"C16 Speedster" seems a wholly inadequate moniker for this latest Corvette-based creation from Scuderia Reeves Callaway. "Millennium Falcon" is closer to the mark. Or maybe "Atomic Rooster." We need one of the ballyhoo artists from Jerry Bruckheimer Films to give this topless, windowless, two-seat UFO a proper name.
One look at the numbers (or the pictures) and you'll understand. Threatening to bust right through that impudent hood bulge is an all-alloy, 6.2-liter V-8 (the new LS3 from the 2008 Vette) that's force-fed 10 psi of boost via a three-lobe, Roots-style Eaton supercharger and an air-water intercooler-yielding 700 horsepower at 6200 rpm and 660 pound-feet of torque at 4750. Callaway says the Atomic Roo-er, Speedster-will do 0 to 60 mph in a mere 3.2 seconds and blaze the quarter in just under 11 seconds at 128 mph. Claimed top speed: more than 210 mph. Lift your jaw off the floor; there's more. If you want to fly a Speedster of your very own, you'll need to cough up $305,000. Tax and Dramamine not included.
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