It might look as though a Lamborghini Aventador just mated with an Ariel Atom, but this is a real car that you could, for just US$165,000, drive on real roads – scaring infants in strollers and blowing the doors off most Ferraris and Porsches.
This is the Beast — yes, it’s really called the Beast — created by Rezvani Motors, named after Ferris Rezvani, the man behind the boutique supercar that made its first formal debut this week. Rezvani claims the rear-wheel drive, carbon-fibre missile produces 500 horsepower from a honking 2.4-litre four-cylinder that’s both turbocharged and supercharged.
The Rezvani Beast.
Handout, Rezvani Motors
Building the Rezvani Beast in the U.S. is not some back-alley shop with questionable pedigree, but N2A Motors (no two alike), a California company that already has a history of assembling custom cars. The Beast uses the basic chassis and drivetrain from the Ariel Atom and wraps the most menacing of bodies around it.
Wedging 500 horsepower in a car that weighs 750 kilograms — much less than a Mazda Miata — might sound somewhat insane, but the company claims that’s good enough to make 60 mph disappear in 2.1 seconds. Better keep the small, removable windshield in place for that.
