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Iconic AC Roadster


Iconic AC Roadster

The Iconic AC Roadster isn't just another Cobra replica any more than Apollo was just another archer. Instead, the roadster, a collaboration between Michigan base iconic and the latest incarnation of AC cars, hits familiar Cobra cues while showcasing new technology. The Shelby 427 of the 1960s offers brutish capability and sometimes evil behaviour in an evocative shape. Iconic's founder, Claudio Ballard, sought to recreate the brutishness and evocativeness while banishing the evil. So here 7.0 liters of specially tuned Ford V8 meet a modern race car chassis, suspension and brakes.


Iconic AC Roadster

Some major components are sourced, with Brembo supplying carbon ceramic rotors, for example, but like the dry sump oil reservoir and the brake master cylinder are milled from chunks of aluminum. The body panels are hand crafted. The goal is to make manufacture something without compromise. The 2400 pounds roadster also includes patented door hinges, an automatic gas cap and tachometer needle that changes colors at a different points in the rev band. As the signature touch, twelve points nuts and bolts are used everywhere.

Iconic AC Roadster

The Iconic claims to produce approximately 800 HP and 660 fb-ft of torgue. 0-60 can be achieved in less than 3 seconds and an incredible 200mph of top speed. Four runs through an autocross course were like operating a bulldozer in a sandbox, so we didn't preserve the 8000 rpm redline or  need to shift the six speed manual transmission beyond second. 

Iconic AC Roadster


Iconic AC Roadster

Slipping into a cozy cockpit, and grasping the leatherised steering wheel, we heard a leonine roar as the enormous V8 awoke, surely thinking of gazelles. Yet even without electronic intervention, which the roadster forswears. Iconic promises the first 100 planned Roadsters for February delivery at close to that $500,000 range, according to a company official. For the sum, he promises the look and quality of a Veyron or an Enzo. Blending the concepts "Cobra" and technology had never occured to us, but the roadster proves it's something worth wrapping the mind around.

Iconic AC Roadster