Style of Speed - News - 2008

05.August.2008
Investigation::Car #40

Microsoft: Their Live Search for Devices is a system, that will allow drivers to search for nearby businesses using information gathered from their vehicle’s satellite navigation system. This sounds familiar.

06.August.2008
Investigation::Car #41

Porsche Design: Designed ship, and building.

VAG: VAG→Audi shows travolution system. The point we want to mention here is their choice of the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system as the basis.

FortuneSport VES: We only quote: "Inspired by Group C prototypes, the chassis of this road and track car will feature an aluminum semi-monocoque with a mid-mounted V8 and a pushrod suspension. Key weight-saving features are full composite bodywork [...]", "takes its influence from former Group C prototypes", "Specializing in composites and aerospace-derived technology, FortuneSport’s new car was designed around an obsession for low weight.", "Especially given the green movement, the best way to engage the driver was to reduce vehicle mass.", "obsession with lightweight", "techniques passed down from aerospace", "a beast to boot", "The Rt.S on steroids", and "this will work well if we are open with our clients".
The engine is from Audi (our guess) and the concept with marketing is stolen from us (SOS Raptor and SOS 962 ST, announced in April and May). Btw.: Without FXX (minimaly 3 Computers and Sensors to the maximum) there is no supercar status anymore. We have it, you and the others not.

© Well done E.H.. So, the teaser, as said by the Motor UnAuthority, is not new, and it is not designed and also not engineered by FortuneSport.
We thought, that Gumpert would take this design for the Apollo 2.0.

Original Sketch #1
SOS SUV S! is coming

© GM™, Paul, Sperling, and :(

Original Sketch #2/Sneak Preview
More sneak previews of our SOS Raptor and SOS Speedster

© Tommy Forsgren, and Strosek

09.August.2008
Comment of the Day #2
Picture of the Day

© Lucasfilm Ltd.

Podracing is coming to your planet, too
So, we think it is time to start with the establishment of the first (real not virtual) Pod and Swoop Racing League. If you have the spirit of/and the speed, then send an e-mail to Phoebos, Gustab Wenbus, or us.

© Lucasfilm Ltd.
"They laughed about my sneakers, Nike shoes, BMX bikes, snowboards, Oakleys, tuned car, Informatics study, and the rest. But at the end everybody did what I did. :P"

Investigations::Car #42

Daimler: There is a new picture on the titelpage of a car magazin showing a prototyp of a red AMG Gullwing (SLC, W197, ...) with headlamps that we are sketching since 4 or 5 years. We looked at this special case since we saw the headlamps of the new SL (see also our pictures of the Powerset Design).

10.August.2008
Comment of the Day
J!™

Picture of the Day
Announcement 8:00 am
SOS J!: The SOS J!, aka. Avus, RS, or RSQ, is based on our SOS Raptor platform but with a different transmission. The car will be built after the immense requests by our fans.

Original Sketch/Sneak Preview
Sneak previews of our upcoming SOS j!

© VAG, SOS, and :(
The design slightly is subject to change, but reservations can be done by sending an e-mail to j@styleofspeed.com.

15.August.2008
Clarification
We, the Christian Stroetmann GmbH, are not the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP) Mystery Team. If we'll register, then we'll do it in the public.

Sneak Preview
Our project Space Shuttle NG X-3033/MagicStar is still running, and applies a unique coolant system (not by fuel and not by ceramics). If some institution is interested, then simply write us by e-mail.

17.August.2008
Comment of the Day
The new sketch of the Blackswift hypersonic plane by Lockheed Martin, and the behaviour by Boeing as well as Northrop Grumman show us, that all players have totally no clue what to do. We do!!!™ And this time, we'll out-smart them.

19.August.2008
Website update
We have started to build up our new SOS website.

20.August.2008
Original

© :(

Original Sketch/Sneak Preview
Sneak previews of our SOS 2 :) (To Fun/Double Fun) motorbike

© Robert Slade and John Mark Vicente
The design is subject to vary, but as usual reservations can be done by sending an e-mail to 2Fun@styleofspeed.com.

22.August.2008
Announcement Ontonics Website update
Original Sketch/Sneak Preview
More sneak previews of our upcoming SOS J! with our Emoticon Lights™ for owner/driver definable front and rear look and patterns. The images are showing the black version. Versions with other ground colours also will be available.

© :( (Send an e-mail to info@styleofspeed.com)
The funny lion will be removed or replaced with the owner's logo, and the Emoticon Lights™ show also some interesting applications of our e-door™@Car solution. As usual, reservations can be done by sending an e-mail to j@styleofspeed.com.

Clarification
Our cars are safe and ready to race while following standards of the us american Grand American Road Racing Association (Grand-Am), the german Deutsche Tourenwagenmeisterschaft (DTM), and other international racing series. Beside this, we drive Goodyear tires on earth roads and on the moon.

Investigations::Car #43

General: Rims suddenly have to have 5 spokes.

Peugeot: We quote: "Peugeot Style". It is some kind of striking, that many of the 29 finalist of their 5.th design contest have some dependances on our work. There were better design studies presented (eg. the design concept e-mu), which haven't made their way into the finals.

VAG→Audi: Kaum haben wir den SOS j! angekündigt, da werden neue Fotos des Audi R8 Spider lanciert. Auffällig hier sind die Lufteinlässe anstatt der R8-kennzeichnenden Seitenschilde (siehe RSQ Bild vom 10. August 2008) und der veränderte Kühlergrill. Um das nicht neue Kühlergrilldesign bekannter zu machen wurde zudem ein S5 Evo Journalisten vorgestellt.

Porsche: Erste Fotos eines Boxster RS werden gezeigt. Natürlich hat der Prototyp einen grösseren Heckspoiler und einen neu geformten Diffusor (und ein Hardtop).

Tesla Motors: Speculates about a Model S based SUV.

23.August.2008
Announcements 6:30 pm
SOS i!: The SOS i! is our SOS j! with a progressive multimedia exterior.

SOS Suvee: The SOS Suvee is our SOS S! with electrical powertrain.

30.August.2008
Comment of the Day
Let's conquer space™

Sneak Preview #4a 8:00 am
Our Space Shuttle NG X-3033/MagicStar is a 3rd (projected to the year 2025) and 4th (projected to the year 2040) generation Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV). We don't do 2rd generation technology research and actually we're looking at MagnetoHydro- Dynamics (MHD) for shock wave handling, MagnetoGasDynamics for power extraction, heat management, and flow conditioning, ElectroDynamics for drag modulation, as well as our own developed Multi Mode In-Atmosphere and In-Space Variable Thrust and Specific Impulse MagnetoPlasma Engines (function without vacuum). The technology will than be further developed and used for our Style of Speed (SOS) 5th generation RLV/Spaceship Twin Ion Engine Royal (TIE R)/LightSwift.

© NASA