Eagle Speedster – Auto Sportive
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Eagle Speedster – Auto Sportive

It is so beautiful that before you get on board, you need to carefully look at it, perhaps from all sides, in order to enjoy even the smallest details. I usually think of collectors who buy two identical pieces - one to ride and one to display somewhere in their vast territory - but in this case I understand them. This is the second fast ship crafted with love and passion Paul Brace and the boys from eagle and this version Superleggera he is even prettier than the first. The changes are minimal, but they make a big difference in terms of appearance. For example, gutters Now I two, central, instead of four and around headlights, silver replaces black. Inside, the leather is smooth rather than quilted, and there is no intricate (and heavy) sound system.

La body he is in aluminum But Eagle's love for this light, shimmery material doesn't end there. In addition to the gearbox and differential, engine – version from 4,7 liters of are you online jaguar - it's all in aluminum with a block developed in partnership with Crosthwaite and Gardner. Fuel injection is also new, controlled by the Pectel control unit.

This stripped-down Speedster weighs just 1.008 kg... Paul Brace wanted to reduce the weight to one ton, but could not get rid of the fatal 8 kg. While he has 330 CV e 489 Nm di couple it's still impressive.

Like everything in the Speedster, opening a small door, crossing a high threshold, and being able to fall behind a tiny windshield is an extraordinarily memorable moment. Lever arm Speed a five gears it is quite high and thin Nardi steering wheel looks incredibly delicate compared to modern cars. However, one of the most amazing things about the Eagle E-type (and the Speedster still has a lot of E-types) is that it doesn't look like one of those classic cars that are so fragile that they break just by looking at them. With Speedster you can cross the entire continent if it doesn't rain.

The six-cylinder sound is a dream come true: soft and fruity at low revs, when pushed it turns into a high-pitched scream that rivals the best racing Jaguars of the XNUMXs and XNUMXs. According to Brace, the injection is adjusted to allow for a few pops and pops at maximum rpm, but in fact, every time you hit the gas pedal hard, it feels like an entire factory of fireworks explodes. As expected based on its specs and tapered shape, the performance is remarkable and with just one ton to move the big drilled AP brakes do the job perfectly.

Le suspensions initially they hard but when you really need to, they turn out to be soft and allow you to enter full power in corners, slightly shifting the rear wheels to close the trajectory. Driving the Speedster was initially a little unnatural and imprecise, but taking our hand is really fun and rewarding, especially when you pick up the pace.

As you may have guessed, I love this car. In this ultra-light version, it is truly priceless. And here we come to its only drawback - price, a detail that makes this a pipe dream for most of us. Sin.

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