The reference for this kind of car might be no other than an initial athletic area, recent yet already popular and practised throughout the planet.

"Parkour was devised like a fresh manner of living and experiencing a metropolitan course creatively", says Fabrizio Giugiaro, "Parkour enthusiasts, that are described as traceurs or plotters, accommodate their body towards the encompassing environment pursuing, through their movements, not merely spectacle but instead chiefly maximum efficiency. The goal of parkour would be to maneuver around as economically as possible. By economically I mean: just, fast and safely, which are characteristic options that come with our car".

Using a practical management device fitted within the dash, the driver can in fact literally adapt the automobile to its environment, picking from four distinct settings, one created for comfortable driving, one for offroad driving, one for cold weather conditions and, last but not least, one for highspeed driving on a race track. The electronic system is activated to alter the engine setup, the height over the earth along with the ride.

Parcour is really a twoseater auto with fourwheel drive, fitted with a 550 HP Lamborghini V10 5.2litre mid back engine effective at quickening from 0 to 100 km/h in only 3.6 seconds.

OUTSIDE

"Every time we approach a job to get a research model, we always begin using exactly the same question", clarifies Fabrizio Giugiaro, "what is missing from your universe of automobiles now? Nowadays, we demand an automobile that's an appropriate and highperformance vehicle, aside from its own use and of the kind of terrain, which will be how a SUV came into being: it is really a vehicle that ensures driving comfort even on challenging and rough terrains. We teamed this using the set up of the perfect midengine sports car, having the ability to count, as always, on Audi/Volkswagen group technology.

The effect may be the Parcour, a midengine sports car with minimal overhangs and wide ramp angles that is perfect for all-course driving".

This new set up can also be, clear within the styling, with an outdoor design that metabolises the particular characteristics of then SUV, of the Crossover, of the Gran Turismo and those of the midengine low rider, combining them within an architecture that's at the similar time powerful, slimline and lightweight regardless of the generously sized tyres, created particularly by Vredestein.

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CREATED BY AERODYNAMICS

The kind of the outside was attained by starting off using a scrupulous investigation of the aerodynamic and technical demands along with onboard comfort, naturally.

You will find two distinguishing characteristics with this carbon fiber car and aluminum, coated within the classic Giugiaro Red: the A column is detached from your windshield and in addition functions like a deflector. Along with having an architectural function, it conveys the atmosphere on the surfaces and roofing of the automobile.

This ensures both equilibrium during driving along with cooling of the strong 550-hp V10 engine.

This unique set up makes to get an extremely slimline and lightweight car, in the 3/4 front view. From your side, the soft shape of your body along with the octagonal crosssection of the ample wheel arches stick out.

The passenger compartment is inspired by urban fashion and is exceptionally enveloping, almost sticking towards the residents; the driver and passenger are consequently quite close together as well as towards the windows, in order that a decreased surface area is employed for windows, windshield and rear window without compromising visibility from your interior.

They're butterfly doors, like those fitted on autos: the doors swivel open upwards and inwards; because the door construction comprises a piece of the roofing, thanks for this option, getting to the automobile is more suitable.

Within the 3 / 4 view and the plan view, both long carbon slits across the whole span of the auto stick out. This definitely is definitely an aesthetic trick which helps lighten the perception of the 2 - metre wide vehicle, splitting the sides from your body of the automobile, also using a colour difference involving the body along with the black carbon.

The technical strategy towards the kind of the Parcour also directed the composition of the front bonnet and back boot.

Each duct conveys the atmosphere needed to cool off the three big radiators. The overhang, which will be uncommon to get a mid - engine automobile, affords a really broad ramp angle, which will be perfect for the nature of the vehicle. A boot was obtained within the bonnet in the front, enclosed involving both perpendicular carbon air intakes.

Likewise, the layout of the back was dictated by aerodynamics: 2 light clusters tower on a big air-intake. The glass bonnet is inserted in a carbon structure featuring a design marked by the two perpendicular air intakes and also the three big flat slits, which are graphically exceptionally emphasised, and therefore are needed to produce the hot air from your engine compartment.

A HIGHTECH YET MINIMALIST INSIDE

Biotechnology and functionality would be the guiding concepts behind the layout of the interiors. All of the controls happen to be grouped together about the steering wheel and about the dash which separates the motorist from your passenger.

Three bags can fit within the compartment obtained behind both seats. "This integrate" results from research related towards the development of the notion of the boot, here becomes a collection of practical, versatile and modular goods, capable to fill the newest requirements of traveling.

All the data concerning the automobile and driving is supplied around the multifunction LCD monitor recessed beneath the top of the dash and situated before the driver. The computer screen is put into two sections: depending around the control chosen by the driver, the very best half displays the NAVIGATION system, the standing of the automobile, the music entertainment or even the pictures from your camera. The bottom half exhibits all of the routine running advice like speed, mpg covered, fuel level and revs. The images and colour of the screen change in line with the chosen driving setting: white for "Relaxation", red for "Sport", orange for "Off Road" and blue for "Ice". On each side of the central screen, at dash level, you will find two displays linked towards the side cameras.

The top area of the refined Plexiglas central dash houses the controls for that climate control along with the operation of the music entertainment, via touch controls the passenger also can use. The conditioned air is diffused uniformly from the slit running throughout the whole dash.

The center of the dash also houses the dial selector for that four driving modes: Relaxation, to get a comfortable drive suited to city settings; OffRoad for offroad driving; Ice for cold weather conditions with bad road grip and finally Sport, to obtain the maximum of the total 550 HP of the Lamborghini 10cylinder engine. As stated above, every one of these driving modes continues to be allocated an pinpointing colour which, along with the images of the driver's screen, also shifts the lighting around the dash, thanks to two rows of LEDs placed within the Plexiglas.

INNOVATIVE SUSPENSION

The inspiration for that suspension geometry originates from the so called push pole archetype, which will be used on road super-cars, Formula and GT racers. On such suspension a pole, joined to a whishbone, shoves the spring via a rocking chair. The turning point of our notion is that the pole continues to be replaced with a coil-over.

This suspension might be understood to be a "pushrod 2.0"! It has 8 coilovers installed on-board, 2 per corner.

Just 4 coilovers are really working like a conventional double whishbone GT vehicle and so the vehicle acts, when driving on track or on road. By method of a sophisticated hydraulic system the ride height might be altered along with the rocking chair might be unlocked in order that in conditions every one of the 8 shocks begin working together, dramatically cutting down the suspension stiffness.

THE PARCOUR ROADSTER, AN OPENAIR ROAD STAR

"A car using a decidedly sporty setup, like a midengine car, but designed for many weather conditions, for many scenarios, couldn't fail to have opentop version", clarifies Fabrizio Giugiaro. The set up is quite like that of the coupe but within this instance the fashion continues to be redesigned starting together with the engine, to improve the sporty spirit even farther; in fact, within this variant there isn't any disruption within the continuity involving the passenger compartment along with the engine compartment, we're able to go as far as to say they truly are an entire".

To compensate for that lack of the roof, the front and rear pillars happen to be strengthened with carbon fiber; they maybe not only play an aerodynamic function but also become a rollbar, to ensure the security of occupants when the automobile overturns.

The temperament of the version is highlighted by its own ability to conveniently carry two pairs of skis, thanks towards the mountable ski rack.

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