What if Ducati – manufacturer of motorbikes – would plan the release of a lightweight sports car powered by a V8 based on two Ducati Desmosedici RR engines? Afterall, KTM has the X-Bow!
According to Ducati News Today, a young designer named Anthony Collard imagined the hardcore two-seater in a recent automotive design competition.
Anthony stated:
The car has a mixed tubular/carbon body structure, covered by carbon panels and painted fairings. It has Ohlins suspension on the four wheels. The engine is a in central front position (just behind the front wheel axis, like for example on a SLR McLaren), and it is a V8 made of two L4 Desmosedici engines. So it develops about 420hp for a car weighting 420-450kg, thanks to all the carbon elements. The wheels are, as on any Italian bike, Marchesinis.
The car is a spyder which can be converted into a coupé thanks to a removable polycarbonate roof. The bucket seats are integrated into the bodywork and it uses a motorbike sequential gearbox.
Go or No go?
Apart of the sequencial gearbox for me it’s a GO, much better good looking that the KTM and its mid-front engine, Sweeeeeeeeeet.
With a windshield and mirrors and such things that make it road-legal it is a GO!
Go for me, if the sound will be same as on bicyles!!
Will certainly go….if the type of top notch quality is maintained with no compromise in performance !! Good thinking and a good car to start in the field of cars “supercars” infact!!