Aurelio: The first Filipino-made Supercar

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Looks pretty good, I'd say.
But what got me was the car being the first Filipino-made supercar. Pinoy pride! :D

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I don't like it. It looks like it's trying to incorporate too many elements from other well-known cars. Some supercar start-ups have done this with a marginal amount of success, but this car did not.
 
Some potentially interesting aero, some of it looks a little rough around the edges (like the "vent" behind the front wheel just being flat) but it's a nice car with some functional looking design elements.
 
I think if they make it simpler and fix the offset it would look alright. But it doesn't look good from thr way it looks now.
 
I don't really see this car as a copy at all. It actually looks very different from competing cars because it uses its functional elements as styling. That would be a difference between this and something like the McLaren P1. McLaren was more fussed about making the car look pretty. This is more like an exoskeleton and I think it looks good to boot.
 
That looks like prototype number two, with a mid-mounted 4G63T from an Evo.

The more interesting one is the prime prototype, with a turbocharged Honda B16 and full double wishbones. This one uses a bulkier VR4 suspension in the back.

And yeah, it's as rough in real life as it looks in the pictures... But it's worth remembering that it started out as a one man fiberglass job draped over a tube frame.
 
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