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640kg isn't a lot for a car to weigh. That's less than half than what your average family hatch tips the scales at these days. Now throw 385hp into the equation and things get a little weird. Weird as in oh-crikey-this-is-fast. That's what VUHL's revised 05RR now boasts, and that means a power to weight ratio of 600hp/ton, more than your tardy McLaren P1 or Bugatti Veyron.
To achieve that low weight, the VUHL makes do without fripperies like a windscreen, roof and all the other silly add-ons that you find on most cars. Instead, you get Ford's 2.3-litre Ecoboost engine, a six-speed sequential gearbox and Michelin's track-biased Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres. Carbon fibre is used for most of the panels, including a new, wider rear wing and bigger diffuser. Even the wheels wear the black weave...
VUHL is the brainchild of Mexican brothers Iker and Guillermo Echeverria, both of whom have backgrounds in industrial design, and the car certainly looks fit to devour everything in its path on track. There's no firm word on pricing, but with the ''regular'' 05 costing around €72,000, you can be sure the 05RR will be closer to the €100,000 mark. That gets you to 100km/h from a standstill in 2.7 seconds, and also the ability to blitz everything this side of an F3 racer on a track, so I guess you could almost class it as good value...