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18th Annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance (2013)

By Malcolm Hogan

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Once again, we were on the scene for the Annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. The spectacle of this truly prestigious event, marking the 18th year, kicked off the weekend to a pleasant sunny field highlighting some of the finest automobiles in the world. This year the Concours celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Porsche 911 and Ford GT40 along with the cars of Harry Miller.

Some of the displays of Porsche 911’s were something to cherish with just about every variation of the German classic on display including a couple one-off all-wheel-drive rally 911s. On the other end of the spectrum several iconic Ford GT40’s laced the field with their one-off displays with vast collections from Harry Miller and a few for the honorary chairman Sam Posey.

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The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance also highlighted over 60 years of the Corvette with the all-new 2014 Corvette Stingray on display surrounded by notable Corvette models through the years. We didn’t forget the astonishing Lamborghini’s at the start of the field to really get your motors running. Seminars featured Ed Welburn, Vice President Global Design at General Motors, 1963 Sting Ray designer Peter Brock and the GT40 racing tales by Dan Gurney, David Hobbs, Brian Redman and others.

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Every year the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance gets better and better, the images below that we captured is further proof of concept. We look forward to joining the festivities once again next year and sharing many of these stunning automobiles with you.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Automotive Addicts

Toyota to Introduce i-ROAD and FR-S Roadster–Previewing FT-86 Open Concepts in Geneva [2013 Geneva Auto Show]

By Austin Lindberg

Toyota has a pair of concepts prepped for the upcoming Geneva auto show, one that has us scratching our heads and another that has us panting with anticipation: the i-ROAD and the FT-86 Open, which you might as well begin referring to as the Scion FR-S roadster.

Toyota says that it’s assessing the engineering behind converting the GT 86 to a convertible, while simultaneously gauging customer reaction. We previewed the inevitable FR-S roadster last year and suspect this concept has Mazda Miata marketers looking over their shoulders. Unlike the Miata, however, we think it’s likely the open-top FR-S will have rear seats if the sketch above is anything to go off of. If customer reaction is as positive as we think it will be, it’s possible a production-spec FR-S roadster could be debuted later this year or early in 2014.



As for the head scratcher, the i-ROAD, it’s a small, lightweight “personal-mobility concept” that is emissions-free and meant for urban environments. There’s room for two sitting in a tandem formation. With just a top-view drawing and no further information available, we’ll have to wait to get to Geneva to see what the i-ROAD really looks like. In the meantime, we’ll just think of it as a 21st-century version of Harry Miller’s 1917 Golden Submarine.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Car & Driver