This Futuristic Building was Built just to Park their 60 Supercars
Posted on 05/11/2017 9:34:45 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Think this is some fancy display case for your child's Hot Wheels? Think again.
What looks like a toy car dispenser is actually the world's largest and most expensive "vending machine" for real, life-sized luxury cars.
More incredibly, the state-of-the-art building is located in Singapore, at Jalan Bukit Merah, to be exact.
Boasting a display of dream cars such as Bentleys, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches and more, it is no wonder a video by luxury and lifestyle magazine Senatus has gone viral, garnering more than one million views on Facebook.
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The Autobahn Motors (ABM) building was built just to park 60 of the million-dollar supercars in an illuminated showcase, which is made more impressive when it comes to life at night.
According to a video by lifestyle news site Covered Asia, the facility was brought to fruition after three years of conceptualisaton.
Gary and Jack Hong - the owners of ABM - invented the Automotive Inventory Management Systerm (AIMS) which simulates a "fish-bone" system capable of minimising wind resistance, ensuring the fastest car storage and retrieval speed, reported Covered Asia.
AIMS also keeps the retrieval speed of cars just under two minutes.
Potential car buyers entering the showroom would first pick a car from an AV presentation before having their cars presented to them on a turntable.
But responses from fellow Singaporeans about the eye-catching infrastructure were mixed.
While some expressed their fascination with the concept, others criticised the impracticality of implementing AIMS on typical parking facilities and groused about the cost of owning luxury cars in Singapore.
A user on mycarforum.com criticising the use of AIMS in public parking. Credits: mycarforum.com
A few also noted how the technology of having stacked parking spaces is not new.
Looks like a matchbox collection.
More like “Hot Wheels”
We’re going to need more quarters!
This is the same thing as an automated car park building we have on every block here. This is a stupid click bait press release. You can’t even buy one of these cars withought a one to two year wait. This is just a display case for the rich owners and is probably an imported standard Japanese car park system with a cute facade.
To buy a car in Singapore you must have a certificate of entitlement. It allows you to own a car for 10 years. It costs about 80,000 US dollars.
How fun it was looking at my Matchbox and Hot Wheels collection as a kid. Some very wealthy adults do the same thing with real cars.
Every 11th adult is a millionaire. Think about that.
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