New Concept Car Saleen S5S Raptor
On a car show in New York (USA) Saleen has presented concept car S5S Raptor, equipped with engine V8 power of 650 horsepowers, informs site Motor Authority.
New car already name the follower flagman sport car S7, however Saleen the decision on starting S5S Raptor in a serial production on the basis of responses of visitors of an exhibition will make.
The five-litre engine of this car works on bio ethanol and mixes E85. At the heart of a car design - the easy aluminium chassis and a body from composit materials. Draught from the motor is transferred to back wheels through a 6-step mechanical transmission. Dispersal from a zero to hundred kilometres per hour takes hardly more than three seconds, and the maximum speed makes 322 kilometres per hour.
If to manufacture S5S Raptor will give “green light” its cost will make about 185 000 US dollars that is much less, than the price of leader S7 - 600 000 dollars.
Besides, the American company is going to create a new brand - “SMS Limited” under which will make powerful superpenalties. As founder Saleen Steve Salin has explained (Steve Saleen), the present company is too closely connected with Ford, therefore it is necessary to create a new name which “will generate new global models”.
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