Once, manufacturers of supercars realized that they no longer need to produce new machines models. Why, if in the other and so it goes excellent. The logic is simple – if you bought the new Porsche 911 2012 release – you are cool, but if you bought a used Porsche 911 1979, you are as cool as the owner of the new Porsche. It turns out that in any case, having bought 911 Porsh, you are cool. Therefore, why change something?
Nothing has changed for the past fifty years-Lamborghini changed color and experimented with skin varieties in the cabin of their fast-legged tractors, Aston Martin beat their sport caps with the hands of the next James Bond, and the stubborn Bugatti rested on the bench of once the fastest of four-wheeled.
By and large, the balance of power was stable, all the market players knew their place and did not claim to be a fraction of the pie. But, nothing forever, and now, in the summer of 2012, new hungry players came to the world of maximum speeds and seven -digit price tags. Meet – new faces of the world of supercars!
IFR ASPID GT-21 Invictus
Initially, the IFR company began its activities as a small garage workshop for the production of KIT-Kars, releasing good variations on the legendary Lotus Seven. But unlike most manufacturers of replicas of the legendary racing car, the IFR brought to the design several significant changes that distinguished their brainchild from most competitors in their class. Replacing the traditional Lotus Seven aluminum panels with carbon fiber and installing the LED consoles of overall lights, the IFR guys believed that they are now not just britched masters, but a whole premium Italian brand.
Faith in oneself is a great thing. As a result, three years after the release of the first ASPID (the same Lotus Seven carbon fiber replica), the young company was able to find sponsors for the release of the first original model of the supercar of its own development –
ASPID GT-21 Invictus.
Unlike the first “pancake”, the second Aspid model is more like a car, in the traditional sense of the word. If the first “Aspid” seemed to be assembled from scattered plastic panels from various household appliances of Chinese-made, then the idea, style and some harmonious is captured in the guise of GT-21 Invictus. True, an extremely long hood, a short “lying” cockpit and made beyond the wheel housing still make it clear that the IFR engineers have not far away from the proportions created by the legendary colin and its “Lotus Seven”.
Be that as it may, Italian engineers created a completely competitive and memorable car. With a equipped mass of 990 kilograms, the ASPID GT-21 Invictus has at its disposal 450 Purebred “horses” of Bavarian (BMW). In the aggregate of the proportion, the power-mass power gives an acceleration of about 2, 9 seconds to the first “hundreds” and about three hundred kilometers per hour “maximum options”.
In addition, the company’s engineers have developed a unique brake system. Having extremely high characteristics of brake force similar to the characteristics of warmed carbon brakes, this brake system does not require warming up – which is an undoubted plus for unprepared pilots.
In any case, a normal person does not need such speed and such overloads – these are just opportunities, numbers that fill the price of the product. So, the new Aspid GT-21 Invictus-one of 250 copies planned for release this year will cost no less than 95,000 euros. In principle, if you do not take into account the fact that the new supercar is a modernized Lego designer collected based on the legendary Lotus Seven, this car costs its money and wipe the nose of many mastodons at the top of the Olympus of the world of luxury and high speeds.
Puritalia 427
Another team of hungry Italian masters decided to earn money on speed lovers and brilliant iron. So the new supercar Puritalia 427 was born.
There are not so much known about the creators of this car. As indicated on the official website of the company, the office of the company is located in the dirty Italian city of Naples. Actually and all. For several years in a row, Neapolitan trade unions of garbage companies have been exhausting the city with strikes, but despite the stream of street landfills, the hardworking team of a certain Paolo Parents under the leadership of experienced designer Fabio Ferrante created this masterpiece – Puritalia 427.
The new class was conceived as a composite of two ideas-a synthesis of the image of the legendary American Cobra 427 Masquet Kara and a traditional Italian design. Puritalia 427 developers developed their own chassis, calculated the shape of an aluminum monocock, a rigid spatial frame and covered the entire structure with light carbon fiber panels.
The result was a fairly interesting original medium sizes: 4350 mm length, 1952 mm width and only 1255 mm heights. How fast this car will be is not yet known. But given that the mass of Puritalia 427 is only 1020 kilograms, and under its hood 605 -and -strong motor is installed, acceleration will take less than three seconds to the first hundred.
The price and circulation of this machine is still unknown-the first batch of the Italian roslice Maskl-Karov only began its journey through exhibitions in search of potential customers and investors of large-scale production. It is likely that this will end, although who knows. Perhaps having three equally boring Ferrari, some French thickness will want to buy something similar.
Renault Alpine A110-50
The peace -loving company Renault is tired of the reputation of the developer of practical family machines and decided to shake old people – to recreate the once popular sportsar Alpine110 in a new way. As a result, in July of this year, the world saw a new average supercar (or rather, sports car) – Renault Alpine A110–50.
The company has not produced such machines for 50 years – that is how much has passed since the premiere of Alpine110. By the way, exactly half a century ago the world saw the first sports car from Lamborghini. Perhaps there is some kind of relationship between these events, and maybe Comrade Lev Gumilyov was right with his theory of passionate outbreaks. Just the sun in that year and this year shines hotter than usual – so the engineers are drawn to the development of something like that.
Be that as it may, built on a spatial frame from Renault Megane Trophy, the new Pigzon Alpine A110-50 turned out to be a very original and competitive “race”. The company’s engineers meticulously calculated the aerodynamic characteristics of this car, reducing the factor of the frontal resistance to almost zero. In addition, Alpine A110-50 has a very low center of gravity, a completely flat bottom and crazy characteristics. Without delving into the wilds of faceless numbers, we can say that this car simply “gets” into the highway, providing the pilot with a reinforced concrete “holder”.
Despite the fact that the car has a very good power supply – 2, 4 liter V6 gives about 400 liters. With., This machine was not created to conquer peak speeds, but rather for short -term, but violent accelerations when passing steep turns. In general, this is not quite a supercar, the ALPINE A110-50 is created not for street driving, but to conquer the ring tracks. There is no Italian leather or a premium stereo system in his salon – only dense amological buckets, shiny sensors and cold aluminum. But the exterior of this car, created by the Renault chief designer, Yan Zharsal, in the purity of elaboration of details and the harmony of the image surpasses many eminent players in the world of superman.
How much such a car will cost is unknown – this is useless information, t. To. Each copy was produced in advance under a particular person. Perhaps the first price tag on Alpine A110-50 will appear when any collector, in whose collection this machine will go to another world.
Aston Martin Vanquish
All the same, without this brand, the list of supercars would be flawed. James Bond’s favorite brand finally decided to update the flagship model, preparing a full replacement for the legendary DB9-Aston Martin Vanquish.
If you do not take into account small-scale models of the One-77 and V12 Zagato, at the moment it is the fastest, expensive and luxurious model of the British brand. Unlike all previous cars in our review, this machine can be both double and four -seater. Although supercars having a salon with a 2+2 -2 -part planting salon is in reality it is quite difficult to call four -seater. Out of a soprt-wrapper clamping in the rear chair, a normal person will die from the attack of claustrophobia and suffocation.
In addition, the Aston Martin Vanquish is also distinguished from our list by the fact that the car is equipped with a full -fledged entertaining multimedia system. While the “newcomers” in the race for speed try to relieve their cars as much as possible, the confident British in a wide gesture stuffed more than half a ton of luxurious skin, elite acoustics and a tree of valuable rocks in the body of this car.
As a result, the weight of Vanquish was as many as 1750 kilograms, which is almost twice the most heavier than most cars from our list. Naturally, a large mass affects the dynamics of acceleration. So, having an impressive v12 under the hood, with a volume of 6, 2 lira, with a capacity of 573 liters. With. and the torque of 670 nm, Aston Martin Vanquish accelerates to the first “hundreds” in 4, 1 seconds.
Yes, Vanquish is not as fast as Aspid GT-21 Invictus or Alpine A110-50, but one second is not a large fee for unsurpassed luxury, comfort and safety.
As for the market price, in Russia such a car will cost about 10-15 million rubles, which is relatively inexpensive for a purebred representative of the world of supercars.