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Modern supercars – the benchmark of automotive engineering

Grandiose models can win anyone's heart, but are available only to a few. Prestigious and incredibly expensive supercars of the world occupy a special place in the history of automotive engineering. You can discover the realm of beauty and technical perfection, learn all about achievements and novelties in this category of vehicles at ongoing auto shows, where these wonders of avant-garde design and unparalleled quality are exhibited.

The best engineers and designers work on each model, authoritative specialists develop revolutionary technologies to ensure the safety of these advanced cars with a capital A. A huge number of world-renowned manufacturers work on creating supercars, but it is not always possible to design such a car from scratch on their own platform. A latest-generation car may be chosen as the basis for a future creation to later appear to the public in a conceptual form.

Such was the Ford GT this year, after working on which the American company Galpin Auto Sports got a completely new car, the Galpin GTR1. Its production took 12,000 hours of manual labor by the best craftsmen. It retained its external resemblance to the prototype, but LED lights appeared in the headlights, it acquired more elegant and graceful forms with a neat aerodynamic opening in the body, covered with an aluminum protective mesh. At the rear, a beautiful bumper with chrome exhaust pipes and a spoiler was installed.

The rear light optics underwent global changes, becoming LED and now resembling in shape the lights installed on the Aston Martin DB7. The structure is crowned by a powerful 8-cylinder Ford engine, V 5.4 L, and to provide additional power, two superchargers were added. In addition to the engine, the concept was equipped with a 6-speed manual transmission connected only to the rear wheels.

The car's power allows it to overcome the mark of 1000 horsepower with a torque of 1000 N/m and a speed of 360 km/h. Colossal changes also affected the interior, which is completely dressed in blue and received a stretched instrument panel almost across the entire dashboard. The 20-inch wheels were fitted with special Pirelli P Zero Rosso tires, which have special technical characteristics.

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