550hp Chevrolet Matiz Unleashed By Car Enthusiasts

By Thami Masemola
January 30, 2009 9:12 PM
Filed Under: American, Chevrolet, Tuners

General Motors has no idea that their baby Chevrolet Matiz is now capable of slaying their greatest giant the Corvette. It's not an officially-manufactured car but it will take care of some serious supercars in any straight-line battle. Created by Fourdin Auto Sport founder, Yves Fourdin, and a few friends, this Matiz was the result of 1,500 hours of hard work by people who are not even engineers but motorsport enthusiasts. Best of all they used no computers for their achievement.

Using the Matiz as a base, Fourdin and his team installed a 7.0-litre V8 straight out of a Corvette Z06. It makes 550hp (404kW) to blast the Matiz from 0 - 100km/h in a swift 3.7 seconds. The 0 - 200km/h time is 10.94 seconds while terminal velocity is 260km/h (162mph).

No details on its track performance were released so there's no telling how it takes to corners, bar a glimpse of it taking that long curve on the video. The car was finished in August 2008 and is currently being shown at the International Racing Show Liège in Belgium.

 

Source: autoblog.nl

Comments

polyprotege
January 30, 2009 10:26 PM
next in line a 600hp shopping trolley!

mfsilva
January 31, 2009 12:38 AM
Best comment ever here...

4u2p
January 31, 2009 1:19 AM
The Matiz is a shopping trolley.

blay
January 31, 2009 1:50 AM
i kind of hope they did something about the suspension and the drivetrain... a 404kw fwd v8 muscle on a korean designed chassis would be.............hair raising to say the least lol.

motorsport13
January 31, 2009 1:58 AM
is that even legal to put a V8 on a korean car??

kimbo
January 31, 2009 5:34 PM
hahah that killed me, lol

effington
January 31, 2009 2:48 AM
is that even legal to spend that much time on a korean car??

Xanavi23
January 31, 2009 2:49 AM
Hahahahahah....that is awesome. It actually turned through a sweep corner, so it has SOME cornering. Great work.

WildMaverick1200
January 31, 2009 5:25 AM
How come the trolley doesn't explode or something like that?

Bremen_Koenigsegg
January 31, 2009 6:52 AM
Do the wheels lock up if it strays too far away from the store?

ShinyG
January 31, 2009 10:00 AM
This is the definition of car tuning: Taking a crappy car and turning it into something so utterly different, that people on WCF start making sarcastic jokes about it! Nice jokes guys, but remember, this is a car that blows which got transformed into a car that will blow you off the track... Quite an achievement!

Beetle
January 31, 2009 10:23 AM
Untill a Nissan skyline or MTM audi comes along.

Xanavi23
January 31, 2009 7:12 PM
Maybe beetle, but ild never underestimate the power/weight ratio of a car like this.

Beetle
January 31, 2009 7:47 PM
I guess not Xanavi23, but a small car like that is not designed for such power , it may be fast in a straight line but round a track it most probably wouldnt have the weight balance of a production built fast car.

Although i did have a 1989 vauxhall nova and i put an astra gte engine in , made it fast but really light on the rear end.


Edited by user on January 31, 2009 at 7:49 PM
mc959
January 31, 2009 2:48 PM
find the specs not so special, almost the same as a 911GT3, and that cars weight like 300kg more and have only 415hp(435hp new one)

Alfredo
January 31, 2009 8:40 PM
That's a toy car!!!!!!

thethirdjq
January 31, 2009 11:35 PM
I don't think that is what GM meant when they said they were coming out with a new type of hybrid.

James2911
February 1, 2009 1:47 PM
Haha thethirdjq, so true. However, what GM Holden sells in Australia are hybrids between bad design, bad engineering and bad marketing.

three6t
March 5, 2009 6:26 PM
Personal Matiz Blog

http://jb683.blogspot.com/

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