Keating promises another new British supercar
Hoax, pie-in-the-sky or a new British supercar?
Author: Chris Barker
Published: 11 March 2008
The continuing lineage of barking British sports car nobility is set to gain another stark raving mad member in the coat and armoury of Keating Sports Cars.
23 April 2008 heralds the arrival of the two all-new 'Boutique' British super cars; the road-legal Keating TKR and SKR (Sports Grand Tourer) exocet missiles.
To those not familiar, the date is St. George's Day - the day the UK celebrates dragon-slaying and flags - and after eight years spent in potting sheds and wind tunnels (or whatever is quantified as development these days) the top of the range TKR and its 200mph stablemate the SKR are to be buffed to within a inch of their existences and trailered to the grounds of a stately home on the coast of North West England coast where they'll joust for the attentions of braying motoring hacks.
With any information whatsoever sketchier than the frenzied doodle of an imbibed Sir Rolf of Harris, the official Keating website politely suggests that interested parties should set their browsers for a return a month before actual launch, when marginally less vague details will emerge.
But even then, those parties still harbouring the will to live (die-hard motoring journos) will have to attend said cloak-and-dagger invite-only affair at aforementioned venue; (possibly near an abandoned airfield) where they'll be involved in high speed demonstrations and less high-speed 'cruises' on adjacent public roads.
What do we know about the Keating TKR and SKR?
Well, a spot of research has unturned the following slabs of immovable granite - they're both apparently capable of speeds in excess of 200mph, and have 0-60 times in sub two seconds. Which begs the question: is this an elaborate April fool?
V8 all-aluminium engines have been re-engineered by Keating and fitted with twin-turbo dual inter-cooling systems which results in monstrous acceleration.
With a supposed 1005bhp on tap, redlining occurs at 7,500rpm and to be perfectly honest even a parachute and an industrial strength injection of Ritalin isn't going to slow the range-topping TKR super car down.
An early prototype version of the SKR Sports Grand Tourer (itself with 400bhp and designed for proposed longer journeying) was alleged to have out-Veyron'ed Bugatti's finest purveyor of velocity during behind closed-doors testing. In the world's longest building obviously.
MotorTorque will keep a suspicious eye raised for now.
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