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A collection of some of the worlds weirdest and ugliest supercars on the planet
Supercars Limited Hulme.F1 Champion 1967
Specifications
Price: $460,000 (projected)
Engine: 5 liter BMW M5 V8
Weight: 2643 lbs
Aspiration: natural
HP: 450 hp
HP/Weight: 5.9 lbs per hp
It is Denny Hulme’s success which has motivated Supercars Limited to make a New Zealand supercar in his honor.For the last two years the Hulme.F1 has been developed in secrecy, but now the company is ready to tell the world what it has been creating.Since the onset of the project, the concept of the Hulme.F1 supercar has been a mid engine design with a high-tech powertrain and chassis that gives the driver the feeling of driving a Formula One Car on the road.
The car features a modified BMW M5 engine joined to a specially designed transaxle, wrapped in a carbon fiber body.
2006 Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina
The car has been designed, engineered and built entirely by Pininfarina, bringing to life something that, just a few months earlier, was just a dream and creating a sort of symbiosis between the customer and Pininfarina along the path leading to definition of this astonishing model. Starting from a Ferrari Enzo, the aim was to produce a sole vehicle inspired by sport racing cars with extreme vocations: not just a show-car but a vehicle to be enjoyed on the road.
Weber Faster One
The Swiss-built Weber Sportscar Faster One might be one of the most hideous styling executions we’ve ever laid eyes on, but it’s also one of the fastest or, if we are to believe its manufacturer, THE fastest street-legal sports car in the world. The two-seater weighs in at just 1,100 kg or 2,452 pounds and is powered by a heavily modified 7.0-liter twin-supercharged V8 LS7 engine from General Motors that produces a hefty 900HP and a peak torque of 1,050 Nm / 774.5-lbs at 3,900 rpm. Power is driven to all-wheels through an in-house developed semi-automatic sequential six-speed gearbox which is operated via F1-style shift paddles on the steering wheel
2008 Mazda Furai Concept
Specifications
Engine: 3 rotor rotary
HP: 450 hp
NAGARE: (pronounced “na-ga-reh”), Japanese for flow and the embodiment of motion
FURAI: (pronounced “foo-rye”), Japanese for sound of the wind
Furai is the sort of car that could only come from a company that incorporates the “Soul of a Sports Car” into everything it builds, but with an eye toward the future and the environment through the use of renewable fuels. Driving toward sustainability, Furai was initially tuned to operate on 100 percent ethanol fuel, the first time a racing three-rotor rotary engine has been fueled by ethanol. Research continues in earnest with partner BP into other renewable and future fuels, including ethanol gasoline blends like E10.
2008 Spada Vetture Sport Codatronca TS
Specifications
Engine: V8
Torque: 493 lb-ft @ 4800 rpm
HP: 630 hp @ 6500 rpm
0-62 mph: 3.4 seconds
With this new sport car Spadaconcept aims at reviving the philosophy that inspired Ercole Spada’s past models, in an attempt to combine aesthetics with functionality and racing performances. This new model is the latest evolutionary step of the truncated tail – “coda tronca” in Italian.
Covini C6W
Specifications
Weight: 2535 lbs
Engine: 4.2 liter V8
Aspiration: Natural
Torque: 332 lb-ft
HP: 349 hp
HP/Weight: 7.3 lbs per hp
HP/Liter: 83 hp per liter
Top Speed: 185 mph
The original idea was conceived by Ferruccio Covini in ‘74 and made provision for 10 inches front wheels because there where no low profile tyres at the time. The project was ditched in favour of the Soleado prototype, deemed more important, and lay dormant until the 80s when hydro-pneumatic suspension for the four front wheels where devised to optimise weight
distribution under various loading conditions. Why six wheels? in case of a front tyre deflation, the vehicle control is guaranteed by the other wheel next to it.
Lotec Sirius
Specifications
Engine: 6 liter V12
Weight: 2822 lbs
Aspiration: twin turbochargers
Torque: 811 & 974 lb-ft @ 3400 rpm
HP: 1000 hp - 1200 hp
HP/Weight: 2.8 & 2.4 lbs per hp
HP/Liter: 166.7 to 200 hp per liter
0-124 mph: 7.8 seconds
0-62 mph: 3.8 seconds
Top Speed: up to 248 mph
Manufactured from the lightest and most modern materials applied in the aerospace and automobile industries, carbon fiber composites combined with tubular steel.The bodywork is produced from the optimum combination of carbon, Kevlar and glass fiber materials
Spyker D12 Peking-to-Paris
Specifications
Engine: 6 Litre Aluminum W12
Weight: 4177.76 lbs
Aspiration: natural
Torque: 449.9 lbs - ft
HP: 500 bhp
HP/Weight: 8.354
HP/Liter: 83.33
0-62 mph: 5 secs
Top Speed: 185 mph
The alternative is now available: a relatively light weight 1850 kgs SSUV which performs like a super sports car but offers four comfortable seats, easy access through four doors and a spacious luggage compartment. Longing for super sports car excitement, for cars that tantalize all of their senses, for cars that combine exceptional performance with exotic looks.
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