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The G55 is Mercedes’ serious off-road vehicle. It is also one of their most luxurious. As such, they did not offer a carbon interior for the car. MAcarbon was asked by Progressive Autosports of Houston Texas (www.progressiveautosports.com) to help one of their customers who wanted a carbon interior in their new 2010 G55. Due to the high cost of parts from Mercedes, the customer’s parts were sent to us. Within the quick 3 week turnaround time, all wood pieces were changed over to carbon. This includes the steering wheel, center console, upper console and radio surround, shift knob, passenger grab handle and seat switch surrounds. If you have a Mercedes G55 and would like a quote on your interior, please contact MAcarbon for a quote.

MAcarbon’s latest product for the Audi R8 is a carbon fiber shift knob. This knob is for the manual version of the car. Our 48mm ball shifter is for those familiar with Ferrari and Lamborghini type automobiles where the ball shape is the standard style.

Our shift knob features a carbon weave which will match the carbon interior supplied standard by Audi on some cars. The shift pattern is in Audi Silver. The stripe around the diameter can be in the customer’s choices of color such as silver, black, red or yellow.

More details can be found on our R8 page.

Our steering wheels have been very popular with MAcarbon’s customers. Each wheel is made to the customer’s specification with a myriad of options for them to pick from. Photos of previous wheels helped customers get some ideas but most had to simply imagine what the wheel would look like. This flexibility has also lead to a lot of confusion on how much a wheel would actually cost. So after almost six months of development, MAcarbon has launched our online wheel configurator. Now a customer can play around with all of the options available for a wheel, see right in the window what the wheel willlook like and have the system automatically calculate the price. The customer can then email the configuration to themselves when done.

We have launched the application with two of our most popular wheels. The first wheel is the Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale. THe 360CS interior is almost all carbon already and a CF wheel makes a big impact. The second whell is the Porsche 997 Gen 1 Sport wheel which Porsche does not offer in carbon. We will be adding more wheels over the coming days.

Even with the configurator, properly spec’ing out a wheel involves a lot of decisions. The customer can chat directly with MAcarbon as they use the tool as well as call us.

Try the Configurator your self with this link: MAcarbon Wheel Configurator

MAcarbon has done quite a few CF Sport steering wheels for the 997. For 2009, Porsche introduces a new wheel design on the Tip/PDK cars but kept the old style sport wheel. For 2010, the new wheel style was applied to the Sport wheel as well and this new wheel is now standard on the new GT3. MAcarbon is bringing our skills with carbon fiber and bespoke production to this new wheel design! The customer can choose various materials for the wheel rim including carbon fiber, alcantara and suede. Other options include rim thickness (for those who want something more beefy), a 12 o’clock rally stripe, stitching patterns and stitching colors. Each wheel is made to the customer’s design in around 3 weeks.

We installed our first set of Ferrari 430/360 carbon fiber door handles on this amazing 430. The customer is local and brought his car in for the installation. The car also has MAcarbon mirrors and engine bay vents. The handles made a nice compliment to the carbon mirrors.Imagine them on a 430 Scuderia or a 360 CS!

Installation of the handles takes about twenty minutes and can be done by the customer at home.

With a recent Cayenne installation here at MAcarbon headquarters, we’ve added to our Cayenne install guides. As can be seen in the guides, a Cayenne interior can be installed by any owner who has a few basic tools. The new guides include the door trim set, dash trim set, and the console grab handles. You can always contact MAcarbon if you have questions on what is involved.

Click on these links to view the guides:

Center Console Grab Handles

Dash Trim

Door Trim

MAcarbon was approached by Monster Cable about 6 weeks ago to customize a Segway for the CEO and “Head Monster” Noel Lee.  We were also asked to customize a set of their Beats by Dr. Dre headphones in time for the CES show in Las Vegas.  CES is an annual show which is hosted by the CEA, the Consumer Electronics Association.  This show is a place for every Electronics company to premiere their newest products coming to the Market.  Companies Like Sony, Samsung, Microsoft, and Monster have amazing booths with all of their products on display.

 

 

  We took the challenge and after 6 weeks of work and finishing the build in our hotel room at 4am the first day of the show we were done and giddy with the end result.  We also designed the headphones to match and they turned out great.  We started out with an appliance like Segway and turned it into what we think is the coolest Segway ever.

 

 This “Monster 16M Segway by MAcarbon” features:

 -Standard carbon handlebars

-Standard carbon lower shaft

-Standard carbon base

-Red carbon fenders with Italian stripes and Monster logos

-Red and green carbon collars with white leather center section

-Black powdercoated upper shaft

-Red Alcantara grips

-Ferrari 16M style alloy wheels

-Custom base pad

 

The “MAcarbon Edition” prototype Beats by Dr. Dre headphones feature:

 -red carbon ear cups

-red carbon outside circles/battery cover

-black carbon exterior ear section with Monster Cable logo in Italian colors and “MAcarbon Edition” script in silver

-black piano head band with “Ferrari”

 The Monster Cable booth kicked off the show with the biggest attraction at CES.  The “Head Monster” rode The MAcarbon Segway onto stage with Lady Gaga and Dr. Dre announcing the new Red headphones by Monster to support the fight to eliminate AIDS in Africa.  The MAcarbon headphones were a huge success as well and were given as a gift from The “Head Monster” to the CEO of Best Buy.  We are currently working on a production version of MAcarbon Beats headphones and a Lamborghini styled MAcarbon Segway for the “Head Monster”

The famous (on the internet) photographer ItzKirb (www.itzkirbphotography.com) brought his new Cayenne Turbo over to MAcarbon to get the boring wood interior replaced with carbon. (Unfortunatly, he didn’t bring any of his ItzGirls!) We did the doors, dash strip and center console. Kirby decided to do the grab handles as well. The overall feel of the interior changed dramatically to the aggresive style more apporpriate to a Turbo. More photos to follow.
For any Cayenne owners think of moving to carbon, the car is real easy to work on. MAcarbon’s John Borchelt was able to do the complete install in about an hour and a half. We will have more install guides covering the parts we installed available soon.

The OEM wheel that comes on the Lamborghini Murcielago leaves a lot to be desired. The thin diameter and the cheap looking leather definitely do not belong on a $250k supercar! We recently did this wheel for a customer looking to upgrade his wheel and freshen up the look of the interior. Not only does this wheel feature custom yellow stitching and a carbon bottom, but we also covered the grips with suede to increase the diameter of the wheel by 5 mm! The wheel looks much beefier now and it finally complements the aggressive look of this yellow beast!

MAcarbon recently did a custom carbon fiber steering wheel for a Lamborghini Gallardo with a twin turbo kit from Heffner Performance. The car features a unique Lamborghini color called Blu Cepheus, so we customized  this wheel with Blu Cepheus stitching and a painted 12 o’clock ring. The top and bottom sections were done in carbon fiber, as well as the wheel center. Check this sweet wheel out!