{"id":121426,"date":"2017-12-01T17:28:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T22:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=121426"},"modified":"2017-12-01T17:28:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T22:28:47","slug":"aria-fxe-has-american-supercar-fans-singing-a-new-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2017\/12\/aria-fxe-has-american-supercar-fans-singing-a-new-tune\/","title":{"rendered":"Aria FXE has American Supercar Fans Singing a New Tune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aria's new FXE uses a gasoline engine and two electric motors to produce 1,150 horsepower.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Aria is singing a tune it hopes some American performance car fans will like, the California-based start-up revealing an 1,150 horsepower, U.S.-made supercar that it says will be able to hit a top speed of 220 mph.<\/p>\n

The Aria FXE concept should enter production within two years, the company said during its news conference at the Los Angeles Auto Show. It\u2019s the second prototype the Irvine-based company has brought to the show, following the debut of the Aria FE a year ago.<\/p>\n

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Fueling Up on News!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Aria is one of a growing array of start-ups in the U.S. and abroad hoping to get into the supercar market \u2013 though a number of others, including Lucid and Faraday Future, have been turning to purely electric propulsion.<\/p>\n

Aria, however, plans to take the best of both the gasoline and electric worlds to power the FXE, like the new Acura NSX. The car starts with a supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 making 720 horsepower the company \u201cborrowed\u201d from General Motors.<\/p>\n

(Fastest-ever Corvette goes topless in Los Angeles. <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for<\/em>\u00a0the story.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Then it adds twin electric motors producing at total 540 hp, bringing the total package to a heart-pounding 1,150 horsepower and 1,316 pound-feet of torque. The FXE is extremely light due to a carbon fiber monocoque, carbon fiber panels and lightweight 3D-printed metals, tipping the scales at 3,450 pounds.<\/p>\n

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The FXE sprints from 0 to 60 mph in 3.1 seconds and will be available in 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It will use an all-wheel-drive system to maximize power-to-pavement, and Aria claims, it will be able to hit 60 in 3.1 seconds. That would be about 0.8 seconds slower than the 840-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Demon or the Tesla Model S P100D with optional Ludicrous Mode.<\/p>\n

The new Aria is a bit slower, and significantly more expensive than the aforementioned Demon and P100D. Pricing wasn\u2019t revealed, but the base model FE, which was shown last year, starts at $650,000. On the upside, buyers can lease it once available to the public in 2019.<\/p>\n

(<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to check out the Devel Sixteen.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“We’ve learned that regardless of how wealthy you are, (you’d) actually prefer to lease the car,” David said.<\/p>\n

Though it may lag by tenths of a second on the front end, it makes up for it on the top end with a top speed of 220 mph, Aria officials note. The new FXE will have an \u201cAmerican stance,\u201d but will compete with better-known European supercars from Ferrari and McLaren.<\/p>\n

“It’s inspired by track-oriented cars (but) it’s made for the road,”\u00a0said Nicholas David, Aria’s design director. Buyers of this American-looking supercar \u2013 of which there will be 100 \u2013 will be able to completely customize the FXE.<\/p>\n

(Tesla’s new roadster breaks 2.0-second zero to 60 mph barrier. For more, <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The seats are “sculpted” to the individual with telescoping\u00a0steering wheel and pedals that move toward the driver, who sits in a very central position in the cockpit. David noted that the form of the car is key, not the lights and not the grille.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aria is looking to make American supercar fans sing a new tune with its new FXE it debuted at the L.A. Auto Show. For more go to TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4389,"featured_media":121427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121426"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=121426"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=121426"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=121426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}