German exotic automotive firm Wiesmann has a new MF-style roadster coming, and it’s both green and very, very pretty.
Wiesmann, founded in the late 1980s, has always planted one foot in the beauty hiding in automotive history and the other in contemporary ideals regarding speed and performance. This time around, they’ve brought ecological relevance into the picture as well: the new Project Thunderball roadster is an EV.
The Thunderball’s lines are, in keeping with Wiesmann’s house style, breathtaking; startlingly voluptuous evocations that show a lot of power seething beneath the surface. Cabin design is similarly suggestive, with seats, dash and console, turbine vents and traditional gauges.
The car’s powertrain is a two-motor design, with an 800-volt battery at the bottom of it all; native firm Roding Automobile helped out with the setup, which delivers 671 horsepower and 811 pound-feet of torque at peak. The Thunderball can lightning to 62 MPH in 2.9 seconds.
All that, and range too? Yes indeed. The Thunderball can, according to Wiesmann, travel over 300 miles on a full charge. The car is capable of unusually fast charging times — as well as brake system-regenerative energy harvesting while underway — but will reveal more about that later.
Wiesmann’s Thunderball will be produced in a run of 1,000 examples, and base sticker at around $315K.