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00:13This incredible handbuilt supercar can go from nought to 60 in only three seconds
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00:18and can reach speeds of over 200 mph
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00:23but it will cost you between $96,000-128,000 to buy one
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00:26Uber's exciting, it's easy to drive it gives you a lot of confidence
00:29It inspires some really daring maneuvers and craps, but it's just fun.
00:34Everyone who gets out of it has a huge smile on their face.
00:37The Lucra was the brainchild of Luke Richards, and he set up his California-based boutique car company to manufacture it.
00:45I first came up with the idea for the Lucra car in 2005.
00:49We got our first prototype in 2006.
00:52The job of the car is to be a lightweight, high-performance, high-powered car.
00:58The aim of his design was to combine the speed and power of an American muscle car with the maneuverability of a European sports car.
01:07My father told me you could either have a car that was fast in the straightaways or a car that was fast in the corners.
01:14Back then, the Camaros and the Mustangs were big horsepower, and the Lotuses and the European sports cars were lower horsepower Porsche, but lighter.
01:23Growing up in England and growing up in America, I kind of felt like I had a passion for V8s, but I also had a passion for lightweight sports cars.
01:30So I did what he said was impossible, and we made both in one.
01:34The lightweight body is made from carbon fiber, but it's not just about how little weight there is. It's also about where it is.
01:41We kept the car down around 2,000 pounds, even with a V8, and we made the car pretty stout.
01:47We didn't skimp out on any of the safety or rigidity, because that's equally important.
01:51We also made the car tail heavy, so the weight distribution is about 55 to the rear, but this gives it a nice mid-engine car feel.
02:00It has a little bit of oversteer. It likes to drive through corners. It's really easy to drive, really friendly, really difficult to spin.
02:07I mean, really difficult to get out of control, and we've tried completely.
02:12It makes for a very high-performance car that's really easy to drive by a novice or a professional.
02:19Each Lucra is built to order, and from start to finish, the build process takes around eight weeks.
02:25We start off with a computer model of the chassis. All the tubing is laser-cut. All the sheet metal is laser-cut.
02:31By the chassis, it gets made. It goes to powder coat. The body gets made at about the same time.
02:36The body's all in one piece, so it's very, very strong all by itself.
02:39After we're done with the assembly, it goes out for alignment.
02:42We like to custom and do all the testing because we feel like this way they feel more attached to the car.
02:47We take them and the car to a track, and we just carefully warm it up, carefully lap it slowly, and keep checking it,
02:55and lap it faster and faster and faster with a race driver to help to train the customer how to drive it properly.
03:00And by the end of the day, the car is fully seated and broken in. The driver is fully trained.
03:06And after that, we put the car in paint and then interior.
03:09At that point, the car is back here. We have one final check over again, make sure everything is how we want it.
03:14We reassemble it, and we ship it to the customer.
03:18But aside from its incredible performance, the most rewarding part about designing the car is the reaction it gets from others.
03:25It's done a lot of things that I wouldn't do in a regular car.
03:28It's won races. It's jumped bridges in Mexico. It's been in movies. It's been off-road.
03:35The main thing what it does, that most every other car I've been around doesn't do, is it stops traffic everywhere it goes.
03:42Everyone wants to talk about it. If you go to the gas station, it'll take an hour.
03:46It's just everywhere you get near, you want to talk about the car. Everywhere you go, it makes people smile.
03:52Nobody's intimidated by it. Nobody's threatened by it. They're just happy to see it, and they want to talk about it.
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