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Lucra Cars’ LC470 is a featherweight track monster with ridiculous V8 power

Lucra Cars LC470
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In the realm of lightweight, elemental sports cars, a few names immediately jump to mind: Ariel, Caterham, Lotus, and perhaps KTM.

Truth be told, these types of vehicles are more popular and more common than you might think. That’s partially because they’re relatively inexpensive to make, generally low-volume sellers, and because they’re mostly track warriors, they don’t have to worry about creature comforts like high-end stereos, multi-zone climate control, and in some cases, doors.

Most of these vehicles use turbocharged or supercharged four-cylinder engines to provide power, but Los Angeles-based manufacturer Lucra Cars is not one of them. The company distills everything we love about ‘exocars’ into a street-legal package, but just barely.

Take the brand’s LC470, a 2000-pound, rear-wheel drive athlete with British-inspired styling and a 6.2-liter Corvette engine. There’s 430 horsepower on tap here, allowing the carbon fiber, tube chassis LC470 to sprint to 60 mph in about 2.7 seconds. And this is the $95,000 base model, if you can believe that.

Moving up the Lucra range, there’s a 7.0-liter, 505-hp LS7 V8 available for the LC470, which pushes the 0 to 60 mph time down to about 2.5 seconds if you can put the power down. Both variants feature a five-speed manual transmission as standard.

There’s a six-inch longer version called the LC470 FS as well, with a race cage-equipped, slick-wearing LC470 FS-R model settling in at the top of the range.

Lucra Cars isn’t all about circuit dominance, though. The brand also offers the L148, a gorgeously sculpted sports car with all the options and interior amenities that are missing from the hardcore LC470 series.

Lucra Cars L148
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Many automakers use silly taglines to promote their products, by Lucra’s just fits. According to the company, its vehicles are “engineered for maximum fun.” 430 hp and 2000 lbs with a stick shift? Sounds like fun, indeed.

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