New 300kW Brit Sports Car Bows
Chris Gable
3 June 2008
www.wheelsmag.com.au
Built on GM's compact rear-wheel-drive platform, the Beira Breckland boasts an LS2-Tremec drivetrain and sub-five-second oomph.
It’s built on the same platform as GM’s Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky roadsters. But, thanks to the 300kW LS2 under its long nose, the just-announced Beira Breckland should be able to blow its donor cars into the weeds.
The Beira officially debuts at this week’s annual Motorexpo car show in London’s Docklands and, according to its UK-based builder Breckland Technology, first cars go on sale in left-hand-drive in November. Price should be around £55,000 ($114,138) in the UK.
Breckland already has some runs on the board as it already builds such low volume British sports cars as the Mosler. It also has been smart enough to pick up and modify GM’s compact rear-wheel-drive Kappa platform, which means the thing has been crash-tested to US safety standards. Ditto the LS2, which meets current US emissions regulations.
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