Arash AF-8 Ready by 2010

Entry level Arash AF-10

Arash AF-8
by Eric Gallina
January 24, 2008 3:49 PM
Filed Under: European, Specialty Marques
This is the AF-8, a car currently being developed by UK-based Arash Motor Co., previously known as Farboud Ltd. If the name sounds familiar it should, this is the same company who started work on the AF-10, a car expected to be released at the end of 2008.
 
The new car will be smaller than the AF-10 and aims to be ‘driven as an everyday car’ - with conventional doors, traction control, and ABS as standard kit – but we’re told track use is still a high priority.
 
As with the AF-10, the newcomer will source power from a 7-liter GM V8 generating an estimated 550bhp at 6000rpm. It will be paired to a 6-speed Grazianno Trasmissioni gearbox. Arash claims the car will be able to complete a 0-60mph sprint in 3.4 seconds and reach an estimated top speed of 204mph.
 
These figures will likely be achieved thanks to a slippery, aerodynamic carbon fiber body (featuring honeycomb and nomex sandwiches claimed to reduce weight and enhance stiffness) built atop a composite steel-carbon chassis - like its larger sibling.
 
As an 'entry-level' offering to supplement the forthcoming AF-10, the AF-8 is scheduled to be launched in 2010 for approximately £120,000. Arash hopes to produce 25-50 units per year.
Source: Arash Motor Company Limited
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Penner
January 24, 2008 4:04 PM
Another car from Englandistan...

Bristol411S3
January 24, 2008 4:39 PM
I'll believe this claptrap once I see it. Arash Farboud is master of the press release but has never ever made it to a productionised car in spite of many attemps - The Farbio team had to almost completely re-engineer his last effort. And now he announces a car to fit below another model no one has driven yet. I wonder if I could get the job of dreaming stuff up, sticking it out to the press and everyone thjiking I own a car company?

designerr
January 24, 2008 8:27 PM
IRANIAN DESIGNER,???????HUMMMMMMMMMMMMM, SO NICE

persian187
January 24, 2008 10:58 PM
ill get one just for that reason... the interior better be hot though!!

MARG
January 25, 2008 9:36 AM
Iranian's DO it better .

FOXHOUND
January 26, 2008 4:29 AM
it looks like it could be the next gen ferrari f430.

FOXHOUND
January 26, 2008 4:32 AM
some-what, maybe.....

designerr
January 26, 2008 1:52 PM
Dear MARD i am sure iranian designer do it better,but no in iran,,,outside iran they can,i belive it.

sensei
January 28, 2008 12:20 AM
Farboud seems to be more in love with the IDEA of being a car maker than actually ever making cars.

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