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...
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