American-based Shelby Supercars “Tuatara” super car to give Bugatti veyron some competition
Competition grows for the worlds fastest Car
Shelby Supercars’ new mid-engined 1350-horsepower (1007- kilowatt) car, designed to take on the world’s fastest production car, Bugatti’s Veyron, will be named the Tuatara. The car body, chassis and wheels will be made of carbon fibre, and its crash cells will be made of aluminium, with a mid-rear-mounted twin-turbocharged four-camshaft 7.0-litre V8 engine to power the rear wheels.
Just a dozen Tuataras are expected to be made, priced from US$800,000 (NZ$941,000) to US$900,000.
Shelby Supercars founder Jerod Shelby said the name choice was based on the 2008 discovery by an evolutionary biologist, Professor David Lambert, whose research found that although tuatara had remained largely physically unchanged over very long periods of evolution, they were evolving – at a DNA level – faster than any other animal yet examined.
Tuatara from New Zealand
“This reptile’s name translated from the Maori language means `peaks on the back’, which is quite fitting, given the winglets on the back of the new car,” The tuatara possesses the fastest-evolving DNA in the world.
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