amanico
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It seems that all the sports coupés are suffering, nowadays. Especially these ones. With a few, very few exceptions, such as the Alfa 4C, the Cayman, the 911 and the Alpine.
A curiosity: MVS Venturi 111 Cup.
MVS Venturi was a small ( but exciting ) french brand who made some exciting cars, the Venturi. The smaller car was the Venruri 200 and 260, which existed in a Cup version, using a good old PRV 6 Cylinders engine. But there was even smaller, especially fo...
Superb models on display here. MVS became only "Venturi" later on and the great Venturi 400GT in 1994/95 was their road version of the race car
Interestingly I did not know they made special versions for Italy. At the time there were limitations to 2000cc / 2 liters for the engines to pay less taxes. this forced Maserati to do a 2000cc V6 twin-turbo to compensate for this limitation ...
308 had a V8
2 litre ... that's like 2 screaming one liter four pots bolted together ... kind of ... Imagine connecting two Ducati 1000cc V4 to each other ... 2 X 235 hp equals 470 hp at 16.000 rpm. Or even 2 MotoGP 1000 cc V4 ... 600 hp at 18? K rpm.
Know Venturi…
But wasn’t aware that there was this 4 cylinder version - very interesting! But as you said, a six cylinder engine somehow fits it better. Are they still around? I know they were working on an all electric sports car many years back, as an early Tesla com...
About 35 yrs ago
My dad had an Atlantique on loan from the dealer for a few days and he picked me up at school, great memories!
Go for it Bastardo !!!!
As a French icon you should own a French icon .... oh wait ....
No doubts mon ami !
Pas de soucis, I only have soucis about your ADHD brain always working extra hours !!!!!!
Hope you'll enjoy. The french or the art of "auto-sabotage" :( Heuliez etc... And Venturi is now a ghost in Monaco. Very sad.
Lotus ... Maserati ... Also suffering.
Alfa 4C?
Not sure that was a commercial success - got terrible reviews in the press ����♂️
Maserati…
Has made some wonderful sports / sporty cars recently but it appears that sales do not follow suit ����♂️
The MC20 has hit good critical acclaim…
And the just arrived GranTurismo seems to be hitting the right notes as well, even if the pricing is highly aspirational.