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Arial Atom 2-little and uspeakably fast!

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In Britain, there is a very small car company called Ariel, and they make a very small car called the Atom 2. Ariel has been building cars for since 1898? over 100 years? yet today they have fewer than 10 employees, and work out of a barn. But as small as the company (and their product) may be, this car has the horsepower and handling to make any grown man weep openly. It's design is brilliant and minimal, it has no more than is absolutely necessary. As the folks at Ariel say, "If it doesn't need it, it hasn't got it." It's chassis is gorgeously engineered, doubling as a protective exoskeleton. It has no doors, no roof, and no windshield. It does have a trunk, but it's barely large enough to fit a portable defibrillator machine.
Watching this car move at high speeds is like watching a roller coaster in action. It grips the road with absurd tenacity, and accelerates from 0-60 at a a ludicrous 2.9 seconds, assuming you can shift through its six gears fast enough. It weighs 500kg (about 1,100 lbs), it sits atop a sophisticated race car suspension system, and it is powered by a 300hp supercharged Honda engine. This gives it a weight/horsepower ratio of about 600hp/ton.
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In 2005 it was released in the US.




The US manufacturer is Brammo.



I'm sure those of you into cars already know about this, but I was really impressed and only just found out about it! I want to see one in action live!
 
If I had the money to throw around I'd get either one of these or a Lotus Elise. Someone in my neighborhood has one. He mothballs it for the winter but the first nice day of the spring he's driving around in that thing and I'm envious every time I see it.
 
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Average price for used is $65,000
 
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