MB Roadcars launches concept supercar

Hardware goes on show at Autosport in January

By PH Staff / Wednesday, 8 December 2004 / Loading comments

MB Roadcars (MBR) will launch its first prototype, EOS, at the Autosport International Show on 13 January 2005. Aimed at the supercar market, the company says its machine "brings together the very best of motorsport and aerospace technologies into a distinctive and elegant concept."

Ultimate performance was the driving force behind the EOS project. It incorporates what the company calls ground-breaking aerodynamic concepts, lightweight, high strength carbon fibre chassis monocoque, and race-bred suspensions with fine-tuned vehicle dynamics.

The three-seat car has a target weight of 1,000Kg and is driven by a mid-mounted 500bhp V8 through a six-speed gearbox to the rear wheels. Performance is said to be 3.5 second zero to 60mph, with a top speed "in excess of 200mph".

MBR is a newly established sports car manufacturer based near Silverstone, and concentrating on the highly exclusive supercar market. It says it will "propose innovative and technically advanced sports cars to compete with the most renowned road cars."

The EOS will be produced in very limited numbers -- fewer than 20 cars per year -- and while a price has not been finalised, MBR reckons the technology and materials used to produce the car justify a price tag above £300,000.

Current status

After two years' hard work, MBR says it has successfully completed the concept and initial design stages of the EOS supercar, providing a sound basis to move on to the detail engineering of the first prototypes. MB Roadcars is currently signing-up technical partnerships and looking for investors to strengthen and complete the EOS development.

In addition to the EOS concept launch at the Autosport Show, MBR says "a highly realistic 50 per cent scale model of the supercar will be displayed alongside demonstration of some of the state-of-the-art technologies used to design the car". It plans to present a full-scale show car at the Frankfurt Motorshow in September 2005.

MBR says the first EOS prototype will hit the road at the end 2006.

More here: www.mbroadcars.com/