Novitec Rosso Reveals New TuLesto Supercar to Celebrate 20th Anniversary
Apr 17, 2009 | 09:12 AM
#1
Novitec Rosso Reveals New TuLesto Supercar to Celebrate 20th Anniversary The TuLesto is powered by a 4.4 liter V8 with twin superchargers with an output of 777 hp and 727 Nm of torque.
I personally do not like the way they made the rear look Audi R-8ish
I personally do not like the way they made the rear look Audi R-8ish
Apr 17, 2009 | 09:12 AM
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From Worldcarfans:
The Novitec TuLesto hopes to be a supercar that's a little more subtle than some of those Frankensteinian monsters made up of a few muscle parts stapled together. Afterall, Novitec is a Ferrari tuner and is celebrating its 20th anniversary with this car. Oddly enough, though, in the press release on the TuLesto, Novitec doesn't say if or how much Ferrari content is in this thing. So we will have to wait for more details on that before we draw any conclusions.
What we do know is that the TuLesto was designed with the help of Luca Serafini Stile, a design studio in Modena, Italy, and is built at Novitec's plant in Stetten, Germany in the province of Bavaria. It is a two-seater with a rear-mounted engine and...well, it looks a lot like a Ferrari. The engine is a 4.4 liter V8 with twin superchargers with an output of 777 hp (at 8,200 rpm) and 727 Nm of torque (6,300 rpm) coupled to a 6-speed, semi-automatic gearbox featuring an anti-slip differential. Weighing in at a mere 1,260 kg, it sports a whopping 1.62 kg/hp weight to power ratio. 0 to 100 km/h is 3.4 seconds and in 22.6 seconds the TuLesto is already humming along at 300 km/h (186 mph), still a jogger's pace for a car with a top speed of more than 350 km/h (217 mph).
A first-rate suspension with double-wishbones front and rear and adjustable damping rates is guaranteed to make the ride tight and smooth. And if you need to clear a speed bump without holding your breath, one need only push a button to raise the car by 4 cm. Aside from the use of carbon fiber, aluminum and the ultra-light alloy 20 or 21-inch wheels to keep weight down, the inside of the cabin also features a carbon fiber finish on the dash, door paneling and central console. Want one? Well, they're only making 11 of them for "long-time customers," so have a look here...and that's it.
Apr 17, 2009 | 09:49 AM
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Seriously. Change it.
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Seems to take styling cues from the worst elements of several cars. The R8, 430, Aston One-77 to name a few. I am not saying any of those cars are ugly, I'm merely suggesting that this atrocity seems to draw from the very few questionable styling elements contained in each of them.
