British Built, American Powered! Arash AF10

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Wow, this is quite the concept...

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A new concept supercar called the Arash AF10 is set to debut at the British motor show in July. It will use the 550 hp 7.0 liter engine from the Corvette Z06, with a carbon fiber chassis, double-wishbone suspension, and a six-speed transmission. It will have a 0-60 time of under four seconds, and a top speed of over 200 mph. Should the car be produced, it will have a retail price of around £170,000, which would be well over $200,000 here in North America.
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Wow, its like they took every kick-ass design feature of the Z06, CCR, Enzo and Zonda and threw them into a British designed package with American POWA!!!

DER NEU AUTO IST DAS ROXORZ!!!1!11!1!
 
Brilliant. I like it. Brutal but soft at the same time...has some serious finesse.
 
I'm interested in performance more than anything. A 550 BHP LS7 is a good place to start making things get blurry, but overall I'd probably peg performance figures around that of the Enzo or S7 to begin with.
 
How many times have I mentioned that the Enzo isn't all that stunning in looks? The C6 hasn't been all that stunning in looks compared to the lovely C5. It does look better than the Enzo, however even if it resembles a lot of the Enzo's cues. Maybe a better example of America meets Britain is if Caterham fitted that same 550hp Corvette motor into one of those lovely Caterham roadsters. A British-meets-America deal would be a supercar fitted with the engine of the TVR Cerbera Speed 12 or the Sagaris into some American machine.

Out of 100% approval, mine is going to be a bit low. I give this thing 65% approval even with the Corvette 7.0L engine.
 
Enzo front with "Köemiggsseegggg CCX w. Spoiler" rear...

Not sure I like it....

[Edit:] I mean, you can't go all wrong with 500+ Bhp, so I wouldn't say no if someone gave me one :asshat:
 
Is Arash the company formally known as Fairbourne?

If so i doubt it will ever make it into production, they seem to make concepts - then working test mules and then.... nothing.

It look nice though.
 
When I first read what it was, I thought to myself, "oh, great, another random yet unremarkable supercar that popped out of nowhere," but it actually looks quite nice. 👍

Too bad it's price and performance are nothing extraordinary. :indiff:
 
that arash symbol looks has if they bite it off a lambo. I like it, and hopefully I will get to see it at the British motorshow.
 
TheCracker
Is Arash the company formally known as Fairbourne?

If so i doubt it will ever make it into production, they seem to make concepts - then working test mules and then.... nothing.

It look nice though.
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Farboud i think it was known as. I agree that a production car will probably never see the light of day.

Arash Farboud is the gentleman who set up the company quite some time ago. The car has changed body design and engine many times and considering the guy sold parts of his father pharmacutical company as investments into the car company he should pull his finger out. Farboud actually produced a full working chassis and developed a body for what i think was called the GTS but it never went into production which is a shame becuase it was a good looking car and from what i read had all the makings of a truely great car

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Here are some pics and a vid of the car i mentioned above

http://www.farboudsportscars.com/downloads/index.htm
 
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Farboud actually produced a full working chassis and developed a body for what i think was called the GTS but it never went into production which is a shame becuase it was a good looking car and from what i read had all the makings of a truely great car
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Indeed it was a very beautiful car. They were rather close to production, I am kind of disappointed to see that they had to scrap the car entirely. I would be mad if I had a deposit on the car, and nothing turned out. It looked promising.

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Ah, yes. Arash Farboud. The guy who thinks up fantastic cars, engineers the hell out of them, makes a fully functioning & road legal sample, then says..."Eh. I'm bored. Let's do something different."

In two years' time there'll be another array of beatiful sketches of a car no one will never own.
 
Atleast the Farboud Supercar Concept made it into PGR3, lol.
 
Well, I wouldn't go as far as to say none of Farboud's cars never made it to the streets.

The GT was seen in the Gumball.
 
Wolfe2x7
Too bad it's price and performance are nothing extraordinary. :indiff:
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Especially when the Corvette could also go north of 200 if you messed with the gearing in 5th. I have to say, why bother? We already have a mid-engined Corvette, and that's just as fast (not top speed wise, but still) as this is projected to be, so what's the point? The new Z06 makes this even more questionable.
 
What's the point? What's the point in manufacturing a car that's more refined and has more character than the Z06? More involvement? More of a dynamic layout than the Z06?

You could be asking the same question for every car manufactured today, what's the point if xxx car exists?
 
exigeracer
What's the point? What's the point in manufacturing a car that's more refined and has more character than the Z06?
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Well, it better sure as hell be a lot more refined than the Z06 if they are asking nearly triple for the price.
exigeracer
More involvement? More of a dynamic layout than the Z06?
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Which has already been done for a Corvette. Mosler will happily sell you a MT900 for about 50-60K less than this, and the only thing that suffers from in comparison to this is top speed. When people ask for an exotic, they want an exotic purely. No "Big American V8." No "Corvette drivetrain." That is why all American supercars suffer, from the DeTamaso's of yore to the Saleen S7 of today.
 
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Which has already been done for a Corvette. Mosler will happily sell you a MT900 for about 50-60K less than this, and the only thing that suffers from in comparison to this is top speed. When people ask for an exotic, they want an exotic purely. No "Big American V8." No "Corvette drivetrain." That is why all American supercars suffer, from the DeTamaso's of yore to the Saleen S7 of today.
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How exactly do they suffer? The Saleen S7 gets rave reviews from what I can see. From what I can tell, the companies of the past who have used American V8s are more likely poorly run or marketed. DeTomaso's problems were hardly related to the engine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Tomaso

The Chevrolet small block engines are quite good. Cheap, plentiful, easy to repair & work on, and very reliable. Strong at all revs, great sound, and relatively light & compact for the power output.

It's not the engine that's ever been at fault, from what I can recall. It's not a high-strung, flat-plane-crank screamer, nor a thoroughly engineered flat-6 with a titanium valvetrain, but it's got great motorsport heritage just the same. Just because the car it came from has a stanky interior, that doesn't mean what's under the hood suffers the same way.
 
...Tornado has a point. The Chevrolet small-block and the various Ford designs simply aren't "exotic" enough for most folks. Given that the same design can be found in their neighbor's Tahoe or F150, what makes them special?

I'd rather have an LS2 or LS7 sitting behind me than anything else. Atleast I know that the engine will work properly and won't have to be loved to death like some Ferraris and Lamborghinis that I know. American V8 power is just that, simple and easy to use. Quite frankly, if they don't like it, that is their problem is most circumstances.

Added to that, it is hard to argue against the performane of the Chevrolet small-block in cars like the Ultima GTR, Mosler MT900S and Photon, Elfin MS8, etc.
 

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