Thursday 12th November 2009

First Pics: Arash AF-10 supercar

Corvette-powered Brit supercar is nearly ready - but it ain't going to be cheap...

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Anybody see a bit of Evora in that?...

These are the first pictures of the oh-so-nearly finished Arash AF-10, the Corvette-powered British supercar that we first reported on in autumn last year. Arash has also revealed the price of the AF-10 - it's going to cost £320k (and you thought the £200k Noble M600 was a pricey proposition).

Still, the AF-10 doesn't exactly skimp on the specification. Unlike the Noble M600, which has to merely manage with a carbon fibre body, the AF-10 is carbon fibre all the way through. Pretty much everything that isn't exhaust, engine, fuel tank (aluminium), double wishbone suspension (aluminium), subframes (steel) or roll cage (steel) is made from carbon fibre. This includes a patented chassis design, which is carbon fibre with an aluminium honeycomb core.

...Or maybe a hint of Enzo?

Power comes from a 7.0-litre LS7 GM V8 with 550bhp at 6000rpm and 475lb ft of torque at 4800rpm. That will be good enough, reckons Arash, for a 205mph top speed, although no official performance figures have been released. Hauling the AF-10 to a standstill again are 380mm ventilated front disc brakes with eight-pot AP calipers, while 362mm discs with six-pot calipers.

As is De Rigueur these days for any new Brit supercar, Arash is already talking of even more performance - an AF-10S version is apparently in the pipeline, complete with an 800bhp, 553lb ft supercharged version of the LS7 motor.

For £300k, we'll be kind and say Enzo

Arash Farboud, founder, creator and owner of Arash cars, first came to Brit sports car prominence helping to create the Farboud GTS, a car that has now become the Farbio GTS. Farboud established the current Arash Cars concern in March 2006, and has been working on the AF-10 since then.

Dynamic development of the car starts next year.

 

[simonw]

Looks like a model to me..

[rhinochopig]

Nice to see an original looking design for a change.

[Puddenchucker]

Is it just me, or does that look a lot like an Enzo?

[Crusoe]

enzo with corners rounded off?

[rhinochopig]

Puddenchucker said:

Is it just me, or does that look a lot like an Enzo?

Just you, the enzo has different wheel nuts.

[toppstuff]

Pipe dream.

I will eat my underwear if I ever get to see one, for real, available for sale in a dealer near me.

The Farboud ultimately had to be taken up by Chris Marsh to become the Farbio. That car has evolved into something really quite impressive in my opinion.

Who/ what is the engineering talent behind Arash? It seems a bit sketchy and without a genuine technical guru behind the project I cannot see how it can succeed.

Would love to be proved otherwise, of course.

[HeavySoul]

simonw said:

Looks like a model to me..

I think it is or computer generated pictures.

Seems the Veyron has opened the ceiling on supercar pricing - crazy.

[Burnham]

Article said:

Dynamic development of the car starts next year.

...by which time maybe it will be known as the Araio AF-10. Maybe.

[Beefmeister]

I'll repeat my post from the other thread:

Beefmeister said:

"Corvette-Powered Arash AF-10 Goes On Sale, Finally"

Er, no. That's ANOTHER fecking CGI rendering.

This guy has been flogging this horse for years.

And $550,000 for a 550 bhp LS7 engined Enzo rip-off?




Dreamer.

Edited by Beefmeister on Thursday 12th November 13:06

[kambites]

To be fair whilst it's similar, it's a far better looking car than the Enzo.

[Beefmeister]

If he actually produces that car, i can GUARANTEE that Ferrari will have their lawyers on his case quicker than he can change the company name and start up a new one...

I know a few Ferrari people in Torino, and they're rather protective over their intellectual property...

[ivanj]

Are the front and rear spoilers controlled by hydraulics?

[Turbobanana]

Let's hope the founder has one of those entertaining middle names you only hear at your wedding: then he can start a new company if this one goes belly-up and will still have a name for it.

[SirClarke]

From the side profile I'd genuinely struggle to tell it apart from an Enzo at more then a few feet.

Enzo


Arash



I'd rather have a noble/murci sv/enzo/cgt/merc sls/Zenvo or a vast number of other cars.....

[judas]

Time for that Sniff Petrol supercar announcement letter again

[M400 NBL]

Is the interior a secret... or have they not got that far yet?

You'd think, having an idea of the price, that they would have that sorted and illustrated with the rest of the car.

[k-ink]

Hasn't this guy spent ten years dreaming up different concepts and clones. They started out at £80k back then.

I'm sure it's great to be over indulged with a lot of time, money, and no responsibilities.

[BBS-LM]

Crusoe said:

enzo with corners rounded off?

hahaha, Enzo with different wheels and badge?

[MogulBoy]

Looks derivative but promising and interesting none-the-less.

We've seen comedy potato-peeler front wings before on ye olde Yamaha OX99-11....

[M400 NBL]

k-ink said:

Hasn't this guy spent ten years dreaming up different concepts and clones. They started out at £80k back then.

I'm sure it's great to be over indulged with a lot of time, money, and no responsibilities.

Apparently since 1998 when Porsche refused to sell him a GT1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arash_Farboud