{"id":71368,"date":"2009-12-08T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/08\/cb-1-cobra-replica-demands-stronger-adjectives\/"},"modified":"2009-12-08T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T20:20:00","slug":"cb1-cobra-replica-demands-stronger-adjectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/71368","title":{"rendered":"CB\/1 Cobra replica demands stronger adjectives"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CB\/1 Cobra – click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n

\nWe recently drove a Superformance Cobra MkIII R<\/a> and loved it. The looks, the power, the feel – just a wonderful, special vehicle. Perfect? No, and we said as much. “[T]urning the wheel reminds you that the chassis layout dates back to the 1950s, if not earlier.” Still, we were tickled by the straight line thrust. Truth be told however, we’ve experienced faster. If only someone would build a Cobra with even more power (remember the MkIII R has “only” 520 hp) and modern suspension.<\/p>\n

Meet the CB\/1. First thing’s first: under the fiberglass hood sits a twin-turbocharged\/intercooled Ford 385 V8 good for – get this – 650 horsepower and 640 pound feet of torque. Put that in your ZR1 pipe and smoke it. Speaking of smoking it, all that fury iS routed through a Porsche 930 5-speed transaxle. And the whole enchilada weighs just 2,600 pounds. The results? Zero to 60 miles per hour in a blistering 2.85 seconds and the quarter-mile in 10.5 at 135 mph. Whoa doggie, right? And the suspension is more than up to the challenge, pulling 1.15 lateral Gs. Full specs, after the jump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Gallery: CB\/1 Cobra<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n[Source: Bell Engineering<\/a> | Photos: Jeff Hartman]<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Classics, Convertible, Performance CB\/1 Cobra – click above for high-res image gallery We recently drove a Superformance Cobra MkIII R and loved it. The looks, the power, the feel – just a wonderful, special vehicle. Perfect? No, and we said as much. “[T]urning the wheel reminds you that the chassis layout dates back […]<\/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-71368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71368","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=71368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}