Kappa-based Breckland Beira V8 roadster
This month’s Motorexpo at London’s Canary Wharf saw the reveal of a new British-built roadster based around GM’s Kappa platform. The company has introduced the new Breckland Beira V8 soft-top roadster which is powered by a 400hp 6.0 LS2 V8 engine.
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The Breckland Beira is built on General Motors’ Kappa platform, the same one that underpins the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky roadsters, Weighing a bit over 3,000 lbs or 1,400kg. The Beira’s power to weight ratio guarantee the best performance, with the promise of sub-five seconds sprint from 0 to 62mph, cpupled with torque and a governed maximum speed of 155mph or 250 km/h. Breckland Beira is backed by a Tremec six-speed manual transmission, HiSpec braking hardware at all four corners and 18-inch or 19-inch wheels that are 9.5-inches wide in the rear and 8.5 up front.
Brecklands is designed to run on Liquefied Petroleum Gas as well as petrol. This not only helps to reduce running costs and emissions, but gives the car a range of 700 miles. The fully independent suspension was entirely re-engineered by Breckland in association with KW Suspension, with uprated springs, dampers and bushes, plus thicker anti-roll bars front and rear.
The new Beira will be available in both right and left-handed-drive configurations and it will be on sale in Europe this coming November and will cost around £55,000 ($108,000).
