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Gelera introduces the brand new 1988 Faun. Available with V6 Biturbo or V8 Biturbo.
Gelera is a small sportscar manufacturer from the eastern part of the Netherlands. The brand is named after the county Gelre/Guelders, which is the namesake of the current province of Gelderland. Gelera has been founded by a few engineers previously working at the Autodelta Motor Company. They saw potential in a market Autodelta would never go for, so went their separate ways. Despite that they kept good contacts with the colleauges they left. Which is the only way a small company like Gelera would be able to build two trims of their brand new supercar, the Faun.
The Faun is built to be the best companion a traveling human could need. That philosophy was used to name this car: A Faun is a creature from Greek and Roman mythology. Romans believed fauns inspired fear in men traveling in lonely, remote or wild places. Anyone seeing the Gelera Faun on the road will shiver from the sight of this mighty creature, knowing there is no way to keep up or outrun this machine. On the other hand faun were capable of guiding humans in need. And that is something every Faun will do for it's owner!
Gelera engineers have been developing this car for years. In a joint project with the Autodelta Motorsports Programme they built a state of the art V6 engine. AMP put this engine in the Autodelta Orcinus, a front wheel drive performance sedan. Although the Gelera engineers where proud of their part in this project, they were nowhere near to being finished with this mighty powerplant. For the supercar application they were working on, they needed more. So they decided to fit a twin turbo setup on this engine for performance. And the Gelera Faun V6 Biturbo was born!
After extensive testing, most of which was completely legal in Gelera's backyard: the German Autobahn, the engineers came to the conclusion the V6 wouldn't cut it. Rumour has it on one of the many test runs the driver came across an AMG 300E Hammer, started doing a race against him and didn't manage to outrun that German heavyweight. Even though acceleration of the Faun was slightly better, both cars drove for about 40 kilometers long on their top speed, only to have the last car get some slipstream advantage over the leading car and taking the lead again. As they where constantly switching places, blasting towards the busier parts of the Autobahn around the Ruhr area, the test driver broke off the little contest and blasted back to the Gelera headquarters. This was the key moment in deciding they needed to add something to the design of the otherwise perfect Autodelta powerplant.
It didn't take long for the engineers to figure out they could just design a V8 by slightly redesigning the engine. Although this would be the first V8 Autodelta would ever produce, the minor design changes, the bragging rights of building a 300+ km/h supercar engine and a big advance in payment from Gelera for the order made the Autodelta board agree to start this adventure. The new dies for the aluminium 8 cilinder block and heads were delivered fast. The crankshaft and camshaft production just needed slight alterations, and after that it was just using a few extra components per engine to build the V8 instead of the V6. Great, as this meant most of the production line could handle both the V6 and the V8 engines. Gelera soon got delivery of the new V8 and started finetuning the V8 Biturbo model. A new supercar was ready to hit the streets!
Will this Faun V8 Biturbo be the Tristella replacement Jakob is looking for?
Specs
As stated before, the Faun comes in two trims. The V6 Biturbo, and the V8 Biturbo. Of both trims the specs are shown below.
First Edition Owners Package
The limited edition first year owners package comes in a luxury box that fits in the fuse compartment in the interior. This package is fitted with a two-piece remote keyless entry system (please make sure to not leave any of those remote controls in the car!), the obligatory owners manual and service manual. But as Gelera dealerships and service points are scarce around the world, Gelera teamed up with Haynes* to equip every First Edition Owners Package with a complete Haynes repair manual. That way every qualified car mechanic knows how to work on the Faun. Even your own local garage mechanic.We also hope this helps to soften the supercar maintenance costs, as every willing owner is able to do the maintenance themselves:
*Obligatory this is just a fictional product without any real ties to the Haynes brand.
As Discourse is hating me, see the rest of this lore post in the next post.