Czech manufacturer Praga has teased its entry into the supercar segment with its third and final video ahead of its official launch on November 23 at 17:00 GMT (04:00 AEDT Thursday 24th). ).
A Praga spokesperson confirmed that the road-legal supercar is “planned for all major supercar markets”.
We’ll be lucky to see this model on the Australian shores, though, as it will be “hand-crafted and limited to ensure exclusivity” with only the first 10 expected. to be produced in 2023.
Praga says the car is “not a concept” and is in the final stages of development so it will be ready to order.
The trailer that Praga has released reveals only minimal details of the car, including a puff of smoke from titanium dual exhaust pipes, wheels with Alcon brakes and what appears to be a chamber style design. drive.
Full name, pricing and technical details will be announced at launch on Wednesday.
The company has confirmed that it will be lightweight, have a gasoline-powered internal combustion engine, and use an all-carbon chassis.
Praga is a 115-year-old engineering and manufacturing company that has built everything from trucks, tractors, tanks, motorcycles, planes and karts to date, and is now a road-legal supercar. part of the Praga Cars division.
The company is also heavily involved in motorsport with the Praga R1 monolithic racing car.
R1 owns a Renault-Alpine F4R Formula 2.0 engine producing 272kW of power and 395Nm of torque, and up to 3G of horizontal force in high-speed corners.
Driven by Australian DTM driver Ricky Capo with Praga Racing ANZ, the R1 won the Australian Prototype Series non-championship at the Mount Panorama circuit in Bathurst this month.
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Praga R1
However, Praga says the R1 “has nothing to do with road cars other than its aerodynamic philosophy and impressively high power-to-weight ratio”.
However, the new supercar will still be extremely race-focused.
IndyCar driver and former Formula One driver Roman Grosjean was able to test drive the car on the track ahead of its debut as a spokesperson for the Praga.
In the third teaser video, Grosjean spoke about the race-inspired nature of the car, saying: “This is going to be a very limited car. I know some of them will be included in the collection, but I expect that many of them will show up on the track because that’s where a car belongs.”
“As a racing driver, I believe the car has to be on the right track. I can tell you that, if that car is going in the right direction, you know that the person driving it is a good driver.”
