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Shelby's new supercar
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 |
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