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

U.K.-primarily based race car builder Prodrive’s upcoming challenge is a supercar explained by founder and CEO David Richards as a “Ferrari of the desert.” Primarily based on its BRX-T1 Dakar race rig, the vehicle will be powered 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 street car will probably be identified as the Hunter, and will hew intently to the Dakar-bred BRX-T1. Nonetheless, it will function a entire interior and all the fixings to make it relaxed road car. It will also have, reportedly, a five hundred-horsepower edition of the V6, which is more electrical power than the four hundred horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque that the race car puts out. Electricity will be sent through what Richards phone calls a “sophisticated transmission,” but he didn’t specify no matter if it’d be primarily based on the six-pace sequential gearbox of the race car.

The race machine was designed atop a steel tube-body chassis draped in carbon fiber body panels. It really is not crystal clear no matter if the street car will use a equivalent construction, but Callum, who has developed a lot of beloved automobiles for Jaguar, Aston Martin, Ford and the BRX race car, will lend his hand to the body. The BRX-T1 certainly reveals shades of the F-Form visible in the rear.

Richards instructed Autocar that the street car will be wider than the race car to accommodate bigger tires. In reality, acquiring far too-smaller tires was between the good reasons Prodrive’s BRX-T1 Dakar racers didn’t have a far better turnout in January. 9-time WRC winner Sebastian Loeb logged a DNF simply because he saved having punctures and at some point just ran out of tires. The other car, pushed by Nani Roma, completed fifth overall. The staff thinks it has acquired useful practical experience that will assistance them log a far better result upcoming year.

The Hunter will probably price tag £1 million ($1.38 million), but will stand in a course of its possess. Richards instructed Autocar, “Imagine a street car able of heading across the sand dunes at 100mph – and preserve performing it for three hundred miles simply because the gasoline tank is so major. It’s heading to be very interesting.”