Ultima returns with 1,200-horsepower RS supercar
British package automobile specialist Ultima Sports activities is again with a brand new mannequin billed as a flagship. It is referred to as the RS, and it has been designed leveraging 35 years of know-how acquired in improvement of the corporate’s earlier fashions just like the world-beating GTR and its Evolution successor.
Whereas these are hardcore fashions designed for the monitor, the RS is a extra refined, extra civilized creation that may be pushed fairly comfortably on the highway. The automobile even sports activities its personal bespoke set of baggage, together with a rearview digicam and parking sensors.
There’s nothing civil concerning the RS, nevertheless. Like its predecessors, the automobile encompasses a light-weight area body construction wrapped in a fiberglass physique. This time round, Ultima has targeted on the aesthetics and given the RS a design impressed by Group C Le Mans racers of the 1980s.
Most of the aerodynamic components are carbon fiber, together with an out there roof scoop that helps feed further air to the engine with out including any further drag. There’s additionally no lacking the full-width rear wing, which can be comprised of carbon fiber.
The RS has been designed to suit quite a lot of powertrains, although Ultima particularly helps a spread of Chevrolet V-8s beginning with the ever-present LS3 6.2-liter V-Eight and ranging as much as a tuned model of the LT5 6.2-liter supercharged V-Eight from the C7 Corvette ZR1. In tuned kind, the LT5 can ship as a lot 1,200 horsepower, in keeping with Ultima.
With 1,200 horses, the RS will hit 60 mph in 2.three seconds and prime out at over 250 mph, Ultima claims. These are Bugatti Chiron rivaling numbers. As Ultima places it, the RS has the “potential to outrun each different road-going hypercar on the planet.”
Ultima RS
The only real transmission is a 6-speed guide, sourced from Porsche. The automobile additionally options Ultima’s personal 19-inch cast alloy wheels, AP Racing brakes, and double unequal size wishbones suspension with adjustable dampers. The load of the Ultima RS is simply 2,050 kilos.
Inside, Ultima suits with the automobile with leather-based and Alcantara trim, a digital instrument cluster, an Alpine infotainment system with navigation, and an individually numbered construct plaque. Clients can select between left- and right-hand drive configurations.
Ultima is at the moment accepting orders for the RS and plans to current the automobile for the primary time on July four on the 2019 Goodwood Competition of Velocity in the UK. The corporate warns that the wait on a turnkey mannequin is at the moment greater than two years however you can too order all of the components essential for self-assembly, which Ultima can ship in about 22 weeks. Ultima claims the value for the self-assembly choice is about the identical as a brand new BMW M3.
