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In Russia, they sell a home -made analogue of Caterham, as a gift – Ford Focus

Rossiyskaya Gazeta drew attention to the announcement published at Avito: a homemade sports car created on the basis of the VAZ-2105 was put up for sale, which drives an 180-horsepower turbo engine. The car can be bought for 7.5 million rubles, and the Ford Focus with a trailer is included in this price.

It follows from the announcement that Roadster was built on the basis of the 1991 VAZ-2105, and it was registered in 2011. During this time, a home -made sports car traveled 10 thousand kilometers and was in the same hands all the time.

Photo from an ad on avito
Avito.ru

The form factor of the car resembles the British Caterham Seven with a long hood, round headlights installed on top, and a frame of cooked pipes. Single sports car, with a racing “bucket” and a four -point seat belt. Judging by the photos in the ad, an additional trunk can be placed on top.

Lamborghini Diablo from the beginning of the 90s was brought to Russia: Supercar can be bought discovered a new Moskvich-412, which has been in the garage since 1991, laid-out-of-the-19ths have been listed, which cost up to 500 thousand rubles

In Russia, there is a project of racing kit-kara called Shortcut-it was developed by a group of DK Racing enthusiasts. With a home -made sports car put up for sale, as with Caterham, the format is related. Shortcut is based on a steel spatial frame, the engine is a 1.6-liter 16-valve VAZ-21 126. It develops 185 horsepower and provides a shortcut acceleration from a place to “hundreds” in 4.5 seconds. The maximum speed is 210 kilometers per hour.

DK Racing collects several shorts per month and, according to the latest data (for 2022), made more than 60 ki-kars. The car can be ordered without power plant for 1.5 million rubles, you can also buy individual components. For example, the engine costs about 300 thousand rubles, a safety frame and a frame – 327 thousand rubles and so on. The finished sports car will cost 2.3 million rubles (the price is indicated as of 2022).

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