LOCAL MOTORS
RALLY FIGHTER
The
lunatic Local Motors Rally Fighter has been launched on the Chinese car market.
The Rally Fighter has been declared fully road legal in the whole of China, and
that is amazing as this kind of vehicle normally wouldn’t stand a chance at
all. We will try to find out how they did it! The Rally Fighter goes for a
steep 1.58 million yuan or USD 254.000. There is only one dealer for now, in
the capital Beijing.
Local
Motors started as a crowd-sourcing rally car project and moved on to become a
tiny stand-alone automaker with a loyal fan base. The Rally Fighter only became
famous in China after it appeared in the movie Transformers – Age of
Extinction. Power comes from a stonkin’ 6.2 liter V8 engine with 430 hp and 575
nm, mated to a four-speed automatic transmission sending power to the rear
wheels.
Will
she sell? The money doesn’t matter much if it goes cult, and there is a vast
pool of potential customers especially in and around Beijing, where wealthy
wannabe race drivers love to go to the endless emptiness of Inner Mongolia for
some serious off-roading, usually in modified Land Cruisers and the such, so
Local Motors will probably manage to sell a few dozen.
She
sure has enough road presence to scare the traffic out of a jam.
Source
: carnewschina
