(The craftsmen at Renntech have pulled out all the stops in this baby!)
LAKE PARK, FL – 01 April, 2008 – RENNTECH 7.22 Takes Smart Performance to New Levels
explains Hartmut Feyhl, RENNTECH’s president and ex-technical director of AMG North America. “One of my employees, Jo Borras, previously worked with Mosler to build their dual-engined Cadillac TwinStar, and made the magazine rounds a few years later with his own twin-engined Hyundai Tiburon. It seemed like a good idea to try on the Smart, so we went with it.”
Using the Triumph Speed Triple motorcycle’s torque curve as a guide, RENNTECH’s software engineers began massaging the Smart’s fuel maps until they achieved a totally unbelievable result: 91 raucous, twitchy horsepower at a stratospheric 11,800 rpm.
That’s right, kiddies. Ninety-one peak horsepower at eleven-thousand, eight-hundred rpm from each of the two Smart 3 cylinders … and the new, RENNTECH-imposed rpm limit? An absolutely SCREAMING 13,200 rpm.
The end result is a twin-engined, 182 hp AWD street machine that zips from zero to sixty in an astonishing (and terrifying!) 5.1 seconds, on its way to a top speed of 138 mph.
Getting all of the RENNTECH Smart 7.22′s newfound power to the ground are a set of specially-designed 17” RENNTECH forged Monolite wheels wrapped in Michelin Pilot sport tires. Hard, fade-free stops are made possible by RENNTECH’s 14” 2-piece rotors and Smart-specific 4 piston calipers, while RENNTECH’s new “Go-eco” exhaust system makes use of futuristic technology to ensure that the 7.22′s only emissions are a blend of pure oxygen and a potpourri of fresh lilacs and honeyuckle.
The RENNTECH Smart 7.22 is available today for $39,990. Contact RENNTECH for more (please check today’s date before ordering).
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WOW! It’s almost UNBELIEVABLE!
3. April 2008 at 1:33 pm
Holy crap! That would be a wicked “eco” vehicle to own. Very cool.
3. April 2008 at 1:46 pm
Get a grip, folks, this is obviously an April Fool’s joke from the people at Renntech.
7. April 2008 at 9:17 pm
I liked it!
7. April 2008 at 9:21 pm
I was falling in-line until that “go-eco” exhaust part. Sure there were was details before it that made me a bit suspicious and then a bit doubting until finally I had the “Ha Ha, Very Funny” reaction.