Turkish Onuk Sazan is like Ferrari Dino, only without pedigree
Turkey's Onuk Sazan - Click above for high-res image gallery
Need a reason to support Turkey's bid to become part of the European Union? Look no further than the Onuk Sazan, a brand-new sports car that depending on the engine might just slide its way into supercar territory. The Sazan was designed and built by a certain Dr. Onuk, who lost his son Kaan in a car accident. Sazan is a nickname for Kaan. Hence, the Onuk Sazan. Similar to Enzo and Dino Ferrari –only, well... you know.
What makes an Onuk Kazan? Well, in base trim you're apparently talking about a 2,000-pound rear-wheel drive sportster that's powered by a turbocharged Nissan VQ V6 that's good for about 450 horsepower. Sounds great to us. However, what if for a little weight penalty you could step up to General Motors' LS7? That would net you about 512 hp, 480 lb-ft of twist and just 2,200 pounds of vehicle to move around. Now we're talking. Okay, but how much? This is the bad news: €200,000, or about $300,000. That seems radically high to us, but we're not up on our Turkish financial analysis.
Knowing nothing else about the Sazan, all we can comment on are its looks, which for a bespoke sports car from a non-sports car making country aren't bad. The front has a quite a bit of TVR going on, but also some Ferrari F430 (air intakes) and Pagani Zonda (glass canopy). The rear is the Sazan's best angle, with more TVR evident, but in an organic, non-derivative way. The Sazan's weakest angle is when the car is viewed from the side. And really, the Spyker-looking profile isn't so terrible, but the wheels look rather dated. But that's an easy fix!
Before we go, we'd be derelict in our car scribin' duties not to mention Turkey's first sports car, the Anadol STC-16. Quite a looker, actually, the STC-16 was powered by a 1.6-liter Ford Mexico motor found in both the Cortina and Capri. While small and slow by contemporary standards, the STC-16 was enough of a runner to compete with the likes of the Datsun 240Z and was known at home in Turkey as "Süper Türk Canavarı" (Super Turkish Monster)! According to our tipster, Onuk feels there is a link between the historic Anadol STC-16 and the new Sazan. We'll wait and see. A big ol' tip of the AB fez to Ozcan Ozkaya!
Gallery: Onuk Sazan
[Sources: Otoplato.com; TRTuning.com; Anadol STC-16.com]
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Chubaka 5:00PM (11/09/2009)
Hmmm...not exactly my cup of tea, lacks a certain degree of refinement that most other supercars carry.
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Chubaka 5:02PM (11/09/2009)
And oh yes...no side mirrors, wtf?
ALBGunner04 5:23PM (11/09/2009)
It's a supercar silly, it has supermirrors! Only certain people of super caliber can see them though.
sparrk 5:39PM (11/09/2009)
maybe it has rear view cameras
Chubaka 5:46PM (11/09/2009)
With that horrible rear visibility and price tag, I should hope so! But what about the side? Don't tell me I need to look at a monitor for every angle. That would defeat the effort and purpose of driving this thing.
mk15 5:00PM (11/09/2009)
It kinda reminds me more of an Exige. But what's with the body work? The panels seemed to be warped. The reflections are like reflections of a fun house mirror.
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thipps 5:01PM (11/09/2009)
who are the children designing these supercars?
complete lack in form sophistication
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Marko 7:21PM (11/09/2009)
I completely agree...you can see it from that region...the design schools are all mediocre and every wet behind the ear eastern european douche with a high end CAD rendering software churns these things out and everyone pats themselves on the back.
I'm from the design industry and true design shops go through painstaking revisions and studies....even if the specific design is "ugly" to a common person, atleast it still holds true to fundamental design principals like composition, line resolution, proportion unlike this baked potato with a fezz/lambo/konigsegg ripoff.
Its difficult to forge a unique aesthetic nowadays with so much of the "conventional" features dominating all the exotic cars. I would say the only car successful to do this lately is the Devon GTX and one of the few "elite" membership joiners of Pagani Zonda. All these crappy lightweight fugly designed "super cars" are stupid and people who buy them must just want to be different for the sake of different.
BoxerFanatic 5:22PM (11/09/2009)
from the A-pillar forward, not that bad. I've seen worse, like that road-yacht thing earlier today.
Aft of the A-pillar, though... it looks very underdeveloped and unfinished.
not that impressed, overall.
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Chubaka 5:36PM (11/09/2009)
Yes, it's like in college when you're rushing a paper the night before it's due...the beginning is relatively nice and polished, but towards the end you either just want to finish the damn thing or don't give a shit anymore...
fixitfixitstop 5:29PM (11/09/2009)
I pronounced the headline in my head with a Russian accent. Anybody else?
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reflexxi 5:48PM (11/09/2009)
Completely underwhelmed.
Reminds me a little of the Ultima GTR, only the Ultima costs significantly less and eats Enzo's for breakfast.
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Yaroukh 5:40PM (11/09/2009)
Another knockoff of a knockoff of a knockoff of... a knocko.. *zzzzzz*
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Purplewon 5:58PM (11/09/2009)
looks a little Noble
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click_playaz 6:15PM (11/09/2009)
With 300K, I will buy myself LFA, SLS, or Gallardo.
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Yaroukh 6:31PM (11/09/2009)
Neither I can get used to the fact that they ask $375k for LF-A.
click_playaz 8:47PM (11/09/2009)
haha, so you need more time dude.
Shiftright 6:18PM (11/09/2009)
Yawn...Another Supercar wanna-be with generic and unresolved aesthetics and an price. In other word, just what the world needs-Not...
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larry raines 6:22PM (11/09/2009)
looks like the copied an Ultima GTR
http://www.ultimasports.co.uk/Content.aspx?f=gtrintro
pretty much exactally
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Andrew 6:23PM (11/09/2009)
A Turkish knock off is a reason for them joining Europe?!!! China is MORE European than Turkey!
Turkey is NOT European, and never will be!!!
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