We love Skoda, do not we of us? The century-old Czech automaker at all times has some fascinating forbidden fruit that we will solely admire from throughout the pond. This 12 months, leveraging its historical past in motorsport, Skoda constructed a fairly badass rally automobile based mostly on considered one of its in any other case unassuming electrical SUVs. That is the Skoda Enyaq RS Race idea.
Designed and constructed by Skoda Motorsport, the race division took a traditional Enyaq EV and made it decrease, wider, and lighter. Utilizing biocomposite physique panels incorporating flax fibers, and light-weight polycarbonate home windows, the Enyaq RS Race is 661 kilos lighter than the usual Enyaq SUV. That places it someplace round 4,300 kilos in complete.
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The idea sits 2.8 inches decrease than the usual Enyaq, and is 2.8 inches wider on the entrance and 4.6 inches wider on the rear. It ditches the manufacturing dynamic chassis management suspension for a race-ready sports activities suspension with particular person changes for the spring stiffness, compression, and rebound.
Visually, the Enyaq RS Race will get an aggressive aero package with numerous vents and wings. It has a brand new lip spoiler and a bigger grille opening for higher cooling up entrance, a large spoiler within the rear for added downforce, and even a functioning NACA duct that channels air into the inside. Even the customized 20-inch wheels have been designed to enhance aerodynamics.
Two electrical motors and an 82.0-kilowatt-hour battery pack energy the idea, giving it 335 horsepower. Due to its beneficiant weight reduction, the Enyaq RS Idea will hit 62 miles per hour in lower than 5 seconds, but it surely has the identical 112-mph high pace as its manufacturing counterpart.
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Identical to an actual rally automobile, Skoda Motorsport truly stripped the Enyaq’s inside. It now has a roll cage, a handbrake lever, an emergency hearth extinguisher change, security foam panels, and as a substitute of the standard rack-and-pinion steering, this idea has linear steering with adjustable steering weight—in addition to a brand new race-ready steering wheel. Don’t fear, Skoda stored the 13.0-inch touchscreen.
Will you ever be capable to purchase considered one of these? Unlikely. Nevertheless it’s an fascinating train in what’s attainable for Skoda Motorsport transferring ahead. Johannes Neft, a Skoda Auto Board Member for Technical Growth, says that the corporate is “trialing [the biocomposite parts] in motorsport,” and that they might use the fabric in “future implementation.”
Both manner, it’s superior.
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