Solstice Performance - "Hypernova"

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the 60's and 70's were a prime time for NHRA and drag racing. Perhaps a Super Stock variant could be released? (lightened interior, race exhaust etc)

On it!

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In early 1970, a limited edition drag model of the Fleetwood was available. It featured an entirely fiberglass body, 235MM rear tires, a race exhaust and a race intake, as well as a re-tuned engine. Only around 50 were known to have been made because of the sheer cost and effort it took to make them. It is believed that around 38 still exist, with about 5 in the United Kingdom, 15 in the rest of Europe and the others in North and South America.
Technically these cars weren't road legal, though you might notice that the car still features indicators in the front inmost headlights and reverse lights.
This special edition model had 450 horsepower @ 5100 RPM & 497 ft-lb of torque @ 3900 RPM fed through a brand new 5 speed manual transmission.
All this adds up to allow the car to fly through the quarter mile in only 13.62 seconds. Oh, did I also mention that it only takes 5.9 seconds to get from 0 to 60?
Oh, and just to make this car even more bad ass, you get a couple of new vents on the bonnet as well as hood pins!

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Up until 1973, the company had been going strong. Solstice had been making some of the fastest and most powerful cars ever during the 1960s, it seemed like nothing would ever stop them when... well, something stopped them.
When the oil crisis hit in 1973, sales of the Fleetwood plummeted as people were going to AMC and Ford for their Gremlin and Pinto. As the Fleetwood was Solstice only car at the time, they were forced to close shop. The company was sold to Leyland Motors in late 1973 and no cars were produced under the Solstice name until 1980...

[np1993]

Sweet drag edition

[Microwave]

Sweet drag edition

Thanks!
We ought to do a Prato/Solstice crossover car.

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In 1980, British Leyland (as part of a desperate attempt to get money quickly) chucked together a car as quickly as possible and branded it under the Solstice name.
The car, to many, was piss poor. It made a laughable 51 horsepower, it got a measly 29 MPG, and it looked pretty damn ugly, even by 1980s standards. It was also incredibly basic. Infact, it's quite amazing that the definition for the word "basic" in the Oxford Dictionary isn't just simply "a 1980 Solstice". Sales, somehow, were actually pretty damn good. The car was incredibly cheap and so it became popular among youths, and it is about as common as an Opel Corsa in many parts of the world because of how cheap they go for on used car websites today.
Stat wise, the car seriously lacked. It's capable of 0-60 in roughly half a decade and it will get to 100 in- oh wait, that's right. It doesn't even go 100.
Feast your eyes on the 1980 Solstice Buxton!

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British Leyland, after making their money from the Buxton, sold the Solstice brand to Volkswagen Group in 1982. Needless to say, the Buxton ended production in 1982.
Volkswagen decided to re-name Solstice Motors to "Solstice Performance Autos", seeing as Solstice' best selling cars were sports cars. And so in 1984, the first true Solstice Performance car was released, re-using the Fleetwood name. Although it had absolutely nothing to do with the original 60s sports car, they did have one thing in common. The ability to haul ass.

Car coming soon...

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The 1984 Solstice Fleetwood was a different kind of sports car. It featured a combination of both American and European styling, but had a European engine. It was a fairly quick car, despite having only a 2.0L Turbo-4. Most of the reason it was quick was because it had aluminium body panels and a light monocoque chassis.
Despite being a "sports car", it was actually fairly basic. This was for two reasons, one reason being we needed to save weight because of the small engine and because Volkswagen didn't have too much trust in the brand, so they didn't want to put a lot of money into a car that wouldn't return any profit. The car (in 1984) only cost $96,192, which was fairly cheap considering what you're getting for that price (aluminium body, turbocharged engine etc).
The engine's power, fed through a 5 speed manual transmission, propelled the car from 0-60 in 7.4 seconds, and could go down the 1/4 mile in 15.42 seconds.

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In 1990, a 3.8L twin turbo flatplane V-8 was offered (I wonder where I got that idea from? ). With this, the sales of the Inline-4 dropped fairly significantly, so after 1986 the Inline-4 was no longer an option.

[Pleb]

I'm liking this company's story, good work!

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I'm liking this company's story, good work!

Thanks!

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Sometime in 1995, there was word going around that Solstice were working on a new car - a car like no other. The kind of car people had in mind was a twin turbo crossplane V8 coupe that could leave mile long tire tracks, but what was actually made was something completely different.
A V8 hatchback.
Re-using the Adze name, the new 1995 Adze featured the same flatplane V8TT from the Fleetwood. The major difference between the two cars (besides the fact that one's a hatchback) is that the Adze features all wheel drive, so what it actually was, was a super-hatchback of sorts, and it was insanely fast for the time (and by today's standards too).
It could accelerate from 0-60 in 3.7 seconds, 50-75 in 2.5, it could fly down the quarter mile in 12.06 and had a limited top speed of 170 MPH.

(Ignore the cheeky little turbo)

[Kev2442]

Lookin' good buddy !
Love the 1960 Buckshaw.
I don't find the Buxton ugly, add a huge spoiler and a big V6 in the trunk and we're okay for Group B !

On the other side, I think you could get much more power from the drag-ready Fleetwood.
Try a bigger bore and a shorter stroke, that way you should get better RPM limits.
If you run it as rich as possible, even on 91, with a beyond-50 cam profile and even more as you have OHC, you should get past the 500 with little quality bonus.

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Thanks! I guess if you look past the flaws, the Buxton is a cute little car

The thing with the Fleetwood DE is that I didn't want to change the displacement for two reasons:
1) Its already 7 liters.
2) The engine was already on the brink of blowing up (stupid 60s tech...)
The power it has now is already a lot, but as you said it could definitely be in proved. If I have time I'll go update it.
Thanks again!

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(This car is from 1990, the hatchback up there ^ is from 1995. Ooooopppsss )

Six years since the inital revival of the Fleetwood, technology had changed a lot, which meant the car got outdated fairly fast. However, ever since the 1984 Fleetwood was released, we already had a concept for the future Fleetwood model. 1990, being the start of a new decade, felt like the right time to release this new model.
For the new model year, the Inline-4 was dropped, just because it simply wasn't needed. The FP V8TT did everything better (besides price and fuel economy, but it's a sports car so who cares about fuel economy?).
The car was capable of 0-60 in 4.8 seconds (thanks to those 255mm rear tires), 50-75 in 2.3 seconds and could do the quarter mile run in 12.90. Thanks to its all aluminium structure (body, chassis, engine block & heads etc.) it was also capable of a theoretical 175MPH.
Weight distribution was fairly good, with a 52.8% front weight bias, in total the car weighed a mere 2679.1lb.
However, all of that shit doesn't even matter. The coolest thing on this car is the awesome pop up headlights! (Credit to Felgen, you sexy motherfucker.)