Thursday, August 27, 2009

Review Rossion Q1 Supercar


Review Rossion Q1 Supercar

Rossion afresh relocated from Ohio to Pompano Beach, FL and arrive us to absorb the weekend with 'em, flogging their aboriginal Q1, appropriately far their alone product. It's adamantine to allocution about the Rossie (pronounced in the Johannesburg accents of owners Dean Rosen and Ian Grunes as "Raw-Zee") after discussing the 2,400-pound Gorilla in the room, the Noble M12 (and to some degree, the added clue focused M400). The two cars are actual carefully accompanying and both appear from the Hi Tech Automotive accumulation band in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.Other similarities accommodate the mild-steel amplitude frame, basic four-point cycle cage, Getrag six-speed with Quaife LSD, mid-mounted bisect 3.0-liter Ford Duratec V6 adapted with twin-turbochargers and a G.R.P. (a.k.a. fiberglass) body. And that's abundantly area the similarities stop. The Q1 gets its own optimized Koni dampers, H&R springs, altered amplitude confined and rear diff breadth ascendancy arms, admitting the two cars do allotment a bifold wishbone architecture up front.


Review Rossion Q1 Supercar


Externally, the differences are absolutely apparent. Whereas the Noble M400 (Rossion happened to accept one in the boutique for comparison's sake) resembles a burlesque of a kit car with its garish, tacked on scoops evocative of those begin on the aboriginal California Special Mustangs and console gaps you can stick your deride between, the Q1's a absolutely altered – and altogether added aesthetic – story. Not alone do all the anatomy panels attending as if they were advised by the aforementioned being at the aforementioned time, but gap tolerances accept been anchored up to beneath than 5 mm. We begin the car absolutely handsome, admitting its 96-inch wheelbase makes it attending small.


Rossion Q1 Supercar photos