Refusing to back down on performance when a “budget” supercar was wanted, Luke took the idea of the 2002 Storm Cascabel one step further. Bringing it from 700 horsepower street-terror to 1000 horsepower super-car took very little effort. Making it fast and drivable took a lot more.
So, what makes the 2016 Storm Cascabel special? Storm Raceworks Division. Specifically, their tune for the 7.6 liter V12 under the hood, and their choices for body panels and suspension tuning.
This is the Cascabel’s engine, built and tuned by Storm Raceworks Division, a 7.6 liter V12, magnesium block and AlSi heads, twin turbocharged, and bypass valves.
Built to have a fast spool-up and lean burn, it throws down 1096 horsepower. There’s plenty of room left in the event you wanted even more power, though we must admit it’s not advised to do so.
SRD took the aluminum panels off of the Cascabel and threw them into our laser scanner, then created new panels out of carbon fiber. Rear suspension was converted from multi-link to pushrod in order to shed a little more weight. To improve comfort, custom cloth seats were installed, and against SRD’s intended demands, Luke insisted a basic infotainment system be installed in the Cascabel.
Luke designed the exterior of the Cascabel as a throwback to the original, while also picking up some styling elements from the rattlesnake he’d removed from the factory in Nevada. Again, sidepipes were chosen to make the car look more aggressive, and the three window-slots were added to improve rear blind-spot visibility, and the active aerodynamics control the two flaps on either side of the trunk.
But how fast is it? That’s the important thing to our customers.
And the price?
A touch below $100k. We feel this is a bargain for buying a front-engined, all-wheel-drive monster.
Teach me someone, pretty please?
