VŪHL Says It Has Enough Orders To Put 05 Roadster Into Production [W/Video]

VŪHL Says It Has Enough Orders To Put 05 Roadster Into Production [W/Video]

 

By Noah JosephRSS feed

Posted Aug 23rd 2013 9:45AM

If we had a nickel for every independent sportscar project started by people we’d never heard of and that never came to fruition, well… we might actually have enough money to put one of them into production. But every once in a while we end up pleasantly surprised. And we just might be by the VŪHL 05.

The project, as you may recall, is the brainchild of a pair of Mexican brothers based in Detroit, and calls for a lightweight track car along the lines of the Ariel Atom, KTM X-Bow or BAC Mono. VŪHL Automotive launched the 05 just last month at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, where it was driven up Lord March’s lawn by F1 driver Esteban Gutierrez. Its featherlike 660 kilogram (1,500-pound) curb weight is motivated by a 2.0-litre turbo four sourced from Ford and mounted amidships, driving 285 horsepower and 310 pound-feet of torque through a six-speed manual to the rear wheels for a claimed 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) time of 3.7 second

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