Saleen returns to making its own sports cars

[Viffermike]

Originally Posted by Red Bread

No Chinese cars. They already own our economy. Shit, my wife's shopping Volvo's. I take all that back...

And just when Volvos started to look awesome again, too ... and because Polestar.

[Red Bread]

Polestar and Ohlins. Such a sweet combination. There's a guy with a Smurf Blue V60 that I see nearly everyday, he drives it like I would.

[Viffermike]

Originally Posted by Red Bread

Polestar and Ohlins. Such a sweet combination. There's a guy with a Smurf Blue V60 that I see nearly everyday, he drives it like I would.

I'm more of a WP person myself ... but I hear you. Ohlins is glorious.

[kprocivic]

From the s7 to this, even if it's a baby version nah not feeling it.

[Alfisti]

Why am I buying this instead of the Alfa 4C?

[GuidoK]

^its not for sale yet...

Actually this car was not developed by Steve Saleen.

See the similarities?:



They bought the rights and made a facelift

And its not the first time this car has sold its design (although I dont think this iteration made it past a concept):



But its in essence all the same car/chassis

[Red Bread]

Aha, I knew it looked familiar. The old Artega GT. The Spyker B6 has a few more appealing attributes than the Saleen or Artega.
[img]http://lh6.ggpht.com/-txsuGmrWQZc/UU...5B4%25255D.jpg[/img]

[GuidoK]

Yep and from the artega also only a few hundred have been build (and they went bankrupt with the €75k msrp, so $100k is really pushing it).
So a 'billion dollar factory' in china to build a facelifted 9 year old sportscar is a bit ambitious, as in 'not gonna happen'

But a nice car though that artega GT. A good competitor to Lotus and such.
Little over 1200kg, 300hp, a good exige v6 competitor 3 years before that was made/developed