Hulme Can Am Supercar unvieiled

Two open-top supercars linked to New Zealand's famous Formula One race mates Bruce McLaren and Denny Hulme have made purely coincidental first public appearances - one in New Zealand and the other at a glitzy ceremony in Europe.

The launches also paid tribute to two surviving names from the same F1 era - Chris Amon, the third member of the Kiwi triumvirate, and Britain's Sir Stirling Moss.

Amon drove the orange-and-black Hulme CanAm roadster on the Taupo racetrack 24 hours ago, during a break in the A1GP schedule.

Earlier, on the other side of the world, Moss was on hand at a special presentation of a car carrying his name - the Mercedes-Benz SLR Stirling Moss, the final model to come from the Benz partnership with F1's Team McLaren.

Team McLaren began in 1963 as Bruce McLaren Motor Racing Ltd. McLaren himself was contracted to the British Cooper F1 team at the time and continued to drive for it until 1965, when he entered his own F1 team with Amon as co-driver.

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[B70Valkyrie]

Why not use an LSX over an LS7...?

[Ooska]

That looks pretty good...for New Zealand. lol

[watzwrongwichyouu]

This car costs 410,544 in US dollars. Currency converter for the win!

[tubilar111]

The styling design of this car is pretty AVERAGE if not below...! It could have been better!!

[lordtyamat]

@WAZDATCOOL : Then keep hating and hating...but writing me about what to do makes no difference. About my knowledge: to start, you have no idea (what I forgot, you won't leaned the rest of your life), and if you don't go arround like you say...good for youuu...be a good boy!!...but then, you still guessing the meaning of other peoples words.

WoW...clasic "macho loco" don't know how to write a sentence w/o the (fuck) acronym. ..well, who knows if is the only way to feel manly...lol

[WAZDATCOOL]

@lordtyamat dont b a fuckin know it all you will never be able to afford a car like this, probably nither will i, ehnce why i dont go around spouting my shit about something i know nothing about, i fukin hate people like you.

[lordtyamat]

"let us stay in the real WORLD!!!" someone say..lol...c'mon! What about have fun buying a car that is not close to the normal day by day standards, go around without park anywhere just drive and enjoy the view. Just like a chopper...is not for day by day standard bike...just to seat and relax while taking a good ride. Open your mind and let behind social stigmas about "real world" that doesnt exist at all.

[foshizle07]

looks more like a caparo t1

[wargasmnz]

If someone like Chris Amon thinks its a good car then by god its a good car.

[LoneRenegade]

That looks like a cross between and F1 car and a KTM X-Bow... I'd rather have an X-Bow or a Caterham, to be honest.