Lucra
LC470 FS
In
the realm of lightweight, elemental sports cars, a few names immediately jump
to mind: Ariel, Caterham, Lotus, and perhaps KTM.
Truth
be told, these types of vehicles are more popular and more common than you
might think. That’s partially because they’re relatively inexpensive to make,
generally low-volume sellers, and because they’re mostly track warriors, they
don’t have to worry about creature comforts like high-end stereos, multi-zone
climate control, and in some cases, doors.
Most
of these vehicles use turbocharged or supercharged four-cylinder engines to
provide power, but Los Angeles-based manufacturer Lucra Cars is not one of
them. The company distills everything we love about ‘exocars’ into a
street-legal package, but just barely.
Take
the brand’s LC470, a 2000-pound, rear-wheel drive athlete with British-inspired
styling and a 6.2-liter Corvette engine. There’s 430 horsepower on tap here,
allowing the carbon fiber, tube chassis LC470 to sprint to 60 mph in about 2.7
seconds. And this is the US$ 95,000 base model, if you can believe that.
Moving
up the Lucra range, there’s a 7.0-liter, 505 hp LS7 V8 available for the LC470,
which pushes the 0-60 mph time down to about 2.5 seconds if you can put the
power down. Both variants feature a five-speed manual transmission as standard.
There’s
a six-inch longer version called the LC470 FS as well, with a race
cage-equipped, slick-wearing LC470 FS-R model settling in at the top of the
range.
Lucra
Cars isn’t all about circuit dominance, though. The brand also offers the L148,
a gorgeously sculpted sports car with all the options and interior amenities
that are missing from the hardcore LC470 series.
