Aria XFE revealed
On Thursday November 30 during a press conference at the Los Angeles
Auto Show the Aria Group revealed their latest creation the FXE, an American
built hybrid hypercar that will challenge the best exotic car built in Europe.
The Aria Group is a leader in providing a full range of design,
engineering and manufacturing solutions to meet any request from the transportation,
aerospace and entertainment industries. Aria has nearly 20 years of expertise
combining the latest advances in rapid manufacturing technology with innovative
design and creative engineering to produce advanced and complex projects. Aria has built one-off manufacturer concept
cars and movie vehicles which include the Ford
GR-1 and the Kia GT4 Stinger
concept cars.
The basis of
the Aria Group’s new dream car is its patent-pending Integrated Composite
Structure chassis concept. The pending nature of the intellectual property
restricts how much can be revealed but the Aria Group says that it’s a less labor-intensive
production method for a carbon-fiber tub with all the powertrain and suspension
mounting attachment hardware integrated into the tub.
A supercharged
small-block V-8 from an as-yet-unnamed American manufacturer (possibly the
Corvette ZR-1 powerplant?) producing 720 horsepower will be bolted in the rear
of the tub. Aria is still negotiating
for the supplier of a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission but Xtrac which exclusively
supplies transmissions for the INDYCAR series seems likely to get the contract.
The FXE will
also have pair of axial-flux induction electric motors that add another 540
horsepower to drive the front wheels, which makes the car’s total output 1,150 horsepower.
The energy for the front motors will be stored
in a 10-killowatt per hour lithium-ion battery pack. The Aria Group promises eye-popping
performance from the FXE – Zero to 60 miles per hour (mph) in 3.1 seconds with
a top speed of 220 mph.
Keep up with
the forthcoming details of the Aria FXE on these pages, or check out their
website for more details.
Photos and construction details provided by The Aria Group
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