeping that eccentric american charm that made Stutz or Avanti desirable in the past. On this pic it features a mesh grille, looks better in my opinion: http://www.dimoramotorcar.com/_uploaded_files/NatBody1170.jpg
it looks like it only goes 150kph(at the very most).
isn''t it a hot rod or something really really old?
Has quite a nice design overall, except for that hideous front end and excessive lighting at the rear. Oh well, we'll have to see :/
Has quite a nice design overall, except for that hideous front end and excessive lighting at the rear. Oh well, we'll have to see :/
Engine type: 14.0 Liter V16
Displacement: 14018 cc (855.3 cubic inches)
V-angle: 100 degrees
Compression ratio: 11.0:1
Valve configuration: Overhead valves, 2 per cylilnder
Valve lifters: Hydraulic roller
Firing order: 1-12-8-11-7-14-5-16-4-15-3-10-6-9-2-13
Bore x stroke 104.78 x 101.6 mm
Fuel system: Sequential fuel injection
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100 degrees? wow, and why not four valves per cylinder and direct injection? I hope it's going to meet California's restrictive emission regulations...
I'm not gonna lie this car to me will suck. I mean just the shape of it tells me this will be the the Golf W16. This is just a expensive car molded together by massive oversteer and flashy gadgets.
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