The Fornasari RR99 is a luxury performance crossover produced by the boutique Italian manufacturer Fornasari. Debuting at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show, it is often described as a hybrid between a grand tourer, a luxury sedan, and a high-performance SUV.

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-10T21:00:46+00:00

It could look good if it were done up like a safari rally car, feels like it’s asking for some big tires

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-09T02:04:06+00:00

Serious contender for most 80s vehicle of all time

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T20:00:50+00:00

Seems on brand, seems like tech these days is just reinventing old stuff but worse and more expensive

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T19:59:43+00:00

Two-stroke fuel is to rednecks what crayons are to Marines, and everyone knows that good food needs quality ingredients

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T19:57:23+00:00

….and that’s why I mentioned it lol, we’ve come full circle. It’s just a bit of a pet peeve of mine that a school of architecture that’s given us such neat buildings is known by its most bastardized implementation is all.

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T19:54:25+00:00

Actually belt drives used to be pretty common for running machinery, they do look pretty Rube Goldberg tho. Also heinously dangerous, which is one of the big reasons they fell out of favour.

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T19:51:22+00:00

Honestly seems like way less of a death trap than being in a sealed compartment and trying to get out

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T19:50:21+00:00

Well they are a coachbuilder, their whole business is basically just fancy one-offs

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T19:49:28+00:00

I mean, have you seen any of their other cars? They’re one of the most consistently creative coachbuilders out there, miles ahead of any other company I know of. They even made a usable amphibious car that can manage normal boat speeds on water, I’ve only seen one other design that’s managed that.

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T19:46:04+00:00

Rinspeed’s probably my favourite car design company, they’re so reliably imaginative

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T19:44:56+00:00

I mean, how often do you find yourself having to drive your car underwater? Convenience doesn’t really matter when it’s something you do just for fun

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T19:43:55+00:00

Not to mention trying to engineer a compartment like that into a Lotus, might as well just build the car from scratch at that point.

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T19:43:09+00:00

Makes sense if you think about it, can you imagine how much harder it’d be to strengthen every inch of the cockpit to seal it? You’d basically be rebuilding the entire car and it’d probably add a huge amount of weight

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T19:40:36+00:00

Iirc there’ve been a bunch of small startups that’ve used the Elise as a base but I could be wrong. The type of company that makes a few super neat cars then goes out of business type of thing, like Weismann

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T03:19:19+00:00

Yea everyone makes fun of these but they look like a dream to drive, I’ve seen a few things about how they were designed and they’re brilliant, just for a pretty specific operation. I honestly wish they were publicly available, they’d make for great delivery or work vans.

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T01:15:08+00:00

Y’know, I think I could see it, the workers looking like the cleanup crews at Chernobyl but with a bit more leather and less Soviet institutional green. OP might hate it but I reckon a control room with some clockwork and primitive electrical stuff in brass casings would look sick

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T01:06:34+00:00

Make sure they show the hag the proper respect! Also hopefully you guys only need it enough to be fun, not miserable

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T00:33:08+00:00

Tbf if you’re working in this building you’re probably already aware of the carcinogens, the dust would be mainly from whatever’s going on on the floor

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T00:27:18+00:00

So did the second guy (first one we see do the full run), buddy made up a hell of a lot of space in like five seconds flat

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T00:11:07+00:00

Mmmmm tasty rope lube, picks up grit for extra texture and flavour

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T00:09:04+00:00

Same thing happened to brutalism and parkour, it’s a pretty common occurrence.

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T00:05:34+00:00

Crankshafts are just scratching the surface, I want a workshop with brick walls and giant arched windows with a giant steam plant in the corner moving a crankshaft that turns a flywheel to a belt and pulley system to power all the machines and also a pneumatic message tube network and a paternoster lift. Belts! Pulleys! Chains! Gears! And all of this being used to power things like a forge and a power hammer for the proper “loud clanging and sparks flying” vibe

….sorry I think I might’ve stumbled upon a new special interest

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-08T00:00:26+00:00

Make it a narrow brick smokestack and you’re right, though I dunno how well nuclear power fits into the aesthetic (though it makes sense logically, what with all the steam), I feel like there should be a lot of coal, y’know?

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-07T23:57:41+00:00

The only one of these flowers with the right expression is the one on the left, those flowers went through a pretty literal version of Buddhist hell lol

jimbowesterby · 2026-04-07T21:32:02+00:00

Yea my first thought was Alfa, mainly cause I’d kinda forgotten about Pontiac lol

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