IndyStreet car

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The vehicle is the IndyStreet, a street-legal near-reproduction of an Indy race car, but with two seats instead of one so you can take someone along with you.

For about $40,000, you can own one of the V-6-powered IndyStreet cars, complete and ready to go from the company's assembly facility in DeFuniak Springs, Fla.

The car has a tubular steel frame and composite body, with the same open-wheel arrangement of the Indy race cars. But to make it street-legal, it also comes with halogen headlights, LED taillights and turn signals, horn, and noisy-but-legal mufflers.

We are always looking to get new drivers in a Mod car the easy way.

[Titus]

4-speed automatic transmission

[srivendel]

Cool, but I want one of these:



The Freestream T1. By the same engineers who worked at McLaren on the F1.

As the world's first road car to exceed 1,000bhp-per-tonne the Freestream T1 is perhaps bound to grab the headlines. Yet the car couldn't be further removed from the 'no expense spared high technology approach' that might be imagined. Indeed the same key issues facing mainstream car designers - such as active and passive safety, vehicle performance as well as weight, complexity and cost - were all addressed at a fundamental level when the Freestream T1 was conceived and was a primary inspiration for the car.

"To demonstrate our understanding of these fundamental vehicle engineering issues we set out to design an optimum package for delivering 1,000bhp-per-tonne," says Freestream co-founder Ben Scott-Geddes. "Interestingly, the sweet spot on the curve that satisfies many of these issues is 500 horsepower in a vehicle with a mass of 500kg."

"You can deliver higher engine outputs up to 1,000bhp and beyond," explains fellow director Graham Halstead, "but that means more weight, which adds significant cost and complexity to the car. Conversely, a 300bhp-per-300kg approach can severely compromise crash worthiness because of insufficient structural mass. An extremely lightweight approach can cause costs to spiral through the use of exotic materials. And less horsepower means a restricted top speed and aerodynamic performance."

Unbelievable.

S.

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A manual transmission is available if a customer wants it, but it costs more because it is more complicated to install, Dockery said. Nearly all of the cars are sold with automatic.
"With the automatic, of course, it's not a full-blown race car," Dockery said. "It's a highway cruiser, but it's loads of fun to drive."

[Titus]

Sorry... got a touch of the A.D.D. and never got that far down the page.

[Majik]

Boo, that isnt an indycar! V-6? Outboard mounted shocks and springs? Tube frame? Eh it looks cool, but it seems pretty similar to a prowler to me.

[Titus]

Boo, that isnt an indycar! V-6? Outboard mounted shocks and springs? Tube frame? Eh it looks cool, but it seems pretty similar to a prowler to me.

It kind of felt like a cartoonish version of an Indycar from the 80's to me.

[Dave04]

Boo, that isnt an indycar! V-6?

Looks like Titus isn't the only one to not read the whole thing...

Also offered is a limited-edition model that comes with a 500-horsepower Cadillac Northstar V-8 engine, Dockery said. He calls it the "Cadzilla." "We'll build about 10 of those this year, and 50 of the V-6 models," he said.

But yeah... not a real Indy car by any means....

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Seriously though. You couldn't make a "real" Indy car a street car. The gearing, motor etc is all track designed and would not work on public roads. The best description is that it's a kit car. A knock off imitation of the real thing.

I definitely think it would draw some attention on the street though. Pretty neat!

[TheChadVIII]

Ok, no bullshitting, at around 7pm on Jun 9th I saw one of these or something VERY similar (all open wheels, front and rear spoiler) blackish and tan, on spring valley getting on the 75. Two guys riding in it but they didn't take off or nothing. Anyone else sight that sucker?