Rossin-Bertin Vorax: Brazil's Newest Supercar

It sounds like a medicine, but it's actually a car...

By Riggers / Monday, 25 October 2010 / Loading comments

This curvy Mazda RX-8-alike on steroids is the Rossin-Bertin Vorax, Brazil's newest (only?) supercar, and is scheduled to make its debut at the Sao Paolo motor show.

Its name might sound like a pharmaceutical product - and the fact that thus far we only have renderings to go by places it firmly in the 'we'll believe it when we see it' category - but the Vorax does look like being quite a machine, should it actually come to fruition.

The Vorax is powered by the V10 from the now defunct BMW M5 (which does make us wonder where Messrs Rossin and Bertin will source motors for the 500-1000 cars they plan to make each year). In its 'entry-level' form the Vorax will push out 570hp, while bolting a supercharger on pushes that up to 750hp.

Rossin-Bertin reckons that the basic car will hit 62mph in 3.8secs and 205mph, while the supercharger should make capable of 0-62mph in 3.6secs and of hitting 231mph flat out - although these figures are from 'virtual testing', so we'd take them with a whole cellar-full of salt.

The 1300kg aluminium chassis/carbon fibre body car is the brainchild of Fharys Rossin, an ex-GM designer and Natalino Bertin Jr, who is the 29-year-old heir to, er, a large slaughterhouse company.

It's an odd combination, but the pair hopes to bring the Ferrari rival (the £255k Ferrari rival) to market in 2011 or 2012, with a convertible following a year later. Good luck, chaps...