I got this from another site..

Like the Millennium Falcon, the Weber Sportcars faster one may not look like much, but it sounds like it might be capable of besting the former's Kessel Run time of under 12 parsecs. Hell, after looking over the manufacturer's stats, we think that the faster one might be able to tear a gaping hole in the space/time continuum.

Billed by its Swiss maker as the world's fastest street legal sports car, the faster one's ugly-but-aerodynamic carbon fiber body covers a vehicle that weighs in at a scant 1,984 pounds (900 kg). That mass is distributed 50:50 and is propelled by a 900-horsepower/774 lb-ft twin-supercharged V8 that begins its life as a garden-variety General Motors LS7 before Weber tears it apart and rebuilds it to its own specifications. The twin-blown eight is then mated to an in-house-developed 6-speed sequential gearbox. Power is directed to an intelligent AWD system (also developed in-house) that can send a maximum of 36% of power to the front wheels.

Stated performance numbers are of the astonishing variety: 0-62 mph in 2.7 seconds; 0-124 in 6.6 seconds; 0-186 in 16.2 seconds; and a top speed said to be over 248 mph. Helping rein in the insanity is a set of 12-piston, 15-inch ceramic brakes supplemented by the car's motorized rear wing, which, like the Bugatti Veyron's, doubles as an air brake when necessary. You can get into all the minutiae after the jump where we've pasted Weber Sportcars' full press release. Weird but wicked, the Weber Sportcars faster one is just the thing to settle that pissing contest you've been having with your Veyron-driving billionaire neighbor. If you give the nice people at Weber (at least) 1.6 million Swiss francs (plus VAT), they'll build one just for you.

 

Awesome car but damn ugly the front end looks like a stingray that got hit by a boat.

 

Seconded. Looks like they stuck with function over fashion.

 

hehe i love the intro you give to the car, the front end of the car makes it look like its alive, ill take two please

 

insane levels of enginerring have gone into that! have you seen the machined ally front sub frame?? and the shock mounting points at the rear are mad to!

you have to love the sweeds for coming out with mad motors!

Chris.

 

Everything is amazing but the way the front end looks.

 

After art like that all you can do is critisize WoW

That car is truly amazing!

 

Car is amazing, body looks like *** though..

 

They really need to turn that into an exocar because that body looks like poo.

 

Looking at the pic that shows the chassis from above, it's hard to believe 50/50 weight distribution.

 

- I see a lot of machining, not any impressive engineering

- That doesn't look like a functional shape to me... that's 100% someone's bad taste in art

- Heim joints all over the suspension--this must be a track car, not a street car?

- Heim joints are welded to the A-arms. Replace the A-arms every couple thousand miles?

- Camber/caster appear to only be adjustable by shims

- Doesn't appear to be any sway bar adjustment available

- Those halfshafts are TINY! I ran bigger halfshafts on 600lbs (wet + driver) Formula-SAE cars

- All that massive engine work, all that ridiculous machining, and stock exhaust manifolds?

 

I was under the impression that the stock LS7 exhaust manifolds are pretty good.

Oh well, Car still looks like *** no matter how fast it it. I think this is finally a car that the bugatti veyron looks better than. Good Job!

 

I'm just pissed that they can fit two superchargers on it and we F-bodies can barely fit one only after dropping the k-member and cutting the cowl.

It looks like one hell of a car.

 

Thats what I thought right away too

 

**** that, it has stock valve covers too

 

Crazy performance, but damn that thing is ugly as hell. Give me a Veyron any day over that hideous thing and I'll gladly take the loss in a race.

 

You mean you 4th-gen F-bodies. The rest of us F-bodies don't have half the engine under the cowl.

 

Dang all that criticism from a couple backed-off photos? You sir are a credit to MENSA.


Jeez, don't you think maybe, JUST MAYBE, they thought it through when they built this?

 

"Garden variety LS7"

 

I've built a few race cars and a few street cars. It's pretty easy to recognize when something isn't suited well for either purpose. It's a stupid car, built for stupid people with too much money. And it's ugly.



It falls in the same class as "street-rods". It's artwork, not a performance vehicle. Except they try to position it as a performance vehicle, so I feel the need to slam it. It's not even close to the same class as a Veyron, which is apparently the market they were shooting for.

I wish their website had some photos of the composite work so we could see what they screwed up on that. They do have some photos of the frame though, but all I can say about that is "WTF were they thinking?". Or smoking.

BTW, I let my MENSA membership lapse since '88.