Dagger GT with 2000hp - 300 mph hypercar redefined

2011 TranStar Racing Dagger GT, 1600, 02.07.2010

The Dagger GT has over-the-top ambitions of becoming the most sinister production car ever built. Only five will be manufactured in 2011 and all but two have been pre-sold. U.S. based TranStar Racing says its design is based on the Corvette Cheetah concept and vows to break every major record, from being the fastest on a straight line to being the quickest around the Nurburgring.

But what credentials does it bring to the fore? For starters, TranStar Racing lists a "who's who" of U.S. auto industry veterans. From award winning engineers and race car builders to NASA aerodynamicists and the designer of the Saleen S7, the TranStar team reaches into almost every corner.

For hardware, TranStar proposes a 572 multifuel (petrol/methanol/hydrogen/ethanol) twin turbo racing unit from Nelson Racing Engines (builders of the 1800hp Mosler Red Devil) which is capable of spewing out a seemingly insurmountable 1,491 kW (2,000 bhp / 2,028 PS). Peak torque is said to be 2,710Nm (2,000 lb-ft) running through a TranStar/Mendeola 6-speed transmission.

Expected performance figures are equally astounding: 0-60 mph in 1.5 seconds, quarter mile in less than 6.7 seconds and a top speed of over 483 km/h (300mph). The outer body is made from carbon fibre, while a high-strength 4130 Chromoly Steel chassis forms the inner structure.

Three different models can be ordered: a hard-core racer, a street-legal sport version and a soft-riding luxurious GT-X that combines both speed and comfort.

Following the first five contract units, sales will begin during the first half of 2011 for 10 units to be delivered in 2012 and each car is priced at a minimum of US$450,000 (€360,000).

Check out the press release below for further details.

Source: gtr-xs.com via seriouswheels.com

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The 2000 horsepower, 300 mph Dagger GT by TranStar Racing, LLC

Join the rebellion!

It's time to smile and have fun again! "Extreme" is back! The 2000 hp, 300 mph Dagger GT's design objectives are to be the best-looking, fastest Supercar in the world. This Supercar is being specially designed, very deliberately and explicitly, to break all world records and to bring back the most popular class of race car: the unlimited class which has been regulated, restricted and compromised into extinction. Join the rebellion as we break every rule there is, and break every world record for production Supercars. We will not quit until we achieve these goals:

Top horsepower/torque: 2000 hp/2000 ft lbs (given)
Top Speed: 300 mph, plus
Quarter mile: 200 mph and < 6.7 seconds
0 to 60 mph: < 1.5 seconds
Lap records at: Nurburgring and Virginia International Raceway.

Each Dagger GT will be carefully hand-made by exceptional, enthusiastic craftsmen. Each car will be custom-made to the owner's preferences and desires. You can order: one of three (3) hard-core racing models; a street-legal comfortable-riding sport model, or a soft-riding, luxurious GT-X model that looks and feels like a million-dollar car, but runs like a bat-out-of-hell. We plan to deliver 5 production Daggers in 2011. Each Dagger will be 49-state street-legal if desired by the buyer.

The base MSRP of the Dagger GT-S or "Sport" model is $450,000 plus custom work, if requested. Deliveries are scheduled beginning in the first half of 2011. Production is very limited to maintain exceptional, over-the-top quality and fine craftsmanship. We have 2 more sales to go before we close out our 2011 production allotment of five (5) units. After the first five units are under contract, we will begin negotiating purchase orders for 10 units to be delivered in 2012.

The Dagger GT is based on an exceptional mid-engine concept car, the Corvette Cheetah, created by the brilliant industrial designer, Ivan Luccion. Our consulting lead designer is Phil Frank, designer of the world record-setting Saleen S7 Supercar which recently won the 24 hours of LeMans. Each Dagger GT is custom-made from 100% proven, guaranteed, off-the-shelf racing components and hand-built to the highest standards by experienced, exceptional supercar craftsmen. The car features an over-the-top big block, 2000 hp aluminum, twin turbo 572 multifuel racing engine, routinely built by Nelson Racing Engines. The engine is also "streetable." A custom TranStar/Mendeola 6-speed transaxle geared to 308 mph is also featured. The transaxle is designed to withstand the 2000 foot-pounds of torque delivered by the engine. The Dagger GT also features a high-strength 4130 Chromoly Steel chassis. A space-age carbon fiber body will be fabricated by the aerospace industry.

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joshg_5

This spells XJ-220 all over it!... Also, it's unfortunate that the only people that will be able to afford such a machine will never have the capability to push this car to its actual capabilities, and that's a real shame... But I'm not all pessimist! This thing looks absolutely amazing, beautiful, and terrifying all at the same time. Marvel of engineering.

July 2, 2010 5:39 pm

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350Zed

"Dagger"? Spend less on CF fab and tube-benders, and more on marketing. You're asking multi-millionaires to part with 1/2 a mil, and you need something that rolls off the tongue and sounds exotic like... Bugatti Veyron, Pagani Zonda, Koenigsegg My three year old could come up with a better name than "Dagger".

July 2, 2010 5:55 pm

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Andres2007

Are you serious? Are you saying that Pagani, Bugatti and Koeingsegg are creative names? Those are surnames, as I am sure you know. Koeingsegg CCX requires as much marketing budget as Smith ABC. One last name is not better than the other. Now I'm not a huge fan of the name "Dagger" (nor do I love "Zonda") but I think you could have provided much better examples, like Reventón, Phantom Drophead Coupe or Silver Seraph. Now those are names worth paying half a million for.

July 2, 2010 8:16 pm

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loyo

Reventón is one of the stupidiest names ever used in the car industry, it's a term kids use to refer to parties (in some Spanish-speaking countries, that is)

July 4, 2010 12:04 am

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dbehmoaras

@loyo: Reventon is actually a great name because it was the name of the fighting bull that is best known for killing the famed Mexican bullfighter Felix Guzman. This, therefore is a very appropriate name for a Lamborghini, especially this one. It helps to do your homework. I don't think that the name of this car will matter, although Dagger isn't half bad. When marketed to rich people, it won't marketed as the Dagger GT. It will be marketed as the "300mph Dagger GT." Huge difference there.

July 4, 2010 9:37 am

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loyo

I do know about bullfighting, specially when it comes to mexican bullfighters, and one thing I've learned (not looked up in wikipedia) is that bulls not necessarily have interesting names, like "Pajarito" or "Comunista"

July 10, 2010 5:35 pm

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Rotaermel

For sure they will build this car.. :D

July 2, 2010 5:59 pm

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jerry05cod4

quarter mile in 6.7 sec!...that's as fast as Pro-stock NHRA racers, i'm thinking this will need to have a parachute to brake too? the numbers seem overstated, but the cars design looks great.

July 2, 2010 6:29 pm

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LifeLongCarGuy

I really do wish the horsepower war would just stop. I see horsepower in the sportscar world as the "who has the biggest pick-up truck" in the pick-up truck world or the "my yatch is longer than your yatch" in the megayatch world. They all scream two things, "My __ is faster or bigger than yours for no reason other than that" and "My things are more interesting than I am". (they scream, "I'm rich and I can buy anything I want too, but I'm trying to make a point here :) ) Unless you go to the salt flats every weekend to max out all the go fast this car has to offer, IMO it is a waste of money. As mentioned above whoever buys this will not drive it anywhere near it's limits. It would be fun to see what it can do at a dragstrip against a top fuel funny. That'd be interesting. Anywho, I'd settle for something more modest (horsepower-wise) with great handling capability, good looks and can be driven daily without worrying that I am in over my head. For a half a mil I can have several automotive works of art that foot that bill with money left over for track days. LLCG

July 2, 2010 6:34 pm

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Decypha

Definitely, this is just idiotically dangerous now, and the fad has definitely passed for me hey.

July 5, 2010 1:30 pm

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CDspeed

Completely stupid car. The name sounds like a ten year old came up with it and the same ten year old typed the specs. Even if the claimed power is real there is almost nowhere you can use it safely, except maybe a drag strip.

July 2, 2010 6:56 pm

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dbehmoaras

The power is definitely within reach for this company. As the article states, they were able to get 1800bhp out of the Mosler, another 200bhp shouldn't be a problem, especially if they use a big-block V8, which they probably will since it's an American company.

July 4, 2010 9:40 am

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astroturf777

'Only five will be manufactured in 2011 and all but two have been pre-sold. ' um. so they sold 3? 'vows to break every major record' - except sales figures of course...

July 2, 2010 7:21 pm

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mikemikemike

On that same note, they are bringing in est. $6-7m for the R & D and production? WTF? They must be making them in sweat shops.

July 2, 2010 11:48 pm

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BavarianMS

Um where to begin... Car looks great. Performance specs are possible to reach, no way in hell will they reach those specs by only selling 5 of these super cars. Unless of-course they price them at a min of 10mill a pop. These straight-line performance specs are possible and so are the power figures but there is no way this car will be able to nail 2 birds with 1 stone. In other words, be fastest in the straight-line and still manage a Nurburgring record. I am sorry but I bet if this car was made as stated it would beat the Zonda R in the drag-strip, not the ring. Unless they have a huge budget to blow without profiting in mind, I don't see this happening.

July 2, 2010 7:45 pm

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Andres2007

The car looks **astounding.** It's probably the best-looking 250mpher around. Its design is certainly miles away from that of the SSC Aero. I do agree that the name is not very creative, but who cares? On a different note, even if it reaches 300 mph it might not become officially the fastest production car because its sales figures might not make it officially a "production car." I hope they do make it because the car is beautiful and the price is ridiculous. I also hope they manage to make it street legal, because such a powerful machine could be dangerous in the wrong hands.

July 2, 2010 8:02 pm

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droid_dtm

This isn't realistic at all... certainly not from a price stand point. Anyone who has viewed the Nat Geo documentary, or studied articles on the Veyron would have an idea of the kind of engineering needed, and costs incurred to make it... and it tops out at 253 mph. Even at $1 mil + a pop, Bugatti loses about 4 mil on each car. Therefore I highly doubt this car, with this kind of expected performance, will cost only $450,000. Perhaps that's the price of the chassis alone (in a vintage Rolls Royce sorta way where each major component of the car was priced separately) Anyways, I'd give this whole project 2 yawns because it simply isnt possible, and will not materialise. Like someone said earlier, this is 2010's XJ-220

July 2, 2010 8:45 pm

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Aesthetics

only the americans have the techology to build such horsepower...dagger gt, even grand theft auto have better ideas for names such as super gt. it'll be a proud day for the united states when this car is presented...even more so than great britain and the aston martin one-77

July 2, 2010 11:29 pm

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Aesthetics

Expected performance figures are equally astounding: 0-60 mph in 1.5 seconds, quarter mile in less than 6.7 seconds HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1.5 seconds and 1/4 mile in 6.7 sec...award winning engineers should understand...2000 horspower will need a little more than 185/75-13 tyres to grip hahahaha omg...this is fun!

July 2, 2010 11:38 pm

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THEBENCHMARK

I have seen street cars hit all those expected performance figures, but I have never seen one car achieve them all. I think the performance goals are way optimistic. But remember, there was a time when people thought that if you went faster than 80mph you would die, and that the world was flat. It was also said that a 57 chevy could not go faster than 10 seconds in the quarter due to the brick shape, I have seen them run low 5's. Basically when it comes to automotive engineering you can never say something is "impossible", you just never know.

July 5, 2010 9:40 am

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BadMrSnake

Now this is what the Mclaren F1 predessecor should have looked like!

July 3, 2010 12:09 am

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carcrazy1234

mclaren hasn't made a Mclaren F1 predecessor yet..... .the MP4 is just a car to get the brand name up and running.... F1 predecessor might come later though as the original creator is rumored to be designing one on the side... just a rumor though.

July 3, 2010 6:59 pm

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dbehmoaras

You both mean successor, right?.....\facepalm.

July 4, 2010 9:38 am

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Zonda Addict

I am almost sure that this car will never be able to achieve that performance figures..

July 3, 2010 12:29 am

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Zonda Addict

I am almost sure that this car will never be able to achieve those performance figures..

July 3, 2010 12:30 am

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dvangar

it seems to me that this car is just a lot of spare time 3d modelling by a car designer wannabe than anything else, where are the sketches before modelling? those renders are more like some showoff copying styles like a Lambo, CGT and the bertone corvette and ricing them.

July 3, 2010 12:50 am

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GeeNee

Looks like a Porsche rip off

July 3, 2010 1:28 am

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Fourie_00

does not, looks like maybe a reincarnation of a Jag XJ220 or maybe an ascari.. def not a porsche!

July 3, 2010 3:29 am

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saijaS

This car will never happen.

July 3, 2010 2:19 am

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Fourie_00

awesome design, really really good... not interested in the 30 000 0000 HP engine thought. thats rediculous and bullshit. i would really really like to see those figures achieved with road tyres. its just too much, you want it to be faster than direct competitors but this is like strapping a concorde engine to a car. pretty useless. And just to add another small note, most people who will afford that car would not be able to utilise that power, for that matter i dont know who will!

July 3, 2010 3:31 am

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Antichrist

Well that's a truly beautiful car, utterly and completely, has been a long while since I saw something this astounding car-wise. Performance is impressive but I still have my doubts, seems a bit exaggerated. And the name? I admit it's a bit unimaginative but I guess it fits to a car like this, slightly bad ass. Not too much. But still.

July 3, 2010 4:17 am

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