Beyond fake Ferraris, Slovak carmaker on attack

02/07/2008 09:36. “Before, Attack looked fast only when standing on a parking lot. Now, I call out any Porsche, any Ferrari for a challenge,” he said. Kvetnansky hopes Attack’s fresh look-a shape born in a Bratislava sushi restaurant where Slovak designer Juraj Mitro first drew its curves on a napkin in 1997 — will entice people looking for something beyond the mainstream.

If Slovakia does not usually come to mind in terms of innovative auto design, the top designer at Volkswagen’s Skoda Auto is a Slovak: Jozef Kaban designed the 1 million euro, 1,000 horsepower Bugatti Veyron.

And while carmakers have rushed to central Europe — particularly Slovakia-in the last decade to pump out mass-produced family cars for the growing middle class, Kvetnansky’s firm, K-1 Engineering, is an exception.... // Peninsula On-line

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