U.K.-based mostly race car builder Prodrive’s following challenge is a supercar described by founder and CEO David Richards as a “Ferrari of the desert.” Based on its BRX-T1 Dakar race rig, the car or truck will be driven by a Prodrive-modified Ford three.5-liter twin-turbo V6. As with the rally raider, its design and style will be led by Ian Callum.
According to Autocar, the highway car will probably be known as the Hunter, and will hew closely to the Dakar-bred BRX-T1. Even so, it will characteristic a full interior and all the fixings to make it cozy avenue car. It will also have, reportedly, a five hundred-horsepower edition of the V6, which is additional energy than the 400 horsepower and 516 pound-ft of torque that the race car puts out. Electric power will be delivered by way of what Richards phone calls a “refined transmission,” but he didn’t specify no matter whether it’d be based mostly on the six-speed sequential gearbox of the race car.
The race machine was crafted atop a metal tube-body chassis draped in carbon fiber body panels. It is really not apparent no matter whether the highway car will use a equivalent development, but Callum, who has built several beloved cars for Jaguar, Aston Martin, Ford and the BRX race car, will lend his hand to the body. The BRX-T1 absolutely displays shades of the F-Sort noticeable in the rear.
Richards advised Autocar that the highway car will be broader than the race car to accommodate larger tires. In reality, having way too-tiny tires was among the the motives Prodrive’s BRX-T1 Dakar racers didn’t have a better turnout in January. 9-time WRC champion Sebastian Loeb logged a DNF due to the fact he saved obtaining punctures and sooner or later just ran out of tires. The other car, driven by Nani Roma, completed fifth general. The team thinks it has attained valuable experience that will help them log a better final result following 12 months.
The Hunter will probably charge £1 million ($1.38 million), but will stand in a class of its individual. Richards advised Autocar, “Think about a highway car able of heading across the sand dunes at 100mph – and maintain performing it for three hundred miles due to the fact the gasoline tank is so large. It’s heading to be quite exciting.”