Original URL: http://www.reghardware.com/2009/05/18/green_gt_lmpe2011/
Green GT rolls out sexy e-supercar
LMPE2011 set for race and road debuts
Leccy Tech Hot on the heels of its recent leccy racing car announcement [1], Swiss car maker Green GT has unveiled designs for its next-generation Le Mans Prototype (LMP) racer that could also, potentially, become a road car.
Green GT's LMPE2011: sexy and leccy
Designed by a team of students from the International School of Design at Valenciennes in Northern France, the GreenGT LMPE2011 is certainly eye-catching, although we don't recall Le Mans race rules allowing air brakes - assuming that’s what those four sculpted carbon fibre pop-ups actually are.
Underneath its Imperial Stormtrooper helmet-inspired shell, the car features the same chassis and power train as the GreenGT. Register Hardware believes this attribute makes the latest super-slick racer more likely to see the light of day than some of the usual electric supercar vapourware we’ve come across, such as the KTM AX [2].
Christophe Schwartz, Head of Engineering at Green GT, said the LMPE2011 “could become our 2011 Le Mans Prototype electric racer”.
A road-going model could also be developed
“It would be amazing to create two prototype race cars to compete in the 2011 24 hours of Le Mans,” added Schwartz – hinting that both the LMPE2011 and recently unveiled GreenGT could make it into LMP races in the near future.
Eco-minded rich boys may also want to put some cash aside, because Schwartz said that the LMPE2011 “could even become an electric road going supercar”. ®
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