The company introduced the Chrysler Auto Show in Detroit, an interesting exhibit - a mid-experimental supercar, received the name of Chrysler ME Four-Twelve (4-12). This car, of course, was created not only the Chrysler designers, but also Mercedes-Benz, AMG, and Ricardo.
Despite the parallels with the recently launched SLR, the new car has a totally different design and a mid-supercar is a classic in the style Carrera GT, unlike perednemotornogo SLR.
This supercar, according to developers, will serve as a proving ground on which people have various innovative technical and technological solutions. Novelty can boast a unique rigid body, which is used when creating new composite materials, aerodynamics and delicious, so even at extreme speeds ME 4-12 retains ideal handling and stability.
Derivation of the future car market - the question of solutions, the only question is skillfully positioning the machine. In addition, it is necessary to take into account the interests of the German partner with its supercar SLR
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The car is equipped sixlitres 12-cylinder engine of Mercedes, who worked on the experts atelier AMG, and which, after the installation of two additional turbochargers (in the amount of them was four) develops power of 850 horsepower. The maximum torque of that monster reaches 1150Nm, the peak which accounts for the range of 2500-4500 revolutions per minute.
From zero to one hundred kilometers per hour and 4.12 faster for 2,9 sec., A distance of 402 meters car passes for 10.6 seconds. Speed new items a little less 400 kilometers per hour. As the gear used 7-speed Ricardo double-clutch (in the style of DSG) and sequential shift, which spends on switching from one transmission to another of about 0.2 sec.
Unlike traditional "exhibition" of show cars, 4-12 from the company Chrysler is, according to experts, most likely pre-production prototype, not the usual "toy" for the entertainment of visitors to showrooms. Despite the fact that the prototype full swing wound miles of test ranges in the next year or two cars at the base 4.12 on sale, we do not see. The most probable time of its appearance - 2007.
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Not determined yet and the market, which will be positioned a new car. Depending on this will be determined by the price of the car and output. Already known as the approximate ranges of these variables: the price of 140 thousand U.S. dollars (as the Ford GT - when you build 15-20 cars a week) up to 1000 people (as the Veyron - 1 car per week).
The final decision of DaimlerChrysler AG will take on the results of sales as a SLR, and the Veyron, when he will be on sale. But it is already known that krayslerovskaya 4.12 platform can be used in the future and to produce a car under the brand name Mercedes. As mersedesovsky SLR, assembly production vehicle based on 4.12 will be implemented, most likely, another firm.
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