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Montecarlo Automobile Rascasse LPG Supercar
We are used to seeing small cars and three wheelers running on compressed gas or liquid petroleum gas. General perception holds that these vehicles are clean, but dull and slow. We are not entirely wrong in thinking so either. But a new vehicle from a Monaco based automobile manufacturer will force us to change our perception about LPG powered vehicles for ever.
Very few would have come across the name Montecarlo Automobile, but it happens to be the oldest car maker from Monaco, the unofficial supercar capital of the world. Set up in 1983, this year marks the company's 30th anniversary. On the occasion the automaker has announced the Rascasse.
Montecarlo Automobile's Rascasse will be extremely exclusive as only 15 units are set to be produced and sold for 500,000 euros (at current exchange rates that translates to INR 3.91 crore.
The supercar gets the name Rascasse from the popular hairpin bend in the Monte Carlo circuit.
Montecarlo Automobile Rascasse is a hybrid. It runs on petrol as well as a hydrogen enriched LPG.
The mid-mounted engine is a 5.4 liter V12, sourced from BMW.
The engine delivers an output of 500 HP.
Montecarlo Automobile took help from an Italian LPG specialist BRC to develop the technology required to make Rascasse a petrol-LPG hybrid.
A future model of the Rascasse will be developed which will use a hybrid system, supercharging and all-wheel drive.
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