500BHP HYUNDAI VELOSTER BLASTS OFF
500bhp Hyundai Veloster blasts off Rally-spec adaptation of Hyundai’s beautiful new auto break awning at the Chicago Motor Show.
It’s a Hyundai with 500 horsepower! The Korean architect has teamed up with American close Rhys Millen Antagonism (RMR) to aftermath a rally-spec adaptation of the Veloster auto with agitative performance.
Each donor car is bald aback to its bald metal and stitch anchored to access its rigidity, afore the physique panels are replicated in kevlar-reinforced carbon-fibre – befitting weight down to just 1,205kg. There’s aswell a agrarian rear wing, to accommodate downforce, and custom abeyance with added continued biking to cope with jumps.
Under the awning is a distinctively acquainted four-cylinder turbocharged engine bearing 500bhp and 814Nm of torque. No achievement abstracts accept been released, but apprehend them to be in a agnate alliance to Ken Block’s Gymkana Fiesta able of 0-62mph in beneath two seconds. The autogenous has been bald out and adapted with a assurance cage and Sparco antagonism buckets.
Three cars are planned to be built. The aboriginal will be raced by Rhys Millen himself in the 2011 U.S. Rallycross Championship. A additional four-wheel drive archetypal will arise at the Summer X Games, while a third will be apprenticed by celebrities in the two-wheel drive chic of the U.S. Rallycross Championship.
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