On Wed, 15 May 2013 20:32:14 -0700, "anorton"
wrote:


"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
.. .
Hey, there must be some metal in there somewhere! But it's mostly a
pile of carbon fiber.

This is what the people at Shelby SuperCars have done with Shel's
Cobra legacy. They're building another car with a reptile's name
(Tuatara, an ugly beast -- the lizard, not the car, which is very
cool).

Think of it as the anti-EA, anti-whoyakidding, screw-you-everybody
vehicle. The mileage probably sucks. It only weighs 2750 pounds, but
it has (be still, my heart) 1.350 hp and produces 1,280 lb-ft. of
torque. They're actually fudging the horsepower, just like the Big
Three did with their 7-liter engines back in the '60s, to avoid
Congress's attention. The Tuatara engine actually can produce 1,700
hp.

0-60 in 2.5 seconds, theoretical top speed is 276 mph. No word yet of
a plug-in hybrid version...

http://tinyurl.com/b4ohmju

This car is either a sign of the Apocalypse or evidence that we're
crawling out of our penurous, poor-economy state of mind. And somebody
must figure that we're going to find more oil somewhere.

--
Ed Huntress


It seems Shelby Super Cars has no relation to Carroll Shelby at all. They
had to change their name to SSC for obvious reasons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_SuperCars

Damn! Winding Road should have made that clear.

Oh, well. It's still a fascinating piece of work.

--
Ed Huntress