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It's come a long way, baby; this is the first fully functional prototype of the 550bhp Arash AF-10 supercar.
Conceived by Arash Farboud and announced way back in 2006, this working model of the long-awaited AF-10 features a 7.0-litre Corvette V8 and quite a lot of weapons-grade tech.
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You get a ‘featherweight, Nomex-cored' carbon-fibre body, triaxial carbon-fibre and aluminium honeycomb core, steel roll cage and flat underfloor to assist aerodynamics.
Speaking to TopGear.com, Arash says the base AF-10 pictured "will produce between 550 and 580bhp, and around 370lb ft of torque", but higher-spec AF-10s will hit a heady 1,200bhp - the same as a Veyron Super Sports.
But the comparison ends there. Arash says the Big Daddy 1,200bhp version "is practically a Le Mans car".
While the base AF-10 hasn't been put through any 0-62mph/top speed tests, Arash is "aiming for a three-second 0-62mph time and a 207mph top speed".
Interested? The 550bhp model you see above costs £320,000, while the 1,200bhp version will set you back around £1.6 million. You then get into the rather expensive business of customising your AF-10, which includes anything from the gear ratios to having your name painted onto the body.
"Customers in this market enjoy that kind of thing," he says.
It's more expensive than a Ferrari 458, Mercedes SLS and Lexus LF-A - but looks like a racing Enzo with testes. What say you, supercar lovers?
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zetruz commented on this article
at 05:33 pm on 24 August 2010
I say no. Just no.
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busta commented on this article
at 05:39 pm on 24 August 2010
It, sadly, looks like a kit car to my eyes. The proportions are a bit strange.
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nHeroGo commented on this article
at 06:21 pm on 24 August 2010
The shifting colour makes it difficult to understant the shapes. The front is a spoon or a shue horn with a wing on top of it. Some edgy stuff under/near the mirrors; don't know what that is for. I like the rear; seems efficient enough (and I know at least two facts about aero dynamics and they are both wrong). It is a prototype, hopefully it is a first draft, but small upstarts like this cannot start from scratch after each prototype so I guess this is near production look. I see what inspired them to get out of bed in the mornings, but...
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keen88 commented on this article
at 06:27 pm on 24 August 2010
Damn that thing is ugly, the proportions are all wrong.
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jbcatcher316 commented on this article
at 06:35 pm on 24 August 2010
It's ugly, but you are forced to like it. One, because it's an expensive supercar. And two, because it looks like a Lotus, a McLaren F1, and a Koenigsegg all crashed into eachother to form it.
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