Νέος, πιο δυνατός κινητήρας για το BAC Mono [w/videos]

22:05 7/7/2015 - Πηγή: AutoBlog

To BAC Mono είναι ίσως το πιο εντυπωσιακό αυτοκίνητο που έχουμε οδηγήσει, με την εμπειρία μας πριν από περίπου ένα χρόνο να είναι κάτι παραπάνω από αξιομνημόνευτη.

Το απόλυτο street-legal track-day μονοθέσιο τότε φορούσε έναν κινητήρας 2,3-λίτρων κατασκευής Cosworth, προερχόμενο από ένα Ford Mondeo, αποδίδοντας 280 ατμοσφαιρικά άλογα στις 7.700 σ.α.λ. και

280 Νm ροπής στις 6.000 σ.α.λ..

Σήμερα, όμως, η μικρή βρετανική εταιρία παρουσίασε το νέο αυτοκίνητο, που παρότι αισθητικά είναι πανομοιότυπο με αυτό που είχαμε δοκιμάσει, πίσω από το κάθισμα και κατά μήκος τοποθετημένος, βρίσκεται ένας νέος 2.5-λίτρων τετρακύλινδρος κινητήρας της Mountune που αποδίδει 305 άλογα. Τα 0-96 χλμ/ώρα έρχονται σε 2,8 δευτ., ενώ η τελική του ταχύτητα φτάνει τα 273 χλμ/ώρα. Εκτός από τον νέο κινητήρα, το νέο Mono εξοπλίζεται και με drive-by-wire γκάζι, ενώ το τιμόνι και το κάθισμα κατασκευάζονται σύμφωνα με τα χαρακτηριστικά του κάθε πελάτη.

Με χρόνο στη πίστα του Top Gear στο 1:14.3 είναι επίσημα το δεύτερο γρηγορότερο road legal αυτοκίνητο, ενώ σε πρόσφατη επίσκεψη στη πίστα του Hungaroring, ο φίλος μας και επαγγελματίας οδηγών αγώνων Oliver Webb έγραψε 1:55, κάτι που σημαίνει ότι είναι 9,5 δευτ. πιο γρήγορο από τη Porsche 911 GT3, 7 δευτ. πιο γρήγορο από τη Ferrari 458 Speciale και 4,5 δευτ. πιο γρήγορο από τη McLaren P1.

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2016 MODEL YEAR BAC MONO DEBUTS AT GOODWOOD AND (UNOFFICIALLY) BREAKS ROAD CAR HILL RECORD

Successful Festival of Speed reflects wider global momentum for the British premium brand

Briggs Automotive Company (BAC) returns to Goodwood where the 2016 Model Year Mono stormed the hill, with onboard telemetry recording a series of runs comfortably sub-50 seconds, with the fastest run completed in a time of just 47.9.

Considerably quicker than the fastest supercar in the “shoot out” and even beating the outright road car hill record set by the Nissan GT-R Time Attack road-racer

BAC Mono customer experience zone, in partnership with Autodesk, yields a double digit amount of new orders for the BAC Mono at the Festival of Speed

Success at Goodwood reflects wider momentum with the BAC brand and business with a new factory and export drive to new markets in the Americas and Asia

YouTube video of the BAC Goodwood weekend can be downloaded here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Nlzl7WFLg

Liverpool, 7th July 2015

BAC introduced the 2016 Model Year Mono to the world at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, with an unofficial road car record-breaking run on the famous hillclimb. With a series of runs comfortably sub 50-seconds, and a fastest time of 47.9, the Mono is able to compete with many dedicated racing cars.

The blistering runs capped off a successful Festival of Speed for BAC, where they met countless enthusiasts on the manufacturer lawn and entertained current and potential customers at the BAC bespoke customer experience zone, featuring several cars, a cutaway chassis, technical exhibits and an owners’ lounge.

With BAC test driver Oliver Webb at the wheel, the Goodwood hillclimb time was set in BAC’s 2016 Model Year Mono, featuring an all-new 2.5-litre Mountune four-cylinder engine producing 305bhp – that’s up 25bhp on the previous 2.3-litre Cosworth engine. The revised car weighs in at just 580kg giving an incredible 526bhp per tonne. The new 2016 Model Year Mono also includes a drive-by-wire throttle as well as a bespoke driver fitment culminating in a custom steering wheel and seat tailor-made for the owner.

What makes the hill time all the more impressive is the fact it was set while Oliver was not attempting a record as he was driving a car fitted with a pre-production prototype engine.

The BAC Mono already has an impressive list of records to its name. It is officially the second fastest road legal car around the Top Gear test track, with a time of 1:14.3.In recent testing at the Hungaroring, Oliver Webb revealed just how fast the Mono is, as it lapped the circuit in 1:55, 9.5 seconds faster than a Porsche 911 GT3, 7 seconds faster than a Ferrari Speciale and an incredible 4.5 seconds faster than a McLaren P1.

The success at Goodwood reflects a wider momentum within the BAC brand, with a new dedicated factory for design and build based in Liverpool giving a capacity for producing one car per month in current specification. With the factory located next door to Liverpool Airport, and the support of the city behind it, BAC can also uniquely claim to be the only car manufacturer that has the rights to use a working regional airport on which to test and shakedown customer cars.

BAC work to a coherent strategy and this has enabled them to focus on cutting-edge product development and commercialisation via key export markets in the US, South America, Japan and Asia. As the company grows rapidly, it is developing partnerships with complementary luxury companies, and BAC becoming increasingly known as a unique British brand in the top tier of the global luxury market.

Oliver Webb commented, “It’s always a privilege to drive at Goodwood and particularly to be entrusted to give the 2016 Model Year Mono its world debut in the ‘First Glance Class’. As Goodwood regulars will know, this class is not timed but our onboard telemetry showed that all of our runs were comfortably sub 50-seconds. Our time would have been faster than the quickest time set in this year’s supercar shoot out and would have even beaten the fastest road car time ever recorded on the hillclimb, by the mighty Nissan GT-R Nismo Time Attack. Clearly our times were unofficial, but I would love to come back next year and challenge for the record officially, on new tyres and with our latest-spec Mountune engine. “

Speaking after the successful weekend at Goodwood, Andrew Whitney, Director of Strategy and Corporate Development said, “It was a fantastically successful weekend for us, and not just with our speed on the legendary hill. The customer experience zone was permanently busy and we were overwhelmed with serious interest, resulting in orders being taken well into double figures.

“It’s a very exciting time for the company, with new investment, a new factory and with our entry into new global markets. While we continue to update the Mono, the purity and clarity of the original design created by company founders Ian and Neill Briggs remains. As awareness of the BAC brand builds around the world, we are finding that the Mono’s unique concept and our best of British brand values are attracting interest from famous names from the international luxury market and we are excited to raise the profile of the Mono even further.”