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I like a little minimalism… Back when I was a youngster, I had a few cars that were very bad at compromise. They were fast… but less than comfortable. I didn’t care… I wanted the performance. I drove my autocross car as a daily driver. Race on Sunday, Drive to Work on Monday. For a long time, my Jeep was a trail rig and it was what I had to drive home.
Back when Panoz was introducing their first car, the Panoz Roadster, I photographed the first one while doing an assignment for the SCCA. Loved it… cycle fenders and a big engine. The Lotus 7 has been a favorite of mine from the time I was a teenager. And when I caught on to the Ariel Atom, I was hooked. OK, not hooked enough to talk my wife into it… but I really want one.
And it is high time that a major manufacturer took one of their sport offerings and amped it up in a MASSIVE way. This would be a step beyond Dodge Viper or Chevy Corvette ZR1… and even more than the incredible Ford GT.
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Since it looks like Dodge has axed the Viper program… and the Corvette ZR1 is already a world beating beast, Ford should be the company to make a move… kind of a GT, without all of the extra junk like a windshield, doors, bodywork.
Can you imagine a 600hp street-legal sports racer than weighs less than 2000lbs? The Ariel Atom, with a 2L 4 cylinder can go 0-60 in 2.7 seconds… It weighs in at 1100lbs, and develops 300hp in supercharged form.
A little steel, some carbon fiber, a touch of aluminum and some seriously sticky tires… it might be able to hit 0-60 times faster than superbikes. And 0-100, too. I don’t think that a properly sorted vehicle like this would have too many issues getting close to 2.2 seconds to 60 and 9 seconds to 100mph. And the braking would be incredible with some good technology and a complete lack of weight…
It would be really fun…
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