Will.i.am unveiled his
custom-designed Lexus NX in Paris last night Thursday, September 25, 2014.
Will.i.am hosted a special
event at exclusive venue Pavillion Cambon in the French capital, where he
turned up on the stage inside the impressive vehicle, a special edition Lexus
NX 200t F SPORT, before getting out of the car and putting on a scintillating
DJ set for the 600-strong crowd.
Earlier in the evening, Will
admitted he was conscious about making too many changes to the original motor
because he didn’t want his version of the car, which features four
external cameras enabling panoramic pictures to be captured while driving and
then sent to a phone, to be like a ‘Frankenstein’-type
vehicle.
Speaking to BANG Showbiz at
the event, he said: ‘I didn’t want to make a
Frankenstein, I just wanted to enhance.
‘The NX is an amazing design by default so if that’s
the default then I thought why can’t we make it better. Why
wasn’t it wider?
‘I’m pretty sure my
design isn’t too different from the original design. Because the
designer was like, ‘Yes, it’s sexy, there are
striking angles.’
The Black Eyed Peas frontman
admitted there were certain elements of the black and white car he wanted to
alter, such as making it even wider than his final effort, but he wasn’t
able to due to safety concerns.
He added: ‘You
have your ideas but then you take it to market and then it changes.
‘If we widen it then we have to lower it so can we chop
the window? Then they say, ‘Well, we can’t
do that because then we’re going to have air bag problems and we’ve
already passed all the safety stuff.’
‘But if you want to be disrespectful then you say, ‘Who
gives a f**k? Let’s cut the air bags.’ But you can’t
do that.’
Will wowed the crowd with an
entertaining DJ set that saw him play several of his own tracks including ‘#thatPOWER’
and a selection of Black Eyed Peas hits such as ‘I
Gotta Feeling’.
He had the audience chuckling
at one stage when he changed some of the words to his and Britney Spears‘
collaboration ‘Scream and Shout’, replacing her name
with Lexus by shouting ‘will.i.am and Lexus, bitch’.
Other features of will’s
NX include an ultra wide body kit, a custom-built steering wheel and hand
embroidered Nappa leather interior with his ‘willpower’
logo and huge 22-inch alloy wheels.
See photos below…
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