{"id":47018,"date":"2009-11-22T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/11\/22\/ambition-your-chariot-has-arrived-fornasari-intros-five-door-r\/"},"modified":"2009-11-22T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T01:02:00","slug":"fornasari-intros-five-door-rr99-performance-suv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/47018","title":{"rendered":"Fornasari intros five-door RR99 performance SUV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Performance<\/a>, SUV<\/a>, Europe<\/a>, MISC<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nFornasari RR99 – Click above for image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nFornasari, the independent purveyor of exotic sport-utes, has been in the game since before Porsche came along with the Cayenne, but despite its blend of Italian craftsmanship with American muscle, the three-door body-style of the Fornasari RR450 and RR600 relegated the quirky exotic truck to the fringe. Now Fornasari, has come back with its first proper (or not) five-door SUV.<\/p>\n

Dubbed the RR99<\/a>, the latest from the Creazzo-based automaker is some 25cm longer than its three-door predecessors, but thanks to a lightweight tube frame, it weighs only 1850 kg (just over 4000 lbs), significantly less than competing performance SUVs. This despite the six-liter General Motors V8 sitting up front, which Fornasari says it has optimized for near-50\/50 weight distribution, driving 610 horsepower to all four wheels with a 40\/60 rear-biased torque split via limited slip differential and six-speed Borg Warner transmission. <\/p>\n

Wheels are available up to 23 inches, packing optional Brembo brakes mounted to F1-style triangular suspension. But the most ambitious figures come down to the performance: Fornasari claims its exotic sport-ute can rocket to 62 mph in just 3.8 seconds en route to a 174 mph top end. Those are eyebrow-raising numbers, and if the RR99, with substantially-improved styling over its oddball predecessors (upon which we reported three years ago<\/a>), can actually come anywhere near those projections, count us among the flabbergasted. <\/p>\n

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Gallery: Fornasari RR99<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n[Source: Fornasari<\/a> via Italiaspeed<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Performance, SUV, Europe, MISC Fornasari RR99 – Click above for image gallery Fornasari, the independent purveyor of exotic sport-utes, has been in the game since before Porsche came along with the Cayenne, but despite its blend of Italian craftsmanship with American muscle, the three-door body-style of the Fornasari RR450 and RR600 relegated the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}