Turchetti Raptus GT 1999

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The Turchetti Raptus is an Italian 2 seat sports car designed by the Politecnico di Milano (well known for its innovative qualities) and then developed and built by the company's engineers "Uk Garage".

"The idea was to build a conceptually innovative prototype car" - says Peter Turchetti. "In 1997, I started to develop my ideas around a car capable of combining circuit and open road.''

The Turchetti Raptus GT actually comes from the evolution of Raptus P4 (001 prototype) entirely designed and built in Sicily in 1999 and tested on circuits Catania and Pergusa. In 2001, the company decided to rebuild it with the help of UK Garage as a road car. And after six years, with new technical solutions and more than two hundred amendments to the initial project, the car was finally ready to be commercialized.

The car is powered by a mid-mounted Alfa Romeo sourced 2.0 litre Twin spark, 4 cylinder engine. The spaceframe chassis of the Turchetti Raptus is made from steel and chromium-molybdenum, and is covered by a lightweight body formed from fiberglass.

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...:odd: 340 kilos? Is that a typo? Wait, this thing only weighs a fraction more than completely roofless and doorless Caterham 7??

Must be a typo....
 
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...:odd: 340 kilos? Is that a typo? Wait, this thing only weighs a fraction more than completely roofless and doorless Caterham 7??

Must be a typo....
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I can't really tell if it's a typo or not.

Every source I went to before coming up with the final post had different numbers for the weight, the 340 Kg figure came from the one that had the most amount of information about the car, it did mention the car had an impressive weight.
 
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I can't really tell if it's a typo or not.

Every source I went to before coming up with the final post had different numbers for the weight, the 340 Kg figure came from the one that had the most amount of information about the car, it did mention the car had an impressive weight.
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...That has to be a typo. An Ariel Atom with a supercharged 2.0 weighs around 500 kilos. And look how skeletal that car is. A KTM Xbow weighs what, 700 kilos+? A definite typo.
 
Nowhere does it say the entire car weighs 340 kg. Just the combined weight of the steel frame and fibreglass body.

Two different sources say it's 500 kg dead. Various others say around 650 kg for the P4 version. Some even suggesting it's as high as 900 kg (presumably gross weight).
 
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Nowhere does it say the entire car weights 340 kg. Just the combined weight of the steel frame and fibreglass body.

Two different sources say it's 500 kg dead. Various others say around 650 kg for the P4 version. Some even suggesting it's as high as 900 kg (presumably gross weight).
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Have you tried sources that are not in English? Obscure Italian/Spanish car websites for example. :sly:
 
Throw in another supposed dry weight estimate of 550 kg courtesy of one Polish site. Again, for the P4.
 

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