Η Garage Italia Customs του Lapo Elkann έχει μπει για τα καλά στον χώρο της βελτίωσης και σήμερα μας παρουσιάζει ένα μοναδικό Mazda MX-5. Η εταιρία ονομάζει την one-off δημιουργία της Levanto, με το όνομα να προέρχεται από μια παραθαλάσσια κωμόπολη στη Βόρεια Ιταλία.
Το MX-5 Levanto αποτελεί πνευματικό τέκνο του Elkann, ο οποίος λέει πως εμπνεύστηκε από το ντοκιμαντέρ “The Endless Summer” του 1966. Το σώμα του αυτοκινήτου είναι βαμμένο σε δύο χρώματα, πορτοκαλί και γαλάζιο, με το μοναδικό αυτό MX-5 να φορά ζάντες διαστάσεων 17″, ενώ στο εσωτερικό συναντάμε τζιν και Alcantara επενδύσεις.
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MX-5 LEVANTO: Mazda AND Garage Italia Customs bring the beach to Milan
Milan, June 23, 2016. Mazda has chosen Garage Italian Customs, to create a “single piece” of its MX5 fourth generation iconic spider .
Not a casual encounter this one between the Japanese company and the creative hub of Lapo Elkann: Mazda infact is the Japanese company that more than others has adopted the Japanese tradition for fine craftsmanship and the cult of the craftsmanship (the ‘art of Takumi) brought to its maximum level.
Natural complement of Takumi could only be evidently the “Maestros” of Garage Italian Customs, specialists with unique skills and absolute exceptionality in customization of products already representing already the excellence in standard products realization.
The creative idea of this spectacular interpretation of the MX-5 comes from the creativity of Lapo Elkann and from the movie The “Endless Summer”, the legendary 1966 Bruce Brown film considered a masterpiece of documentary film on the Surf.
The plot of the film tells the story of two American boys who embark on a trip between New Zealand, Australia, Africa and Tahiti and literally chasing the summer – which thus becomes endless – traveling around the globe, always searching for the perfect wave, introducing in each visited country the Surf as a real sport.
The title carries on a very nice concept and absolutely in line with those that are the values of Mazda MX5 and in particular: the taste of freedom, the pleasure of contact with nature and an irrepressible “desire for an endless summer”.
And just as the two Brown movie’s protagonists are always in pursuit of the perfect wave, so the MX-5 owners chase instead the “perfect path”.
The model realized is called MX-5 Levanto: the name is that of small country, called the pearl of the Ligurian coast, which is considered — for the unique characteristics of the seabed of its crystal clear sea — the Italian surfing birthplace.
The livery of the roadster has been created by developing the concept of ‘endless summer” and revisited finding inspiration in Levanto, crossing the legendary aesthetic of the Californian beach boy with the sophisticated elegance typical of the Italian Riviera.
The body incorporates the colors of the long summer sunsets (an endless sunset!). With a bright orange tone that fades in indigo height of the waistline. The special coating has been produced with skilled craftsmanship by Garage Italia Customs able artisans that, carefully measuring out the amount of splash from the paint gun, managed to get a perfect fusion, without any kind of separation between the two colors, which fade into each other naturally. The interior holds the chromatic duality of the exterior with a full dashboard trim, door panels and in Japanese denim upholstery, combined with Alcantara nautical blue for the seats (a material that you can safely bathe, therefore perfectly in line with the concept of car) with orange contrast stitching: so young and practical as they are elegant and absolutely new materials in the Automotive field.
To complete the customization of the car, we find a set of 17 “wheels, Diamond Cut,” Design 66″ of the original Mazda accessories line.
These circles, the characteristic diamond cut, not only give more attractive appearance to the car but, with their identification code (“66”) give another, subliminal reference to Brown’s film.
The famous film in fact, destined to enter into the myth, saw its worldwide launch in 1966.
Another tribute, another again, by a myth of the 4 wheels to a myth of 35 mm.
And 50 years after the release of the movie, in this 2016, the evergreen Mazda will grant endless summer.
Mazda and Garage Italia Customs want to thank Levanto Municipality, whose sunsets have made possible the realization of the wonderful pictures, having as protagonist the MX-5 Levanto.
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