Click above for gallery of the Uragano handbuilt supercar
Who doesn't dream of building his or her own supercar? It took four years for him to do it, but Filandri Moreno from Italy has inspirational neighbors such as Ferrari, Lamborghini and Pagani. Moreno possibly thought of famed supercar blowhards like Enzo and Ferrucio when naming his car the Uragano, which means 'Hurricane' in Italian, but blowing through 48 months is easy when you've got to design and fabricate a body and frame then populate it with the proper automotive subsystems. Rather than figure out how to set up a backyard foundry, Moreno borrowed an 4.2 liter bent eight from an Audi A8 for motivation and hung a large turbocharger off the rear for good measure. It's tough to say anything critical when someone's realized a goal that most of us will never achieve, but we're honestly underwhelmed by the look and quality of the Uragano's body fabrication. Not that we'd do much better than a lumpy C5 Corvette-looking thing that appears rendered in papier mache. Thanks for the tip, Trent!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
komamura @ Apr 21st 2008 8:06PM
O god that thing is hideous. apparetly they had alot of cans of spary paint laying around, when they painted this car
Brent @ Apr 21st 2008 8:46PM
Yeah, this thing gives Oregano a bad name.
Red @ Apr 21st 2008 8:37PM
Pffft...you're crazy. Origami body panels and paper mache' paint jobs are mad tyte y0.
fbxcore @ Apr 21st 2008 8:35PM
At least the man singlehandedly built his own car. Almost at least.
Dylan @ Apr 21st 2008 8:39PM
I don't think thats spraypaint man, I think thats hand formed bare aluminum...sort of makes you understand why you don't see alot of hand formed aluminum products eh.
All the power to the guy that built it though, even if it is really really ugly.
IK47 @ Apr 21st 2008 8:57PM
after looking at the car, I think you might be right about the 'single handed' part.
Seoultrain @ Apr 21st 2008 8:37PM
This car would be perfect for a movie. Any other use? eh, not so much.
Richard @ Apr 21st 2008 8:59PM
What's a "bent" 8?
Or is it supposed to be: "...a 4.2 liter 8 from a bent Audi"?
Benfolio @ Apr 21st 2008 10:09PM
I think it's old-fart speak for a V arrangement of cylinders. BENT 8, as opposed to a STRAIGHT 8, which no one has seen since Rainman was popular in the late 80's.
I just remembered, there are a bunch of Countaches in the beginning of that movie. Off to Netflix, LATOR!
iOrange @ Apr 22nd 2008 12:42AM
Considering the amount of work that went into this thing.. I have alot of respect for the guy. I will never be able to build my own supercar, so just the fact that guy built his is awesome, even if it does look homebuilt. Plus I wouldn't mind having that turbo hanging off the back.
iOrange @ Apr 22nd 2008 12:43AM
Sorry, that wasn't a reply to Richard
Richard @ Apr 21st 2008 9:00PM
Anyway, I thought that maybe it was another Fiero!
Berto @ Apr 21st 2008 9:05PM
I think it's awesome for someone to do this if you have the time and money.
I can easily think of 1000's of worse ways to blow a large sum of money on cars, for example: MANSORY McLaren SLR.
CarbonBlack @ Apr 22nd 2008 12:44AM
That SLR had a HOT body kit.
Didn't care for the color, but Other than that I don't understand the dislike of that car
BAMF @ Apr 21st 2008 9:14PM
Wheres the performance specs?
paul @ Apr 21st 2008 11:23PM
Ironman car?
AMcA @ Apr 21st 2008 11:28PM
There's a strong dose of the absolute last of the line Firebirds in this one.
klitorisaurus @ Apr 22nd 2008 12:13AM
Oh Jesus! The hood looks like a deployed airbag... Maybe it's safer that way.
jon @ Apr 22nd 2008 12:13AM
i think the body is made of particle board painted silver lol
Scott Eaton @ Apr 22nd 2008 12:37AM
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little...