The Artega GT is a German-born competitor to the Porsche Cayman S that weighs only 1,100kg (though over 10k UK pounds more expensive than the Cayman S for a weight advantage of 250kg) thanks to an aluminium spaceframe and a carbon composite bodyshell.
With that kind of weight it’s really not necessary for oversized engines to be plonked into the mid-mounted engine bay. All that’s needed is the Volkswagen Group’s 3.6 litre FSI V6 engine producing a standard 296 horsepower to give the car a sub-5 second 0 to 100km/h acceleration time. This engine is mated to the smooth and quick-shifting 6-speed DSG transmission from BorgWarner.
The 2-seater mid-enginened sports car is 3,950mm long, 1,180mm tall and 1,880mm wide and was styled by Henrik Fisker.
Look after the jump for a couple of more shots of the sports car.
PHOTO GALLERY: Artega GT
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Nice Lightweight Sports Car. Any detail of Production/Top speed spec?
Another Porsche competitor/benchmarker….
Nice …. i like the front design..
The interior is very simple …
and it really looks like a ferrari F430 …
brilliant !!
Can’t give any comment on th the performance yet ..
same engine as in the toureg ?
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The car’s horspower to displacement ratio seems to be lower than the Golf’s 2.0 FSI (100hp per Liter). They should turbocharge it to reach 360-400hp… and target the car to challenge the 911s instead of the Cayman. The exterior look is already menacing…
the horsepower bit disappointed compare the engine capacity. not sure.. just dont fee it should be below 300.. or even 350 will be more like it.
if this same price with possy~… definately i going to take possy~ loo.. kakaka
interior is nice. mix of modern n classic. exterior design might be stolen from the porsche’s engineers. no wonder porsche hasn’t came up with fresh ideas since last 40 years,…the artega boys took it! hahaha
interesting, but the engine might be underpowered…
People would still buy the Porsche because of the badge.
Those of you that thing this car is underpowered should pay more atention to power to weight ratio than its headline outputs.
This car has a power to weight ration of 269 bhp per tonne, compare that to a 997 Carerra S which has 246 per tonne so it is well into 911 territory already!
Should compare with Lotus Evora instead.
hmm very simple, hope they can do well in this economy crisis
The front really captivating. Smooth, like they have mashed up a Carrera GT and MG TF? About the whole body design, really looks like an Evora with California. All in all it’s nice, but the rear is a bit too bold.
Toad on wheels.
(that’s good)
really looks like ferrari. but i prefer it if they design the headlamps to be abit wider and bigger.
hopefully they dont go bankrupt before they actually deliver any customer cars, considering the large drop in sales for premium/sports cars in europe at the moment.
BanyakMasukWorkshop said,
December 2, 2008 @ 8:12 am
hopefully they dont go bankrupt before they actually deliver any customer cars, considering the large drop in sales for premium/sports cars in europe at the moment.
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agree with you….. i saw it in online two days before………….
nothing special