The Aspid is quicker than each and every car you have mentioned to 100km/h and its a luxury car you can drive to the shops. Try that in a Reynard!

IFR sells automotive technology concerning performance using light weight materials – the Aspid was built to showcase that technology so that customers could see the affects in real world driving. The problem is, the car is so perfect, that they now have a full order book.

Oh, one more thing, the ride is nice and compliant, despite being quicker than a current WRC car, driven by a five time world rally champion.

Enough said.

1/4

Both the Ultima 720 and the new Inverter Reynard will destroy this.

Great effort though, and WHAT Elfin should be building [Not doing a 1/2 baked job]

How much coin?

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2/4

Oh, the performance is WOW

Does the roof come off?

Looks a bit “home-made” look to it….Needs Italian finishing school

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3/4

Talking it “up” i see!

Was 300kW now 402BHP! :-)

We already have similar Made in Australia and RACE-PROVEN winner here in Oz, used the same haonda engine, now progressed to the superior compact and super powerful 10,000RPM V8 made in Uk

Stand up and be counted SKELTA, aussie-aussie-aussie oihoihoih!

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4/4

Woops, the RST V8 revs to 12,500RPM!!! NOT 10,000RPM as stated above.

Did i mention road registered Skelta is 100kg LIGHTER than the Aspid?VASTLY superior to the Aspid

GO Skelta, “Go ahead Aspid, make my day” [tm. c.eastwood]

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I remember my F-SAE days, we can get 4 second 0-100 with 2 stroke bike engines….

the chassis is nice, didnt mention if they used any carbon fiber tubes.

The suspension design sounds intriguing…. however.
Suspension design is always interesting that many possible ways to create them… material type, part quantity all differs obviously…

give a group of university student a budget of $200K AUD and they can somehow produce a close resemblance of this car… and maybe 2 years worth of “research”.. research as in pretty much benchmark carts and F1 car dynamics… (there are books on race car designs btw).

as someone stated its a way to display “engineering” capabilities… but engineering to impress is very different from engineering for production…

very different.

engineering in the last 20 years has been focused on creating value out of materials to make profit via market…

im pretty sure give a bunch of automotive engineers time off from their daily jobs… maybe 2 years… give them a bunch of cash and tell them to design a vehicle to impress…. they will come up with a good concept…

Out of my price range though :(

Some awesome gear to follow

I was hoping for a bit less, like $150k. But I guess all that money is for the new R&D section.

Anyway, I don’t get but why everyone seems to love to bash the Veyron. It was never touted as a true sports car (at least not by Bugatti), but a super GT. And that’s what it is. Yes it’s excessive but that was the whole point. They did it just to see of they could. And I’m yet to read a review or any article from someone whose actually driven one where they’ve said it’s anything but incredible.

On to the Aspid though, it truly is an incredible car. It seems every few years there’s a big step up in performance from the top end supercars and this could be the catalyst for the next one. Well actually that’s really the point, but it will be great to see where supercars are in 5, maybe 10 years. As Richo said, that braking system alone has huge potential.

This car shows that bigger is not better. A quad-turbo W16? Nice engineering feat, but completely contradicted by the Aspid.

PS Bruzzer this car showcases what we can expect in cars in years to come. Love that dual disc braking system.

is this going to be a regular article? This and the porchse 550 remake.

how much is it?

Base price for the SuperSport Aspid is 107,000 English Pounds or A$260,000 plus import charges and taxes.

You can also buy a 270bhp naturally aspirated version for 77,000 Pounds but most of the interest has been in the Supercharged car.

yes i understand what you saying and its exactly what i said on my comment “unless it can be applied to an everyday car its pointless.”

based on your information and the article it seems to be the case same technology flowing on to average cars in time.

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