The Vygor Opera SUV is Like 'Touching a Panther'
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Italians, they’re the ones known for fashion, right?
A new boutique automaker has been born in the hills of Tuscany and its first car has been revealed. The Vygor Opera is a two-door, high-performance all-wheel-drive crossover with a style that is as unique as that sounds.
The company describes it as “an emotional car, like a windblow in the skin, the thrill of a sudden pleasure which takes your breath away…and unleashes emotions…the emotion of touching a panther.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}From the looks of its grille, saber-toothed tiger is more like it.
Built on a lightweight tube frame chassis with a double wishbone suspension and rolling on big 22” rims, the fully customizable creation is powered by either a 300hp or 400 hp engine, but where Vygor gets them from is unknown.
Mystery is apparently sexy.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}For better or worse, only 150 Operas will be built, each one different than the others and at a price sure to be well into the six-figure range. But there's no need to rush to Vygor's hometown of Lucca to order one, because this type of car has already become something of a trend.
Another Italian outfit called Fornasari recently introduced the RR99. It is a four-door in the same luxury off-roading vein as the Opera, but with even more power, speed and just as jarring of a design. It costs $215,000.
Neither of these cars will be made available in the United States, but soon you’ll be able to buy the ready-to-wear version that Maserati has planned called the Kubang, which seems to suit it well.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}When it comes to fashion, the Ford Explorer by Eddie Bauer has nothing on these, but it sure made a lot more sense.