RE: Melling to launch £100,000 supercar
Discussion
"Let's see something special for £50K and I then am all ears and cheque book at the ready."
You might want to check out www.borncars.com. I think they are going to be offering something for around or just under £50K in 2007
Email them.
You might want to check out www.borncars.com. I think they are going to be offering something for around or just under £50K in 2007
Email them.
tbh good on all the people coming up with new supercars, we went through a serious drought of supercars not long ago and in the face of growing power given to those wearing sandles and eating lentils, I think what we need is more big power cars.
As for wanting more cars for the 50k mark, supercars really should be something you think you never can afford, the ferraris and lamborginis of the 70's would not be half as exciting if they were affordable to the masses and you saw one on every street corner. Besides there are a few thousand members who are interested in this price range.
As for wanting more cars for the 50k mark, supercars really should be something you think you never can afford, the ferraris and lamborginis of the 70's would not be half as exciting if they were affordable to the masses and you saw one on every street corner. Besides there are a few thousand members who are interested in this price range.
Petrol_Noggin said:hear, hear. Must say I think AM is getting a rough ride here. I can understand that his involvement in the S6 debate over the last few months has made people a bit partisan, but it does seem odd how one minute most people seem to think he's a knight in shining armour, and a few months later most people think he's a nut ... when precisely nothing material seems to have happened in between to warrant the opinion swing.
tbh good on all the people coming up with new supercars
the story says;
It'll be in a familiar format: front-engined, rear-wheel-drive using a carbon fibre monocoque body and chassis, independent wishbone suspension and a six speed trans-axle said to be inspired by the Chevy Corvette. Its weight will be some 1,200Kg and, as a result, performance is likely to be stunning, with 60mph coming up in an F1-rivalling 2.8 seconds, and a Vmax of 200mph-plus.
I'm glad to live close to the German border when you can buy such car its good to have a road to drive it on...
But even if you don't have those nice German autobahn's driving from low mph to the max speedlimit is big fun to
GTRene
It'll be in a familiar format: front-engined, rear-wheel-drive using a carbon fibre monocoque body and chassis, independent wishbone suspension and a six speed trans-axle said to be inspired by the Chevy Corvette. Its weight will be some 1,200Kg and, as a result, performance is likely to be stunning, with 60mph coming up in an F1-rivalling 2.8 seconds, and a Vmax of 200mph-plus.
I'm glad to live close to the German border
when you can buy such car its good to have a road to drive it on... But even if you don't have those nice German autobahn's driving from low mph to the max speedlimit is big fun to
GTRene
JR said:
He'll have to design the engine rather better than he did TVR's Speed Six - absolute shambles. Grenade of a thing.
As a lawyer I guess that you have a good basis and defence for that statement.
Yes, you'll find a lot of it in the TVR forums of this website :P
You'll find a lot about the TVR Speed Six problems but not about the AJP6; the differences appear to be quite significant. Thus Flashman's first statement in incorrect and it just gets worse.
The first total Melling designed SP6 is yet to roll out of Autocraft, before you call it a shambles or grenade.
>> Edited by TUSC-AL on Wednesday 10th May 16:42
dean_ratpac said:Oh... :Scratchchin: what, there's bit's of sprue like on those Airfix kits. Sounds sort of right for TVR...
isn't the AJP8 block a 'cut-down' version of the V10 anyways? you can see at the back of the block was shortened. What? Like there's a flat plate where the bell-housing bolts on? That's novel
more looks like where they shortened the mould.
I believe Al Melling has made an announcement like this in the past via Autocar. He was planning a 1.5 V8 lightweight sportcar (like a coupe version of the Elise) and V12 Supercar (I think) and a luxurious saloon. This must have been eight to ten years ago and nothing came of it.
The engine for the Norton bike was up and running as they had video of it on their website being dyno'd and in a prototype chassis. Given the popularity of bike-derived small capacity V8s of late, it would seem the perfect time to re-introduce it.
The AJP8 is a truly magnificent engine (and yes, it's based on a modular design so could easily be adapted to V6, V10 and V12 configurations) and I suspect if Mr Melling had been the one to continue the development of the Speed 6 engine (note the different naming convention) instead of Mr Ravenscroft it would have turned out a lot more reliable. Remember most of the teething problems they had with the original AJP8s was associated with making it a wet-sump engine with tons of ancilleries bolted to it - none of which were in the original design! Al Melling has a huge reputation in the industry with major motor manufacturers.
I for one am hoping that this time he delivers!
The engine for the Norton bike was up and running as they had video of it on their website being dyno'd and in a prototype chassis. Given the popularity of bike-derived small capacity V8s of late, it would seem the perfect time to re-introduce it.
The AJP8 is a truly magnificent engine (and yes, it's based on a modular design so could easily be adapted to V6, V10 and V12 configurations) and I suspect if Mr Melling had been the one to continue the development of the Speed 6 engine (note the different naming convention) instead of Mr Ravenscroft it would have turned out a lot more reliable. Remember most of the teething problems they had with the original AJP8s was associated with making it a wet-sump engine with tons of ancilleries bolted to it - none of which were in the original design! Al Melling has a huge reputation in the industry with major motor manufacturers.
I for one am hoping that this time he delivers!
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