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Was the RS5 the celibration of the quattro birthday? Were those fenders the only thing they could come up with? When the news reached me about the celibration-car - a new Urquattro - about a year ago, I made this one. Its fast, its rough.. but it would be something to hit the gravel roads with in 2012 with the new WRC regulations, right?

Sitting at the Qatar Airport waiting for my flight to Singapore when the internet connection died. So what to do? I looked at some old projects and found this - the Scania SSC, a contractor van made for swedish conditions.

Sitting in my parents 9-5 Aero. My girlfriend next to me. Driving in my little home town Falun where nothing really happens. And there it is. Outside a small workshop on the smallest one way street in the smallest neighborhood in town. the worlds first supercar: Mercedes-Benz 300SL from 1955. My dream.

This is not a real ad. But I hope it will be in the future.

Its alive!

When out princes and the dude is getting married in a couple of weeks, Volvo is doing its best effort to be the royal choice by bringing something old, something white and something borrowed - the Volvo S80. In some kind of "wedding edition" they are going to drive around the guests for three days. Nice PR stunt, Volvo. But why couldnt Saab have come up with this instead? I mean, the premiere for the new 9-5 is ON the WEDDING DAY! It would have been the best of the best PR-tricks to see the 9-5 on TV as a wedding shuttle and also you can go and testdrive it.

Therefore i think SAAB should be this years Wedding crasher and simply just drive 200 new blue 9-5 Aeros around and see which car the guests pick. And you all know which one I would pick...

Please Saab, go rallying again. skip STCC or my idea of F1 - make a 92 or my 96 and go rallying.
(the original beautiful picture can be found here)

Apparently my building is gonna be torn down. Sunday night, my landfool knocked on my door telling me that I have to leave before sunday and that he TEXTED(who the hell texts this info?) me 3 weeks ago... Yea right.

Now Im staying at some wonderful friends for a week while looking for a place. Im leaving singapore on July 4th (or 4th of July for you americans) so I need something farely close to Harbour Front ASAP.

e-mail me on niklaspalm DOT design AT gmail DOT com. thankyou.

For the model year 2011, Into the Wild has some new options - one is Greenland White, a solid glossy paintjob that gives influences to classic Land Rovers from the 60s. Another welcome accessory is the Black Package - Rims and front skidplate painted in glossy black, the rims have then been polished on the edges to give a more rugged impression. The last thing is the new bike rack that attaches to the rear seat headrests and the bottom of the boot. This gives the possibility to haul 2 bicycles in the back.

some really really really rough sketches from my sketchpad. These have been done on the Singaporean subway-system going home from work.. thats how rough they are. and then some bits and pieces of PS on that.

enjoy:

Lets face it, I dont like the swedish plates. They are big and boring - nothing like some of the US plates thats got color and additional text etc. But, here in good ol' Sweden, we actually have a plate that looks farely decent - the so called USA-skylten - a smaller 300x110 mm license plate that you can have.. IF: your car is imported from the US, if the swedish importer (like KIA) is smart enought to put the US-plate in the registration OR if you have a car that needs a small plate.



Well, I need a small plate! Because the big one looks so bad. Can Anyone get it? nope. Can I put it on my Saab 99? NOWAY Mister. Can I put it on my US imported Saab 99? Ofcourse sir, you want me to drill the holes too?

How can it be like this? why cant I put the small plate on my car if I want to? Transportstyrelsen is saying the visibility with the small plate is decreased.. well, why did you make the plate in the first place then?

SO - a designer has to solve it with - something that everyone loves - money! So I calculated how much money Transportstyrelsen would save if they made a smaller plate, now when we finally got rid of the Tax sticker in the middle of the rear plate.

So here is the result: 309.000kr every year! Isnt that something to consider, Transportstyrelsen?