Darth Vader's car

[Buzz Bumble]

We've had Darth Vader's "pencil case" building in Wellington, and Apple released Darth Vader's spitoon (the new cylindrical Mac Pro), and now in yesterday's Driven section of the weekend Herald there's Darth Vader's car ...

Lord Vader, your car has arrived. New Canadian sports car maker Felino has unveiled the prototype version of its CB7 supercar ahead of its official Geneva debut. It looks like a cross between an Audi R8, Shelby Daytona, Morgan Aeromax, and Darth Vader. A carbon-fibre body wraps around a wheelbase of 2451mm, roughly the same as a Lotus Elise. A range of engines, including a four and six pot, will be on offer. The flagship V8 is expected to send 391kW and 610Nm of torque to the rear wheels. No perfmornace figures have been released, but a weight of 1135kg means the CB7 could ba a "force" to be reckoned with. Check it out on YouTube fanging around the Gilles Villeneuve circuit.

For those interested, there is a Flash video and more images of the car at TechGlimpse.com.

[badges2nz]

So it has been made taking into account of Lord Vaders size min 6ft5 height not including helmet?

[Buzz Bumble]

It's a low-slung supercar, so you'll be lucky if Wicket can fit inside it.

Vader might fit if you take off the, what looks like, gull wing door ... mind you, from that picture it looks like the door doesn't fit very well anyway (it could just be the angle of the photo, but the near-side door seems to have quite a bigger gap to troof bodywork than the far-side door does).

[badges2nz]

So in reality it's only good as a show piece

[Buzz Bumble]

Well, it says the video shows it going around a track ... but most supercars are sold as show pieces to be rarely driven (the annual insurance alone would pay most people's yearly wages).