The Uragano handbuilt Italian supercar
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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!
Gallery: Uragano
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
komamura 8:06PM (4/21/2008)
O god that thing is hideous. apparetly they had alot of cans of spary paint laying around, when they painted this car
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Brent 8:46PM (4/21/2008)
Yeah, this thing gives Oregano a bad name.
Red 8:37PM (4/21/2008)
Pffft...you're crazy. Origami body panels and paper mache' paint jobs are mad tyte y0.
fbxcore 8:35PM (4/21/2008)
At least the man singlehandedly built his own car. Almost at least.
Dylan 8:39PM (4/21/2008)
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 8:57PM (4/21/2008)
after looking at the car, I think you might be right about the 'single handed' part.
Seoultrain 8:37PM (4/21/2008)
This car would be perfect for a movie. Any other use? eh, not so much.
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Richard 8:59PM (4/21/2008)
What's a "bent" 8?
Or is it supposed to be: "...a 4.2 liter 8 from a bent Audi"?
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Benfolio 10:09PM (4/21/2008)
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 12:42AM (4/22/2008)
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 12:43AM (4/22/2008)
Sorry, that wasn't a reply to Richard
Richard 9:00PM (4/21/2008)
Anyway, I thought that maybe it was another Fiero!
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Berto 9:05PM (4/21/2008)
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.
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CarbonBlack 12:44AM (4/22/2008)
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 9:14PM (4/21/2008)
Wheres the performance specs?
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paul 11:23PM (4/21/2008)
Ironman car?
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AMcA 11:28PM (4/21/2008)
There's a strong dose of the absolute last of the line Firebirds in this one.
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klitorisaurus 12:13AM (4/22/2008)
Oh Jesus! The hood looks like a deployed airbag... Maybe it's safer that way.
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jon 12:13AM (4/22/2008)
i think the body is made of particle board painted silver lol
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Scott Eaton 12:37AM (4/22/2008)
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little...
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