http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/05...percars-canam/
Bugatti Veyron? Porsche Carerra GT? Ferrari 599 GTO? Pfft. If you want super-exclusive supercar, check out the CanAm from Hulme Supercars.
The boutique automaker, named for New Zealand’s F1 champion Denny Hulme, will build just 20 CanAms and sell them for a staggering £295,000. That’s $424,800 at today’s exchange rate. So what’s 400 large buy you?
A machine with performance as wild as its looks.
The 2,160-pound car features a 7.-liter LS7 Chevrolet engine mounted in the middle of the carbon-fiber chassis. It’s good for 600 horsepower and 442 pound-feet of torque. The engine is bolted to a six-speed box with your choice of paddles or a proper stick shift. Double-wishbone suspension, inboard pushrod-activated shocks, six-piston AP Racing brakes, yada yada yada. This thing’s loaded with race-ready hardware, but Hulme says its designed to be easily driven on the street.
What street? Hulme Supercars says the CanAm will do zero to 100 km/hr in less than 3.5 seconds and top out north of 200 mph. Route 318 in Nevada is one of the few roads where you’d really be able to open this thing up.
As for the styling, Hulme says it was inspired by Formula 1 racing. Looks to us like it also was inspired by the KTM X-Bow and the Camparo T1.
Deliveries are slated for late 2011 and early 2012 to mark the 20th anniversary of Hulme’s death.
Bugatti Veyron? Porsche Carerra GT? Ferrari 599 GTO? Pfft. If you want super-exclusive supercar, check out the CanAm from Hulme Supercars.
The boutique automaker, named for New Zealand’s F1 champion Denny Hulme, will build just 20 CanAms and sell them for a staggering £295,000. That’s $424,800 at today’s exchange rate. So what’s 400 large buy you?
A machine with performance as wild as its looks.
The 2,160-pound car features a 7.-liter LS7 Chevrolet engine mounted in the middle of the carbon-fiber chassis. It’s good for 600 horsepower and 442 pound-feet of torque. The engine is bolted to a six-speed box with your choice of paddles or a proper stick shift. Double-wishbone suspension, inboard pushrod-activated shocks, six-piston AP Racing brakes, yada yada yada. This thing’s loaded with race-ready hardware, but Hulme says its designed to be easily driven on the street.
What street? Hulme Supercars says the CanAm will do zero to 100 km/hr in less than 3.5 seconds and top out north of 200 mph. Route 318 in Nevada is one of the few roads where you’d really be able to open this thing up.
As for the styling, Hulme says it was inspired by Formula 1 racing. Looks to us like it also was inspired by the KTM X-Bow and the Camparo T1.
Deliveries are slated for late 2011 and early 2012 to mark the 20th anniversary of Hulme’s death.
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