it looks really nice what you piulled out of it with the shaders.
To make it maybe perfect think about to add a windscreen whiper, your model seem to miss one currently.

What do you call this creation ?

It has one of those hidden wipers when not in use. My '71 Camaro has one so it's not that uncommon. The funny thing it that I though someone would mention that as I was drawing it.

Looking back at it, it does seems a little short and stocky. Could just be the angle.

I originally dub it Dragon Mk III Lancer. I heard the name Lancer from a long time ago and did think it still being use. Well, right after (like in a day), I saw an ad for a Mitsubishi Lancer. What timing. I open of one. If you have a suggestion, I'm all game.

Well Lancier is still alive quite very much alive acually. A brilliant rally car. Anyhow for names, well I predeveloped my own car company idea thing.

I for my part follow like lamborgys a tradtion but my cars are called after hystorical and myth of dragons. I googled my tail off to find nessery info and after a long way I came up with a whole list of names that I can use. Each with an background info.

Now sinces I'm not sure what your vision for your company would be or is it migth be difficult to figure out what you want.

I been drawing cars for decades. Mostly sketching them in class since I get bored easy. I done many many thousands back then and I kept almost all of them. I even made a presentation in one of my classes at the university (even back then I had dragon i the name). I still have the foam and plaster model I made in stored the attic.

I'm an electrical engineer now (I could have gone for mechanical since I was interested in both but choose electrical at the time). I joined SAE back then and helped out on the school's mini baja program (made our debut that year).

I tend to be random when I pick names for stuff, mostly off the top of my head. Other times I'll dig deep and look at ancient deities or historical objects.

If I had my own auto company, it'll be focused on performance cars. I love large displacement V8s (and throwing a couple of turbos on them wouldn't hurt). But I'm not opposed to electric power. One idea I have is to run the rear wheels with the traditional internal combustion engine while using electric motors on the front. A simpler way of getting AWD without the need of a transfercase and the complexity of axles and drive shafts to the front.

Too bad the work on turbine engines for cars died back in the late '60s. With all that potential development time, we could have something very much viable by now. Especially combined with a CV transmission or som sort of hybrid electric system. Turbines tend to be efficient at a specific speed and can be set up to burn all kinds of fuels like a diesel.

Well, I could go on and on. I have tons of ideas. But I'll cut it off here.

I see, If i had a company, well I descided the logo of it already (its here on FA, the only remaing part of what i showed off so far [the rest is deled]). It would be focosed on perfomance as well. And I would for sure go ahead for a AWD system as well. But I dislike turbin engines. they make a horrible sound track to me, and do not offer you the source of power all the time. They work for highspeed drills but what when you on a very curvy road where you need to accurate and brake down consantly?

Well my concept will probally move from flat 6 engines to above v12 engines. Sinces I find turbos and chargers doing a kind of annying noise, I would try to avoide using them, and keep the engine fully natrual aspirined. The McLaren F1 shows that you don't need turbos to hit 240 mph. Now the CLK GTR SS is another example that you can get over 700 hp out of a engine without using turbos or anything fancy.

I even would like to build the worlds first V14 supercar. Conected with a sequential speed 7 gear box thingy. (Yeah I love those paddles that repalces the clutch)

Oh well I could go on too with ideas but umm to put things small down.

Every really big company has a representation color. So what color would yours be? I defenitly know mine.

Turbines are vary reliable and used primary in aircraft. They do like running at narrow band and would work best with that CVT or in some sort of hybrid system. I do like the roar over a turbine over the whine of a formula one engine (one of the reasons George Lucas screwed up the sounds in Esp 1).

I love the sound of a large displacement V8. The low rumble from idle to the screaming roar at high speed is divine. I don't care for the note of a V12 nor the annoying high pitch of 4 cylinders (especially with those terrible fart pipes).

Normally aspirated is fine. My BBC in my Camaro puts out around 500hp with well over 500 ft/lb of torque based on the components in it (never had the opportunity to dyno it). Lots of low end torque. Now with a couple of turbos, hehe.

700hp+ pretty easy to do on a BBC. Just takes a little money. That's before adding things like superchargers or turbos.

I only have a 4 speed in mine. I took it up to 148MPH but ran out of road and had to slow down. But with the gear ratio it as, it should reach 180 at least (though I need better tires and install that air dam I got). I want to get a better transmission one day like a 5 or even better, a 6 speed. The overdrive in my '85 Trans Am really makes a difference and one in my Camaro would be huge.

My company color would definitely be a deep rich blue with silver and gold trim. I remember seeing your logo from way back. I made one before somewhere (well, several over the years). One day I'll remake it.

So I guess you more into the design philosophie of muscles cars? Well noting bad on it, and that V8's can do a lot of power did the Koensiegg demonstrate well I guess.

I do love dem V8s. Nicely balanced and can make plenty of power. I tend to lean on the bigger ones. Muscle cars have V8s with the exception of the Buick turbo V6, . A lot of performance and luxury autos have them too. I see a trend of them coming back (I remember hearing the death of V8 many times since the'80s). Even Hyundai recently made a Hyundai V8.

Both of my cars have V8s (a 350 in the TA and 454 in the Camaro). One of my brother has a 5.0 in his mid '80s Mustang while the other has a 350 in his '68 Camaro. The other brother also have a supercharged V6 in his Thunderbird. He mainly got it since it was relatively rare and wanted something a little unique. But even he admits a V8 would have been better in the long run due to the lower costs of the parts and could easily get the same (or more) power out of it. But he likes the fact that not many people are running superchargers.

So yeah, I'm (and my brothers) heavily into the pony cars. I would love to own a supercar but they are way out of my price range. That's not going to happen anytime soon. I also heavily modified my cars. For example, I added 4-wheel disc brakes to my Camaro with the Ford 9" rear end out of a Lincoln Versailles, an aluminum radiator mounted on a custom square-tube frame I made, and made the whole back end out of fiberglass among tons of other stuff. Well, I can dream.

The TA I got from brother when he moved out of state. It eventually became my daily driver. I hate the red paint (way too many reds running on the street here) but it does have grey interior and grey trim on the outside. One day I'll paint the whole car in a nice shade of grey and get rid of the dull red.

What I love about the muscle cars is that I can actually own one (two in this case). My goal is to design and build my own supercar. I worked in fiberglass before and probably make the body out of that unless carbon fiber comes down to a sane level. I'm thinking of a space-frame design for the chassis but I could go for a traditional tubular frame if need be. Maybe a combination of those.

I doubt that youc an make a Carbon Fiber Chasi yourself, even when you can offord the materials, you don't have the oven to back the material hard.

All in all V8 cars are respectiv but to common. That Why I will always prefere the rather new born use of V10's or the semi extinctioning V12's. A V16 would be to big and to heavy to offer any impressive handling. and more then 6 or 7 liters would become to big and to heavy as well. And wellt he only useful potion is midenged in my oppinion if you want to get a balanced supercar.

Msucle and Pony cars are nice, but they have bad handling and do not really work in european towns, for that are the cars to long and to wide to fit comfrotably inside some small town roads. Plus they are not very good in turing. The only cars from america can turn good are Saleen S7, Caddilac CTS-V, Dodge Viper and of corse the latter genrations of the Chevrolet Corvette. The rest did not fully learn to turn around a bend yet. maybe they do soon.

A big enough autoclave would be a pain to get, though smaller parts can be doable. I seen it done with an over and a vacuum bag type thing. The laying out process is similar to fiberglass but has more finishing steps. And I'm sure someone would rent a large autoclave if need be.

Carbon fiber is slowly getting cheaper though the real stuff is still up there. A lot of so-called carbon is fake. And I hate fake stuff (including things like stick on scoops and vents). I'm the form and function type.

I like V8 cause they have perfect balance and the commonality helps when it's time to get parts. Chrysler V10 is pretty good but Ford really sucks (we build engine modules for the Ford V10 among other makes here at work).

For best handling, midengine is the way to go. Most of my designs feature them though I do have quite a of the tradition front engine/rear drive. None of that front wheel drive business unless I did something silly and off the wall. And AWD does wonders.

Most muscle car do handle quite well as well go in a straight line. Especially though with the handling package. However, pony cars do emphasize acceleration since the US tend to be wide open.

The main problem with the older Muscles car were the horrible bias-ply tires. When I switched to radial in my Camaro, it made a huge difference. It was so easy to overtax those bias-plys. My brother used to run Dunlops D40s (I think that was the model) and they stuck like glue. Along with those tires, he lowered the suspension and slapped some poly bushings and stiffer shocks. Pretty much the standard mods gear heads do. Unfortunately those tires were expensive and wore like crazy. So he settled on something less pricey but still could keep up with modern cars.

I need to drop my Camaro's front end. The thing hangs in the air a couple of inches due to the big block springs with all the weight I took off it. Things like moving the battery to the trunk and a bunch of other stuff I did.

A large displacement engine doesn't always have to be heavier than a smaller one. Displacement is empty space after all. A Cadillac 500 is actually lighter than a chevy 350 small block. Chevy big block is around a hundred pound heavier because the engineers built it tough to handle insane amount of torque (Caddy's crankshaft has a bad habit of snapping if you add too much power). A BBC crank weights 65lbs all by itself. It's almost unheard of to break one unless something massive happened. I had a Ford small block that broke the crank at the front main. And that one was almost bone stock.

hehe ill take one in dark deep purple !!!

That's easy to do since I made the car flat color on it's own layer. A few tweaks with it and viola, a quick change. I could make a purple one and send it to you.

SWEET .. now when do this go into production :)

Your detail is really good ;D
Love your coloring/shading/lighting details ^^

I believe I can do smoother shading now. My newer graphics computer is much faster and one of the problems I had with my old one was the annoying lag when I did the shading, so my current computer allows me to do it better. Though I guess we shall see when I end up drawing automobiles again... whenever that might be.