After seeing that the Radical RXC can handle the most pleasant speed bumps, the British sports car manufacturer announced that their first ever enclosed car has passed the required tests for road registration in California. The company says this is a first step towards the homologation of the RXC and RXC Turbo across the entire United States.

Radical has worked closely with one of America’s first Radical coupe owners, Jeffrey Cheng, who offered his own RXC to be inspected and approved for use on the road. The approval is a major breakthrough for the Radical brand in the U.S., where road registration is traditionally difficult with low-volume British sports cars.

“The RXC has been designed to meet stringent Small-Series Type Approval regulations for both Europe and worldwide in all key criteria areas, such as visibility, crash safety, noise and emissions, enabling a swift and straight-forward completion of the process,” reads Radical’s press statement.

The base Radical RXC powered by a Ford Mustang-sourced 380hp 3.7-liter V6 engine is priced from $171,280 (€126,445) in the U.S., but it can easily approach the $200,000 threshold if the customer wants it equipped with the more powerful 454hp EcoBoost twin-turbo V6 unit (Radical RXC Turbo) or even exceed that amount if the 500hp V8 option is checked.

Now that he is cleared to drive his RXC on public roads, Jeffrey Cheng plans to tour the U.S. with his tangerine RXC as well as driving it on track at the Spring Mountain Motorsport Ranch in Nevada.

If you want to know how a Radical RXC looks on a U.S. highway surrounded by pickups and SUVs, just scroll down to watch Cheng drive his street-legal race car near Irvine, California.

By Dan Mihalascu

Story References: Radical via Autoblog-com

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