It’s Slovenia’s first supercar, or, in other words, the Tushek Renovatio T500. It’s from a brand new company, it is not a totally ground-up design, yet costs, wait for it (drum roll), €300,000.
Quite a lot, yes? Yes. But give it a chance.
A spot of history. Actually, a lot of history, because too little might not be helpful. Aljosa Tušek used to race cars (euro tin tops) and when he stopped, he decided for a living he’d assemble and sell high-spec variants of a car (available in component form) called the K1 Attack.
So he bought one and set about it, before realising that, although he liked the look of it, the engine was too lazy and tall (a Ford V6 with the gearbox beneath it) and the (glassfibre) body was too heavy and imprecisely moulded.
Truth is, it wasn't the car he wanted to make. So, now, although it retains a tubular spaceframe chassis, more than 80 percent of it is different to the K1. It’s a lot longer, a bit wider and lower. Power comes from a 4.2-litre Audi RS4 motor and drives the rear wheels via an S5’s 6-spd manual gearbox. The body is carbonfibre.
Slovenia doesn’t have a rich heritage in supercar manufacture, it’s true: but Ferrari’s composite body panels are made here, as are Ducati panels and Porsche’s ceramic brakes, while it’s home to Akrapovic exhausts.