McLaren must be giving engineers away to any madcap sports project out there. The Freestream has them and so does Tramontana, which was set up to give Spain something to be proud of on the motoring front. SEAT, apparently, doesn’t set pulses racing.
Now it looks crazy, but the new manufacturer's business plan only calls for 12 cars a year, and he’s already got solid orders. The F1/fighter jet-look brought the car in droves and it can be a balls out racer, with paddle shift gearbox, rock solid suspension, carbon interior and one bucket seat, but it doesn’t have to be.
This car is the ‘luxury edition’, with leather cladding on the suspension, wood inserts and, wait for it, a white gold badge. So that’ll be safe at the shops then…
Still, it’s got a carbon-fibre chassis, a 5.5-litre, twin-turbo V12 that pumps out an obscene 720bhp. It should do 60mph in less than four seconds and go dangerously close to 200mph, despite massive downforce planting it to the deck and creating the drag that will go with it.
It’s such a random idea that there’s no telling how it will handle, but General Director Josep Rubau has already issued the invite to the Circuit de Catalunya in August to find out. Some of you may scoff. Me? I can’t wait.
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