I have had friend of mine request a cake for her car loving fiance, I don't have a lot of experience with covering cakes in fondant. Can anybody help me. I found this picture online, how did they obtain the texture on the top, is the cake carved? Is it extra icing? 

TIA!

I'd do it by laying down ropes of fondant - under the fondant.

I would say the cake is a small rectangle - like a 12x8 or whatever size you  need for the # of servings required.  Then bake a cake in a cleaned vegtable can for the 'lense'/round part in front. 

Rather than extra icing I'd use extra cake.  Icing could easily be dented/disturbed when trying to cover w/fondant.  Cake is more dense. 

Good luck :)

Aahhhh I see leah was typing the same time I was......and her suggestion of fondant us great.

Thanks for the advise guys! I ended up spending a lot of time and carved it out to get the look I was going for! 

looks great -- good job!

You did an excellent job!!!

Love it!