Sports car owners often complain about the road infrastructure, especially about the speed bumps installed in residential neighborhoods all over the world to prevent drivers from stepping on the gas.
These speed bumps don’t only spoil the experience of driving, but they are also a threat to the integrity of a sports car’s underbody. The faster the car, the lower the ground clearance, and that is especially true in the case of sports cars designed for the race circuit.
You’ll be hard pressed to find track cars more radical than a… Radical, so the UK manufacturer wanted to reassure its customers that its newest product, the RXC, has nothing to fear of speed bumps.
Radical’s first enclosed car, the RXC, is a street-legal racer, as it is built using Le Mans engineering and aerodynamics. With 380hp produced by a 3.7-liter V6 Ford engine and only 900 kg (1,984lbs) of weight, the Radical RXC sprints from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in only 2.8 seconds and reaches a top speed of 280 km/h (175 mph).
On top of that, it handles speed bumps rather well, thanks to its inboard push rod suspension. You can check that out for yourself in the video posted below, though it doesn’t show how the RXC handles the most atrocious of speed bumps – you know, the tall, narrow ones…
By Dan Mihalascu
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