The tuning studio Carlex Design from the Polish city of Czechowice-Dziedzice announced the G-Vintage project based on the current Mercedes-Benz G-Class SUV. G-Vintage is a kind of retro mod that glorifies the aesthetics of the 1970s, but at the same time its technical filling is the most modern.
Carlex Design was founded in 2008 by Damian Skotnicki and his wife Roxana. At first, it was a small family business custom-tailoring car interiors, but gradually it turned into a full-fledged tuning studio with a rich portfolio: cars here today receive not only a new design, but also improved technical equipment. Nevertheless, custom-made interiors remain the company's strong point, and Carlex Design's scope of activity in this regard has expanded to include airplanes and yachts.
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Carlex Design uses embossed and artificially aged Himalaya leather for interior trim, which has many varieties in texture and structure. For particularly demanding customers, Carlex Design offers leather inlaid with diamond dust and precious metals. In combination with valuable wood species and jewelry finishing of any surfaces, such leather turns the car interior into a real palace on the edge and beyond kitsch. In 2021, Carlex Design, as I recall, announced a kitschy restomod based on the Jaguar XJC coupe from the mid-1970s, but we never saw this project in the flesh — only in renderings.
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The G-Vintage project also exists only in renderings for now, but in this case we have no doubt that Carlex Design will embody it in leather, wood and metal, because its portfolio already includes live “Geliks” of past generations with vintage finishes and other custom pieces thematic variations based on the same model (for example, in yacht style and steampunk style). In turn, G-Vintage is conceived as a small-scale and fairly balanced project from an aesthetic point of view, which can appeal to a fairly wide range of clients from all over the world, and not just lovers of hardcore Eastern European exotica.
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The G-Vintage is based on the latest restyled Mercedes-Benz G-Class, which celebrated its world premiere last spring, but which modification is taken as a basis is not specified — most likely, it is the top-end Mercedes-AMG G 63, in which the 4.0-liter V8 biturbo petrol engine produces 585 hp and 850 Nm. The stock Mercedes-AMG G 63 with the optional AMG Performance package accelerates to 100 km/h in 4.3 s, the maximum speed is 240 km/h. The G-Vintage promises much more impressive characteristics: the engine output will be 805 hp. and 1020 hp, and the maximum speed will increase to 260 km/h.
However, the main thing in the G-Vintage project is not the technical characteristics, but the style: bright two-tone paint, new 20-inch wheels with chrome caps and white rims on the tires, new narrowed chrome bumpers with old-fashioned fangs and chrome door mirrors. Chrome is also on the door handles, mirror housings, moldings, window frames and even on the roof, and the hood is decorated with a classic protruding chrome three-pointed Mercedes-Benz star on a thin leg. The interior, of course, is completely re-upholstered, and the trunk is finished with natural wood — the specific color palette is chosen by the customer.
Carlex Design does not say how much the G-Vintage costs, but we believe that given the large amount of work on the body and the modified equipment, we may well be talking about a seven-figure sum in euros.
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