http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...3&q=ariel+atom

 

ummm repost.

But very cool nonetheless. I think it's funny it has a honda engine. Psssh just imagine if it had a rotary! I don't know how you'd cool it but it would be neat.
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Speaking of that..... About 10 of the guys from my mech eng class plan on making something similar for our design project.... but with a much cooler 13-B

 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...7&q=ariel+atom

 

Sweet. If only the Elise had one of those awesome Honda 4 bangers.....

 

is the renesis lighter than the si block? im guessing yes

they should have gone for the rx8 engine + tranny instead .. i think would be an even better blast

anyways if i lived in sunshine land i could probably consider that .. would be kick *** .. grandmas would be like .. did that thing just come out from underneath my buick?

 

It is not the Civic SI engine. It is taken out of the euro spec Civic Type R. Makes 220 hp. It is very close to the RSX Type-S engine. Maybe they are the same with different ECU mapping. The Atom supercharged version makes 300 hp.

BTW, this is the one I have in my PGR3 garage

 

did you see his face distort? that's one fast *****.

 

so how would the 8 stack up against this car?

 

 

Whops.....I don't recall seeing this one. Well better this as a repost than a "What's your MPG"......LOL

 

I prefer a "STi or RX8?" myself.

 

haah, the 8 woul get, absofrickenlutley destroyed. Period.

This thing, with the supercharged engine does 0-60 in 2.9 seconds.
and it laps Top gears track faster then a Cararra GT.

the only car that is a production car that rivals in in 0-60 is the veryron

 

You can get a Honda or Ford engine placed in it, when I priced one out with full carbon fiber, blah blah blah......over 70k

But oh so nice.

 

You can get one with the big brakes he mentiones and 300bhp for under $50K and its street legal.

All I need to do is win the lottery. Then I can get all my dream cars. The Noble,The Atom and the F430.

 

their website says that american models have the GM ecotec engine in it

 

That engine is an option unless they changed something rescently. The Honda is still Availible but the GM engine would still be a good one.

Edit: I was wrong. They have changed the options since the last time I went to the site. The GM engine has more torque than the Honda did.