This Qatari supercar looks like something straight out of a Hot Wheels package. Dubbed the Elibriea, this supercar concept made its debut at the Qatar Motor Show.
This car came to be by a Qatari student, Abdul Wahab Ziaullah, studying at the University of Texas, with some extra financial help from the Ali Bin Ali Group, according to Mashable.
Underneath its wild sheet metal lays a General Motors-sourced V6 producing 525 horsepower, with the assumption that it’s a modified version of the 3.6-liter twin-turbo LF4 V6 from the Cadillac ATS-V. The Elibriea is also said to weigh a mere 2,204 pounds. That’s less than a 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata. But certainly not as pretty.
Currently, Ziaullah is working hard to convince the Qatari government to allow further testing on public roads. Until then, we have our Hot Wheels to play with.
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Ugly car. Very poor styling. Google this thing and you will see everything from awkward lines and angles to extremely poorly rendered cabin. Additionally, 525 horsepower was supercar stuff of the 1980’s and 1990’s. When today’s supercars are pushing 700, 800, even 1000 or 1500 horsepower in some cases. This catastrophe isn’t going to be able to stand up, no matter how light weight and low drag it is. I genuinely cannot see this car ever making it into production in it’s current form. If it somehow gets through the testing stage without major alterations, I predict it will sell the fewest units of any rear engine V6 on the market and quickly become yesterday’s news.
It doesn’t make sense to use even a modified LF4 given that even the ATS-V.R LF4 engines only produce 600 horsepower @ 7400 rpm; if you’re going to build a 2,200+ lb dream car, it’s got to be powered by something based around the LT4 as swapping out the supercharger could generate 800 horsepower.