Tramontana, a Spanish race car for the road

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Imagine walking down the sidewalk minding your own business, only to be met by a car that resembles the idea of a fighter jet seating position fusing with open cockpit race car-esque bodywork. You gawk at it like as if it is from a different planet. The car from the above picture is manufactured by a Spanish manufacturer called Tramontana.

Open the fighter jet style canopy and you will be met by the fighter jet style seating, with the passenger seat smack dab behind the driver seat, if you option the 2 seat version that is. The car even sports the sidepod that you will typically find on open cockpit race cars like Formula One, GP2 Series, GP3 Series and Formula Renault 3.5. Of course, what sets Tramontana aside from the just mentioned racing series is the front spoiler-mounted headlights, the absence of air intake that sits above the cockpit and the wheel fenders.

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Onto the rear, you can see another stand-out features that make it distinct from open cockpit race cars, which are the rear tail lamps. Don't see any of these on say F1 cars for instance.

This beauty is powered by a 5.5L twin turbo Mercedes V12 that churns out 720 hp. All those grunt is conveyed to the rear wheels via a 6 speed sequential gearbox that enables it to sprint from 0-62 mph in 3.6s. The chassis is built on a hybrid between aluminium and carbon fibre that endow it with 1268 kg worth of weight. Double wishbone on all 4 corners ensure that all those grunts are not wasted in a cloud of smoke.

What does this writer think of this car? Well, it is rather an interesting idea to let drivers the privilege of an unadulterated driving pleasure with the fighter jet like cockpit as if the driver is piloting a fighter jet rather than driving a monster of a car. I wonder if there would be more manufacturers adopting this style in the near future.