It’s been way too long since we featured something without proper fenders, and it’s been even longer since we’ve been fortunate enough to plaster a Se7en-inspired design across our pages. The beauty above has been worked up by Irmscher, a German builder that’s been largely responsible for wrenching on GM products in the past. Now [...]
I feel… not a sense of regret, but one of self-disapointment that I haven’t spent more time over the past few months hyping Se7ens. After all, they are my favorite cars and I do have to get to write about cars everyday. But, what is there to say about them? The design is laregely unchanged [...]
How about a little open-wheel deliciousness for your Friday? Take a look at Racer X Design’s RZ Formula, a design study worked up to tweak how people look at supercars. The car’s drawn in the same vein as heroes like the Se7en, Atom and X-Bow. That means a focus on handling and acceleration instead of [...]
You remember the Aspid, don’t you? The Caterham-esque bruiser plays to all our Fiendish soft spots, specifically those with with labels like “light weight” and “hand-welded aluminum space frame.” The lucky bastids over at CAR Magazine Online got a spell behind the wheel of the car in its home town just outside of Barcelona. What’d [...]
That’s right. Evidently, Caterham’s getting tired of cranking out variations of the Lotus Se7en. Instead of hitting the drawing board themselves, the company is turning to the web for their next design, meaning you’ll have a say in what they turn out as their next model. The site will use a combination of blogs, forums, [...]
Oh yes. Maker of the ultimate application of Chapmanian ideals (Chapmanian — you like that?) has pulled the cover off two of its newest models — the Superlight R300 and the Roadsport 175. Befitting its name, the Superlight R300 weighs in at just 1,100 lbs, and thanks to the 2.0-liter Ford four banger out front, [...]
It’s well known that Fiends heart Se7ens. But there exist certain riffs on Chapman’s ideal that are so impossibly bonkers it’s hard to even imagine them. No, seriously. Take the Caterham RS Levante — it sports more than 1,000 horsepower per ton (twice that of a Bugatti Veyron) and doesn’t have any doors. Crazy, I [...]
We don’t need to tell you how much we dig on open-wheel, road-legal track cars. With all the low weight, high-po options out there, the apple in our eye is still the Locost Se7en for the simple fact you build it yourself without costing an arm and a leg. Or at least it was. Check [...]
Here’s yet another contender for the ultimate open-wheel track beast. This time the car comes from French manufacturer Secma and is powered by a 1.6-liter four pot sourced from Renault with 105 horsepower and 109 lb-ft of torque. While that falls well behind the Ariel Atom and KTM X-Bow, it should be more than sufficient [...]
This guy gets a hollowed spot as an Autofiend hero. While plenty of us around here pine for a low-weight track assassin like the Arial Atom or Caterham Se7en, we also have girlfriends, fiancees and wives. That leaves normal mortals like us to whine about the injustices of our capitalist system, but for a legend like this [...]
