Here's another image. This one needs some tweaking with the lights, and it could use a couple more hours of render time to get rid of some of the noise.

Just a few points to add:

Photorealism doesn't just come from the render engine, it's a combination of everything.

First there's the actual model. To look real, the model has to be exact, with...

I got my full licensed version of Maxwell, so here's the latest render. I was trying to get the magazine commercial look with this one. This only took 4 hrs for a 1000x1000 image, which I don't think...

It's not really fair to call Maxwell a "slow" renderer. Imagine if you were using Mental Ray with GI and Final Gather, along with full caustics, a gazillion photons (pretty sure gazillion isn't a...

Here's another render. I have to mess with the glass a little, but other than that I'm pretty happy.

I set the lighting to simulate an outside environment, with the sun shining through a cloudy day. It's a specific lighting set-up, that can be changed easily. The beauty of Maxwell is that you can...

I haven't posted for a while as I've been busy with work. I spent the last two weeks trying out Maxwell, and am impressed enough that I just purchased the full licensed copy (so I'll be getting rid...

Keith, I would model that car with NURBS 100%. It has some nice long flowing surfaces that will be much easier to get right with NURBS. I might be biased though, as I model everything in NURBS now.
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This Porsche Carrera GT is also a pretty old model of mine. I've modified my rendering since then, and have also made new paint shaders. Here's a more recent car that I did. I much prefer these new...

Sorry jassonator, it's not my texture for the road. I downloaded it off a website a long time ago. The guy who created it released it for commercial use, but I don't remember the website.