The Praga Bohema is a mid-engined supercar unlike any other and it appears to be so good that even James May was left hugely impressed after driving it for The Grand Tour’s latest special, Eurocrash.
The small car manufacturer based out of the Czech Republic took off the covers to the Bohema late last year. It has all the ingredients you could want from a supercar being incredibly light, very powerful, having heaps of downforce, and really looking the business too.
During the episode, May drove the Bohema on an airfield in Slovakia and it wasn’t just him that was impressed with it. Both Jeremy Clarkson and James May were also left very impressed with what the Czechs have created.
“It has incredible steering,” May described. “It doesn’t have a wheel, it has a yoke, but even on a fairly tight circuit like this, I never need to move my hands from that quarter-to-three position. It obviously has enormous acceleration, and they haven’t gone for top speed, they’ve gone for low weight and the agility, and it definitely has that. It’s wonderful…it’s just wonderful.”
Clarkson added that the Bohema is “one very impressive piece of engineering from the Czechs” while Hammond said it nailed the supercar design brief of looking “childish and silly” but also being “accomplished and finished.”
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Interestingly, the head of Praga’s sales and marketing departments, Mark Harrison, received a call from The Grand Tour crew last year about the company’s R1 race car. While the Bohema was a tightly-held secret at the time, Praga decided it was the car that it would provide to The Grand Tour.
As a reminder, the Praga Bohema is powered by a Nissan GT-R-sourced 3.8-liter twin-turbocharged V6 that’s been modified by Litchfield with new turbochargers and dry sump lubrication. It delivers a total of 700 hp at 6,800 rpm and 534 lb-ft (724 Nm) of torque between 3,000 rpm and 5,000 rpm. Mated to the engine is a six-speed Hewland sequential transmission.
