2008 Fornasari RR600
The Fornasari is a 2-doors coupe of compact size
which makes it a real sports car. The door width gets to 140 cm in order to let
people in and sit in the back seats easily. This means that 5 people can feel
comfortable in the large space they find inside. The bonnet opens like the one
of a prototype for racing ready at the start of a 24h race. It shows the
mechanics: a mass of noble technological materials like aluminium and carbon,
all framed in light though very strong chrome pipes.
Instruments are rounded in shape and the metallic
pointers are hand balanced, enriched by all those led lights so familiar to any
collectors. Beneath the classic style we find the most advanced technology, as
in the satellite alarm combined with the satellite navigator system, linked to
the multimedia tool. The car is also furnished with a TV, a VTR player and a
video camera for reverse gear.
Both interior and exterior
specs are determined according to the clients’ taste. Also, no limits are given
for the engine: either 450 or 600 horse power, with 6-speed or automatic
gearbox, suspensions ready to win the Dakar or the Grand Prix. Anything may be
required and everything can be satisfied: Formula breaks, hand-hammered body in
carbon or aluminium, and even 18″ rims or the 23″, which can be combined with
tires for either desert sands or high-speed circuits. Even the armour plating
becomes peculiar on the RR600. With such a set of size, weight and mechanical
features, this protection grants for the best safety solution with no
diminishment in the performance level.
The steel piping chassis in molybdenum-chrome
assures an extraordinary lightness and versatility. Suspensions, Proflex or
Ohlins, have an independent oil tank. These characteristics make the RR600 a
car without competitors: its maximum speed arrives to 280 km/h and have an
acceleration 0-100 km/h in 4 seconds. Body in carbon and Kevlar assures high
resistance and great reliability.
The car’s skeleton consists of a special steel
piping chassis in molybdenum-chrome that means a real space-frame in a 5 users’
model adaptation. More than 450 pipelines go across in order to obtain
stiffness and torsion capability with a weight of less than 150 kg. The
suspension wishbones are equal on the four sides and they are mechanical
jewels, with welding joints like those in Formula 1. The suspensions travel of
240 mm has been studied so as not to affect or change in any extent the
geometrical configuration, as it had been set.
Weights only 1700 kg, has two
options: 500-600 hp. As far as the gearbox is concerned, either the six-speed
one or a 4 or 6-speed automatic one is available. The traction is integral 4WD.
Power gets transmitted to the wheels in three different ways: by a central
viscous joint 38/62, standard 40/60, or with reduced gears. Standard rims and
tires are 20″, but you can choose from 16″ (races) up to 23″, according to the
clients’ taste and use.
