A Ferrari-beater for £30k
08 August 2007 Adrian Hearn rounds up the footage you loved the most The Say hello to the Ariel Atom – a Ferrari-thrashing two-seater sports car with ridiculous acceleration. Under the hood of the 456kg motor is a Honda Civic Type-R sourced engine. But the boffins have supercharged the 2-litre lump to produce 300bhp. This means 0-60mph in a factory-stated 3.2 seconds but an ever quicker 2.89 seconds when the Sunday Times tested it. This makes it one of the fastest accelerating production cars EVER. Watch it go. I will survive from Trackside Every week motor sport witnesses horrific racetrack smashes. When spectators saw Dario Franchitti fly through the air at last weekend’s Indy Racing League meet in But incredibly no one was hurt. Ready, steady, chop from the Weird World of Wheels We spend too much time watching Japanese TV shows. But they certainly know how to entertain us. After all, it’s not every day you see a car, equipped with a kitchen knife drifting on an airfield attempting to chop a cucumber. More great videos The worst crash test ever?
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