With automobiles getting larger and that includes increasingly more gear plus, more and more, electrification, weight has inevitably elevated. Nevertheless, within the late ’80s, Warren Mosler was already sad with how a lot supercars weighed. Intent on remedying the scenario, he made his personal automotive: the Consulier GTP.

The American automotive was designed to tackle the world’s finest, such because the Lamborghini Countach and the Ferrari Testarossa. And to tackle these Italian V12 thoroughbreds, the American selected a Chrysler 2.2-liter four-cylinder that made 175 hp (177 PS/130 kW), although later fashions got here with a 190 hp (192/141 kW) model of the identical engine. Hardly Ferrari or Lambo territory, proper?

Nicely, that small engine, borrowed from the Dodge Omni GLH, was sufficient to present it a high velocity of 155 mph (250 km/h) for the reason that automotive solely weighed 2,200 lbs (998 kg). The small engine wasn’t the one contributing issue to its lightness, although. The Consulier GTP has the excellence of being the very first carbon fiber and Kevlar-bodied automotive to ever go into manufacturing with no structural metallic within the physique.

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That engine, although small, doesn’t sound terrible both. It has a menacing growl on this video from Doug DeMuro who stories that the Consulier GTP is definitely superb to drive.

“I’m really shocked at how fast it feels. It jogs my memory a number of my outdated Lotus Elise,” says DeMuro. “It’s a automotive that’s fast and it feels fast and it’s gentle and it appears like an keen, enjoyable, fast-revving little chassis that at all times sort of needs to do what you wish to push it to do.”

In the end, although, it was a failure. Simply round 70 items have been ever offered, which fits to point out that, regardless of how a automotive drives or performs, it additionally has to look good. And, sadly, the Consulier GTP had a form solely a mom might love.