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Description: In truth, there are quite a few track-ready cars out there for you to buy straight from a dealership, far too many to list here with boring you to tears. So when picking the cars for this series, we w...
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It's so badass. There's a guy in my neighborhood with the base model, it's green, looks good. Catches so many looks with it. Looks fun. I always thought that the Atom and X-Bow were for motorcyclists turned car enthusiast.
This is what happens when kids who really really love go-karts grow up to be car designers. Awesome!
I like my face not being morphed by wind, I'll take the Aston in the window
Description: The clearest first choice to cover was also the car with the best name, the Ariel Atom. As this most excellent of names implies, the Atom was designed to be the absolute most basic car that it was pos...
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Description: Ariel will ship you your Atom in pieces, complete with the optional "road pack" (turn signals, a horn, etc.), and if you assemble these parts yourself, then the Atom will be street legal. Pr...
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@John it stands for Head And Neck Safety I think, anyway, if you watch F1 it's the collar thing they have strapped to there helmets, a bit hard to explain, but basically it prevents a whiplash when crashing, google it :)
Description: But those few oddballs who decide to drive their Atoms on the street aren't important. This is a car designed for the track, and it is utterly brilliant in this environment. The aforementioned su...
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Also at 800+ hp in a 914 I doubt he could get the power to the ground well enough without some crazy slicks. Also assuming its using a 4 cylinder with a turbo it's most likely going to have a lot of lag and not as smooth of a power band.
Another important thing about a track car is reliability a lot of heavily modified cars cant take the hours of abuse and heat from a driving on the track. Als
Andrew I know a guy that spent 32 grand building a 872whp porsche 914. I'm pretty sure that is faster and corners just as well. I know you can't buy one from a dealer, but just goes to show you there are ways to go faster for less.
Description: There have been three generations of the Atom so far, The Atom, Atom 2 and Atom 3. Changes have been made to the design, but it takes a very keen eye to spot them on a car which doesn't even have...
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One is in the market for a car like this is not looking for an interior that looks "cool". Why spend the money on the R&D on an interior that looks cool to appeal to children?
Apparently carbuzz deleted my previous comment, which only stated this is in fact identical to my neighbor's Atom.
Description: But even more impressive is the Atom 500, a 500-horsepower V8 version of the Atom which is absolutely insanely fast. The engine is a 3.0-liter unit which is essentially two Suzuki Hayabusa engines stu...
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That would literally ruin this car. A huge 8.3 liter would be way to big and heavy to effectively be used. If anything, a turbo 2.0 or 3.0 is the way to go, it could make even more power, and also be just as light.
Now stick a V10 hemi in this thing and you should have a very good 0-60 time. Not that 2.5 seconds is slow
Description: Of course, that's not to say that there isn't a compromise, and it comes in the form of the price tag. This comes in at around $230,000, a noticeable increase over the base price. Some peopl...
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In fact very few atoms are v8s. I heard in an interview with Ariel that besides a couple to send out to people like top gear, any v8 atom you buy has to be custom ordered
Description: For those still in doubt, the performance numbers speak for themselves, nobody could just make a track car which is faster than Porsche 911 GT3 RS by accident. This is not just a track car, it is the ...
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everyone who knows anything about cars knows who that is. what's up with commenting on your own comments? lol... your that person that likes they're own posts on face book aren't ya?
Damn it Jackie, you don't have to write 74 comments every time you wanna say something, we get it
uhh why would you want stupid stuff like an adjustable seat, windshield and heat??? if I was in the market for expense car toys this wouldn't be on the top of the list. maybe as a 2nd or 3rd toy. but I don't foresee me running into this problem...
To be honest, I'd probably take the 997GT3RS to the left, but it would be a hard choice
