gran turismo 6 Laser-powered Chaparral 2X revealed at LA Auto Show!

[Milli]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufruRqSaVxk

 

So, the Chaparral 2X was revealed today, at the Los Angeles Auto Show, and as we can see, it's a very extreme vehicle, which is part of the Vision Gran Turismo project. So, it will be on the game this Holiday Season!

 

“This concept is an audacious and ambitious vision – and one that demonstrates to a new audience how Chevy’s engineering and design teams challenge norms and explore the technologies of tomorrow..."

"It also an ode to a unique partnership that pioneered ground-breaking technologies that are used today on the track and the street.”

 

 

Known for unconventional, boundary-pushing race cars that shook up the motorsports world, Chaparral Racing partnered with Chevrolet Research and Development more than 45 years ago, pioneering now-standard methods and materials used in contemporary racing and production vehicles, including the composite monocoque chassis, lightweight-alloy powertrain systems, automatic transmissions for racing and progressive, active aerodynamics.

 

 

The Chevrolet Chaparral 2X VGT channels that spirit of innovation into a vision of what the future of racing could hold, with a radical form and an advanced, laser-based propulsion system.

 

“It was created in a no-rules atmosphere to challenge designers and test engineers to deliver the most exhilarating sensations. This is a fantasy car by design..."

 

"Like the original Chaparral race cars decades ago, the Chaparral 2X VGT weaves advanced aerospace technologies into the design to help achieve its performance goals.”

 

 

 

With a 671-kW laser, powered by a pack of lithium-ion batteries, and an air-powered generator to provide 900 horsepower worth of thrust, the Chaparral 2X VGT will be capable of a 240-mph top speed in the video game with 0-60 acceleration capability of 1.5 seconds.

 

 

Bounce: gtplanet.net

[CLR-GTR]

I said I'd have the Merc and BMW on my driveway but I'm changing that to the Merc and this (still need a driveway first....)

[RobikV3]

So were finally moving to jet cars territory nice, though i doubt it will make into production

[CLR-GTR]

None of the Vision GT's will never make production for a googol reasons but they're not meant to. That's the nice thing (or not) about them.

 

Though I'm not ruling out nobody will ever try and recreate one in real.... if I remember right, there was a company that announced they were taking customer SLS'es and turned them into Merc's entry for GT6. Would be awesome.

[Milli]

The idea of the Vision Gran Turismo project is to make a car without real life barriers. So, they're all concepts, and as a concept, they probably made only one. Functional or not. And this is not a jet car, it's a laser car. :lol: Different than a jet engine.

[RobikV3]

Yeah well its power is mesured in thrust so is its closer to jet than a combustion engine

[Milli]

Closer to electric, i think. As it says it's lithium-ion batteries. :cheeky: