Outline Design Brief


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  • The aim was to produce a car that is a supremely comfortable long distance touring car that can pull into a race circuit and the driver can,  from his driving seat, lower and stiffen up the suspension, then go racing.

  • The exterior styling of the vehicle has a theme of a "Modern Classic Car".  Very clean and simple with purposeful muscular curves.  A piece of automotive sculpture.  The interior follows the exterior theme of minimalist simplicity having unpainted and uncovered surfaces over the majority of surfaces including facia and doors. As these components will be made of composite the body technology / structure should be visible.  The surfaces will have the glass fibers visible to give a very "High Tech Look and Feel" similar to Kevlar.  Leather or other alternative trim covering shall be offered as an option. 

  • The engine has been selected and built to reliably give supreme power and flexibility over a very wide rev band.  Computer estimates show that from 2000rpm up to 6500rpm the engine does not come below 400bhp or 400ftlbs.

  • The car will have very refined NVH characteristics whilst still maintaining a certain desired level of induction and exhaust noise that identify it as a  "Sports Car".

  • The vehicle structure will be designed with crash safety as a main focus.

  • To fully comply with the "Single Vehicle Approval" build regulations.

  • The regulations mentioned above will only allow 100 vehicles to be built by a specialist builder and 500 individual cars built as kits by amateur builders thereafter of the same design.  To build more cars requires "Low Volume Production Type Approval".  This vehicle is therefore targeted at the more exotic end of the market to get a better return on sales for a limited number of vehicles. 

  • The car will be designed such that it can acquire low volume approval status for manufacture at a later stage.

 


 

 

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