Here’s one more reason to look forward to the 2018 Goodwood Festival of Speed: the premiere of W Motors’ finished Fenyr Supersport, the Emirati supercar-maker’s second production model following the Lykan Hypersport from 2013.
With all the hubbub around this being an all-new model, it’s quite inescapable that the Fenyr is more an evolution of the company’s previous car, using a body almost entirely crafted of carbon fibre and styled to look like a stealth fighter from 2177 took four-wheeled form - it’s a formula that we’ve seen them employ before.
Then again, W Motors have hardly been shy about showing off the Fenyr Supersport even before the car was finalised. In fact, very little seems to have changed since they first showed it off back in 2015, letting the great unwashed like us enjoy a car priced to only be accessible to the 0.01%. The run is capped at just 25 vehicles per year.
Set to have its first real public run at the Goodwood hill climb course, potential buyers will later get a chance to glimpse the Fenyr, which is expected to cost north of $1.5 million US Dollars, up close. Also in keeping with a tested set of ingredients, W Motors have again tapped Porsche tuning specialists RUF to supply their car’s power plants.
They are, after all, the key reason as to why Lykan had such a unique sound signature. Starting life at as a would-be 911 engine, the 3.8-litre twin-turbo flat-six that would end up in the Fenyr goes through an extensive modification and tuning process before being worthy of the RUF name. Upon being slotted into the car’s midsection, it will send nearly 600kW and 980Nm to the rear wheels.
Slated to be commence production later this year by specialists partners Magna Steyr Italia, the supercar’s claimed kerb weight of 1,350kg and huge power mean the resulting acceleration would be absolutely brutal. W Motors claim the 100km/h dash is done in just 2.7 second while its top speed approaches 400km/h.
While this car may seem to be another big slab of wholly unnecessary unobtanium, remember that the Lykan Hypersport's production run was confined to just 7 units in total, with its price tag set at almost double the Fenyr's. Progress of a kind.
