You are looking at the first Kiwi supercar, and the four-year old company is named after New Zealand’s only F1 World Champion, Denny Hulme. The Hulme CanAm is no ordinary supercar, because it comes with an experience unlike any other.
But first, you should know what you will be getting from your £295,000 purchase. Potential customers can express their interest with a £10,000 fully refundable deposit. This deposit will then be held in a trust account “pending a private viewing and driving experience of the car at or before the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed for those who have purchased an option to order,” said Jock Freemantle, managing director of the Auckland based firm.
When you have confirmed interest in the product (and have paid up in full I imagine), you will then be treated to a host of luxuries. Firstly, each of the 20 limited run CanAms will be customised according customer requests. They will then be flown down to New Zealand via Air New Zealand’s Business Premier along with one week of luxury accommodation, where driver fitting, the finishing touches and road testing will commence. The car is then shipped off to the destination of choice. This “free holiday” makes the purchase price a little more palatable.
The CanAm gets a 7.0-litre Chevrolet LS7 V8 which develops 600 bhp along with 600 Nm of torque channelled through a close ratio, six-speed CIMA manual gearbox. Paddle and sequential gearboxes are options.
Hulme says that the CanAm does 0-100km/h in 3.5 seconds, which is helped on by the fact that the car weighs under 1,000kg. Top speed is in excess of 320 km/h.
“Created for both road and track use, the car blends the raw flavour and appeal of a Formula racing car with dramatic design, superb craftsmanship, exceptional performance and a thrilling and achievable driving experience,” Hulme explains.
More pictures after the jump.
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So for anyone who have 10,000 pounds lying around, you can get a free holiday in New Zealand, 1st class plain, I guess 5 start hotel, have a week end on the track, then get refunded ? Sounds like a good plan :p
*first class plane, I guess 5 stars hotel* sorry for the typos.
And BTW, I’m pretty sure it is a track monster, but the car is fugly …
Wow…. looks like an illegitimate child of Lamborgini and Renault F1.
;-)
7.0 liter engine…. please tow along your own petrol station.
It’s not fugly, this CanAm is designed purely with form-follow-function in mind…
the design looks familiar.. hmm i hope it dont catch on fire when someones driving it. 600 horses on a 1000kg, thats yummy :)
it looks like stripped down gallardo (front) with side (enzo). lol
looks cheap.
Honestly the car looks fragile, 295 grand for a car like that , i think i’ll be going with the SV instead, you still can save around 20 grand ???
pure cash rich racing trackboy that always wanted their single seater car to be driven on public road….
this is it…
playing along in the category is.. (pls google for this car)
1)ariel atom
2)KTM x-bow (crossbow)
3)Radical SR3/SR8
4)Caterham
5)Lotus 2-11
and many more….
7.0 is overkill… mustang 5.0 cukup la…
The NZ, their movies suck, their designers suck, their financiers suck.
But they’re GODLY AT LAMP CHOPS AND MINT SAUCE.
this is the real truth!
haha
looks like caparo……hope it don’t burn like one…hehe
thought they only sell three wheeler bike, Can am Spyder, now they produce supercar…
Supercar should be SUPER in all aspects….looks, performance , Usability , comfort, and Desirability….. only few manufacturers tick all the necessary boxes…
This is just a low-volume track -day weapon..
not bad..
but it look so feminin
most reliable and durable circuit low volume low to the ground, low weight, small engine size with high displacement,+low weight alum engine with perfect 26mpg sbc from GM now dressed up like f1 car , this is all i needed GREAT,high price tho, old push rod tech,but facts of life , you got to go simple to go reliable , as long as you build a one of a kind simple engine new tech gets trashed, guess what ? i thinck that this engine has still a long way to go , yet its the reazon for chevrolet to keep alife GM that has been havind bas times BUT , we all have any way , economy isnt stable like it used to, but any way beautiful and great invention so , keep it up mr hulme ,coz you have chusen what could be called the best v8 engine ever built.