Shop British sports car company, Embodiment has taken the wraps off its first creation model which is set to grace the be upstanding at the 2017 Performance Car Show, held at the Brummagem NEC on 12-15th January 2017.
Now fully certifiable, the Devon-based firm has highly-developed the prototype, making over 100 culture to offer a 184kW sports car that is now aforementioned to be equally at home on road or railway.
The 695kg Avatar is propelled by a Fording EcoBoost engine, Nitron dampers and Court wheels that deliver 0-60mph (0-96km/h) in four-spot seconds and a top speed of 145mph (233km/h) and combine a leather interior, heated screenland together with other hallmark to broaden the appeal. New no-cost opportunity now include an Apple CarPlay + Automaton Auto audio system, cap, heater and air conditioning.
“After viewing the prototype we realised that our purchaser wanted more. We listened and include responded to our customers who loved the gorgeous performance and fine handling but craved more refinement and features so they could use the car for amassed than just track life,” says Avatar Sports Or slang motor director Dylan Popovic.
“We’ve smoothened the raw edges to create a much bounteous rounded package. We’ve denatured the suspension geometry, adjusted the control rack ratios and improved the bioengineering in the cabin with intuitive switchgear as fit as developed features that pee-pee the car a delight on the road and track.”
Aboard the 2.0 turbocharged EcoBoost motor, Avatar is also offering a 2.3l 257kW selection that sees 0-60 period cut to just 3.6 seconds with the Fording Focus RS-engined derivative victimisation a six-speed transaxle. Drivers search a more frenetic shifting intimacy can opt for a paddle-shift operated sevener-speed sequential Quaife shell.
The car features laser-cut spaceframe form and composite bodywork, alongside the countervail driving position that upgrade weight distribution. The option for a virginal track experience hasn’t been unnoticed and customers can specify a full cycle cage, plumbed-in extinguisher, spume-filled tank, data feller, GoPro HD camera kit, rear airfoil and LSD. “With these additions the car is fit for a considerable number of club championships whilst even be road legal,” adds Popovic.
Incarnation says the company can tailor Everyone car to each individual customer’s demand: “We offer a bespoke overhaul where the only real restrain is imagination.”
Avatar’s sister troupe Marlin is manufacturing the production mock-up, of which no more than 50 Testament be built. Whilst still a bantam company, Avatar is matching its worthier competitors with an unlimited milage, three-year warranty and the reassurance the Crossing engine can be serviced at any Ford retailer.
Production begins in spring 2017 and outlay start at £39,990 in the U.K.
