Monday, July 18, 2011

The Shelby Tuatara


With the extinction of the Bugatti Veyron, Shelby Supercars has released new pictures on what it claims to be a real contender for the Worlds fastest car title.
The US firm was a holder of the world's fastest production car title with its 1,183HP SCC Ultimate Aero TT that reached a top speed of 257 mph.Bugatti Veyron Super Sport has since,topped that, but now Shelby is back with a vengeance.
The Tuatara will use a 1,331bhp twin-turbo 7.0-litre V8, sending power to the rear wheels through a seven-speed manual or a seven-speed robotised manual gearbox.
the name Tuatara actually refers to a type of lizard, native to New Zealand. It supposedly has the fastest evolving molecular structure in nature, something that the company's owner, Jarod Shelby, feels it shares with his carbon-fibre-bodied supercar.

"Most manufacturers essentially use the same basic model and body shape for up to 10 years, while only making small refinements to it each year. After only three years in production with the Ultimate Aero, SSC's Tuatara is about to monumentally evolve in the areas of sophistication, design, aerodynamics and shear all‐around performance. We felt that the fastest evolving DNA was a perfect definition of SSC's latest project.," he said.

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