Project Kahn Bentley Flying Spur Pearl White Edition

To those who fear Bentley is turning into the footballers’ department of Volkswagen, the new Project Kahn Pearl White Bentley flying Spur possesses’ an unquantifiable amount of magnificence that comes in, large part, from being unashamedly different.

As refreshing and inspiring as a traditional luxury vehicle can be: the Project Kahn Bentley has

road presence and makes a real style statement.

The most unique feature of the ‘Project Kahn White Flying Spur Bentley’ is the addition of the new “White Mist’ alloy wheel.

The new 22” White Mist diamond cut alloy wheel enhances the Bentley’s elegant curves while embracing the vehicle’s distinct style.

Embellished with a unique geometrical pattern – the White Mist wheel exudes richness befitting a car of this exclusive nature.

The vehicle is also fitted with Kahn quilted leather and a Project Kahn electronic lowering module. As standard, the suspension is lowered by 20mm but this can be adjusted according to the customers’ requirements.

Bentley owners can now testify to the exuberance of passion and sumptuous beauty of Afzal Kahn’s designs.

The Kahn Bentley flying spur is for an extraordinary assortment of drivers and full-time heroes.

The Bentley is unique and, in this era of ever increasing automotive conformity, that counts for alot.

As the UK’s leading automotive design house, Project Kahn recognises the importance of dynamic cutting edge designs whilst staying true to the original form. Our elegant and sculpted Flying Spur evolved through skilled artistic innovation, state-of-the art manufacturing and materials technology.

Bentley owners can now testify to the exuberance of passion and sumptuous beauty of A Kahn Design.

Project Kahn Aston Martin DB9S

Project Khan is always keen to tread where few dare……

The S styling package from Project Kahn is intended as a design enhancement for the DB9, for customers who want something a little more exclusive. The S styling package combines aggression and luxury perfectly, with the precision quality of Project Kahn. The fierce exterior demands attention, while the bespoke interior leaves a feeling of indulgence.

The body kit stays true to the original contours of the car while creating a truly unique look for the distinguished buyer who wishes for a more ‘personal’ luxury car.

The body kit consists of a front and rear bumper, side skirts and boot lip spoiler, enhancing the DB9S with a ‘low to the road’ look. In order to accommodate that particular look; Project Kahn fitted a set of 20 inch Kahn RSV wheels, which were in fact featured on the Aston Martin DBS prototype.

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Project Kahn Ferrari

Kahn manages to retain the aesthetic integrity and attention to detail of the 599 which consists of a lowered suspension, volume enhanced exhaust system and 20-and 21 inch F1-X Carbon wheels front and rear respectively.

In addition, the F1-X wheel is the first in a pioneering new programme from Kahn Design in order to develop a series of high performance wheels combining carbon fibre with light magnesium alloy.

As one of our more exotic conversions, the Project Kahn Ferrari 599 stands out in the crowd. The Carbon F1-X magnesium alloy wheels certainly compliment the sleek look, whilst the interior completes the whole driving experience.

Available in size, 9.0X20”/10.5X21”/11X20”/12X20”

IT looks like a Ferrari, it’s painted bright red like a Ferrari — but it certainly is not a Ferrari.

Based on the Italian firm’s classic 1960s Le Mans P4 racer — is actually a fake knocked up with counterfeit parts in Thailand.

If it was real, it would be worth £7million.

The car, which has a Subaru engine, was seen at an anti-forgery summit in New York.

To view a real Ferrari click on the link below:

http://www.kahndesign.com/automotive/projectkahn/?page=f599&id=f599&make=ferrari

Smaller engines are certainly getting faster and more powerful.

However, there is an inclination to give buyers a wider than ever choice of colossal V8s, V10s, V12s and W12s before they even begin to consider whether they want it supercharged, turbocharged or whatever.

Furthermore, today’s big hitters are small-fry in historic terms, a quick glance at some real old behemoths is all it takes to put these modern vehicles into perspective and to silence anyone who thinks an addiction to excess is a purely modern affliction.

Biggest engine in a concept car: 13.6-litres

In the 1930s Cadillac created the luxurious V16 for the likes of Pope Pius XII, starlet Mae West and, er, Al Capone – and 70 years later revisited the idea with the 1,000 hp/1,000 lb ft Cadillac Sixteen Concept. This time it came with a ‘green’ twist though, something called Displacement on Demand.

This shut down half the cylinders to reduce emissions then automatically reactivated them when the driver’s right foot decided they’re needed. Unfortunately its chances of going into production are about the same as that of Pius XII lending his car to Capone when the latter’s was in for repair.

Biggest engine in a Smart: 5.67-litres

The brainchild, if that’s the word, of rally driver Stefan Attart the Smart Forfun2 mated a Smart body to Unimog 406 underpinnings including the latter’s six-cylinder OM 352 diesel engine. Outputting 84 bhp this makes it by far the puniest car here, despite having twice the punch of the original.

It nevertheless turns heads wherever it goes thanks to its mammoth 65 cm ground clearance, 26 inch rims and 3.7 metre height. Despite appearances, it’s quite a serious vehicle, Attart having insisted on manually controlled air suspension to give the driver a very real advantage on extreme downhill gradients.

Biggest engine in a limousine: 12.7-litres

Twenty-one feet long and with a fourteen-foot wheelbase, the Bugatti Type 41 – invariably known as the Royale – was the right car at the wrong time, or maybe just the wrong car. Launched in 1929 just as a worldwide recession began to bite, it found no takers at all among its target audience – Europe’s ruling families.

After just six examples had been built for sale a number of its straight-eight engines were redeployed pulling railway trains. One later sold at auction for a record-breaking £5.5 million, but not before Mrs Bugatti had disposed of hers by swapping it for a couple of refrigerators.

Biggest engine in a Rolls-Royce: 27-litres

Everyone knows the Spitfire had a Rolls-Royce engine so eventually someone was bound to put a Spitfire engine into a Rolls – and that someone was Nick Harley. No stranger to expensive exotics – he’d previously bought a Grand Prix Mercedes and a Bugatti Royale – dropping a half-tonne Merlin into a 1938 Phantom II Continental must have seemed obvious.

Fuel feed was a problem for the 1,000hp V12 – eventually NASCAR pumps did the trick at a rate of 100 gallons an hour – but now it’s complete the towering torque means there’s no need to shift out of top.

Biggest engine in a Ferrari: seven litres

For years European sports car makers snootily dismissed the Yanks’ simple trusting faith in cubic inches, choosing instead to combat their crude ‘lazy litres’ with clever technology – at least until the Ford GT40 and McLaren’s Chevrolet-engined M8 began to dominate at Le Mans and in Can-Am.

Eventually even Enzo was stung into action, wheeling out the Ferrari 712 – seven litres, 12 cylinders – in an attempt to silence the American upstarts once and for all. In this it failed, of course, and the reds stepped back from sports car racing, but the car still looks, and is, magnificent.

As a F1 driver you’d expect to be able to drive something pretty nifty off the track as well as on.

Some drivers take the obvious supercar route while others opt to also have your ‘every day’ car in their fleet of motors in order to keep a low profile.

From the legends of the sport’s earlier years to the rookie stars of today; some of the choices may surprise you!

Lewis Hamilton – Smart

It’s a measure of Hamilton’s stratospheric rise that at the beginning of last season his company car was a Smart Forfour!

From there he’s been steadily working his way up the Mercedes product range – probably earning himself a new car with every win he’s chalked up over the year.

Don’t be surprised if Lewis comes knocking on Afzal Kahn’s door asking for a piece of the F1 plate!

Sir Stirling Moss – Fiat 500

The financially prudent Sir Stirling Moss certainly does not splash cash on frivolous motors. And as an urban gadget lover he is well known for some fairly eccentric choices when it comes to his private transport.

For his road cars he prefers small city runabouts. The first of these was the original Fiat 500, replaced in turn with a Smart Fortwo and supplemented by various scooters, perfect for the crowded streets near Sir Stirling’s West London home.

Jenson Button – Honda NSX

If anyone lives up to the playboy image of the modern F1 driver Mr Button is that man.

Thanks his illustrious Honda driving predecessor, Ayrton Senna there is a supercar for him to drive as a company car. The Brazilian legend famously had a hand in the design of the fabulous mid engined Honda and Button probably wishes he could have worked the same magic on his race car.

Eddie Irvine – Ferrari 288 GTO

Eddie Irvine’s taste in cars was as fast as his legendary pursuit of women. But of the former his 288 GTO was one of his favourites. And you can see why. One of just 270 or so built (accounts vary exactly), the 288 GTO might look like the Magnum PI spec 308 but with its 400bhp twin turbo V8 it is a whole lot more exotic. Indeed, in laying the groundwork for the F40 the 288 was more like the Enzo of its age. Irvine certainly made use of it too, allegedly getting stopped for speeding four times in a 24-hour period over Christmas one year.

Fernando Alonso – Renault Megane

What a change from life at Renault. An online video clip shows a laughing, chatty Alonso taking a group of Spanish journalists around the Nürburgring in a Renault Megane.

In an open, public session at the circuit Alonso jokes around as he hurls the unsuspecting Renault around the circuit, leaving motorbikes and cars in his wake.

Drivers of all persuasions had better watch out.

One of the problems with writing about cars is that words soon become degraded because they're often applied to cars that don't quite come up to scratch and customers ultimately want value for money.

Well, look no further: Our Ferrari F430 Spider is an unequivocal super car priced at a £79,995.

Value for money? Leonard Fraser-Scott finds out.

The F430 Spider is a really serious sports car and not just the poseur’s version of the Coupé.

The car bounds from corner to corner like a starved cheetah on the chase, giving you plenty to think about in the braking and steering departments.

The view other motorists are most likely to see — two aspects stand out immediately. First those round rear lights. With a laid-back nod to the Enzo, they break out of the tail's upper deck like four glowing red rocks pushed up by a sea of molten lava. Continuing the theme of a bubbling volcano is the evocative red crackle finish to the twin cam covers capping the V8 — displayed under a clear glass engine cover incorporated into the rear deck.

This Ferrari is a surprisingly effective motorway car, and not simply because it can bolt from one traffic cluster to the next in a nanosecond. It has terrific directional stability – so you aren’t endlessly steering it – impressively pliant suspension and a comfortable seat make it a smooth ride.

There are plenty of executive cars that would be more troubled smoothing away, but this supercar has no trouble at all. And it’s this rounded ability that marks the F430 out as such a complete car, a car capable not just on the streaking, sinuous roads that it was made for, but in the real world, too. That is some achievement – and this is some car.

The Ferrari F430 Spider is one very addictive piece of machinery. For such a finely-honed, performance-oriented driver's tool it manages to appeal on two fronts: firstly, it satisfies those who want to drive faster than everyone else; secondly, it flatters those who just want to be noticed by everyone else. Spending five days driving the Spider was a delightful eye-opener. A supercar it may be, but one that's utterly engaging and, even more significantly, one truly capable of living in the real world. Throw in that magnificent V8 backing-track and Ferrari's magnifico F430 Spider F1 fulfils every red-blooded driver's dream. — Leonard Fraser-Scott. Value for money? Certainly!

Ferrari F430 Spider 4.3 V8 F1

Light Metallic Blue with Blue Leather with Blue Hood Year: 2005/55 Mileage: 6,000 miles Transmission: F1 Fuel: Petrol Body style: Convertible

Full Service History, Financing Available, Delivery Available, Dealer/Manufacturer Warranty

F43O Spider F1 Ceramic Brakes, Silver Brake Calipers, Electric Daytona Seats, Red Instrument Dials, Nav Track, Leather Steering Wheel, 6 CD Changer, Blue tooth Phone Prep, Wind Deflector.

For further information call our qualified sales staff on: 01274 749999

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Quicker than an F40 yet a hundredth as frightening, the 599 is a towering achievement, a new benchmark and one of the fastest-accelerating cars ever driven on the road.

As a piece of automotive engineering, the Ferrari 599 is biblically, stratospherically, crushingly brilliant.

Even at normal speeds on normal roads you know that you’re in a thoroughbred. You can hear it working. You know that if by some miracle you are presented with a piece of road which is wide and open and free from Rovers and speed cameras, it would deliver a hammer blow big enough to knock down the doors of Fort Knox.

The interior is a typically beautiful blend of hide and style; as classically Italian as Sophia Loren’s sunglasses.

Ferrari has designed the 599 to be a comfortable long-distance cruiser. They have thought hard about making it a usable everyday car, It’s also got all sorts of Formula One-style buttons on the bottom and then, along the top, a series of red lights that come on to tell you when to change gear.

It accelerates with a savagery and rides on its tall tyres with composure that’s almost diplomatic in its smoothness. And believe me on this: it looks a trillion times better in the flesh than it does in the pictures.

Hugely fast with sensational acceleration; enormous grip with foolproof, friendly handling and fine feedback; looks terrific and sounds even better; good ride and great usability.

With lowered suspension, 21” rear and 20” front wheels and super sound exhaust system; be amazed by its desire to leap off the dyno, and the extra power demonstrably extracted from fresh rubber.

Overview

Let some numbers set the scene. Maximum speed over 205mph. 0-62mph in 3.7 seconds, 0-124mph in 11 seconds, standing-start kilometre in under 20 seconds. The V12 engine, derived from the Enzo Ferrari's, delivers 620bhp – 40bhp down on the Enzo's figure but who's complaining? – and can rev to a manic 8,400rpm.

Oh, and CO2 emissions are 490g/km – so no cheap road tax for the 599 GTB Fiorano, then.

The 599 replaces the 575 Maranello. It weighs 50kg less thanks to its aluminium chassis and body (made by Scaglietti, like those of the F430 and 612) and it features terrific new technology, some of which has filtered down from Formula One.

Specifically, it has F1-Trac (a new traction and stability system), F1-Superfast (a yet-quicker gearshift system in the F1 paddle-shift gearbox) and magneto-rheological suspension dampers. These contain a fluid which becomes more viscous if a magnetic field is applied around the damper. Result: near-instantly-reacting adaptive dampers with no moving parts. Taken together, these three technologies make for a stunningly satisfying drive.

Other technical stuff? That drive experience is helped by placing 53% of the weight over the rear wheels, achieved by setting the engine well back in the chassis with the gearbox, in usual Ferrari front-engine style, mounted at the back and linked to the engine by a rigid tube. A twin-plate clutch reduces rotational inertia which helps those ultra-speedy gearshifts, and a dry-sump engine lubrication system lets the engine sit very low in the chassis. All four camshafts have variable valve timing and are driven by a single chain instead of the belt used in the 575 Maranello engine.

For more information on our Ferrari 599 or any of our vehicles and accessories; please call one of our qualified sales representatives on (44) 01274 749 999 or see our website at http://www.kahndesign.com/automotive/projectkahn/