Tramontana

From Classic Car Life

The Tramontana is a Spanish single or twin seat sports car with styling inspired by open wheel racing cars. It is built by Advanced Design Tramontana in Palau de Santa Eulalia, Girona, Catalonia (Spain). The price of the car starts about €500,000. It was launched as a concept at the 2005 Geneva Motor Show, and subsequently modified for production.

It features a mid-mounted twin turbocharged Mercedes-Benz 5.5 L, double overhead cam V12 engine producing 550 PS (405 kW; 542 hp) or 720 PS (530 kW; 710 hp). Both are mated to a 6-speed sequential gearbox and rear wheel drive giving a top speed of 325 km/h (202 mph) and a 0–100 km/h time of 3.6 seconds. The body and interior are a mix of aluminium and carbon fibre, while the twenty inch wheels are a mix of carbon fibre and magnesium. The car weighs in at 1,268 kg (2,795 lb) and the suspension is an adjustable double wishbone suspension. If the two seat option is chosen, the passenger sits directly behind and slightly higher than the driver. The bonnet badge is made of solid white gold.

Only 12 a year are manufactured. In 2009, Tramontana introduced a closed top model named Tramontana R.

Credit for this page must go to the excellent Wikipedia, the original page can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramontana_(sports_car)