It might cost 400,000 euros, but the Panoz Abruzzi Spirit of Le Mans is one very impressive car (if that little word comes close to describing this vehicle). It has 600 hp and about 810 Nm of torque from a front-mounted engine of unspecified origin and will only be delivered at Le Mans with a two-day driving course to boot. In the video above, Don Panoz describes the dream behind his Abruzzi Spirit of Le Mans vehicle, telling his version of the legendary 24 hours Le Mans race. This is about as close as we’ll get to the vision of a Jaguar popping across the channel to participate in “the most fabulous race in the world”. Great stuff from this car designer.

Source | Autoblog.com

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The new limited production Abruzzi Spirit of Le Mans has just been unveiled by Don Panoz, ALMS founder. The car based on the famous GTR-1 racer of the late-1990s features a front-mounted engine which produces 600+ horsepower and 590 pound-feet of torque, with radiators installed in the rear and cool air drawn from a duct in the roof and along the rear side windows. Only 81 cars will be built by the constructor, but the big news is that all buyers along with a special driving course on the Bugatti circuit at Le Mans will get the chance to test their super cars on the famous circuit just before the start of the race. According to Mr Panoz these sport cars will be street legal “in Europe and many countries of Asia, the Middle East and South America but at the moment we don’t know whether they will be homologated for sale in the U.S. For more news on the Abruzzi stay tuned!

ALMS founder launches Abruzzi Spirit of Le Mans

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