Remember DC Designs? It is the same company which made the 3-door Evoque-alike. DC Designs has also developed its own supercar, India’s first and only home-made supercar. Known as the Avanti, the vehicle looks fabulous at the front, just about average at the sides and terrible at the rear. The interiors feature bucket seats, the quality seems to be below average.
However, a supercar is more about performance than about looks, so lets take a peek at what’s under the hood.
Not much.
Power comes from an un-supercarish 2.0-litre EcoBoost engine (sourced from Ford), which generates 250 BHP of power and 366 Nm of torque. The Avanti uses a tubular space frame chassis and runs on 255 width rubber (front) and 295 width rubber (rear). The tires are bolted onto 19-inch wheels. The Avanti has a dry weight of 1562 kgs. Braking duties are performed by 330 mm disc brakes all around.
Some might find the DC Avanti a below average supercar, as it does not boast of quality, or supercar performance. However, the DC Avanti has a super-low price. Ex-showroom (without road tax and insurance) it is listed at Rs. 30 lakhs ($54,000), which is cheaper than the MINI Cooper S. That is where the DC Avanti starts making sense. It targets the aspirational supercar demographic. DC Designs has plans to export the Avanti to other markets, so would you consider one?
Faisal Ali Khan is the owner/operator of MotorBeam.com, a website covering the auto industry of India.
Are there roads for a car like this in India?
How’s my suit coming along ?
Why would India be any different than anywhere else? Paved roads in the city, and dirt roads in the country, I imagine. Paint looks faded and the wheels are muddy. Maybe they are going after the rural market? But then, at that price, with that demographic- why not just get a one-ton, 3500/F-350 or whatever? Why would that be any different than here?
India’s roads, even in the cities, leave much to be desired. The only roads approaching what we consider “good” are those leading to roads or corporation parks. And those are paid for by the private firms, not the government.
“Power comes from an un-supercarish 2.0-litre EcoBoost engine (sourced from Ford), which generates 250 BHP of power and 366 Nm of torque.”
Why would this piece of junk need special roads? With this level of power, you could drive it in a mall parking lot and not have a problem.
I will spin to my cupboard to bring the bleach for cleaning avanti my eyes.
Avanti, the Studebaker that just won’t die.
Seems the use of “Avanti” might infringe on a trademark originally owned by Studebaker Corporation and later by Avanti Motors Corporation and ts successors. Or has “Avanti” passed into the public domain?
Not yet in the public domain.
Thats what I was thinking of too when I saw this.
Looks kind of deformed in an exaggerated overstyled way. Sort of like it was torn from the pages of DC Comics.
Looks like someone took a Factory Five GTM, butchered the hell out of it, and stuck in a little 4-banger instead of the ‘vette’s V-8.
Sure, as long as you can swap the 5.8 trinity in there
1500 KG == 3400 pounds. It doesn’t have supercar weight, either. That weight is surprisingly heavy for a car that doesn’t need to pass US crash tests. At 1500 pounds (not KG), it would indeed be pretty super.
Was thinking the same thing. Tubular spaceframe and a four-banger… and it’s STILL nearly 1.6 tons? Doesn’t add up.
But does it come with a horn that scares off sacred cows?
LOL.. But if you have driven on Indian roads, you will know that humans still have to come up with a horn powerful/loud/annoying enough to scare those cows off.
Zero Fucks Given.
That is one of the safety features you always get, that is dual tone!
Mexico vs India
At least the people who make Chinese copies of european cars are familiar with what they’re copying. This looks like someone tried to build a bootleg Aventador without actually having seen an Aventador.
This was in design before the Aventador was released.
It looks like some deformed hybrid of a Lamborghini and a cockroach in the rear.
So no, I would not consider one.
Nice to see some other companies trying to give it a go. I would suggest that they spend a lot of time on the track etc. I understand keeping costs down but they really do need to work on the weight of that car.
For a first go, it’s really not bad.
They have been designing cars for quite some time now. This is a first time they are developing for mass production.
“Sports car”, maybe. “Super car”…do you really think so?
I’m glad someone else is putting there flavor on super cars. Even if only on the styling sides.
IMHO, its better then instant copies that come out of china.
This is what you get when a not-very-talented junior high school student tries to draw a Lambo in study hall.