Monday 18th April 2011

Meet The Isis AM01: Tempted To Go Dutch?

Group C racer, meets track car, meets Subaru...

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This odd beast is as strange as its looks. It's a new Dutch sports car called the Isis AM01, it's based on another Dutch sports car called the Saker (we were surprised there were two Dutch sports car makers other than Spyker and Donkervoort, too) and it's powered by a Subaru flat-four.

The car it's based on is actually a one-make racer that looks like a scaled-down Group C refugee and which has just started a one-make series in the UK for the first time this year, so it should be a pretty track-focused drive.

That 2.0-litre turbocharged boxer motor is apparently good for 272bhp and 258lb ft of torque. In combination with rear-wheel drive, a five-speed gearbox and a kerb weight of just 850kg, Isis claims a top speed of 162mph and a 0-62mph sprint of just 4.2secs.

Isis is asking quite a pretty penny for the car, however - £106k. Mind you, there's also a 396bhp 3.0-litre version (engine as-yet-unknown) in the offing which, at a projected £124k, seems quite reasonable in comparison...

[Squabbler]

More sportscar marques - yes! More ugly expensive machinery - no thanks

[GlynMo]

Wot? No tow bar? I thought they were obligatory on Dutch cars, for the caravan

[notax]

Hideous

The good news is that with a car looking like that, and costing over £100k, the company won't be around for long

[Kiwi XTR2]

So the Saker is Dutch now ???

[militantmandy]

Unbelievingly, hatefully ugly!

[Jellymonster]

It looks like a car built badly by some nerdlinger who got all parts "free" with a series of magazines... first issue, just £1.99 (issues after that, £6.99).

[Vytalis]

Those figures look pretty close to the alfa 4c. Would be interested to see how it goes to whet the appetite further for the alfa when it arrives. And with the alfa possibly at £40k...

[richard300]

Is there not anyone at that factory that has the role of 'Designer' or 'stylist'??
It's not like there is any kind of form following function..... Its just ill fitting, ill conceived, ill judged tat!!!!

[richard300]

Is there not anyone at that factory that has the role of 'Designer' or 'stylist'??
It's not like there is any kind of form following function..... Its just ill fitting, ill conceived, ill judged tat!!!!

[B10]

Why is it either named after The Morris Isis (a 6 cylinder Morris Oxford) or the River Isis in Oxford. Curious.

[Hendry]

Vytalis said:

Those figures look pretty close to the alfa 4c. Would be interested to see how it goes to whet the appetite further for the alfa when it arrives. And with the alfa possibly at £40k...

I have simply no idea how you can compare this to the Alfa. 2.5 times the cost. 0.1 times the looks.

They have been phenomenally lazy with the "styling".

[PascalBuyens]

Hendry said:

I have simply no idea how you can compare this to the Alfa. 2.5 times the cost. 0.1 times the looks.

They have been phenomenally lazy with the "styling".

Oh come on !!!! They have AT LEAST changed the head/tail lights on a Saker...

Other than that, I can't see a thing being changed from the car it's based on

[georgetuk]

I can't even fathom why they think thats an acceptable price for something so ordinary.

The choices at that kind of money just make that look stupid.

Crazy dutch!

[louiebaby]

How long is it???



Is it a two seater in a tandem formation or something?

[nouze]

for fks sake... errrr

[Beefmeister]

£106k eh?

Hmmm...

This:



Or one of the following:




And don't even start on what you could get 1 or 2yrs old for that money...

Edited by Beefmeister on Monday 18th April 09:52

[CliveM]

It looks strangely like a "stretch" limo to me - like the middle section has been added at a later date?

[Chris71]

Oh my Isis!

[RemainAllHoof]

I might get one if only so that for the first time in my life, I can hear women say, "It's too long!"

[JuniorJet]

The dutch have created some lovely looking cars recently

...this is not one of them, this is about as pretty as a nappy rash.

not pretty.