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Canada: a great nation famed for producing fine timber, bears and check shirts. But not supercars.
Not yet, anyhow. This is the Plethore LC-750, set to debut in Frankfurt next week with the aim, hope its creators at HTT Technologies, of putting Canada firmly on the supercar map.
The Plethore is underpinned – as are so many upstart supercars – by the supercharged V8 from the Corvette ZR1. HTT has extracted even more power from the 6.2-litre lump, which is putting out 750bhp and 655lb ft of torque.
HTT says the carbon-fibre Plethore will weigh in at just 1150kg – about the same as an MX-5 – so expect performance to be towards the ‘terrifying’ end of the scale.
If you’re noticing a bit of similarity to McLaren's supercars, it runs deeper than that orange paintjob. The Plethore features the same three-seat set-up as the old F1, with the driver sitting front and centre, and the passengers set back to either side.
The car is currently in prototype stage, but HTT is confidently predicting the Plethore will go on sale in production form in Europe some time next year.
The chances of it proving a credible rival to the new McLaren and the Ferrari 458 Italia?
Infinitesimally low, we fear. But hey, that’s what we said about that Weber supercar, and look how that turned out. Ah…
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Nikfam commented on this article
at 02:28 pm on 11 September 2009
Man supercar era have passed since Buggati invented Veyron. There can't be anything more impressive.
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Nuijasoturi commented on this article
at 02:29 pm on 11 September 2009
This won't be as good as the new McLaren.
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Hero_Sina commented on this article
at 02:47 pm on 11 September 2009
That thing is ugly,but really powerful and so light.
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arrielfim commented on this article
at 03:31 pm on 11 September 2009
It will improve enormously (and become a very gorgeous car indeed) when they smooth the front lid/trunk by eliminating that crease running along the middle and those two grooves on the lid's sides. It's got the best from the R8 outside (the back and cockpit).
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Chaucer commented on this article
at 04:11 pm on 11 September 2009
It looks like the ferrari 430
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