2013 Concours D'Elegance Polyphony Award and demo

[ildd]

 

[CarBastard]

 

[HarVee]

Not a bad choice honestly.

 

[Raggadish]

It may come in a DLC, who knows? The Alfa won in 2009, and a year later it featured in GT5. Take the same amount of time (or probably even less) and it'll come to GT6.

Note that the 2010 winner never came to GT5, even when DLC came much much later.

 

[Furinkazen]

I just fell in love.

 

[Suzumiya]

Note that the 2010 winner never came to GT5, even when DLC came much much later.

Hmm, true. But PD may have changed a bit since. Time will tell.

 

[ildd]

I believe "Greg Whitton" either won best of show or the polyphony award

He won the Milli Miglia trophy.

 

[Duphman]

Some history:

Having minimal success with the DB3, Aston Martin had designer A.G. Watson engineer a new car. In May of 1953 a new prototype appeared at Charterhill. The car was largely based on the DB3 and featured a lighter chassis with a reduced wheelbase.

Through the years of 1953 to 1957, the DB3 raced and evolved greatly. The first version featured the specification below, with the final version having a 240HP supercharged Inline-6.

The DB3S introduced many welcomed changes over the DB3. Most importantly, the Salisbury hypoid-bevel final drive was replaced with a David Brown spirial-bevel verison. It was the hypoid spiral drive which retired two DB3s at the 1952 Le Mans. Other changes included a new body, chassis and rear suspension geometry.

DB3Ss helped Aston Martin establish many international victories. During its debut at Charterhill, a DB3S driven by Reg Parnell beat out an Ecurie Escosse C-Type for an overall victory. Shortly after, three DB3Ss raced Le Mans with little success. This was the only race which Aston Matrin lost in 1953. During the Tourist Trophy, Goodwood Nine Hours and British Empire Trophy, Aston Matrin took overall victories against British competition. With some newely found victories, Aston Martin looked to secure more international success.

In 1954, the DB3Ss didn't take overall victory at Le Mans, Sebring or the Milla Miglia. For Silverstone, two coupe versions were made up with twin-spark engines developing 225 horsepower. One of the Le Mans cars was fitted with a supercharger for the first time. This helped the car develop 240 horsepower at 6000 rpm. Despite the developments, a 4.9 litre Ferrari took the victory at LeMans.

In 1955, Aston Martin benefitted from a 3-litre sports cars limitation on engine capacity. This year Aston Martin abandoned the DB3S coupes which raced and crashed at Le Mans. These designs were very unstable at high speeds. Both coupes were rebodied as open cars for the 1955 season. Victory was seen at Silverstone with a second place at Le Mans. This was the best LeMans result Aston Martin achieved up to 1955.

1956 was a non-eventfull year for Aston Martin. A second place was again achieved by Moss and Colins at LeMans. It was also this year that Aston Martin started to focus on an all-new car that would see most success the firm had ever achieved. This car was the DBR1 which replaced the DB3S in 1957.

From 1953 to 1957 around 30 DB3Ss were produced. Eleven of these were factory works cars. The Aston with a blue egg crate grill featured above is a factory team car DB3S/10.

Read more at http://www.supercars.net/cars/61.html#QrBClpslyl45zeiU.99

 

[Raggadish]

When Kaz saw the car he was all:

 

[Crumpet]

Nice to see more classics in the GT series.

 

[ildd]

Some history:

The Aston Martin DB3S was a sports racing car built by Aston Martin as a replacement for the heavy and uncompetitive Aston Martin DB3. In total 31 cars were made, with 11 works cars and 20 cars being sold for customer use. The DB3S was introduced in 1953 and it proved somewhat more successful than the Aston Martin DB3. The DB3S was later replaced in 1956 by the DBR1.

Somewhere around 1850-1940 LB, according to Wikipedia. 3L straight 6.

EDIT- this was a 1955. http://www.rmauctions.com/lots/lot.cfm?lot_id=1053246 210 HP...

 

[CarBastard]

Mr. Kazunori, can we please have a C-Type Jaguar to race this against with?

 

[Panoz]

Best in show coming up now.

 

[SCER]

These trumpets are taking the piss. Beautiful car though, wouldn't have been my personal choice but a worthy winner.

 

[another_jakhole]

These trumpets are taking the piss. Beautiful car though, wouldn't have been my personal choice but a worthy winner.

Hey, "It's got a great ass."

 

[Duphman]

Hey, "It's got a great ass."

I love how quickly the announcer ran away from him when he said that.

 

[SCER]

Hey, "It's got a great ass."

I love how quickly the announcer ran away from him when he said that.

It certainly didn't lack awkward moments.

 

[Crumpet]

Whats this I hear about ass?

 

[sems4arsenal]

Brilliant,can't wait to drive her

 

[another_jakhole]

It certainly didn't lack awkward moments.

Whats this I hear about ass?

hahaha That's what the owner of the vehicle commented about the car at the very end. Completely unexpected because he seemed to be such a nice man...then his vulgarity made me do a triple take. It was quirky as hell.

 

[Duphman]

So we have another participant for the British Lightweight event as well as the Historic Racing Car Cup event. Its also a nice car to take on the TZ2 and the 500 Mondial Pinin Farina Coupe with.
Now for your attention

As I have said before, during that event Yamauchi-san was in close contact with the following fellow judges(http://pebblebeachconcours.net/pages/about-people-judges/index.htm):

MICHAEL J. ACCAVITTI - Honda Motor Co.
SILVIO ANGORI - Pininfarina S.p.A.
VALENTINO BALBONI - Automobili Lamborghini
ULRICH BEZ - Aston Martin
MICHAEL BOCK - Mercedes-Benz Classic and CEO of the Mercedes-Benz Museum
MORAY CALLUM - Ford Americas Design
CHRISTOPHER CHAPMAN - Hyundai Motor Group as Chief Designer and Director at Hyundai Design North America
LUC DONCKERWOLKE - Director of Design for Volkswagen
JIM FARLEY - Ford Motor Company’s executive vice president, Global Marketing
JACKIE L. FRADY - National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection) in Reno, Nevada
TOM GALE - Chrysler, Vice President of Design
HURLEY HAYWOOD - Vice President of Brumos Porsche
KEVIN HUNTER - President of Toyota Motor Corporation’s North American design studio, Calty Design Research
MICHAEL MAUER - head of Porsche Design Department
TORSTEN MÜLLER-ÖTVÜS - Chief Executive Officer for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd (remember the Wraith in case you think all Rolls-Royce makes is rolling living rooms).
PROFESSOR GORDON MURRAY - nothing needs to be said here
CHRIS BANGLE - same as above
SHIRO NAKAMURA - Senior Vice President and Chief Creative Officer for Nissan Motor Company
MICHAEL J. O’BRIEN - Hyundai vice president of corporate and product planning
FRANZ-JOSEF PAEFGEN - formerly Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bentley Motors and President of Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S.
HORACIO PAGANI - The man's name says it all
CHRISTIAN PHILIPPSEN - Louis Vuitton’s ambassador to the automobile community (remember Louis Vuitton’s auto collection? Easily a rival to Jay Leno's whose collection looms large in Polyphony minds.)
DR. IAN ROBERTSON - Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG
WOLFGANG SCHREIBER - Bentley as Chairman and CEO and Bugatti[/B] as President
MARTIN SMITH - Executive Design Director for Ford of Europe
HAU THAI-TANG - Ford Motor Company Group Vice President
GORDEN WAGENER - Vice President Design for Daimler AG, Mercedes-Benz Cars, Vans & Daimler Trucks
EDWARD T. WELBURN JR. - GM Vice President—Global Design
STEPHAN WINKELMANN - President and CEO of Automobili Lamboghini S.p.A
ALLAN WINN - Director of the Brooklands Museum, on the site of the world’s first purpose-built motor racing circuit
ANDREA ZAGATO - third generation Zagato to head Coachwork Zagato

These are extremely powerful people for Polyphony to be around. It is obvious that relationships have been established between judges but it remains to be seen if anything tangible comes to fruition.
Could this result in some extra access to vehicles? Who knows. But I feel it is worth getting excited over.

 

[Grand Prix]

DB3S, awesome choice by Kaz. Hopefully there will be some Ferrari and Jaguar rivals for racing with it.

Have a vid.

 

[HarVee]

These are extremely powerful people for Polyphony to be around.

I don't think "Powerful" is the correct word to use. "Influential" is more appropriate.

 

[research]

Power / Influence. I'm interested in the difference between the two...

 

[Pit Crew]

👍 A crisp touch of Fine British Old School flavor. Very Nice.

 

[SCER]

Power / Influence. I'm interested in the difference between the two...

amen to that. in this particular context i'm pretty sure that they mean exactly the same thing.

 

[hobanator24]

DB3S, awesome choice by Kaz. Hopefully there will be some Ferrari and Jaguar rivals for racing with it.

Have a vid.

It would be awesome if that video was used as the in game description of the car.

 

[eran0004]

Great winner! I was hoping for an Aston Martin, there were quite a few of them on display before the award ceremony. Nice timing also, with the 100th anniversary of Aston martin this year 👍

 

[05XR8]

It would be awesome if that video was used as the in game description of the car.

That's Alan De Cadsomethingorother. I used to watch all his documentaries on Speed Channel. Awesome stuff.

 

[qwbufp]

That's Alan De Cadsomethingorother. I used to watch all his documentaries on Speed Channel. Awesome stuff.

Alain De Cadenet