New Cigarette 46′ Unveiled at Miami Boat Show

UPDATE: IF YOU MISSED THIS DUO, YOU WILL STILL HAVE A CHANCE TO SEE THEM AT SUPERCAR EXPERIENCE in February!

February 15, 2010 – MIAMI BEACH — Two legendary performance brands – Mercedes AMG and Cigarette Racing – unveiled a custom Cigarette Racing boat and the SLS AMG, which inspired its design, at a special preview at the Miami International Boat Show on Thursday, February 11. Both the Cigarette Boat and SLS AMG are on display at the boat show until Monday, February 15, 2010.

While each brand’s playground is as different as asphalt and water, both AMG and Cigarette use their racing expertise to develop high performance machines for passionate enthusiasts.

Available this May, the 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG was developed exclusively by Mercedes-AMG, the high performance and motorsports division of Mercedes-Benz. Featuring a lightweight aluminum spaceframe chassis, hand built 563-hp AMG V8 engine and signature “Gullwing” doors, the SLS AMG is sure to quicken the pulse of high-performance enthusiasts.

Founded upon mutual respect and product admiration, Mercedes-AMG and Cigarette Racing have developed a long-standing professional relationship, allowing Mercedes-AMG to provide manufacturing expertise and materials to enhance one of Cigarette Racing’s top models, the 46′ Rider.

The new Cigarette 46′ Rider features hand-applied AMG ALUBEAM silver paintwork also available on the SLS AMG. This process, used exclusively by AMG, covers body surfaces like a metallic skin, targeting light reflections to further emphasize exterior character lines and design details. Showcasing the state of the art nanotechnology, this unique finish imbeds tiny pigments of color measuring just 30 to 50 nanometres. The ALUBEAM silver is contrasted with AMG Designo Mystic White metallic in a bold design echoing the Mercedes-AMG logo. Inside, the boat features marine-grade upholstery that resembles the two-tone AMG Designo porcelain and white Nappa leather offered on the SLS AMG.

While many of the influences of the SLS AMG can be seen in the exterior paint work and interior, the true benefits of the inspiration can be found below the surface. With more than 100 innovations on display, the all new 46′ Rider serves as a technology showcase for Cigarette.

From the propulsion system to the rigging, a clean sheet approach was utilized to build the all new 46′ Cigarette.

Powered by a pair of revolutionary twin-turbocharged 552 ci, 1350 HP Mercury Racing engines, the 46′ Cigarette is estimated to have a top speed in excess of 130 MPH.

More details on the Cigarette Racing “Inspired by AMG” 46′ Rider can be found online at www.cigaretteracing.com/legendary

About Cigarette Racing

Since 1969, Cigarette Racing Team has left an everlasting mark on the worldwide luxury powerboating industry. Its logo and iconic shapes are recognized throughout the world as the definition of custom high performance powerboating. The brand is renowned for its custom approach to building high performance luxury powerboats in which every customer’s personal touch can be seen. Cigarette’s long history and dedication to quality are on display all around the world being driven by presidents and enthusiasts alike. From 38′ to 50′ Cigarette Racing defines the industry of High Performance powerboating. More information can be found on Cigarette Racing at www.cigaretteracing.com.

About Mercedes-Benz USA

Mercedes-Benz USA, headquartered in Montvale, New Jersey, is responsible for the sales, marketing and customer service for all Mercedes-Benz and Maybach products in the United States. For more than 40 years, MBUSA has taken pride in its commitment to the customer by providing superior quality luxury vehicles coupled with outstanding customer support. More information on MBUSA and its products can be found at www.mbusa.com and www.maybachusa.com.

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He recently released his remake of “Ice-Ice Baby” in the UK with Simon Cowell’s X-Factor featured group “Jedward” and holds currently no. 1 for the best selling single in the UK.

The Wellington resident is also known for his passion with exotic cars and racing. He has successfully competed in AMA dirt bike competitions, raced Jet Ski on wild rivers, and owned one of the first “Gemballa’s Porsches” in the United States.

His dedication for supercars, collectibles, exotic cars and especially Cadillac’s, is well known on car shows around Florida, and he owns a stunningly restored 1964 de Ville convertible.

In his music career he met former EMI-executive Dr. Hans Reinisch, who helped Rob achieve selling multiple “Platinum” albums in Austria/Europe. They developed music projects together and became friends in the early 90’s.

Dr. Hans Reinisch, Austrian native, business entrepreneur and resident of Delray Beach, has a career of his own. He was 18 times Austrian champion in swimming and member of the Olympic swimming team for Munich and Montreal.

He successfully managed the first “Health Bio-Trainings Resort” in Austria as CEO, and contracted the Formula 1 Teams under Ron Dennis with Ayerton Senna, Alain Prost, Niki Lauda, Gerhard Berger and Michael Schumacher for their ongoing racing circuit’s check-ups, special health needs and fitness trainings.

His racing genes go back to his grandfather, who was a leading engineer in the development of the Porsche 356 in Austria, and personal friend of Ferdinand Porsche. He has been collecting supercars and vintage cars.

Rob and Hans with their common passion are now developing a stunning new project in Delray Beach, called “TheCarLoft”.

www.TheCarloft.com

This unique project features 22 individual car showrooms/storages for exotics, supercars and collectibles.

The “Car Garage” will come with durable “racing inspired” marble floors, snap on tools working equipment, high-end cleaning materials and a built in lift can be added if needed.

All units are equipped with “Hi-Tec” entertainment features, such as LCD –TV’s, Dolby surround music and gaming equipment kitchenettes and bathrooms.

The upstairs loft is designed as office or short term overnight stay. It will have an expandable sleeper or Murphy bed, shower, bathroom and all amenities to enjoy and relax.

It is designed as the first “live –in” community for owners with passion for their driving artwork.

The extremely exclusive project comes completely “tricked –out”, “turn-key”, in various individual sizes from 1800-2400 square feet and up to 4 cars per unit for their future V.I.P. owners.

The project will also feature state of the art environmental equipment, such as solar powered lights and water heating, hurricane resistant windows and eco friendly materials throughout.

Therefore the anticipated running cost will be extremely low and affordable and an onsite manager will provide additional service as well as 24 hour security.

“TheCarLoft” Delray Beach site is located just 5 minutes from downtown and its most famous Atlantic Avenue and only minutes away from the sandy Floridian beach.

The Delray site is designed as the pilot-project, and the two entrepreneurs are planning to go nationwide with an already prepared “TheCarLoft-Franchise”.

Rob and Hans are eager to be move into their own units owners and are looking forward to have car shows, events and “great times” with their neighbor car enthusiasts.

So check out the website, get driving and enjoy your ride. For more info visit
www.thecarloft.com, or call 561-8430099 to get you early reservation in.

Two legendary performance brands — Mercedes AMG and Cigarette Racing — have joined forces to create a custom Cigarette Racing boat that will be unveiled with its inspiration, the SLS AMG, on Thursday, February 11, 2010 at the Miami International Boat Show. Both the Cigarette Boat and SLS AMG will be on display until Monday, February 15, 2010 at the boat show.

While each brand’s playground is as different as asphalt and water, both AMG and Cigarette use their racing expertise to develop high performance machines for passionate enthusiasts. Taking direct inspiration from the all-new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG super sports car, the new Cigarette AMG offshore racer will feature more than 100 innovations included in the design, development and rigging of the boat.

The lightweight design – To maximize performance, safety and efficiency, innovative building techniques were employed to ensure the hull is as strong and light as possible.

Innovative Hull design – Cigarette Racing has incorporated lessons learned from its 170+ MPH race boat into the hull design to offer a fast and smooth ride in the most demanding conditions.

Technology Advancements – Revolutionary technology will be on display in the Inspired by AMG Cigarette Boat. From the boats paint to its electronics to its power plants, every component of this boat has been chosen specifically to enhance the driving experience.

Efficiency – With a lightweight design and special attention being paid to aerodynamics and power plants, this boat will be the most efficient ever produced in its class

Length – More than 42′
Top speed – 120+ MPH
Power – Twin Staggered Engines HP-TBA

The countdown to the unveiling can be found at: www.cigaretteracing.com/legendary
For additional details on Cigarette Racing visit: www.cigaretteracing.com

Some people are just born to do it!  On Saturday, November 21, 2009, Renntech Inc. will be celebrating their 20th birthday at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino’s posh nightclub, Pangea.  The festivities include and open bar from 8pm-11pm, house appetizers and models with bodies as hot as the luxury vehicles being proudly displayed and celebrated.

Hartmut Feyhl, founder of Renntech, will be the guest of honor, raising his glass to the anniversary of his prestigious automotive tuning empire.  Born in Affalterbach, Germany, Feyhl spent his teen years in close proximity to the AMG factory in Germany and there, earned himself an apprenticeship which would one day become the first stepping stone to his worldwide conglomerate.   Feyhl’s innate fascination with speed and the interworkings of automotive technology resulted in a degree of in mechanical engineering and then spent the following twelve years dedicating his time and talents and passion to AMG Germany.  After painstakingly working his way up in the ranks, he was rewarded, appointed technical director of AMG North America, opening the flood gates for his own personal automotive endeavors.

Deemed “Master Mechanic” by the German Chamber of trade, the skilled automotive engineer proceeded to birth Renntech, now one of the most well-known Mercedes-Benz tuners in the world.  Hartmut’s accomplishments in North America include the development of of the AMG “Hammer” which has been recognized as the “hottest passenger sedan in history” by Car and Driver magazine, and to this day runs unopposed.  His work has also been featured in various credible publications such as Motortrend, Autoweek and Luxry and Exotics.

Today, Renntech’s philosophy focuses on “performance without compromise”  which is clearly illustrated by the meticulous craftsmanship of each vehicle.  Renntech, based in West Palm Beach, receives cars from all over the globe in need of services ranging from minor adjustments to major surgery.  All assembly is done by hand and Feyhl personally oversees the construction of each vehicle.

High security, high drama, high fashion and high level of anticipation at Trump International

With over 1,000 of Palm Beach’s finest car enthusiasts attempting to RSVP the 350 slots to be the first to preview the car, Braman’s Event Reservation Department was overloaded and scrambling to assure that the event would not be over crowded.

Security was tight and guests were treated to Donald Trump’s very best serviings of Hors D’Oeuvres ranging from lobster to lamb and everything in-between as the Lynn String Quartet and the Porsche family of cars greeted everyone on arrival .

Welcoming the guests was the event’s host; Vince Cerone, Braman’s General Manager and COO, who proclaimed the evening “historic and unprecedented for Porsche” referring to the first ever 4-door production Porsche in its history.

Three versions of the Panamera were on hand; the S, 4S and the Turbo which was veiled to await the official unveiling as the top model of the Panemara line-up.

The beauty of handcrafted, timeless luxury jewelry from Kaufmann de Suisse, inspired by the symmetry of art deco and the romantic fluidity of art nouveau shimmered brightly when combined with Escada’s 2009 collection.

Even the famous studio of Frederic Fakkai was on hand to present hair and makeup for the fashion models.

At 8pm, the lights were dimmed and a gigantic projector screened beamed images of the late Dr. Ferry Porsche extolling the virtues of Porsche’s timeless engineering, beauty and the reason for racing so hard; the pursuit of endurance. This culminated in the unveiling of the ultimate Panamera; the Panamera Turbo.

Also fashion show featured a selection of sixteen evening gowns and cocktail dresses compliments of Escada, a leading international luxury brand which is synonomous with elegant, feminine fashion that celebrates color.

Mr. Steve Krysal, Marketing and Retention Manager for Porsche Cars of North America was flown in for the honor of presenting the new Porsche to the exclusive Palm Beach crowd.

Afterwards, the sounds of the Ever So Klever swing band continued the festivities as the Trump organization kept the food and drinks flowing. The evening ended with gift presentatons to all guests that included a hard-bound commemorative Panamera book and a USB drive disguised as a Panamera ignition key. On the USB were videos of Braman customer track events, Porsche history, the Panamera design and build stages, customer testimonials and a brochure in eight languages.

All Braman Porsche Specialists were grateful for another successful Braman launch. One that will go down in the record books.

WASHINGTON D.C., June 8, 2009 — Domani Motors has been selected for the 2009 Best of Deerfield Beach Award in the Security Dealers category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).

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The USCA “Best of Local Business” Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2009 USCA Award Program focused on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the USCA and data provided by third parties.

About U.S. Commerce Association (USCA)

U.S. Commerce Association (USCA) is a Washington D.C. based organization funded by local businesses operating in towns, large and small, across America. The purpose of USCA is to promote local business through public relations, marketing and advertising.

The USCA was established to recognize the best of local businesses in their community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations, chambers of commerce and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to be an advocate for small and medium size businesses and business entrepreneurs across America.

JUPITER, FL (June 26, 2009) – Howard Wishner, one of the nation’s premier sports and beverage-marketing executives, has joined Palm Beach International Raceway (PBIR) as Chief Communications/ Marketing Officer.
Wishner, who earned national acclaim for orchestrating numerous ‘firsts’ in the sports-marketing arena, such as connecting Fortune 100 companies with major events like the Indianapolis 500, will oversee and manage all aspects of the organization’s sales, marketing and communications, both for the newly re-designed, state-of-the-art, multi-track venue track, as well as for the Palm Beach Driving Club (PBDC), PBIR’s newly-founded, exclusive driving club.

In this role, Wishner brings more than 30 years of integrated communications and marketing experience to the raceway, with a broad skill set that encompasses all aspects of marketing, brand identity programs, promotions and special events. His core strength is building brands by using marketing and communications initiatives to help sell them within the marketplace.

A master in pioneering branding initiatives, Wishner has developed innovative marketing campaigns for national and worldwide sponsored events including Championship Auto Racing Teams (now IRL), NASCAR, the NFL, NBA, MLB, the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE), Olympics and X Games.

He has developed and implemented strategic sales and marketing campaigns in a variety of markets including packaged goods, food and beverage, and sports and entertainment, resulting in increased sales and stock surges, and ensuring maximum return on investment.

Prior to joining Palm Beach International Raceway, Wishner held the position of Senior Vice President of Promotions, Marketing and Special Events at the National Beverage Corp. in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where he was tasked with developing a new marketing department designed to integrate programs between sales, marketing and distributors that supported new innovation products, as well as the company’s existing portfolio.
His role also included identifying sporting events and signing athletes as spokespersons to support the individual brands, exponentially furthering existing media coverage, events and advertising.

Wishner’s extensive career in integrated communications, marketing, and brand development began at Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus. After roles at several major agencies in New York, he launched his privately owned public relations firm, Wishner Communications, Ltd. With clients that included General Motors, Jeep Eagle, Pepsi, Major League Baseball, National Football League, Championship Auto Racing, the Teams Pro Football, Basketball Hall of Fame, Indian Motorcycle, V2K and Momints, his firm was one of the first agencies to recognize the importance of what is now called ‘sports marketing.’

Wishner has also served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications at the South Beach Beverage Company (SoBe), where he developed and implemented numerous integrated strategies to support a lifestyle product that would eventually make history in its category. His experience with SoBe led to a number of other opportunities within the beverage industry, where he helped expand numerous brands, including Brazil Gourmet, IZZE Beverage and FUZE Beverage.

“Throughout all his successes, Howard always remained a performance car and race enthusiast,” says Ron Dixon, president and COO of Palm Beach International Raceway. “This is an excellent opportunity to bring someone onboard who not only has a long track record of developing and implementing integrated communications strategies, but is an actual pioneer in the arena of sports marketing. He is a perfect fit for this environment.”
“I’ve always had a passion for motorsports,” adds Wishner. “My first car was a Firebird 400, and I’ve owned nothing but performance vehicles and motorcycles from then on. To be in a position where I can bring my core skill set in marketing and communications to a racing venue is the perfect marriage for me. I look forward to furthering PBIR as one of the world’s premier motorsports venues.”

Wishner earned his undergraduate degree at Florida State University and the University of South Carolina, where he also did post-graduate work. He is frequent speaker on sports marketing, and is currently involved, both locally and nationally, with the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

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About PBIR
Palm Beach International Raceway, formerly Moroso Motorsports Park, is now owned and operated by a team of car enthusiasts, professional racers and some of the industry’s most recognized names, including: PBIR president Ron Dixon, one of racing’s most respected professionals and father of current Indy 500 winner Scott Dixon, as well as club pro Shane Lewis, who has won multiple races in Grand-Am, IMSA, SCCA Pro Racing and has podium finishes, class victories and overall wins throughout the world. The newly re-branded and re-designed state-of-the-art venue is rapidly becoming one of the most popular raceways in the country, for racers and spectators alike. As a leader in its operating form and function, PBIR seeks to provide its drivers with a higher level of challenge, excellence and opportunity. PBIR boasts three completely refurbished, exceptionally designed tracks, including a high-performance Road Course, an all-concrete Drag Strip and a Kart Center/Track. The technologically superior two-mile Road Course features some of the fastest and most challenging corners and straight-aways offered by any track in North America. PBIR is currently sanctioned by the Indy Racing League (IRL) as a test facility, the fastest series in the country, and is pending certification by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), the governing body for many major racing events. www.racepbir.com

Michael Ghanem, the founder and owner of Domani Motors, met Tom Steinbacher, the owner of Demon’s Cycle, at a charity event and soon discovered that sponsoring local charities was not the only thing they had in common. Quickly a new partnership developed, between the builders of machines with two wheels and dealer of those with four.

Photo Domani Motors

Pompano Beach, FL (PRWEB) May 28, 2009 — Demon’s Cycles, the innovative custom motorcycle builder and Domani Motors, the exotic, sports, and luxury automobile dealer have formed a rather unique partnership. Michael Ghanem, the founder and owner of Domani Motors, met Tom Steinbacher, the owner of Demon’s Cycle, at the Boys and Girls Club 3rd Annual Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance on February 20, 2009. They soon found out that they had many mutual interests, including customers looking for exotic transportation.

Michael and Tom quickly discovered that sponsoring local charities like Camila’s House Miami and United Way was not the only thing they had in common. Demon’s Cycle is known all over the world for their custom built motorcycles as well as for the sales of high quality Harley-Davidson aftermarket parts. Domani stands out as one of the finest in luxury automobiles dealers in the world and sells high class, quality cars like Porsche, Bentley, Ferrari and Lamborghini. Exotic toys on four wheels and two wheels go hand in hand and many of the customers of Domani Motors also happened to be the customers of Demon’s Cycles Inc.

Photo Domani Motors

Both business owners saw this as an opportunity to create a partnership. Now they have made an agreement to combine efforts. Demon’s Cycle has already built a few custom motorcycles designed exclusively to Domani Motors’ customer specifications. Now even the most demanding customers can find a great way to show off their exotic machines by getting a unique custom motorcycle to match their exotic taste in cars.

“In the end everyone is a winner, especially the kids” said Tom Steinbacher, of the Demon’s Cycles. “Distinguished Domani Motors and Demon’s cycle clientele now have the opportunity to view, test drive and purchase some of the best custom motorcycles in the world built by Demon’s Cycle and the exotic car of their dreams from Domani.”

After three months of tests and trials Spadaconcept – the Italian design studio founded by Paolo Spada (former designer at Smart and Honda) together with his father Ercole, (former chief designer at Zagato and BMW), Domiziano Boschi (former Mc Kinsey) and Wojtek Sokolowski – has launched the production of its supercar, the Spada TS Codatronca. With this car Spadaconcept cherishes and revives the important heritage of Ercole Spada and the philosophy which characterized each of his creations.

The first version, named TS (Turismo Sportivo), is a car with a naturally aspirated engine with more than 600 HP with race performances. Despite the focus at Spadaconcept wasn’t on “pure” power but rather on aerodynamics, lightness and handling, this car can still reach more than 340 km/h due to a short ratio gearbox and complies with the FIA GT1 regulations. Care for environmental issues has resulted in SpadaVettureSport’s decision to add to the menu an ad-hoc “converter kit” which allows fueling the car with E85 green fuel, with a slight increase in torque and power.
With this new sport car Spadaconcept aims at reviving the philosophy that inspired Ercole Spada’s past models, in an attempt to combine aesthetics with functionality and racing performances. This new model is the latest evolutionary step of the truncated tail – “coda tronca” in Italian. The typical and aerodynamic shape which Spada had introduced with the Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ, TZ1 and TZ2 in the 60’s – gives this new car unique and nimble lines which bring in lightness and aerodynamics improving performances.

The company’s vision is centered on “functional design”, which, according to Ercole Spada, means to express the functionality of an object through its shape. Following this vision Spadaconcept came up with a genuinely breaking product, something bold an daring. Far from creating a show car where anything is allowed, Spadaconcept has worked creatively but within strict feasibility constraints, in order to reach the quality standards of a niche, handcrafted production. The performance of this car is maximized by introducing aerodynamic lines such to mould
a light and essential body. The result is an extremely stable and manageable car, able to achieve good racing performances by exploiting at the best the power of its engine, with an original and nimble shape and essential but elegant interiors.

TS Codatronca, will be produced and commercialized by SpadaVettureSport – a company created and controlled by Spadaconcept – in collaboration with a team of selected technical, industrial and commercial partners. SpadaVettureSport has aggregated highest level knowledge and expertise around this project by establishing strategic alliances mainly with small firms located in the district of Turin with great past histories and amazing skills. These partners have great tradition and specialization and allow SpadaVettureSport to combine the “best of breed” in technology with the tradition and “saper fare” – i.e. the Italian for know how – of Italian small firms. The industrial partner FS Group (a firm based near Turin, who has already realized prototypes for Mercedes, Smart, Range Rover) will realize the body, using material supplied by Elantas Camattini, and PPG. The partner Italtecnica (a small firm located in Cambiano, near Turin, already involved in the tuning of Paris-Dakar and Le mans cars for Peugeot) will work on braking system, suspensions and engine upgrade, Sparco – the manufacturer of tuning products based in Turin – will supply seats and other interior items, Pirelli and OZ Racing will provide respectively tyres and wheels, while Alcantara S.p.A., the italian company that produces the omonymous and unique material, has selected a tailored Alcantara® for the interiors. AIM-sportline will give the board-instrumentation, that thanks to the great expierence in the racing world, will even permit the storage of more than 80 hours of telemetry datas. Meccaniche Veloci will supply the dedicated on-board watch named “QuattroValvole”.

For the launch of this supercar SpadaVettureSport has signed a co-branding and co-marketing agreement with AZNOM, a small company based in Monza operating in the production of accessories and luxury items, who will realize and commercialize a line of amenities with the Codatronca brand.
The agreement signed by SpadaVettureSport and AZNOM has a long term perspective and involves joint efforts to approach the market.

The Codatronca TS version According to SpadaVettureSport the TS version is a first step which will be shortly followed by others upcoming. The more powerful TSS version – Turismo Super Sportivo – which is already under test at SpadaVettureSport, will be launched at the end of 2008. In order to realize this unique car Spadaconcept and SpadaVettureSport have put in place a manufacturing system such as to meet the quality standards typical of niche, handcrafted production.
In the present of Spadaconcept there is a strong focus on the core business – consulting and design of niche cars, motorbikes and accessories like helmets, seats, etc. – but looking to the future, the company has started to explore new fields, especially bio-ethanol powered cars and it is currently working in the development of an Environmental Friendly Vehicle (EFV).

Expect the Spada Codatronca in Palm Beach soon.