*Stratos Zero...

*Bertone.  Perfection in form and extremely advanced for the time...

*EV airplane...

* ...a bit more reveal.

*Aeroplane...

*Another peek at the EV airplane...

*Aeroplane peek...

*Another little shot of the Electric airplane project...

*Labor Day

*Happy Labor Day.  A cautionary tale from the world of design consulting.  Every designer/firm has a client that has not paid.  My good friend Harald Belker warned me of this and indeed, even he has a tale of one famous retired auto exec that is in non-payment.  Big dreams, big fail, morally, ethically and of course business wise.

My fail is from a start-up company that was going to produce a amazing supercar!  (old story that).  Ronnmotors never paid the balance on the work DELIVERED.  If you order the meal, eat it, like it, PRAISE it, and then only pay the agreed half, that is wrong.  Got the usual excuses: "money is tight" (so what?!  you ordered the work!) "money is coming soon" (again...so what), "we will pay you soon" (outright lie).  Of course plenty of time was given for the benefit of the doubt...but really.

Unless you are working in kind or for equity, that is a totally different story, but this is a straight business transaction.

This company continued to tour, put out press releases and act is if nothing is wrong.  Sorry, you are representing my hard work and using it to gain a business advantage, which is all fine if you had paid what was written and agreed to.

Advise getting it all in writing and of course securing a deposit on the job to be done, but even then it does not mean the people/company will live up to legal/business obligations...

*Foretravel Luxury Coach...

*Preview of the 2012, (launching Jan 2011), Foretravel luxury coach....

*Hybrid package...

*Bet we can do better on the Cd of the current crop of hybrid autos...

*Rendering...

*Rendering...all the elements are there, including the mesh engine covers and large side intake...

*Original sketch...

*This sketch, from 1999, became the 1:4 scale model, which became the 1:1 clay model, which became the Carrera GT show car of Paris in 2000.  It all started from this simple sketch showing the basics and capturing the emotion and spirit of a true supercar...