Ariel-Atom look-a-like?.....

[knighty]

When I was at the Stoneleight kit car show earlier this year, I saw an ariel-atom look-a-like on show, the front end tube structure and styling looked almost identical, but I seem to remember it had a central seating position like the McLaren F1, and it had a bike engine which was running longitudinally through a differential......does anyone have any web links for it, or know the name?.....

[Chris71]

SDR V-Storm I suspect. Interesting car - in some respects it's a bit of a shame they've gone for such similar styling to the Atom as it is a great design in its own right.

Could also be the MEV rocket - that's a bit chunkier though.

[knighty]

thanks chris, just found the site, sure enough its the one I saw at stoneleigh

http://www.sdrsportscars.co.uk/

it looks like a very well engineered kit, good value too, when you consider Atoms ar 40K, and this is 14K......4K for a starter kit dosent sound silly either.

not too sure about the V-twin engine, but 140bhp and 100Nm aint bad, certainly will sound nice..... would be interesting to see an R1 or Hayabusa set-up......radiator position looks very dodgy.....not much air flow behind the rear bulkhead.

[Chris71]

Like you say, I think comparision to the Atom is a little unfair - firstly because of the difference in price, but also the fact the SDR has a number of interesting design features on its own. The V-twin powerplant is rather different, as is the 3 seat layout and the modular build platform. The latter means that the entire rear end can be removed to swap it for a different powertrain and they are also planning to offer interchangable body styles.

Nonetheless, it would be interesting to see how it compares to something like the V-tec powered Atom. They are quite a lot more money, but so far they're the only car I've been in that has managed to redefine my concept of speed... seriously impressive devices!

[Black5]

V-Storm:

[LocoBlade]

Id be interested to know what it weighs, it may be an illusion but looking at the chassis it looks quite heavy to me.

[tribbles]

There was a thread on this earlier - http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

My personal favourite of them is the SDR V-Storm.

[Chris71]

LocoBlade said:

Id be interested to know what it weighs, it may be an illusion but looking at the chassis it looks quite heavy to me.

I think they were talking about 500kg.

Theoretically, big thin tubes should be lighter for a given stiffness than small thick ones - especially if the other chassis using rectangular rather than circular section tubes.