Prodrive to build $1.4 million street-legal rally raid supercar

U.K.-dependent race auto builder Prodrive’s up coming venture is a supercar described by founder and CEO David Richards as a “Ferrari of the desert.” Centered on its BRX-T1 Dakar race rig, the auto will be driven by a Prodrive-modified Ford 3.5-liter twin-turbo V6. As with the rally raider, its style will be led by Ian Callum.

According to Autocar, the road auto will likely be referred to as the Hunter, and will hew closely to the Dakar-bred BRX-T1. Even so, it will function a whole inside and all the fixings to make it at ease street auto. It will also have, reportedly, a five hundred-horsepower version of the V6, which is a lot more ability than the 400 horsepower and 516 pound-ft of torque that the race auto places out. Ability will be delivered via what Richards phone calls a “sophisticated transmission,” but he failed to specify no matter if it’d be dependent on the 6-velocity sequential gearbox of the race auto.

The race device was built atop a metal tube-body chassis draped in carbon fiber human body panels. It’s not clear no matter if the road auto will use a similar design, but Callum, who has made quite a few beloved autos for Jaguar, Aston Martin, Ford and the BRX race auto, will lend his hand to the human body. The BRX-T1 certainly reveals shades of the F-Kind visible in the rear.

Richards advised Autocar that the road auto will be wider than the race auto to accommodate bigger tires. In fact, getting as well-smaller tires was between the causes Prodrive’s BRX-T1 Dakar racers failed to have a far better turnout in January. Nine-time WRC winner Sebastian Loeb logged a DNF since he stored receiving punctures and ultimately just ran out of tires. The other auto, pushed by Nani Roma, finished fifth general. The team thinks it has gained important expertise that will assistance them log a far better result up coming calendar year.

The Hunter will likely expense £1 million ($1.38 million), but will stand in a class of its very own. Richards advised Autocar, “Imagine a road auto able of going across the sand dunes at 100mph – and hold undertaking it for three hundred miles since the gasoline tank is so large. It is going to be fairly remarkable.”