Zenos E10 track car will cost R400k
9 January, 2014 | by Vijay Pattni
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This is the Zenos E10, revealed at the Autosport International show, proving that this little red trackday motor certainly isn’t vapourware.
We first got wind of this project late last year when ex-Caterham bigwigs Ansar Ali and Mark Edwards showed off a sketch of the E10 and the promise of something feisty and pointy. Now come the details.
It’ll cost R400k, but to celebrate the unveiling Zenos is offering a special launch edition of 75 cars that get a 2.0-litre Ford GDI petrol engine making 150kW and 210Nm of torque, mounted in the middle, and powering the rear wheels through a limited slip differential and a six-speed transverse manual gearbox. The launch edition also gets removable front and rear wings coloured red, bespoke Zenos composite seats, four-point race harnesses, an OZ performance wheel pack with ZZR Avon tyres, footwell heating and even a quick release steering wheel.
The whole thing weighs in at 650kg – thanks to a hybrid carbon and aluminium monocoque – while suspension is of the double wishbone variety all round (with Bilstein dampers). As such, it’s estimated to accelerate from 0-100kph in 4.5 seconds and rock on to a top speed of 230kph, though both of these figures are yet to be confirmed.
And that’s not all; this E10 is the first of three scheduled product launches over the next few years. Zenos is planning the E11 and E12 sports cars (the first a roadster, the second a coupe) for 2018. And with former Caterham brains behind it, it’s looking promising.
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What would you do with Ford’s Ecoboost engine?
10 January, 2014 | by Vijay Pattni
http://www.topgear.co.za/news/let-your-i...-ecoboost/
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The wing of Ford responsible for supplying and selling genuine parts has today announced that the company’s EcoBoost engine family is now available for purchase off the shelf. This has caused Top Gear waste an afternoon playing dangerous “let’s put a Ford V6 into a coffee machine” games.
At the Autosport International show – where Zenos showcased the Ford-powered E10 trackday car – Ford produced much spiel about ‘reduced emissions’ and ‘enhanced fuel economy’ of the new EcoBoost family, which includes that fantastic little – and award-winning – 1.0-litre three-pot turbo, as well as the 1.6, 2.0 and 3.5-litre V6 (used Stateside) petrol engines.
Which is all fine and dandy, but we now want to know how you’d use a Ford engine. After all, the company points out that it has done business with companies including Morgan, Caterham, Ginetta and even Radical during its 80-year heritage.
It even fitted that little 1.0-litre EcoBoost engine into a Formula Ford, tinkered with the ECU to squeeze out a whopping 150kW and sent it around the Nürburgring to clock a really, really quite indecent time of 7m 22s (unofficially faster than an Enzo and a Zonda). And then let us drive it around London. Which was scary.
So tell us, in what else should these engines sit? And you’re not restricted to the world of cars, either. Paste them onto our Facebook wall. Photoshop mock-uppery encouraged.
9 January, 2014 | by Vijay Pattni
http://www.topgear.co.za/news/ford-power...-revealed/
![[Image: side_profile-1024x486-610x289.jpg]](http://www.topgear.co.za/wp-content/uploads/side_profile-1024x486-610x289.jpg)
This is the Zenos E10, revealed at the Autosport International show, proving that this little red trackday motor certainly isn’t vapourware.
We first got wind of this project late last year when ex-Caterham bigwigs Ansar Ali and Mark Edwards showed off a sketch of the E10 and the promise of something feisty and pointy. Now come the details.
It’ll cost R400k, but to celebrate the unveiling Zenos is offering a special launch edition of 75 cars that get a 2.0-litre Ford GDI petrol engine making 150kW and 210Nm of torque, mounted in the middle, and powering the rear wheels through a limited slip differential and a six-speed transverse manual gearbox. The launch edition also gets removable front and rear wings coloured red, bespoke Zenos composite seats, four-point race harnesses, an OZ performance wheel pack with ZZR Avon tyres, footwell heating and even a quick release steering wheel.
The whole thing weighs in at 650kg – thanks to a hybrid carbon and aluminium monocoque – while suspension is of the double wishbone variety all round (with Bilstein dampers). As such, it’s estimated to accelerate from 0-100kph in 4.5 seconds and rock on to a top speed of 230kph, though both of these figures are yet to be confirmed.
And that’s not all; this E10 is the first of three scheduled product launches over the next few years. Zenos is planning the E11 and E12 sports cars (the first a roadster, the second a coupe) for 2018. And with former Caterham brains behind it, it’s looking promising.
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What would you do with Ford’s Ecoboost engine?
10 January, 2014 | by Vijay Pattni
http://www.topgear.co.za/news/let-your-i...-ecoboost/
![[Image: image-161.jpg]](http://www.topgear.co.za/wp-content/uploads/image-161.jpg)
The wing of Ford responsible for supplying and selling genuine parts has today announced that the company’s EcoBoost engine family is now available for purchase off the shelf. This has caused Top Gear waste an afternoon playing dangerous “let’s put a Ford V6 into a coffee machine” games.
At the Autosport International show – where Zenos showcased the Ford-powered E10 trackday car – Ford produced much spiel about ‘reduced emissions’ and ‘enhanced fuel economy’ of the new EcoBoost family, which includes that fantastic little – and award-winning – 1.0-litre three-pot turbo, as well as the 1.6, 2.0 and 3.5-litre V6 (used Stateside) petrol engines.
Which is all fine and dandy, but we now want to know how you’d use a Ford engine. After all, the company points out that it has done business with companies including Morgan, Caterham, Ginetta and even Radical during its 80-year heritage.
It even fitted that little 1.0-litre EcoBoost engine into a Formula Ford, tinkered with the ECU to squeeze out a whopping 150kW and sent it around the Nürburgring to clock a really, really quite indecent time of 7m 22s (unofficially faster than an Enzo and a Zonda). And then let us drive it around London. Which was scary.
So tell us, in what else should these engines sit? And you’re not restricted to the world of cars, either. Paste them onto our Facebook wall. Photoshop mock-uppery encouraged.