Frankfurt Motor Show 2011

Shock new British carmaker launched

A brand new luxury car company from the UK will be launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

Called Eterniti, the company has seemingly emerged from nowhere, and very little is known about exactly what it will do and who is behind it.

All we have is the above sketch of a sporty crossover and a website hosting a teaser video that ends with the word 'Hemera' - presumably the name of the car. It can be found at www.eternitimotors.com.

We know it will be a luxury brand because of the three lines of the press release making the shock announcement, which read: 'A new luxury car brand is coming. A different kind of luxury car brand. A luxury car brand from London.'

The similarity between this and the name of Nissan's luxury car brand, Infiniti, hasn't passed anyone by, although the Japanese company is said to know nothing about Eterniti.

Talking to CNET, an Eterniti spokesperson attempted to give credibility to the brand by claiming that “there are people with lots of experience of motorsport, luxury cars, high-performance road cars and driving experts involved.”

Going further, the spokesperson said that the car will give buyers a raft of personalisation options, including “a diamond encrusted roof lining,” should they desire it.

Rumour has it the car could cost in excess of £100,000; the perfect recession runabout, then.

 

52 comments

  • bob  •  Edinburgh, Scotland  •  11 days ago
    Why go to all this effort and then release a Porsche kit car?
    It is a sad day when sticking some of Halfords best quality tat onto an old Porsche body is called "car making".
    Bonafide car builders do not exist anymore and Eterniti simply prove the point, their talent vacuum on show.
    All these kit car builders do is copy each other, BORING.
    • CRAIGBLOKE 8 days ago
      are you forgetting Lotus.......they do there own thing, the new esprite for 2014 is awsome....but i know what you mean though....
    • BRIAN 3 days ago
      If you want to see a bona fide car-maker, head over to the Malvern Hills and take a look at Morgan.
  • Colin  •  Maidenhead, England  •  2 months ago
    Sounds like a fashion accessory. If your serious about making High quality cars, a diamond encrusted roof lining should be the last thing on the list of optional extras. not holding my breath over this one, to much hype & No Car = Failure..
    • Eric 25 days ago
      "if your"?
  • Dr Ian Geoffrey  •  8 months ago
    Can it get through traffic.....undetected
  • p  •  8 months ago
    any pics then
  • Jouir Retraite  •  8 months ago
    Maye be the Renault logo and Twizzy ad surrounding it is a clue ?? Motorsport connections mentioned ? Not rocket science really .....
  • Paul  •  8 months ago
    Now the home Sec has just given ebbw vale in south Wales a sack of money for [Motor Devolopment] a lot of money for an old pit site
  • DavidC  •  8 months ago
    Is the company owner #$%$ Lexick?
    • mike m 1 month 14 days ago
      DOG KNOWS
    • MARK 27 days ago
      AH AH AH AH AH
  • Twilite Rider  •  8 months ago
    I think it's sort of like The 2002 Lamborghini LM-002 4x4 Luxury SUV idea :)
  • JuzSteev  •  8 months ago
    Have you seen the other model they are showcasing? It looks like nothing more than a revamped Porsche Cayenne. I wish them all the luck in the world, but would love to see some new, original designs
    • bob 11 days ago
      Good luck with that. ALL cars are the same dull, emotionless scrap and modern "designers" are talentless.
      Im sure they all get the same "Use these designs" book when they get out of primary school and its been the same book for the last 30 years.
      Modern cars are dull, boring, unimaginative, emasculated and tired, WHY should an independant designer stray from "What the people want"
  • BobS  •  Worcester, England  •  26 days ago
    Apparently the name comes from the order waiting list .....
  • Tony X  •  9 days ago
    OMG!
  • David  •  2 months ago
    Call yourself journalists, this is a Porsche, not news this info been around for months?
  • Michael  •  Bournemouth, England  •  2 months ago
    I think a diamond encrusted roof lining may just scratch my bald head, so I won't be taking that option, purely on Health and Safety grounds of course!!
  • Donald Grant  •  Glasgow, Scotland  •  26 days ago
    just another vandal magnet,
  • NO WIN NO FEE  •  Doncaster, England  •  26 days ago
    Front Looks Like the BMW Spider at the Chinese car show
    at least same wind screen
  • Djave Djarvoo  •  London, England  •  26 days ago
    another car to add to the 'most vandalised car in the uk'...list?...
  • BazBoy  •  26 days ago
    By Mark Nichol | Car Enthusiast – Fri, Aug 26, 2011 16:33 BST

    Then why raise the topic now!!
  • chris  •  St Albans, England  •  3 months ago
    Doomed I tell ya
  • Alan  •  Ilford, England  •  2 months ago
    judging from the comments so far were doing exactly what we are so good at, knocking the idea of anythng good ever being "made in Britain".
  • speedt5r  •  Bristol, England  •  1 month 8 days ago
    Looks like a peugeot front end.