Ultima GTR
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| Manufacturer | Ultima Sports Ltd |
| Body style | 2-door coupe |
| Designer | Lee Noble and Ted Marlow |
The Ultima GTR is a supercar manufactured by Ultima Sports Ltd of Hinckley, Leicestershire, England, available both in kit form and as a "turnkey" (i.e. assembled by the factory) vehicle. The design is mid engined, rear wheel drive layout, with a tubular steel space frame chassis and GRP bodywork. A convertible version called the Ultima Can-Am is also produced. Kit builders are free to source and fit a variety of engines and transmissions but the Chevrolet small block V8 supplied by American Speed mated to either a Porsche or Getrag transaxle is the factory recommended standard, and this configuration is fitted to all turnkey cars.
Recently Ultima have focused their marketing efforts on record-breaking activities using a model equipped with a 640 BHP (brake horsepower) American Speed engine, which is called the Ultima GTR640, and subsequently, a 720 BHP engine which is called the GTR720. As a result, they have established the following official, independently verified records for a production car equipped with road tyres and exhaust:
- Fastest 0-60 time: 2.6 seconds
- Fastest 0-100 time: 5.3 seconds
- Fastest 100-0 time: 3.6 seconds
- Fastest 0-100-0 time: 9.4 seconds
- Best performance on a skidpad: 1.176g lateral grip in a 200 ft circle.
- Fastest road car over the 1/4 mile: 9.9 seconds
Power-to-weight ratio is more than 650 horsepower-per-tonne for the factory-produced (turnkey) 720 horsepower model called the GTR720, which is more horsepower-per-tonne than the Bugatti Veyron, Enzo Ferrari, Ascari A10, Koenigsegg CCX or CCGT, and Saleen S7, and approximately the same as the Edonis. However, the Ultima chassis is rated for engines up to 1000 BHP and some of Ultima's customers have 1000 or more horsepower in an Ultima from aluminum-block LSx Chevrolet V8's, for a power-to-weight ratio of approximately 950 horsepower-per-tonne, which is approximately twice the power to weight ratio of the aforementioned supercars and approximately the same as the Caparo T1's (which is still being prototyped with a planned release-date of late 2007).
