FortuneSport releases specs, pricing for Rt.R & Rt.S
How to sell an exclusive, expensive sports car: release mocked up digital images, create the track version first, and use it to develop the streeter. FortuneSport, brainchild of Teritius Fortune, is working with the Elan Motorsports Technologies arm of the Panoz Group to build the carbon fiber vehicles with exotic spec sheets. Available first will be the non-street version, the Rt.R. After ponying up an initial deposit, WorldCarFans says $200,000, a trip to Atlanta for pampering in luxury accomodations while the vehicle is fitted expressly to your specs makes each vehicle essentially a custom. The important details: 6-liter V8, sub-2000 pound weight (1650 lbs for the Rt.R, 1980 lbs for the Rt.S), 350 hp in street trim, 510 for the track, and 0-62 mph in four seconds flat for the Rt.S. The Rt.R should be significantly faster. Sounds especially good for $85,000, though we'll have to wait until at least 2010, and possibly even longer.
Once the Rt.Rs are in owners hands, track day support at non-pro events will be offered, as well as at FortuneSport events coordinated with Skip Barber. One bit that's a bit confusing to follow is that FortuneSport says the deposits are refundable once the program runs its course in three to five years. How FortuneSport will use some of the initial deposits to build the racers, which will then serve as prototypes for the Rt.S street version, and then turn around and hand back all the money, isn't totally clear. Hmmm. Not that this affects us, seeing as how our piggy banks are a little light to afford the lightweight, high powered vehicle, anyway.
[Source: World Car Fans]
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HotRodzNKustoms 4:26PM (7/27/2008)
I know we have never even built a single prototype but for a small fee of $200k the car shown here in this artist rendition can be yours! Yes I know the car doesn't exist yet but give us your money!
How stupid do you have to be to give a random company promising a supercar that some major manufacturers cannot even match yet $200k?
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tankd0g 6:14PM (7/27/2008)
Stop making fun of Tesla. That's my job.
Bungle 7:52PM (7/27/2008)
What are you talking about? This guy looks completely legitimate. Just take a look at his website:
http://www.fortunesport.net/PR110.html
Obviously he cares enough about his company's image to spend some two *hundred* dollars hiring a capable web designer.
If you need more convincing, just take a look at the "webmaster" page:
http://www.fortunesport.net/webmaster.html
Glad I read through all of that thoroughly before navigating to this website! It certainly allowed me to enjoy the top-quality browsing experience one would expect from a high-end sports car company.
HotRodzNKustoms 8:45PM (7/27/2008)
Bungle, your humorous styling astounds me.
MONTE 12:44AM (7/28/2008)
I thought Ford had the patent on marketing for cars that don't exist with the GT90?
Artie Lange 4:34PM (7/27/2008)
I'm not giving anyone named "Teritius Fortune" $200k.
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Bungle 7:43PM (7/27/2008)
Not even if he gives you a ride on his personal dirigible and shows you his diamond-encrusted monocle?
Artie Lange 8:11PM (7/27/2008)
Not even if he offers me a lift in his horseless carriage or takes me on a tour of his hedge-row labyrinth.
why not the LS2LS7? 5:03PM (7/27/2008)
I presume it'll have a mod motor in it then?
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TheCleaner 5:36PM (7/27/2008)
only 350 bhp from a 6L?!? i sure hope it has buckets of torque. 510 is more like it, but that should be NA..
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Bungle 8:03PM (7/27/2008)
I though the same thing. If these people are so obsessed with keeping weight to a minimum, I'd think they would consider using something more along the lines of the Hartley H1V8:
http://www.h1v8.com/page/page/1562069.htm
Hell, even a boosted 2.0-2.5L I-4 (maybe an STi boxer engine?) would get you in the 350hp ballpark, and weigh a lot less than a 6-liter V-8.
For a car that weighs what an Elise does, 350hp is pretty awesome - but dropping a hundred pounds (or more) going from a big V-8 to a boosted I-4 would make even more sense, albeit change the character of the car somewhat.
Naveed 9:29PM (7/28/2008)
i think youre missing something here. A sub 2000 lbs car with a 6L V8, thats something special. FTA it seems they will share the same engine with diff tunes. Id mod the V8 over a I4.
mk 6:03PM (7/27/2008)
Vaporware until we see pics, and a retailer.
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Mobius_1 10:31PM (7/27/2008)
From memory, I can only call Farbio as a decent new startup, and I think what these companies should try to do is a good quality car that doesn't exactly push the boundaries (which of these startups have a couple million dollars to do R&D?) but is desirable and most importantly, REAL
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stecki 1:02AM (7/28/2008)
man, the company logo alone is worth 200k! it's a dragon! a dragon will eat a bull and destroy a horse. therefore, it is winnar!!!1
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Artie Lange 3:35AM (7/28/2008)
A Liger would totally Pwn that dragon.
Lee Gibson 10:52AM (7/28/2008)
No, you want to go with a man...or a dragon man...or just a dragon for maximum burnination.
Randy915 1:12AM (7/28/2008)
What's up with the mid 90s Geocities-esque site design?
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Chase 1:17AM (7/28/2008)
BS is called. What is this thing made of? A V8 and feathers?
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JZeke 10:12AM (7/28/2008)
So some kid sketches a Veyron-clone and we're supposed to swoon?
I love supercars as much as the next guy, but who's not getting bored of all these me-too vaporwheels? There's nothing unique here aside from the styling... which is derivative at best. For 200k I could track-ready an Exige, a GT500 or a host of other cars that actually exist... and have fun doing it.
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