You’ll Never Drive These Cars – OI Canadian

First on the list is Porsche Australia with its Porsche Taycan. It’s not just a photo of the elegant racing car from Zuffenhausen. For this digital work of art, Porsche Australia called on the artist Nigel Sense. The latter created three unique NFT snapshots of the Porsche Taycan, which were then converted into virtual tokens with the help of a German NFT company. Since the Taycan is an electric vehicle, the creation of the NFTs was done, according to Porsche, “in a climate-neutral way by being offset by the Porsche Impact program”. All proceeds were donated to the Australian Center for Contemporary Art.

The most spectacular NFT car to date was made by an artist named Shl0ms. The latter blew up a Lamborghini Huracán and made a video of it. Subsequently, it offered 999 reflective film fragments of the Lamborghini Huracán for sale as non-fungible tokens. Those who buy such a token additionally receive a small video clip and a fragment of the destroyed supercar. According to Shl0ms, he and his team spent two weeks testing explosives and techniques on other vehicles, before an explosives expert let loose on a Huracán priced at around 250,000 euros.

It’s a real gem that the car manufacturer Alpine has delivered with its first digital concept GTA Concept. To do this, the French called on the hypercar designer NFT nfast. The Alpine GTA Concept is available in five NFT versions, each with a different paint job. One of them shows blue lines that represent the topographic route and the GPS coordinates of Mont-Blanc, visible only using a pair of anaglyph 3D glasses. The icing on the cake: Owners can virtually race their digital concept in Revv Racing, a blockchain-based racing game from Animoca Brands.

British automaker Rolls-Royce has also commissioned a designer to design a piece of digital art for its wealthy customers and has gone all out by creating an NFT of the new Ghost’s Black Badge Special Edition. The NFT is an animation by artist and illustrator Mason London and celebrates the legacy of the extravagant Rolls-Royce Black Badge series. According to Rolls-Royce, the Black Badge NFT is stored in an encrypted wallet at the company’s headquarters in Goodwood. The manufacturer, however, refrained from revealing the exact price of Rolls-Royce’s NFT, but when we know that the brand’s customers are ready to shell out several millions for a luxury bespoke coach, the digital work of art is undoubtedly far from being a godsend.

Nissan caused a stir in Canada with the NFT of a special edition GT-R Nismo. The digital artwork, a creation of Alex McLeod, sold at auction for $2.3 million, more than ten times the actual price of a Nissan GT-R. It’s unclear what the lucky owner plans to do with his new supercar’s token. All that is known is that Nissan and the artist donated the proceeds from the auction to charity.

Before Nissan auctioned off a car NFT, Lykan did the same with the only surviving stunt car from the filming of ‘Fast & Furious 7’. The vehicle left despite having a damaged interior, scratched paint, broken windows, missing rear air intake, damaged grille and the absence of a mirror. The NFTs in this slice of movie history from the “Fast & Furious” franchise were exclusive images and 3D videos of the Lykan Hypersport stunt car, which sold for $525,000.

Ferrari’s first road-going V6-powered model was a technological marvel, but for German tuner DMC, the Ferrari 296 GTB wasn’t spectacular enough. Despite its 818 hp, the tuner found that it lacked power. A few carbon fiber aero plates, a two-piece front lip, a spoiler, a diffuser and two new side skirts later, the tuned Ferrari 296 GTB had become an 888 hp monster. But simply exposing the copy in a showroom would still have been far too boring. The idea was that the pimped supercar from Italy would be sold using a payment method involving cryptocurrency and come with a 3D NFT of the car. In this particular case, the future owner will not only have the advantage of having the real car in his garage, but will also be able to spin through the metaverse with the NFT version.

Gone are the days of playing in the sandbox with our Hot Wheels! Sure, you can still buy them, but even Hot Wheels has evolved over time. For some time now, the miniature car manufacturer has been offering a whole series of elegant cars in its “NFT garage” and this, starting at 25 dollars each. However, there is a small catch, because whoever buys a Hot Wheels NFT does not receive a digital model, but a kind of pocket similar to that of a video game containing several cars of the same series. The idea is that buyers exchange series and thus complete their collection. As in the football picture collector’s albums, rare models that may increase in value later are hidden among the Hot Wheels NFTs.