Erotic EMERG-E Pictures Stolen
Unlike other car companies that perfected the slow reveal to a tantalizing and sometimes agonizing strip-tease, Infiniti had sworn to keep its EMERG-E study fully clothed until it bares all at the upcoming Geneva Auto Salon. This plan was toast on Saturday night when pictures purloined from an official Infiniti press kit appeared “on the Internet,” as Carscoop claims.
“Don’t ask me how” those pictures got out, sighs Yokohama-based Infiniti spokesperson Nathalie Greve.
The pictures look like 3D renderings, but they actually are real thing photographs, albeit heavily retouched. The car bulges with muscle and has some of the most erotic air intakes I have seen. I’ll buy it if Infiniti ever sells it.
Detail shots like these could cause air intakes of a different kind …
Based on the fact “that its steering wheel resides on the right,” Car and Driver has ”a suspicion this car has been built in collaboration with Lotus.” Well, duh, cars in Japan tend to have the steering wheel on the right.
However, C&D might unwittingly be on to something. According to Saturday-night gossip in Yokohama waterfront watering holes, the car is the fruit of a contract which the British Technology Strategy Board had awarded in 2010 to a consortium of companies. The program was called REEVolution, as in premium segment “range extended electric vehicles.”
The consortium partners were Jaguar Land Rover, Lotus Engineering, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd, THINK, Axeon, EVO Electric and Xtrac.
Bertel Schmitt comes back to journalism after taking a 35 year break in advertising and marketing. He ran and owned advertising agencies in Duesseldorf, Germany, and New York City. Volkswagen A.G. was Bertel's most important corporate account. Schmitt's advertising and marketing career touched many corners of the industry with a special focus on automotive products and services. Since 2004, he lives in Japan and China with his wife <a href="http://www.tomokoandbertel.com"> Tomoko </a>. Bertel Schmitt is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.offshoresuperseries.com"> Offshore Super Series </a>, an American offshore powerboat racing organization. He is co-owner of the racing team Typhoon.
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OKAY, ...all that crap I recently talked about Infiniti's designers being astygmatic, inbred sh**boxes,... --HEREBY REVOKED!!! -take THAT Jaguar CX-75!
These are the types of cars that need to be produced to increase the traction of hybrids. Hybrid technology in economy cars makes zero sense. It's too expensive and makes a $20k car into a $28k car. Exotics can easy absorb the cost of batteries and such. The technology can then filter down into the more plebeian cars once the technology advances. Imagine what would happen if there was a fuel economy war between Ferrari and Porsche. Doesn't make sense at first, but if it were to become fashionable...